How To Take Willow Cuttings (With Time Lapse)
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Willow is one of the easiest plants to propagate from cuttings. In this video I explain how to correctly take willow cuttings and how best to plant them. An incorrectly planted willow cuttings will only grow about a foot tall in its first year, however if done using the correct technique and aftercare the cutting can grow over 2m in height in its first year. At the end of the video I have included a time lapse to show how the cuttings develop their roots.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:23 Quickest method
1:02 Best method
1:26 Which branches to use
3:30 Cutting the branches
4:18 Cutting size
4:40 When to take cuttings
5:22 Cutting size
6:08 Planting the cuttings
7:24 Example of rooted willow cuttings
8:24 Planting depth
9:13 Aftercare
10:12 Conclusion
10:45 Time lapse
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The timelapse at the end was awesome! :D
I'm glad you liked it.
Thank you!! So much helpful information! Time lapse at the end is AMAZING ❤❤❤. Thanks!
I love the willows. Thank you for teaching about them.
Great video - very helpful. Love the time lapse.
I was super lucky and found a young willow grove by a lake by my house. I took about 150 cuttings about 6 to 8 feet long. I made a willow fence and its doing great. I sprouted them all in water and then put them in cardboard tubes with plain topsoil. They all took. Since they were in cardboard tube its was easy to plant them at the criss-crossing angles i needed. Every intersection i just used some organic twine that should last until they fuse naturally.
I want to make a 20 foot diameter circle fence with a small doorway and weave it into a big basket tree in the middle of my back yard. It will take a couple hundred cuttings.
Lovely video. Very helpful thanks
I enjoyed the time lapse. I also place willow cuttings in water
We love willow tree 🌳
This is so helpful thank you for sharing! I'm going to attempt to do this! 😊
Thanks, I'm glad you found it useful, good luck with your willow cuttings. :)
Thank you for a very informative presentation. I took many cuttings from a willow tree which lives right by a lake and am wondering other these curtting will flourish on my land which is not near water but nonetheless has very arable and sterile soil. A response would be highly appreciated. Thanks :)
Yes they should grow well as long as they can get their roots down to the water table. The willows in this video are grown in sandy soil which becomes very dry in summer. They struggled for the first few years, however once they got their roots down deep they started to grow very fast. As long as the soil is damp they should grow well, you will probably need to water them in dry weather for the first few years, otherwise they will struggle.
@@Gardeningat58N thank you very much for your detailed reply. I really appreciate it and am now going to proceed with planting the willows in my farm. The earth is very arable and rich in fact although I am a veggie the cows in that region are reputed for their taste which apparently comes from the much grass they eat.
Salix roots pretty easily. Do you think I could do the same with Ribes sanguinea?
Yes the same technique should work with Ribes sanguinea, although expect a lower success rate as it doesn't root as easily as willow.
How many days after placing a cutting in water does it take to see the little bits of growth poke out of the stick?
Roots usually start to appear in a couple of weeks, but your much better to start it in soil, the problem with water is the roots are very brittle and will often break when you transplant it in to soil. Also the roots become used to growing in water and so when put into soil it will struggle for several weeks until new roots grow.
I'm having a hard time getting a consistent answer on the best type of willow to use to build a fence like this. What is the common name for the type of willow you are using here?
I'm not a willow expert, but probably a vigorous hybrid willow like this type as you want fast growing plants that will create a fence quickly, but don't grow so big that they will become huge trees. I don't know my exact variety, but it has osier willow in its parentage.
My husband cut his first willow cuttings this afternoon and we were going to plant them tomorrow. Looks like you are putting them in ground immediately! Will ours be okay for 24 hours and should we put them in pitcher of water?
Yes they will be fine, you can keep them for several weeks at temperatures close to freezing if kept damp. If at room temperature they are best kept in some water, but not for more than a few days otherwise they will start to grow roots and the roots are easily broken when planting. Good luck with your willow.
Thank you so much. If we had cut the day before we could have got them in the ground. But my husband cut them when snow started coming down and now it is covering the ground. I am thinking of wrapping in wet newspaper and put in garage because you said above freezing.@@Gardeningat58N
What about weeping willow cuttings
Is weeping willow different?
@@carolschedler3832 that’s what I don’t really know I got one hanging over my property so free cuttings however they are inexpensive on eBay etc
@Barry Tipton we have a wheeping willow and I have done clippings successfully from it
@@LookupJohn316 thank you
I have a good success rate. Have turnd 4 into about 50. Am wondering if a root hormone would speed up the rooting time though. It takes me 2 full years before they start to take off, maybe even 3