Propagating Seaberry - Softwood Cuttings in Water!

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[PermacultureHomestead]

ive been most interested in the willow propagating, thats the OG by the book way to get the difficult rooters. You already have 30 seaberry sold Sean, the project farm would love more of your diversity, the comfrey have blown up 2nd year in, keep us updated on when they go live for sale.

[esotericagriculture]

Great video! I wish I had known of this technique years ago. Sea berries and Goumi definitely don’t root if you take micro softwood cuttings and put them under mist, ie, standard commercial technique. I never had any success with dormant hardwood cuttings either. Excellent useful information right here, well done.

[sempi]

Great video! Could you make a video on the marketing/ where and how you sell your plants from the nursery? Really want to start one myself especially since you schow how it can be done less complicated.

[dirtpatcheaven]

Oh I am so glad you made this! I want to do this eithy elderberries!

[BoldlyGrowHomestead]

Thinking of taking a cutting off my newish blueberry plant and see if I can get it to root. Experiment and a way to maybe add more to the garden.

[chelseahartweg]

Genius! I'm wondering how much perlite and sand you put in the propagation bed? Do you think anything would harm the cuttings if it were pond water instead of plain rain water?

[sdjhflasukle]

I looked through the comments to see if you'd already answered this question, but I don't see the info on this comment thread at least - what kind of bubbler do you have and can you post the link here if you like it?

[jeremy]

Very nice tips again :) do you feel that the aeration of water plays an important role ? Compared to seabuckthorn + willow together in still water ?

[yLeprechaun]

Somewhere, in storage in the shop, we have an old fish tank. Why do we care? Glad you asked. Fish tanks require bubblers! Gonna dig around storage and find that thing today. I have cottonwoods, which are a willow, and two russian olives and 3 honey locusts. I'm gonna try rhis using cottonwood to propogate my olives and locusts. I hope cottonwood helps a wee bit. Probly won't, but gonna try it.

[HoofInDenver]

I’m noticing that Josta berry is super easy to root in my aquaponic system. Gooseberry has not been as easy. Any tips?

[nigelkay]

Awesome VIdeo on Rooting Sea Berry and Goumi using Air Stone Aerated Rainwater and Willow! Thanks for the tips!

[buzzferver]

awesome to learn this! i will be adding this to my playlist! did you try honeyberry? or nankings? can you try some this week??? you should try peach too!

[carolday]

Very cool. I have a honeysuckle tree, it’s an old fashioned thing, and it too won’t root on small skinny parts but the bigger stems work. I have been trying to air layer them. I am also planning to make a home made cloner machine which would be the same principle as your aerobic water dish, .. moving water, clean with hormone from willow. Really awesome thank you.

[wolfebilt]

Great stuff,
We've had seaberry here for 3 years and I love the way you treat it. A lot of the most useful information on seaberry and it's real tendencies and preferences I've learned on this channel.
Definitely getting a willow cutting too. Useful tree, seems like one to have in the yard.
Thanks

[TheFarmacySeedsNetwork]

Excellent! Thanks! I can't wait for my seeds to finish stratifying so I can get on my way there! :) cheers!

[roseamey]

Great Thanks grateful, Can I propagate seabuckthorn hardwood cuttings int he way please?

[keyboard_g]

My seaberries started off really well but this mid summer sun and heat is killing them. We’ve had a lot of die back. Surprising for NJ.

[dancingcedar]

Brilliant. I love Thank you so much. You are excellent with the level of detail you share, and I have some questions about specifics. I would love a more specific comment about how much sun they had when they were simply sitting in the water? About how many willow cuttings did you do relative to the number of Seaberries? How fussy must one be about cleaning the bubbler after this process in order not to contaminate the future projects? I will experiment with putting cuttings that are just starting to form signs of forming roots in a better rooting medium than just water, and I think I will have more success and not lose as many to rot. Thank you. :) Blessings :)

[SimonHaestoe]

Awesome video 👍 how old do plants have to be before you take softwood cuttings..? I purchased a plant which is maybe 50cm/almost 2 feet high which I just planted. I assume softwood cuttings this year is a bad idea..? would it risk killing the mother plant?

[theeyedman]

where did you get that metal watering can?