How to propagate tea olive | Using sand and a rubbermaid
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2021
- In this video, I'll show you how to propagate tea olive, a hardy shrub that can be used to create a beautiful and sturdy landscape. If you're looking to add some greenery to your garden but don't have any experience with propagating plants, this video is for you! I'll show you how to use sand and a rubbermaid to propagate tea olive, a shrub that can be used to create a beautiful and sturdy landscape. With a little patience and a little luck, you'll have a new plant in your garden in no time! These cuttings were taken in October and dipped in a 10:1 Dip n Grow solution. We will overwinter the cuttings in the rubbermaid and place the them in full shade where they will get indirect sunlight. In the spring we will take the cuttings out and plant them in a 1 gallon pot.
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I absolutely love fragrant olives. Almost 20 yrs ago I kept smelled this wonderful scent in our neighborhood but never saw a flowering tree. Finally after 2 or 3 years we happened to notice this massive 25 ft tall bush with tiny flowers. I thought no way it could be that but it was!
I asked a neighbor what the tree was and ever since I've been in love. We could smell it the next street over. ❤
When we bought a house I planted 5 of them but now we are moving 😢 I am going to propagate probably 20 of these to be safe and also want them all over our property ❤❤❤
Yes I love the smell.
Mine have just started to flower. It is fantastic!
Ty
I love this tree no pests no falling leaves during autumn Great tree easy to take care and sweet fragrance
One of my favorites for sure
Oh wow!!!
I'm so excited to try this.
I tried last year with typical rooting hormone and failed miserably.
I have 10 tea olives that I've been growing for two years, in a beautiful hedge and now I need to create a screen on the back of my property, so I'm using this method.
Thanks for the Daconil idea. That should help. Great video! 👍👍👍 And subscribed!
Good luck and thanks for the kind words.
Thanks!! 👍
War Eagle!
WDE! Growing pains this year but I think Freeze turns it around with the recruits coming in. At least we have Bruce and basketball that have been good the past few years.
Thank you so much! Following your instructions, I managed to get a sweet olive cutting from New Orleans to take root in my Chicago apartment. It's been in the bin for about 5 weeks now, but I was wondering if you could recommend what the next step should be. The weather's still a bit chilly here. Should I move the cutting to a pot with different soil? Should I leave it in the bin for another 3 or 4 weeks? Thank you!
Leave it a while longer. Look up your last frost date. Once you are past that date you could transplant into a bigger pot and fresh potting mix. Let it grow out this summer in the pot and you could plant it in the fall. Also, look up the cold hardiness zone on tea olive. I can't remember what it is off the top of my head. Make sure it can handle the windy city if outdoors during the winter. You might have to pull it in.
@@Dr.Warren Thank you so much! This little plant may just end up being an "outside for the summer/inside for the winter" guy.
Dr. Warren, this is very helpful as I am planning to go to my friends house to get some cuttings. Questions : 1/. I am in zone 9a, even now is June, early summer, can I cut some to try propagate it as a trial? 2/. Can I use root grow power, if so, how to use it ? 3/. I noticed that you only spray about 8-10 tune to the cutting already in the sand, should I dip them in the liquid? 4/. if the cutting in the rubbermaid after two weeks getting dry, what should I spray? water? or the same liquid ? 5/. what is the best time to plant the cutting with roots growing into pot? I surely ask lots of questions, thank you for your time. Again, your teaching video is very very helpful, appreciated.
Is this the same Esther that was in my Bio class a few years back? To answer your questions.
1. yes, you can try to take some cuttings now.
2. Yes, you can use rooting powder
3, yes, you can dip them
4. You always want condensation on the container. If no condensation add water.
5. let it root out in the container for 60-90 days and then transplant to a pot.
Which fungicide did you mention? Also how often should the cuttings in the plastic bin be watered? Thanks for the video!
Daconil
You just want to keep the humidity up. You want to see condensation at all times
I have several tea olive in the garden, it's December, can I take cuttings and put them in a heated greenhouse or the plant will be less conducive to regenerating so late in the season?is it better to leave the cuttings outside?need cool or temperate temperatures? Great video
If you are wanting to take cuttings now I would introduce some heat to them once you stick them. However, it probably isnt 100% necessary. I have taken winter cuttings and tuck them in a cold frame and had success. It just takes MUCH longer to get roots.
I wanna try this. What zone are you in? 7b here and worried about overwintering cuttings outside...
On the line between 8a-7b. The best time to do it is late spring or early summer with semi hardwood cuttings. I've rooted some over winter in my propagation box. Takes a long time to get roots but it's possible to do it.
I have a bunch of fortune tea olive I'd like to propagate and am in upstate SC. Is mid Sept late enough or should I wait another month to start them? These cuttings are supposed to stay outside through the freezing winter? Is that right?
You can go ahead and do it. Especially being up around the Clemson Greenville area. You are a smidge further north than me. The cuttings will be fine over the winter.
This is by far my favorite bush. This will be my first attempt at propagating. Do you mix any soil with the course sand?
It is one of my favorites as well. I would go just with sand.
If I don't have condensation on my tote what should I do?
@@traceybell8292 add water and get some sunlight/heat on it
Did the root over the winter? Have you ever tried in spring with mist? Thanks
Either technique should work. Tea Olives have a thick cuticle and dont dry out as easy as others so it opens up more opportunities to different techniques.
I'm in Zone 7B- 8A North Carolina. For propagating in the Spring April. do I still need to spray with fungicide?
It's not going to hurt. Help to keep the pathogens in check. I used to live close to Goldsboro NC about 20 years ago
I have found trouble finding coarse sand at Big Box Stores..... Builders Sand or Play Sand did not seem to fit the bill.... As last resort, I purchased "Pool Filter Sand", it seemed to work quite well.....
I believe I bought that by the yard at the local concrete company. They have sand, 8910, 57 stones, and lots of other aggregate.
I Googled it and pool sand is (I believe) usually silica sand which has been found to be very good for propagation. Glad I saw your comment or I wouldn't have known that. I picked some up and have 30 little olives in a bin for a week now. Fingers crossed I will have a grove of them next year lol.
so i did a bin with the rooting powder and a bin with the stuff you use in this video... both seem to be staying green 2 weeks in which is much longer than they lasted when I did it without a bin... so looking good I think. hopefully will remember to update in a few months. I double and trippled up some of the tray cells... do you know if untangling roots if all of them take in the same cell will cause any problems?
That's great! Just be very careful and try not to break roots when you take them apart. They should be ok.
About 2 weeks later and about 33% of my cuttings lost all of their leaves… the ones getting the least amount of sun are doing the best and a couple of them even grew small white flowers.
@@visgotti how are they doing now? I have just set up 30 of them and am so worried I am doing it wrong. I have them set on a side of the house that doesn't get full sun (essentially in the shade but not deep shade), I see condensation daily but I am not sure if there should be more.
Do the cuttings need cold stratification? I live in zone 5 so the cuttings wouldn't make it overwinter outdoors
No they do not need stratification. Stratification is usually a process needed for growing from seed.
Do you wet the sand at all?
Yes, you can wet it but do not keep saturated.
Can I trying rooting these water?
Typically water only propagation works best with succulent plants. Plants that are woody like tea olive tend to better in a substrate.
Dr. Warren, I have tried for years to root an Osmanthus and I am so excited that I finally got one to root in water. It has a 1-inch root. When should I plant it in soil? How long can I leave it in water? Should I move it to a warmer location in the winter? Thank you.
Get about an inch worth of roots (in length) and you can transition it into some potting mix. Continue to keep it wet by watering daily until the roots begin to grow more into the potting mix. This first winter it would probably be a good idea just to keep it in a south facing window indoors.
@@Dr.Warren Thank you. I will follow your instructions. I will also try the sand and plastic bin to root some more. I love this plant. I have 3 varieties, the white flowering, orange flowering, and the Fudingzhu.
Hello Dr. Warren, I have planted my Osmanthus in soil today. Do I need to continue to keep it in a covered in a humidity dome? I am in zone 9b and the weather is still high into the 80's and low into the mid 50's. Thanks again.
@@PatsyK-hk8cy no, but I would water it daily.
Thanks! Your channel has been very helpful.
Can this be done in the spring as well, or only fall? I’ve tried to propagate before and they never seem to take.
Yes, you can use semi hardwood cuttings. Wait 6-8 weeks after new growth flushes and then take cuttings.
@@Dr.Warren pardon the ignorance, but how will I know when it flushes? We have weird weather here right now, so our tea olives have lots of new growth and flowers at the moment.
@@norfolknwhey4787 where do you live?
@@Dr.Warren SE GA
@@norfolknwhey4787 you should start to see some hardening off of new growth by mid May. I would take some cuttings then.
Some of my leaves have fallen off. So it looks like it's just a stick. Are those not gonna work?
Yes, those did not take root. No one gets a 100% rooting rate. Not even someone like me who has done it for 20+ years.
So you dont water these during this period of rooting?
Correct. Make sure you have condensation on the lid. That means you are at 100% humidity.
@@Dr.Warrenanother video similar to yours uses a bin with holes in the lid. Do you advise against this for proper humidity or having the holes is OK as long as I see condensation? And as such I shouldn't need to air it out periodically?
I just propagated 30 of these as we are moving and leaving my 5 beloved olives behind 😢
which city are you in? can I do without root dip?
I'm in North Alabama. Typically with woody plants we need hormones to get them to root.
thank you . the weather over there is different from N. California. @@Dr.Warren
@@jamiechen7863 I love northern Cali and the Oregon coast area. Such a beautiful part of the country.
maybe next time when you make films, at the begging, put the date and location first, so, the audiences from different places can have a references, then we can make adjustment of your teaching. just a suggestion.😀 @@Dr.Warren
can you recommend document that talks about winter rain to the fruit tree? any study on that? specially in CA.
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