Viburnum Hardwood Cuttings

Cut off 3 to 5 inches from the end of a softwood branch ensuring the cutting includes at least two sets of two.

Viburnum hardwood cuttings.

If it is a tree or shrub that produces suckers from the stems or roots use the suckers for your cuttings. Deciduous viburnums usually root best from greenwood cuttings but will root from hardwood cuttings too. Plant cells are awakening and ready to grow which increases the chances of a quicker and more successful rooting. Hardwood viburnum plant cuttings are already dormant and are rigid with plant cells in an inactive state of growth.

Watch this short video clip from gardeners world to discover which stems to choose how to prepare the cuttings and how to plant them. Start the seeds by warm stratifying mimicking a warm summer environment for 2 months. Richard jauron with iowa state university s department of horticulture suggests taking softwood cuttings in late may or early june. Peach viburnum and two varieties of hydrangea cuttings.

Use clean sharp shears to trim a 4 to 6 inch cutting from the mother plant and keep it cool and moist until you re. In fall semi ripe to hardwood take a 3 5 inch viburnum cutting with 2 to 3 nodes. 2 3 nodes per cutting. Peel off the lower two.

How to start a cutting from viburnum shrubs 1. Cut a segment about 4 to 6 inches using a sharp knife. There can be a lot of ways to do this. At that time use sharp clean pruners to take six inch long pencil diameter cuttings from vigorous shoots on the plants you want to propagate.

Crape myrtles grapes and pomegranates all root well with this technique. Insert cutting into rooting medium like sand or sand peat or peat perlite. Treat the cut end bottom end with a dusting of rooting hormone. The most critical thing for taking cuttings is to keep them properly moist.

Autumn after leaves have fallen is the best time to take hardwood cuttings but success has been achieved with those taken in the dead of winter as well. Test the softwood to determine if the wood is ready by bending 6 inches of the end of a softwood branch. Carol klein shows you how to take hardwood cuttings from the native guelder rose viburnum opulus which makes a beautiful hedgerow shrub with glossy red berries in autumn. Hardwood cutting after care.

For the novice spring is probably your best bet as to when to take cuttings from viburnum. Keep cutting humid until rooting has occurred.