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.

Viburnum shrubs propagate readily from stem cuttings. Watch this short video clip from gardeners world to discover which stems to choose how to prepare the cuttings and how to plant them. Cut a segment about 4 to 6 inches using a sharp knife. The most critical thing for taking cuttings is to keep them properly moist.

The process to take hardwood cuttings begins in the fall right after the leaves drop. Richard jauron with iowa state university s department of horticulture suggests taking softwood cuttings in late may or early june. Test the softwood to determine if the wood is ready by bending 6 inches of the end of a softwood branch. 2 3 nodes per cutting.

How to start a cutting from viburnum shrubs 1. Deciduous viburnums usually root best from greenwood cuttings but will root from hardwood cuttings too. Treat the cut end bottom end with a dusting of rooting hormone. Crape myrtles grapes and pomegranates all root well with this technique.

Insert cutting into rooting medium like sand or sand peat or peat perlite. 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. Hardwood viburnum plant cuttings are already dormant and are rigid with plant cells in an inactive state of growth. In fall semi ripe to hardwood take a 3 5 inch viburnum cutting with 2 to 3 nodes.

Peel off the lower two. 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. Keep cutting humid until rooting has occurred. Plant cells are awakening and ready to grow which increases the chances of a quicker and more successful rooting.

There can be a lot of ways to do this. Viburnum respond well to propagating by means of softwood cuttings. 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. 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. Start the seeds by warm stratifying mimicking a warm summer environment for 2 months.