bwaynef
Omono
Not seedling-cuttings. Cuttings.
A man I’ve never known to lie to me called me around to a part of his yard and pointed with a knowing grin. “Take a look at these,” he said. I looked at a nearly empty flat with a few spindly maple volunteers, from the rubrum nearby, nestled alongside 5 young pines with a little more stem thickness than would be expected. The game of 20 questions began. “Are these mikawa seedlings?” “Huh uh.” “Did you do some seedling cuttings this year and only got those few to root?” With each question I was a little further away. Mercifully, he stopped me with, “Those are cuttings of JBP I did last year, from those over there next to the greenhouse.” I pulled em out of the tray insert and sure enough they were full of roots.
I asked him all the questions and he assured me he hadn’t gone to any great lengths beyond what he normally does for his cuttings.
When I was there today looking around I wanted to see them again. He pointed me in their direction and said, “Why don’t you just take them with you. I know you like pines.” He’d made up his mind and insisted they be received as a gift.
Now I’ve been doing this long enough to know that the boilerplate answer when someone asks how to root jbp from anything besides a seedling is just to start them from seed. They don't root from cutting. Sometimes someone will say to graft new roots on, but without pointing them to any meaningful resources ...they’re back to seeds.
I recall a post on this board YEARS ago from folks who were very active then but have long since stopped posting here. They were chasing the grail of jbp cuttings. One went to all the trouble of buying pure talc and mixing hormone to specific strengths. Another talked of humidistats.
Here I just happened on to 5 perfectly nice JBP rooted cuttings. I nor he knows if he’d be able to get any more to root or why he was successful with these. Truth be told, exactly zero percent of the JRP he tried to root at the same time, in the same flat, were successful. Of the 5 jbp that were, none had less than 75% radial roots and only one had multiple levels of roots.
Sorry I didn’t get pictures of all of them. I got kind of excited when I got the roots untangled.
A man I’ve never known to lie to me called me around to a part of his yard and pointed with a knowing grin. “Take a look at these,” he said. I looked at a nearly empty flat with a few spindly maple volunteers, from the rubrum nearby, nestled alongside 5 young pines with a little more stem thickness than would be expected. The game of 20 questions began. “Are these mikawa seedlings?” “Huh uh.” “Did you do some seedling cuttings this year and only got those few to root?” With each question I was a little further away. Mercifully, he stopped me with, “Those are cuttings of JBP I did last year, from those over there next to the greenhouse.” I pulled em out of the tray insert and sure enough they were full of roots.
I asked him all the questions and he assured me he hadn’t gone to any great lengths beyond what he normally does for his cuttings.
When I was there today looking around I wanted to see them again. He pointed me in their direction and said, “Why don’t you just take them with you. I know you like pines.” He’d made up his mind and insisted they be received as a gift.
Now I’ve been doing this long enough to know that the boilerplate answer when someone asks how to root jbp from anything besides a seedling is just to start them from seed. They don't root from cutting. Sometimes someone will say to graft new roots on, but without pointing them to any meaningful resources ...they’re back to seeds.
I recall a post on this board YEARS ago from folks who were very active then but have long since stopped posting here. They were chasing the grail of jbp cuttings. One went to all the trouble of buying pure talc and mixing hormone to specific strengths. Another talked of humidistats.
Here I just happened on to 5 perfectly nice JBP rooted cuttings. I nor he knows if he’d be able to get any more to root or why he was successful with these. Truth be told, exactly zero percent of the JRP he tried to root at the same time, in the same flat, were successful. Of the 5 jbp that were, none had less than 75% radial roots and only one had multiple levels of roots.
Sorry I didn’t get pictures of all of them. I got kind of excited when I got the roots untangled.
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