I just love you and your daughter’s videos. I’ve been following for quite awhile you both bring a lot to the table as far as getting a nursery going, but very honest about it needing a lot of your time and devotion. Thank you so much for posting the videos and I wish you the best of luck with another great season at the new nursery. Going to try propagation this year from your videos it will bring a lot to our landscape. Thanks again, Bruce
Thanks for a great video Craig! Tremendous amounts of plants that you now have growing! Lots of hard work! It’s amazing what you have done in less than a year!
Nursery looks great, Savvy Dirt Farmer 🌱🤗 Thank you for sharing your knowledge on both propagation methods. I'm trying both at present too. "Make hay in the summer!" Yep, up and outside from the heat by 7 to get'er done before the zone 7 B heat of Southern OK.😎 Thanks again for sharing! p.s. as I am listening to your video this morning, my husband, getting his coffee, asks, "Who's that?" My reply, "The Savvy Dirt Farmer who got me into all of this!🌱🌱🌱💚😂🤣👍 Laura of GA got us into putting up a small greenhouse in 2022. Now I am retired and following the Backyard Nursery dream! Thank you to you and your family 💚💚💚🌱 Best quote ever, "Treat it like a business." SDF. 🌱🌱👍😎
Hi there I really enjoy watching you you bring so much inspiration to me my son and I and my daughter is starting a backyard small propagation of nursery my son is very good with propagating stuff I'm learning as I go and watching you is really encouraging me my son put me on to your RUclips channel and I've been watching you ever since and I'm learning so much I appreciate it I hope I'll never see expand just like yours thank you very much
Thanks for all your advise from success and failures. I’ve started our backyard nursery similar to how your family started yours. Trying to get our misting system right where it keeps starters moist but not soggy is first key step I’m trying to dial in correctly. Once I get that set with the good plug media I’ve got now I will feel confident to propogate like crazy. Appreciate your sharing and may God continue to bless your efforts 🙏
Another great video! Lots of great information. I just stuck my first batch of Limelight. I did not do plugs. Maybe this batch will be forgiving when I pot them up. Can’t wait until you open back up.
Thank you for showing the comparison. This morning I followed your hosta propagation method! I’ll be ‘making hay’ tomorrow with emerald greens via the dishpan method. Thanks Craig! Eric
Timely video. I just got in some limelight liners and they are super leggy like the one you showed. I was wondering how far down I could/should cut them to take cuttings and to trim them for next year - Now I know!! I'll probably be able to easily get about 50 cuttings from my 10 liners.
Thanks for sharing, Craig! I have all of my limelights in trays and I know they're already rooted. Should I let them grow out for this Summer and wait for them to go dormant before re-potting them? From now on, I will propagate in trays...the finished plugs in your video look so healthy!!
If they are in pans/flats all growing together, definitely leave them alone. You'll damage those new tender roots digging them out. When in doubt, wait. Don't rush it.
I would guess the plugs need more attention to watering. Each little cup has more area to dry out. The dish tray might be less care for someone like me that’s not home every day to check on watering.
Thanks for the hydrangea propagation videos. Had a family member who needed to go to a nursing home, but she had a lot of weigela and hydrangeas on her property so I took cuttings June 18 and they are growing well in trays now, just watered them twice daily in potting soil. Repotting those cuttings today, they have rooted well. Slowly building inventory and looking for discount perennials nearby in SW WI so I can do what you're doing. Getting my kids involved and starting our journey just like you guys did a few years back. Enjoying the process. Thank you.
Hi Craig and thank you for your hard work. A question - you mentioned potting up your cutting grown Green Giant in the Winter , and I wondered why you do that when things are dormant at that time of year. I'm in southern Australia with what sounds like a similar climate to yours. I have been growing a long time but am delving into the finer details of prop for my small nursery. It would be a great time in the winter for me to do that work as I have more time!
I do it then because they can safely be dug out of containers without damaging them - they DO NOT need to be handled gently at all when dormant, and whe n doing thousands of cuttings, working quickly matters. Also, I usually try to do them late winter, so they get potted and start growing in a reasonable amount of time. But, they can be potted in early winter if that's when you havve time to do it. It's no problem for them to just sit there til warm weather.
I don't publish my wholesale sources, but FYI, it's VERY hard to find them right now anywhere. I couldn't point you to a source that has them, for sure.
There is info about doing lilacs on RUclips. Also, digging up shoots and potting them. I have been doing that method because I have so many all around my lilac bushes. It is working very well. I have 5 lilac plants potted right now and was able to take several others to my daughter for her to plant.
Hello, you mentioned slow release fertalizer for the arborvitae cutings. When would you add the fertalizer in the propagation process around what month or season?
I have cuttings that i have been rooting for about 3-4 months now. Would i fertalize this year or would i wait until next year after they are individually potted to fertalize them in early spring? Is there a slow release fertalizer you would recomend? Once again sorry for all the questions and thank you for your time. You have been more help then you will ever know!
I have a question for you, do you think it’s possible to propagate many of these evergreens and/or hydrangeas under indoor grow lights as long as I continue to mimic the appropriate light cycle, and climate…???
I appreciate the content you share. Good teaching going on. What evergreens do you propagate besides the Emerald Green and Green Giant arborvitae? Have you tried the living hedge idea for propagating the arborvitae? Many thanks.
The two I currently propagate are "living hedge" types of trees. That's just about the only reason people buy them, and it's why they buy so many at once... to screen their neighbors, busy road, etc.
I propagated a dishpan of Weigela cuttings in sand + hardwood bark under mist June 9. I think every one rooted! They have a lot of top growth and some are even blooming!!! I didn’t know they would bloom twice! My question about the Weigela is, should I pot them up now or just leave them till they put on growth in the spring? Also, I have probably 30 or so hydrangea that rooted from cuttings. They are getting quite leggy. Should I prune them now? Thanks as always.
Great job! In dishpans, I would leave them alone until dormant. Sprinkle some slow release fert on them in their pans and let them continue to grow until cold weather. You can also prune them now for more branching. Before Spring, dig them out of the sand and pot them up and they'll grow a LOT next year.
hey...the white dishpan method...with all those green giants in it....did you drill holes in the bottom of it?? how many, ... you would probably have needed to use a drill....just wondering.... could not hear it in the video or maybe you did not say...I want to try the dishpan method..let me know please...thanks
Thank you so much! Can you recommend any other wholesalers other than the one you mentioned in the plant patent video? I can’t create an account with them until I become a “business” and I’m still learning/hobbling at this stage. Thank you!
There are a number of reasons I don't share wholesale sources on here. But... perennial and shrub wholesalers aren't super hard to find with some google searching... no accounts needed.
I use a liquid fertilizer for plugs, usually, but sometimes I do use slow release. Use what you have, they both work. Main thing is to understand they won't be plugs for long and most of their growth will come after you pot them up. They certainly need fertilizer as plugs though.
@@savvydirtfarmer Thanks. Shortly after I commented, I found your video on patents, which helped alot. I enjoy your videos, so just keep cranking them out. They're so helpful and knowledgeable.
If you use any specific nursery pots would you add them to your Amazon store? I'm mostly just growing for myself but would like to give away to friends and family (maybe a few people on FB to recoup the cost of things) but all the lost of affordable 100 6" pots have such terrible reviews. Have you ever used them? Do they make it through a season or more? I've been seed starting mostly, so you can get potentially 100 plants from each packet and I'd love to be able to pot them up instead of sticking them out in clumps where only a few survive from the clump because of overcrowding.
@@savvydirtfarmer 7.95 just stating blooms on some. Nice size. Tardiva and grandiflora. They are paniculata. I hope to plant a few for display hoping that will help
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I just love you and your daughter’s videos. I’ve been following for quite awhile you both bring a lot to the table as far as getting a nursery going, but very honest about it needing a lot of your time and devotion. Thank you so much for posting the videos and I wish you the best of luck with another great season at the new nursery. Going to try propagation this year from your videos it will bring a lot to our landscape. Thanks again, Bruce
Thank you so much!
Thanks for a great video Craig! Tremendous amounts of plants that you now have growing! Lots of hard work! It’s amazing what you have done in less than a year!
Nursery looks great, Savvy Dirt Farmer 🌱🤗 Thank you for sharing your knowledge on both propagation methods. I'm trying both at present too. "Make hay in the summer!" Yep, up and outside from the heat by 7 to get'er done before the zone 7 B heat of Southern OK.😎 Thanks again for sharing! p.s. as I am listening to your video this morning, my husband, getting his coffee, asks, "Who's that?" My reply, "The Savvy Dirt Farmer who got me into all of this!🌱🌱🌱💚😂🤣👍 Laura of GA got us into putting up a small greenhouse in 2022. Now I am retired and following the Backyard Nursery dream! Thank you to you and your family 💚💚💚🌱 Best quote ever, "Treat it like a business." SDF. 🌱🌱👍😎
Been making hay this morning, myself. Soaked in sweat. Came in to change clothes and dry out a while. Headed out for more. Living the dream. 😃
We appreciate you! I was born in Alabama. We moved to Colorado in 1962. Thank you for sharing your experience, wisdom, energy, and motivation.
Thanks for sharing!!
Hi there I really enjoy watching you you bring so much inspiration to me my son and I and my daughter is starting a backyard small propagation of nursery my son is very good with propagating stuff I'm learning as I go and watching you is really encouraging me my son put me on to your RUclips channel and I've been watching you ever since and I'm learning so much I appreciate it I hope I'll never see expand just like yours thank you very much
Thank you for the kind words! Glad we can be of some help.
Good advice. Thanks for all you do for us SDF!
Thanks for all your advise from success and failures. I’ve started our backyard nursery similar to how your family started yours. Trying to get our misting system right where it keeps starters moist but not soggy is first key step I’m trying to dial in correctly. Once I get that set with the good plug media I’ve got now I will feel confident to propogate like crazy. Appreciate your sharing and may God continue to bless your efforts 🙏
Good grief, I'm having a time getting my new system dialed in. Right now I'm trying a longer soak less frequently.
One thing your nursery has that most others don't and that is such pretty property surrounding the nursery and that out of City Air.
We're working to improve it! Thanks so much.
Timing is perfect for me! Fixing to try some propagation! I think I will try a tub! Thanks for all the information!
Another great video! Lots of great information. I just stuck my first batch of Limelight. I did not do plugs. Maybe this batch will be forgiving when I pot them up. Can’t wait until you open back up.
I'm learning a bunch from your videos! Thanks!
Awesome! Thank you!
Love your videos. I've got several varieties of hydrangeas in pots....yup, need to go take some cuttings. Thanks for the reminder!
Thank you so much! You always make me want to continu growing my little backyard nursery.
You can do it!
Great information!!
You are so engaging and encouraging. Do not have a misting system yet but I will try in a clear tub with lid. It should also work. God bless!
Good luck!
Thank you for showing the comparison. This morning I followed your hosta propagation method! I’ll be ‘making hay’ tomorrow with emerald greens via the dishpan method.
Thanks Craig!
Eric
'Tis the season!! Hope they do great for you.
Glad to see you’re gonna start propagating gardenias
worked on them yesterday and will again today... about 100 done so far.
Timely video. I just got in some limelight liners and they are super leggy like the one you showed. I was wondering how far down I could/should cut them to take cuttings and to trim them for next year - Now I know!! I'll probably be able to easily get about 50 cuttings from my 10 liners.
That’s how you do it!
Thanks for sharing, Craig! I have all of my limelights in trays and I know they're already rooted. Should I let them grow out for this Summer and wait for them to go dormant before re-potting them? From now on, I will propagate in trays...the finished plugs in your video look so healthy!!
If they are in pans/flats all growing together, definitely leave them alone. You'll damage those new tender roots digging them out. When in doubt, wait. Don't rush it.
I have used you method for hydrangeas and am having very good results.
I'm from Andalusia Alabama. I know exactly what you're saying! Lol thank you so much for sharing 😊
I would guess the plugs need more attention to watering. Each little cup has more area to dry out. The dish tray might be less care for someone like me that’s not home every day to check on watering.
Thanks for the hydrangea propagation videos. Had a family member who needed to go to a nursing home, but she had a lot of weigela and hydrangeas on her property so I took cuttings June 18 and they are growing well in trays now, just watered them twice daily in potting soil. Repotting those cuttings today, they have rooted well. Slowly building inventory and looking for discount perennials nearby in SW WI so I can do what you're doing. Getting my kids involved and starting our journey just like you guys did a few years back. Enjoying the process. Thank you.
Sounds great! Thanks for sharing
Thank you! Going to try the sand method for my Texas Sage cuttings, I tried once and they rotted so on to round two!
We had TX sage when we lived there… beautiful plants. Never tried to propagate them.
Great info, your operation is looking great!
You inspire me.
Do you have a link to the Wallerin pencil?
Good ol' #2.
Hi Craig and thank you for your hard work. A question - you mentioned potting up your cutting grown Green Giant in the Winter , and I wondered why you do that when things are dormant at that time of year. I'm in southern Australia with what sounds like a similar climate to yours. I have been growing a long time but am delving into the finer details of prop for my small nursery. It would be a great time in the winter for me to do that work as I have more time!
I do it then because they can safely be dug out of containers without damaging them - they DO NOT need to be handled gently at all when dormant, and whe n doing thousands of cuttings, working quickly matters. Also, I usually try to do them late winter, so they get potted and start growing in a reasonable amount of time. But, they can be potted in early winter if that's when you havve time to do it. It's no problem for them to just sit there til warm weather.
Thanks for the great content! So inspirational! Which wholesaler do you use for evergreen plugs?
I don't publish my wholesale sources, but FYI, it's VERY hard to find them right now anywhere. I couldn't point you to a source that has them, for sure.
Thank you!!!
Hi thank you for another informational video! Can you please tell me if this would work with lilacs? Thank you 😁
I don't know a thing about propagating lilacs. I've never had them in my nursery and have never tried to propagate them. NEVER hurts to try.
There is info about doing lilacs on RUclips. Also, digging up shoots and potting them. I have been doing that method because I have so many all around my lilac bushes. It is working very well. I have 5 lilac plants potted right now and was able to take several others to my daughter for her to plant.
I haven't done it but my Dad who was a professor of Environmental Horticulture always said propagating lilacs from root cuttings was the best way.
@@cynthiagustafson2541 thank you so much!
@@twohomesteads6512 thank you for your help!
So interesting. Thank you. Could you use the cuttings at the end of fall when cutting back your hydrangeas to propagate starts? Thank you
Absolutely. In fact, when I have them, I like to leave them alone all winter and do some as hardwood cuttings about February, before warm up starts.
@@savvydirtfarmer thank you the quick reply. See you in the next video! 😎
You make me want to go out and buy a hydrangea just so I can do this!❤
Do it! Just make sure you buy one that's not patented.
Me too only hydrangeas aren't edible and I am only doing edible plants so I don't have to deal with sales tax.
Excellent
Hello, you mentioned slow release fertalizer for the arborvitae cutings. When would you add the fertalizer in the propagation process around what month or season?
Only fertilizer when it’s warm. Slow release is formulated to release based on temperature.
I have cuttings that i have been rooting for about 3-4 months now. Would i fertalize this year or would i wait until next year after they are individually potted to fertalize them in early spring? Is there a slow release fertalizer you would recomend? Once again sorry for all the questions and thank you for your time. You have been more help then you will ever know!
I have a question for you, do you think it’s possible to propagate many of these evergreens and/or hydrangeas under indoor grow lights as long as I continue to mimic the appropriate light cycle, and climate…???
I think that all makes it harder than it is. Let nature do its work outside.
Thank you do I see bayberry plants behind you toward the end of the video?
Not sure what you see, but not bayberry… I don’t know that plant.
Thanks very much for all of your information.
Am I allowed to propagate patented hydrengeas like Limelight?
Limelight patent has expired, it’s free to propagate. Others? Depends on the plant. Cannot legally propagate plants under patent protection.
I appreciate the content you share. Good teaching going on.
What evergreens do you propagate
besides the Emerald Green and Green Giant arborvitae?
Have you tried the living hedge idea for propagating
the arborvitae?
Many thanks.
The two I currently propagate are "living hedge" types of trees. That's just about the only reason people buy them, and it's why they buy so many at once... to screen their neighbors, busy road, etc.
May I ask you please
Do you have a video on Cypress propagation that is in front of you in this video.
Thanks in advance.
I don't have one. Similar method to the green giants.
I propagated a dishpan of Weigela cuttings in sand + hardwood bark under mist June 9. I think every one rooted! They have a lot of top growth and some are even blooming!!! I didn’t know they would bloom twice!
My question about the Weigela is, should I pot them up now or just leave them till they put on growth in the spring?
Also, I have probably 30 or so hydrangea that rooted from cuttings. They are getting quite leggy. Should I prune them now?
Thanks as always.
Great job! In dishpans, I would leave them alone until dormant. Sprinkle some slow release fert on them in their pans and let them continue to grow until cold weather. You can also prune them now for more branching. Before Spring, dig them out of the sand and pot them up and they'll grow a LOT next year.
@@savvydirtfarmer Thank you!!!
Are you drilling holes in the bottom of those dish-pan tubs?
Yes, several
hey...the white dishpan method...with all those green giants in it....did you drill holes in the bottom of it?? how many, ... you would probably have needed to use a drill....just wondering.... could not hear it in the video or maybe you did not say...I want to try the dishpan method..let me know please...thanks
No idea... just drill a few holes so it'll drain. Or without a drill, poke a few holes with a screwdriver or whatever you have.
@@savvydirtfarmer thanks
Thank you so much! Can you recommend any other wholesalers other than the one you mentioned in the plant patent video? I can’t create an account with them until I become a “business” and I’m still learning/hobbling at this stage. Thank you!
There are a number of reasons I don't share wholesale sources on here. But... perennial and shrub wholesalers aren't super hard to find with some google searching... no accounts needed.
If I don't have a misting system like you've described can I use a plastic cover to keep them moist? Will that work?
yes... will work. Just give them shade if you do it in the summer. Don't cook them, and don't let them dry out.
Hello why failed hydrangea paniculata from hardwood cuttings most y in green house of end februari
No idea... too hot, too wet, too dry, poor draining rooting media...?????
Where do you buy your flower pots?
locally, or amleo.com or greenhousemegastore.com
Do you add slow release fertilizer to your plugs?
I use a liquid fertilizer for plugs, usually, but sometimes I do use slow release. Use what you have, they both work. Main thing is to understand they won't be plugs for long and most of their growth will come after you pot them up. They certainly need fertilizer as plugs though.
Do you put drain holes in the dishpan?
Yes. Guaranteed to drown otherwise.
When you mention the patent has ran out on anything. How do you find out when the plant patent has expired on any given plant(s)?
Look up the plant name and “patent.” Ex. “Limelight hydrangea patent date.”
@@savvydirtfarmer Thanks. Shortly after I commented, I found your video on patents, which helped alot. I enjoy your videos, so just keep cranking them out. They're so helpful and knowledgeable.
If you use any specific nursery pots would you add them to your Amazon store? I'm mostly just growing for myself but would like to give away to friends and family (maybe a few people on FB to recoup the cost of things) but all the lost of affordable 100 6" pots have such terrible reviews. Have you ever used them? Do they make it through a season or more? I've been seed starting mostly, so you can get potentially 100 plants from each packet and I'd love to be able to pot them up instead of sticking them out in clumps where only a few survive from the clump because of overcrowding.
I’ve never ordered pots off Amazon. I use mostly trade gallon plastic pots. They last multiple seasons… I’ve got some that are at least 6 yr old.
@@savvydirtfarmer sounds like it is worth buying higher quality pots. Thank you!
What medium mix do you use?
For propagation? Mostly sand. It doesn't matter as long as it drains well.
"Wallerin'" :) So you don't use rooting hormones on hydrangeas?
No. I don’t use it at all rooting anything
I have had 200 hydrangea this is the second summer. Haven't sold a one! So frustrating
I can't keep them. How do they look, what size are they, and what's your price?
@@savvydirtfarmer 7.95 just stating blooms on some. Nice size. Tardiva and grandiflora. They are paniculata. I hope to plant a few for display hoping that will help
Do you sell bulk plugs?
Sometimes when I have plenty, but I've already sold everything I have for the year. thanks
@@savvydirtfarmerok thanks!
Can I root lantana ?
Never tried, but I'm sure you can. Lantana is an annual here.
When you say sand, is that like sand box sand or sand from my yard? Sorry to be so ignorant about sand🥴
Sand box or masonry sand. If the sand is too fine, like flour, it's not good. The more coarse the better.
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Please bring the camera closer, I have 70 year old eyeballs!