Use This Trick to Get your Hydrangea Cuttings Rooting | Plant Propagation Ideas

Use this trick to get your hydrangea cuttings rooting! I've got a new propagation idea. Well, it's simple but should be effective for rooting hydrangea cuttings and any other softwood cuttings, if you continue to struggle with rot or your cuttings are drying up and not staying turgid. I like this little trick because it helps to make the propagation system a little more turn key and with less room for error.


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[BusyBeaver]

Chuck here. I can’t get enough of your hydrangea videos. Always a must watch. Love the pot flip over to see the Roots. Mike Kincaid signature move!

[dberar]

Never get tired of Hydrangea videos. Wonder if you could get the same effect cutting a 2 liter bottle in half and filling with water. I quit using pots in my tubs and just put medium directly in tub and stick cuttings. For some reason the results have been dramatic yet every hydrangea in my nearing frame croaked. I've done it this way twice this year and in less than 3 weeks I have massive little root balls on my Hydrangeas and Calif. Blue Lilacs. I stuck 30 Hydrangeas Oct. 5th and by Oct. 29th all but 1 have root balls the size of a golf ball. So a big thanks to you Mike for all the educational videos. Learned so much in the last 1 1/2 years.

[mauraorourke]

Mike I love your videos also. Here in Ireland Summers are short & sometimes shorter than usual. Last March however I was doing what I normally would do in April. I had cut off last years dead blooms from my hydrangeas. One of them was blowing around for a few days & landed in a fllower bed where I was working. I stuck it down into the soil intending to take it & put in compost bin later. Forgot about it & went away for a month end of March. When I returned I went to pull it out & discovered it had taken root & had produced two heallthy leaves. Now end of a very disappointing June with mostly only wind rain & little sun said hydrangia still with part of last years bloom on top is approximately 8 inches & healthy. I was told some 4 years ago that if you put any hardwood cutting two thirds idown nto the soil it would produce. I have done this with roses & hedging & within a year had beautiful bushes. The hydrangea was accidental. Love the clarity of your voice also. I dont have to rewind to catch what you have said as I do with other videos where the speaker has a diffetent accent to what I am accustomed to. Thanks for the knowledge you impart on the less knowledgeable such as myself.

[bowerygirl]

Oh this is exciting! So funny how successful propagation makes you feel like you can take on the world. I'm one of those dorks that needed to grasp water restraint but learned so much through your instruction. I've finally had fruit tree and hydrangea cutting success. Thanks Mike! It's a blast making that connection and I so appreciate the value of learning to understand the process behind the techniques.

[ElizabethGFord]

I did this with you in July, but I'm in the deep south of Alabama, so only now has it begun to get chilly. These hydrangea cuttings have been BEAUTIFUL since I planted them in July. Never browned or yellowed. They have grown and been a gorgeous bright green with tons of new growth. The roots have gone absolutely nuts! I never once had to water them, even in 100+ degree weather. I never took off the lid and the humidity stayed constant (we are frequently in the 90% humidity range down here). I used the clip on lid that came with the tub, so it was secure.

Anyhoo, first of all - thank you for your videos. I really enjoy watching you do pretty much all the things, and your excitement is so contagious!

So I'm moving these guys inside my garage this weekend with some growing lights. So my current plan now is just to leave them all winter, as well, since winters are only a few months here. Then in the spring I'll take them out and actually plant them! Thanks so muhc for all your help - this is my first time trying to grow any type of cuttings and it is SO exciting doing such a long process!!!

[blubbietweeduizend]

I tried this indoors in October and it went great. Almost all cuttings survived. Very easy. More successful than the usual way of placing each cutting in its own pot and forgetting to water them all...

[arvellataratuta]

I can’t wait to try this. I’ve been watching your videos for some time now, but my one year hydrangea I didn’t think was ready to take cuttings. I have a second plant, about three years old that I have been babying along, thought it would never do anything. Finally this year it surprised me with one beautiful bloom. I will try this next summer. I love propagating. I tried a rose cutting this year, but it bit the dust a week ago.

[wordvendor]

My hydrangeas tripled this summer, thanks to you! They'll sit out all winter and be happy as clams!

[LUCIANOMORETTI]

I did exactly what you said and I came to say THANK YOU SOOO MUCHH, after many weekes I have 35 new hydrangeas ready to be planted ❤❤❤❤❤❤ and I just started doing

[lobe]

Wow Mike, I guess great minds do think alike! I have actually put my hydrangeas in the greenhouse and they are really taking off. We have already had a frost and I had to make another greenhouse because of all of the multiplying of the plants this year. I love playing with my plants, they are soooo much fun. Thank you for letting me in on the secret of happiness, as always love you and your family. 😊😊😁😁🤗🤗

[sonyakim]

I never get tired of propagation videos.

[dawnmischka]

I took a cutting and used a plastic domed slushy cup. Kept inside during winter in my bay window, moved outside in the summer last year. Repotted once and now transplanted into my garden late spring- taken great! Doing more cuttings now.

[lindakemer]

I just love that you are always experimenting with new techniques & ideas!👍

[rgrnature]

Love your videos Mike. Have watched all of them. I do something similar. I take the tote and turn it upside down, and use it as the lid. Then I take smaller totes, punch holes in the bottom and fill with sand. Basically the tote becomes the lid. The only north side of a structure I have is the front of my house, so, I put mine under a shade tree. Works well, I water them whenever I think about it, usually every month or two. Have good success with most things I have tried. I have 5 or 6 of these setups can probably do a couple thousand cuttings at a time. About to build a proper nearing frame, get licensed, and officially open my nursery. Anyway, a lot of that is due to what I have learned from you, and a few others out in You Tube land. Thanks Mike for all you do. I've been propagating plants since I was a kid, it took a while for me to realize that I could actually make money doing it. For some reason it never clicked, of course, doing cuttings for production is a lot different mind set than as a hobby. As a hobbyist, if I took 5 or 6 cuttings and one took, it was a success. I've got a new plant, in production if you take 6 cuttings and only one took, its time to figure out what you did wrong :).

[sharongoodrich]

Thank you. You are a good teacher. Thank you again ☺️

[gardenfunwithjane]

Great video. Now I'll look all over my house for a clear bin. Love all the good info as always. I do learn so much from you.

[corlissyamasaki]

Thank you so much for this technique. I took your advice and nipped the tip. IT WORKED!!! Six cuttings and they all rooted!!! Will be transfer them to 1 gallon pots soon, eventually want some of then in the ground.

[hakdov]

I've had a lot of success with hydrangea by doing something similar but even simpler. I would put the pots in a container like you use, but would sit them directly in about an inch of water and just sit the whole thing in the shade beneath some trees. No cover. Worked great for me.

[margaretchiodo-keller]

Very informative video. I learned alot, and am now thinking about doing the same thing. Please post update videos on these hydrangeas - I would love to see how they are doing.

[darlatidwell]

While watching this video I went to get a piece of paper from my folder to make my Thanksgiving grocery list and found a piece of paper where I had handwritten these same instructions on your hydrangea cuttings back when you uploaded part one this summer. So I definitely have it down now. Literally! 😂 I didn't take any cuttings this summer as my hydrangea wasn't doing so well. It was really hot and dry weather but yet there was lots of cloud cover with only spots of rain, unless I watered and then it poured like Niagra Falls! Watering or not watering it made it mad, so I mixed up some very very weak Miracle-grow water and bucket watered it to pamper it along through the summer. My vegetable garden, melons and pumpkins were all oddly unproductive, and they didn't like much water at all. Only things that did ok was my peppers and grapes ( which the birds loved my 🍇 BTW😒). Even the tomatoes did poorly. I didn't even want to drive by all the 'garden lameness' on the mower. But I will root some hydrangeas using that method..come heat or high water! 👍 TY Mike! ☀️🐓🌱