How To Grow Apple Trees From Cuttings EASY WAY! (Growing Tips)

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I've had about a 50% survival rate by using similar technique in early summer with softwood apple cuttings and a prorogation box. Think of it as a cold frame in the shade. I have my best luck with hardwood cuttings taken in the late fall. I use these for grafting stock on more productive roots.

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If there are branches growing into each other, across each other or growing into the centre of the apple tree, that's the next place to prune. Start at the center and thin out the stems, cutting back to the good, strong wood of a branch. And then consider the age of your tree.

Because cross-pollination between varieties produces variable results, apples and some other fruit trees are usually not grown from seeds. (Instead, cuttings or buds of the best varieties are grafted onto rootstocks to produce trees that bear fruit just like the parent tree's.) But the almondlike seeds in pits from peaches.

A cutting will probably grow bigger than a grafted tree depending what rootstock it's on but every? commercial citrus rootstock is dwarfing so chances are good it'll be a much bigger tree. The amount of fruit and flavour might change slightly too but it'll be the same fruit apple tree cutting. apple tree cuttings propagate grow apple tree from cutting rooting apple tree cuttings

[baveriste]

hey! pretty comprehensive video, but you might want to mention the difference between hardwood cuttings depending on season. pretty clear your cuttings were vernal, but winter and autumn cuttings benefit from more length. also helpful to sterilize your medium, whatever it is, in an oven first.

[valeriesanchez]

Raw honey is great as a rooting hormone. It hasn't failed me yet.

[missyfrederick]

Thank you so much, your codeos r very helpful and imformative.I live off grid in Hawaii and all your wisdom is

[motaharulmazumder]

Thanks for the video would you please show what types of soil did you use for growing root

[nicolecorbin]

Awesome! How many years would it take to see apples?

[Rekuji]

Do you keep your cuttings indoor or outside? And what is the usual temp outside if you leave them outside? I ask because I'm trying this now that it's winter because I heard cuttings work better in winter. Thanks for any information you can give!

[bryandunn]

what sort of environment do you keep the tree at during the process?

[timetoconqer]

Thanks I’m in Sydney Australia 🇦🇺 I’m trying out your advice with an apple and peach tree, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Regards
Kenny

[EdwardDurivage]

Yes I have some granny smith trees nearly 100 years old (came to NY during WW2), neglected and dying off. I stabilized them but need to take cuttings asap. My question is, soil type? Large size vermiculite or is that too dry? .. and how do we sterilize soil if I use that? Should we bake it in the Sun? Then root and soil temperatures from I remember cannot go below 72deg, and best around 80deg? Not above 84? Lastly should we place a humidity dome over them? So many variables and I only have maybe 6 shoots of soft wood. I will climb higher to hopefully get some snippets like you have with little buds. Lower ones mostly died off. I just moved here, trying to save the old fruit orchard. TY!

[Lufe]

Hi have you thought about 'air layering' your trees? A method of growing a cutting on the actual tree itself. Plenty of info on Youtube on how to do it. I have done my crab apple tree several times and made new trees from it and passed them on to family to grow in their gardens (we call it the 'Family Tree). Best of luck to everyone (the world needs more trees).

[jessicaheupel]

How long can you leave the cutting in the pot before transplanting outside? And does it need to be cold during winter or can I leave it in the house for a few years while it grows??

[davidalexander]

Great video! Just what I was looking for.

[MichaelJohnson-uxpe]

Nice video but can you tell me once you put the cuttings in pots where do you keep them?

[ladybirdstarshine]

😳
I dumped a pile of apples in the field, behind my house....
And...😃😍
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[evelynisgro-desplat]

I like your technique. What is your room temperature and do you place them under lights while rooting? I understand the necessity of rootstock, especially in cold climates. The tap root of cold hardy seedling rootstocks helps secure water and stabilize the tree, not to mention disease resistance, precocity, hardiness or any other factors imparted by the rootstock through the graft union. People have forgotten that up until 100 years ago grafting existed but was not a wide spread practice. Most trees were grown on their own roots from cuttings. While it is true that some have incredibly vigorous roots and do very well propogated this way, it is certianly not true for them all. For container culture, a hobby or a stop gap measure while waiting for rootstock it is certainly a worthy practice still. Especially for old unknown varieties that may be dying if you do not have material to graft with handy. Thank you for you video.

[JennySimon]

I live on a sand bar off the Washington coast in the Pacific Northwest. Do apple trees like to be planted in sand? I was browsing around trying to figure out if they will grow in sand amended from the top with seaweed and wood chips. I have a chipper and put bull kelp thru it 😁.
New gardener. Due to the sand issue I dug out 4 feet under my raised beds and filled it with cardboard, red alder logs in all stages of rot, seagrass, leaves, bull kelp whole so they are lined up like logs next to the logs to decompose slower as well as help the log decompose, some chipped kelp, red alder wood chips, dead dune grass, live dune marsh grass, live and dead ferns, branches in all stages of rot, twigs, native soil (from where they have soil, not my yard which is sand), mushroom compost. Anything I could find I layered up. Then put hardware cloth and dig more Hugelkulture but smaller logs to fill the beds halfway. I have mushroom compost I got last summer that had to overwinter. Gonna mix that with something to plant in. Fingers crossed I can get stuff to grow in it. I hear seaweed is great.
The deer are loving having me clearing all the fallen branches out of the animal trails. They spend a lot more time in the bushes than on the road. Humans were a part of the natural ecosystem too. I think people overlook that when they want everything totally natural. Animals and humans used the same trails for many eons.

[Veritas-dnss]

Apple and pear trees will simply NOT root this way.  Or very, very rarely if they do at all.  There are lots of videos on Youtube showing a very similar method.  Note how NONE of them show the roots or the growing tree?  That's because the method in this video simply does not work to root cuttings of apple or pear or plum.  The cuttings will leaf out, then die as there are no roots to feed the new shoots.  This method does work with "easy to root" trees like willow, etc. but NOT with very hard to root cuttings of apple, pear or plum.  While it is possible to root cuttings of apple, it is done in very specialized computer timed misting chambers with special chemicals and special heated rooting mediums.

[GraftingTactick]

👌💕Great video,   very informative, Thanks for sharing

[albrown]

Air Layering just about Any tree or shrub that is growing edible fruit will make an Exact Copy of the Mother tree or fruiting shrub in about 90 days. In the Spring, Summer, or Early Fall It Does Work.

[adamender]

I just grew my apple trees from seeds..
Just put them on a wet piece of tissue in a transparent dish so they can get sunlight and then they will root and you can plant them in a pot and later in the ground