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Thu, Feb 5, 09 at 14:30
| Last summer I was ata big wholesale nursery taking cuttings of conifers for my nursery, and I saw a beautifully shaped tree, with wonderful bark. It turned out to be a Japanese Apricot tree. I had not seen them up close before. I bought some cuttings on the spot, and had great success rooting them.
I grow mostly dwarf conifers, which take several YEARS to get big enough to see what they will look like. Anyway, I had about a 75% success rate with the cuttings. I transplated them this fall into 3 inch containers and figured I would move them into 5 inch in the summer, perhaps see a bloom or 2 next year. These are early bloomers, from Dec-March. Right now I have a bunch of these in full bloom! The blooms are all up and down the stalks almost to ground level! Fragrant too! I'm going to have a lot of fun with these! Steven |
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- Posted by staticx 6b (reptile869x@aol.com) on Sat, Feb 28, 09 at 23:43
| they sell cuttings?.how did you root them,and are the flowers on the trunk or branches. |
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- Posted by norcalconifers (My Page) on Mon, Mar 16, 09 at 19:45
| Yes, they allowed me to take cuttings and then I used 'woods' rooting hormone and treated them the same way I do all my conifers. The blooms are on the trunk, as these little guys had almost no branches. Steven |
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