Zuisho cuttings

Adair M

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Zuisho is one of the few pines that will grow from cuttings. Last March, at the Redneck Study group, Boon visited, and we pruned my Zuisho:

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That picture shows it after we pulled it from its pot. Soil was turface. We did a half bare root repot to transition it to Boon Mix.

Anyway, it also got a light pruning. Boon took the clippings home. And stuck cuttings:

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That pot has both Zuisho cuttings going, and Scots pine cuttings. They appear to be doing well!
 

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Since you don't mention or show any humidity cover for that tub of cuttings, am I correct in assuming that you wouldn't need to bag the Zuisho foliage if you were to use the cuttings as graft scions instead (using cutting taken in early spring, of course)?
 

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Oso,

I think you should still bag them if used as grafts.

I don't know if Boon has kept them in the greenhouse or not. He just has them out in his growing bed area right now.

He is rigging up a misting system in the greenhouse to make it easier to take cuttings, but he just installed it. It wasn't in place when he stuck the cuttings back in March.
 
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