Re: rooting of woody material

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Nceba,

If I read your email correctly you want to root cuttings straight from the
stock plant. This is a time tested method that works to varying degrees with
many plants. It seems that one of the driving forces behind developing tissue
culture methods was to produce plants that failed as cuttings.

Size is important as is age of materials when making cuttings. These as well
as best time of year vary with species. Use a sterile potting mix (I prefer
soil-less mixes that are varying formulations of peat, perlite vermiculite and
small stones. Sometimes sharp sand is included.

Unless you know the plants preferences try both 1 and 2 year old cuttings at
least 10 inches long. I remove all but 1 or two of the leaves and treat the
bases with a rooting hormone at planting time. Keep the developing cuttings in
a high humidity area and water before any wilting. Some grow their cuttings
under mist until good roots are established. Use care in transplanting as some
species are sensitive to disturbed roots.

Best of growing,

Bob
SW Florida
tfnews@gate.net
http://www.gate.net/~tfnews


Nceba wrote:
>
> Hello to you all
> I would love to know if the following is possible, I wanna induce
> rooting to a woody plant material so is it possible if I can collect
> the material from field and then try and root them in vitro, in spite
> the contamination problem, is it is possible to root a material
> straight from the field in vitro by passing all the other steps like
> establishment, multiplication, subculture.
> I would appreciate the feedback

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