Is anyone familiar with a resource that summarizes which species and cultivars can (and cannot) be propagated through cuttings (hardwood vs. softwood etc.) and airlayers?
I took 10 hardwood cuttings from a plain vanilla JM early last spring and 80% took. I was going to do the same next year with a host of species, but learned that hardwood cuttings isn't the best way to go with JMs at least and now I'm just confused. I would have thought that the foliage on the tree later in spring would lead to transpiration and failure, whereas an earlier cut would alleviate the need for misting and give the tree more of an opportunity to form a callous. But I'm clearly wrong as the experts here seem to favor cuttings, at least JMs, taken in later spring/early summer.
I took 10 hardwood cuttings from a plain vanilla JM early last spring and 80% took. I was going to do the same next year with a host of species, but learned that hardwood cuttings isn't the best way to go with JMs at least and now I'm just confused. I would have thought that the foliage on the tree later in spring would lead to transpiration and failure, whereas an earlier cut would alleviate the need for misting and give the tree more of an opportunity to form a callous. But I'm clearly wrong as the experts here seem to favor cuttings, at least JMs, taken in later spring/early summer.