What did you do in the garden today?

[nao57]

Cut more cuttings to root and prepped them. Trying more species. Today it was pear , persimmon and silver maple. I have a seedling silver maple that has bronze fall color. It is likely mixed with Autum blaze. My method is 84 degrees and humidity in a plastic bag. Into the old cabinet incubator. I use rooting hormone. Temp and humidity is critical to rooting. I have viola up in outdoor pots. I have old seed up sowed on 3/26. Another batch on 3/29. 9 1/2 year old tomato seed.

I have been looking for information about how temperature affects cutting propagation success rates. you are the only one that's mentioned it in their comments about such techniques.

Thank you very much!

But can I ask for you to elaborate more?

Example; I did cutting propagation a few times. It worked. But I did it with the stuff inside the kitchen window at 70 to 75 degrees. Its 95+ right now...

I'm thinking high temperatures it probably would have a lower success rate? But I do hope to sort of confirm this. And I don't necessarily want to waste a lot of effort when others might have tested temperature ranges already... ?

You said you did 84 degrees tops... did you also try other temperature ranges? Working at 84 degrees is pretty specific. So its valuable you said that. But I also wonder if that would have to vary on different garden vegetable or berry species? Would success rates at a 75 degree temperature be higher than an 85 degree temperature?


Thanks very much.

 

[CedarLane]

Re: GreenStalk

How is it working out for you? What do you have in yours? I have 3. I will definitely always plant lettuces, bush beans and pickling cucumbers, going forward. Might like to plant one with strawberries next year. I keep them up on my back deck. No critters and very few insect pests. And the harvest stays nice and clean

Still learning. I got it a little later in the season. I wish I would have gone ahead and bought it earlier. There are some things I would do differently next year. I have two bubblegum petunias that are really taking over. I have some onions, carrots, and lettuce. How to your cucumbers do? We have those in the garden on a fence. This year is kind of trial run. Next year I want to try starting out right away and see what I can do with it.

 

[TJAnonymous]

LOL, I'm the same way with random insects and animals. Call me stupid, but one time I was turning the compost pile and uncovered a nest of baby mice and let them live. Glad I have cats now, who do the dirty work I prefer not to do.

I lifted up a box in the coop a few weeks ago and there was a nest of baby mice under it. Still naked and blind. The chickens grabbed them and ran off before I even realized they were there. I probably would have let them live which is terrible because the mice are a real problem in my coop right now!!!

 

[TJAnonymous]

Started processing the 2nd batch of tomatoes. I washed them, quartered them, and cut out the bad parts but that's it. Boiled them for 20 minutes and now they'll simmer for a bit. Then I'll run them through a strainer lined with cheesecloth. From there I'll make a determination whether to go ahead and make spaghetti sauce or just can as juice.

Thank you ALL for the suggestions!

 

[chickengr]

LOL, I'm the same way with random insects and animals. Call me stupid, but one time I was turning the compost pile and uncovered a nest of baby mice and let them live. Glad I have cats now, who do the dirty work I prefer not to do.

I did the same in the past. now I would just feed my chickens to encourage them to become mousers, lol.

 

[fuzzi]

I lifted up a box in the coop a few weeks ago and there was a nest of baby mice under it. Still naked and blind. The chickens grabbed them and ran off before I even realized they were there. I probably would have let them live which is terrible because the mice are a real problem in my coop right now!!!

I saw a video online of a cat playing with a mouse, when suddenly a chicken runs up, snatches the mouse and runs away with it...

 

[sourland]

Finally picking tomatoes. I have two plants - Mr Stripey - that are not blooming and setting fruit. I have had problems with this variety in the past. Anyone else have the same problem?

 

[jerryse]

I have been looking for information about how temperature affects cutting propagation success rates. you are the only one that's mentioned it in their comments about such techniques.

Thank you very much!

But can I ask for you to elaborate more?

Example; I did cutting propagation a few times. It worked. But I did it with the stuff inside the kitchen window at 70 to 75 degrees. Its 95+ right now...

I'm thinking high temperatures it probably would have a lower success rate? But I do hope to sort of confirm this. And I don't necessarily want to waste a lot of effort when others might have tested temperature ranges already... ?

You said you did 84 degrees tops... did you also try other temperature ranges? Working at 84 degrees is pretty specific. So its valuable you said that. But I also wonder if that would have to vary on different garden vegetable or berry species? Would success rates at a 75 degree temperature be higher than an 85 degree temperature?


Thanks very much.

Those were dormant cuttings. I mentioned temperature because nobody mentions it. My failures in the past I feel were due to temp. Not all of those rooted but not all species will root. I reasoned that many people do summer semi hardwood cuttings with success because of the temp. I now have summer cuttings rooting. I found a humidity dome and shade to be crucial. First pic is my tote I use for humidity dome. Second pic is lilac cutting under the dome. They are pushing new buds. Pic 3 is mulberry cuttings 2 were under a dome 1 was not. 1 not under a dome died. Pic 4 is one pushing buds. The mulberry cuttings were small diameter because I trimmed a small tree I bought off Etsy. I figured I had nothing to lose.

 

[nao57]

When you run into this problem try altering the watering rotation on that plant. Try increasing it. Also you can look at if the roots are too small compared to the top plant size or vice versa. (Is it damaged or getting heat stroke...?)

Another thing you can look at is if that type of variety or seed is well suited to your climate.

Is your area getting water or drought problems? (A lot of the areas in the midwest, grain belts, and the east coast and south are having tons of troubles right now.)

So... one thing you can think about; this is what's helped me. I'm in the southwest. I have to be very careful what varieties I use in gardening. What works for the east coast and the south will NOT work here. Period. We have to use stuff that is very hardy and somewhat resistant to drought or just that won't die off. We need stuff that can handle low humidity also. So for something like Cucumbers, there's only a couple varieties I'll use. I can use the 'straight 8' type. That one works amazing here. But I'd avoid many other varieties. I can sort of get pickling cucumbers to adapt, and that's working but a work in progress.

Another thing I do is like, when I go to garden I pick stuff the year before I want it to spend that year on acclimating a couple of types of a variety type to my area and climate. Then the next year I'll take seed from the best ones there that are producing well and thriving. Then those will become the champ seeds for next year's stuff. This works well.

It also seems that in every garden, there will be some that won't do really well. I expect an attrition rate of some that won't make it. Some will die off. And some won't grow very well at all and just sort of stagnate. Now I still try to save those. (Often by altering the watering schedule, increasing it a bit for awhile). But I try to use plants that are very acclimated.

I'm trying to avoid GMO stuff also and stuff that isn't natural. My neighbor showed me his garden. He's got some GMO potatoes... that are growing some kind of weird tomato grapes on the leaves of his potato plant. I mention this because some plants are messed up. It happens.

I hope this gives you some ideas of some things to try and things to be aware of. Feel free to post any follow up questions, etc.

Finally picking tomatoes. I have two plants - Mr Stripey - that are not blooming and setting fruit. I have had problems with this variety in the past. Anyone else have the same problem?

 

[Smokerbill]

Hi. I hoped to trade some information with you... I have a question I need answered...

hope you might have some comments or a different video talking only about allowable temperatures for cuttings to survive and grow in?

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Also when people use rooting hormone, if you have the cuttings in a bottle of water or glass, is that just washing the rooting hormone off? Or will you still get some gains from that?

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In return, have you tried root propagation instead of cutting propagation with your berry plants? Its easier and higher success rate to do root propagation techniques on berry plants. This should hold true for the type of berry plants you are trying to propagate, promote.

I haven't done huckleberries but I have done this with raspberry plants and others. Berry plants have similar root and growing structures, so it should work. I've found this easier than the cutting/slip methods.

Thanks.

Thanks. I never got around to taking any cuttings or using the rooting hormone. Life got in the way.