When cutting your pieces to plant, make an angled cut at the base and a flat cut at the top when lopping sticks off the source wood. That way if your basket of sticks falls on the ground you can easily know to plant the pointy end down without trying to figure out/guess bud orientation because sometimes that is hard. The angled cut goes in the ground easier while the flat top is easy on your hands to push in.
Yes! I just grew my first elderberry shrubs from your exact method this year! Thanks for sharing! People dont realize how easy certain species are to propogate....and how much money they are wasting when they buy potted plants/trees/shrubs. As a landscape designer and installer, i always have the best plant success from smaller specimens and growing from whips. Almost a lost art now with people thinking they have to purchase everything. Propogation can be easy, cheap, and fun!
Great information and love the fact your demonstrating how easy it is to be sustainable with the land. Natures connection is one i wish alot more people should be encouraged to know about microbes and inoculation and cover cropping,degradation measures. thankyou again
This is my favorite gardening-type video channel because the information is abundant and simply explained with about all bases covered in one concise video. Thank you for sharing your wisdom (that's more than just knowledge) with everyone so freely and happily.
I got willow and elderberry introduced on our site by taking cuttings from roadside willows and elderberries. Totally free ;) It's a very valuable approach to expanding your plantings.
Are you one of those who pick up nuts and seeds whenever you see them out and about? 🧐 (Recently got a nice half pocket’s worth of pecan, and live oak. 😅😂😎)
Traditional Basketmakers in Britain, they cut their cuttings they select for using to make baskets, then plant them densely in water meadows, just cutting them when they want the canes to make the baskets. That way they use green cuttings to make the basket, much easier basket making with green cuttings as compared to dead dry cuttings which have to be soaked thoroughly to use.
Willow, elderberry, bramble and even damsons grow by themselves all over my property and local area here in Germany. Also some kind of Acer. I live on a street called "Ahornweg" - Maple Way, so I let one grow at least!. Cutting back any of them, very hard, makes a great bush the next year. The basket willow can grow 3 metres plus in one year! Great stakes for the garden, the same with the elderberry (the European spring flowering kind) I actually want some hedges round my new garden but am not sure which things I'll propagate for it so haven't done it yet (need to get a move on). Possibilities of other bushes I have already are also beech, false orange, hibiscus, lilac, even redcurrant, whitecurrant, forsythia, dog rose, Leylandii and some stuff with pink brushy flowers that I think was historically used locally for making brooms! Spindle, sloe and hawthorn all also grow wild locally. I don't want willow or elderberry as my hedges because we have very dry summers here and willows for sure suck up a lot of water and I guess elderberries too since they live in the same places. Going to do a double row to deter the deer! So sad to hear you mention Ash. It's dying out all across Europe and seems there's no way to stop it or even breed resistant trees. I hope rowans, sycamores etc aren't next!There's a moth starting to take out beeches in the south of Germany and also in the UK. This is what is making me hesitant, else I'd probably use the copper beech as hedge. Plum is awesome, but would attract too many evil starlings (they strip my cherry, plum, pears and apple trees unless I net or harvest underripe. The cat does his best, but let's face it, he sleeps for most of the daylight hours)
Hi Kirsten. You mentioned hawthorn. It’s well known for making good hedges, especially to keep dear out. Plus it will feed you with its little fruit that are like crabapples. I find hawthorn beautiful. I have two small trees at the moment. I have not tried to propagate them yet with cuttings.
another masterpiece 🙂 i planted over 100 pussywillows last year of red, black, and regular varieties and two varieties of elderberries this way. the only way to go 🙂
Very well explained. I've heard this can be done the same way with grape vines as well. Wonder about other fruit trees like apple trees, plums, pears, etc. Ever tried those?
Thank you! You are correct about the grapes! I haven’t tried tree fruit yet, only because my trees weren’t big enough. This winter(Jan. -Feb.) I have to prune most of them, so I plan on trying to propagate them. I’ll have lots of material. I should be making a video out of the pruning as well.
You’re welcome. You may find wild thickets along creek banks or in generally wet areas. What’s great is you take a few cuttings, which does not negatively affect the thicket in the least. As if you were a dear foraging a little.
❤❤❤ I plant my trees like this. For my fig trees I cut away some outter bark, spit on the part going in the ground for rooting hormone, stick it in the ground, wait. ;)
@WillowsGreenPermaculture I saw it on one of the channels I follow, I think Danny and Wanda fron Pecan Grove aka Deep South Homestead. I am a free food forrester here and will not buy products when I have free to use. :)
I enjoyed the video very much ❤Thank you for sharing. I don't have a creek here but was very interested in the rain garden. Do you have any video where you made that area?
Thank you! I wasn’t making videos when we came here, so I only have photos. I’ll see if I can put something together. I can certainly make a video about making rain gardens in general. 😊
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture That would be swell if you did make a video about it. I live on approx 3/4 of an acre and the property has a slight slop from the west to the east. I was thinking a rain garden would work nicely because I already have a great deal of moss growing in the section. I have no trees on my land yet and full sun with a tight budget.
@@AlmostaGreenAcre-zs5eu yes, a rain garden would probably work. The fastest way to get more trees by 'doing nothing' is to establish 'NoMowZones' - areas where you don't ever clear. Just let stuff grow. You will soon see saplings growing there, either planted by the animals, or because the seeds have been there dormant for years. And then, of course, if you can get your hands on cuttings, then you're good!
Loved the video Stefan. I want to try this with the one nectarine tree I have. If I have several more nectarine trees, maybe I can get some fruit before the squirrels do. They can't possibly eat them all!
Thank you Barb! And you are right about the squirrels! I've never tried with nectarines, because I don't grow them. Maybe next year. Try using branches you would have to prune anyway: Branches that are crossing other branches, or crossing through the middle of the canopy.
Love how easy this is. I do have a question. Moved to a 2.10 acre area. We have 1 peach tree that thrived last summer and produced tons of peaches. However I noticed some of the bark from the ground up to around my knee has lost bark on one side of the tree. I don't know if I can save it nor know how. Also I wonder if I can do this with my peach tree with cuttings? I tried multiple ways trying with the pit to grow peach trees, but none has taken. We also have walnut trees n wonder if I can do this with cuttings too? PS. Going to plant pear, apple, cherry trees this coming year. Some for my family n friends, the rest for the deer when fruiting arrives. Thank You for providing RUclips generations the skill and knowledgeable know how's sir. It's most worthy and rewarding to know that many more trees will be provided abundantly and for free. God bless and Merry CHRISTmas
Your peach tree bark was probably nibbled on by animals, try to get a small spiral tree guard for it. I’ve never tried stem cuttings with peach trees because I’ve never planted them, but I hope to plant some next year. For walnuts, you could always give it a try. The great thing about this method is if you’ve got trees with branches, it costs you nothing either in time or money to give it a try - also with walnuts, if you have other walnuts growing in your area, you can allow vegetation to grow freely in some areas and you’ll likely have squirrels. That’ll plant walnuts for you. You just have to keep an eye out for the saplings.
@WillowsGreenPermaculture appreciate the help with suggestions immensely. TY!!! N yes, we do thankfully have squirrels. Unless it's skunks, rats, or coyotes, we enjoy nature at its finest.
Always appreciate a video that helps out with current endeavors! 🤠👍 Am I mistaken, or did your last year’s (willow) cuttings mostly grow out of the second from top bud? It appeared that on several of the examples, the top part of the cutting (including first bud) had died off. Is that to be expected, or was that due to specific conditions?
Thank you! 😊 The plant will always take the shortest easiest route to what it needs. Growth for leaves to make sugar, the lower one will require less work for the cutting. However. I do so many that I don’t pay attention. That’s why I ensure to have at least two buds on top and two underground. That way, if a node is not healthy for some reason, there’s a backup. I will often work with twice that many buds.
me just being me as i drool watching this ! i use willow for tinctures which comes out the same as working as aspirin, birch bark has it too inside it. i make my tinctures with inner willow bark, birch inner, and wild lettuce. that i have found to make the most potent pain reliever when i do all three together.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture alcohol absorbs best all the nutrients, but if once doesnt want to use alcohol food grade glycerin works as well and is sweet so it much easier used for children as it tastes so good and tastes better then liquid childrens medicine :)
@ thank you Anna. I also remember you recommended a RUclips channel for learning. I will likely use alcohol to make tinctures as I believe that is likely one of the oldest methods. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
@ amazing! In my area, our riparian zones are entirely dominated by black locust stands. I wonder if planting native willows would do anything to compete and re-establish.
Likely. And if you’re culling the black locust, the wood is very good. One of the hardest. A black locust log, a builder of natural school playgrounds once told me, can last decades. However, on the other hand, black locust is native to the Carolinian zone, maybe not to the Ontario portion of it, but the zones are moving. It likely supports native wildlife here in Ontario as well.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture very interesting! I know that there is a lot of concern for how aggressively black locust dominates ecosystems and modifies the soil chemistry to favour monocultures of black locust. Which can result in the loss of oak savannahs. I’ve also seen roadsides, parks, and as I mentioned, riparian zones all dominated by the tree. While I could understand some ecological value for wildlife, I’m weary of how much habitat is lost by other food webs when black locusts move in.
@ yes. I have noticed the same thing. Here in Ontario, they generally don’t get too big, and so are easily cut. You can use the wood for soil building where necessary.
It’s good to plant extra because they may not all take. Which kind of tree or shrub are you interested in propagating? Let me know and I could give you a density.
@@shuyungsum the elderberry grows naturally in thickets. So dense. For your sugar maples, give the same amount of space as a full size tree needs to each cutting. However, as they may not all take. You could put several in each spot. Same for the apple and pecan. I’ll be trying apple for the first time this winter.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Thank you and I look forward to seeing how it turns out for you. I just bought my property and its pretty much a clean slate. I will focus heavy on perennials and food forestry.
Thank you Doina! So this one must be Salix lutea. Because it’s very yellow. I’ll have to look the two up at the same time and compare. I knew about alba being white, I just figured the common English name didn’t match well with the Latin. I find in French, the names sometimes are almost identical to the Latin. It’s like in music, do you know what the French for French Horn is? Corne Anglaise - which means English Horn! Haha. - You triggered my other obsession, along with gardening, which is language. 😊
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture :) same with French key / cle anglaise :) Languages are fascinating. For example, verde means green in more than one language :)
Willows are super easy to propagate by simply shoving cuttings into the ground as you show. What would be VERY helpful is if you can find a method to root hardwood cuttings of apple, plum, and pears. I have tried literally a few hundred times over the years with different rooting hormones, different substrates (from sand to cococoir to vermiculite/perlite, etc) and with bottom heat. Zero success. If you can do this please share how.
Thank you for your question Veritas! As mentioned in the video, I have done a few hardwoods, for instance, Sycamore, Chokecherry, and Manitoba Maple. I have been waiting for my plums, apples, pears, quince, hazelnuts and pawpaws to get established before experimenting with them. This winter, I will be pruning many of them, and I will start the experiment. Likely in February. So stay tuned! 😊
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture As a tip, apples, plums and pears only root from callous. If we simply shove a cutting into the ground before there is any callous, the part in the ground simply rots. So first we need to have the cuttings develop a callous over the bottom to have any chance. Good luck and please report any successes!
When cutting your pieces to plant, make an angled cut at the base and a flat cut at the top when lopping sticks off the source wood. That way if your basket of sticks falls on the ground you can easily know to plant the pointy end down without trying to figure out/guess bud orientation because sometimes that is hard. The angled cut goes in the ground easier while the flat top is easy on your hands to push in.
The best tip! 😊 Thank you!
Yes! I just grew my first elderberry shrubs from your exact method this year! Thanks for sharing! People dont realize how easy certain species are to propogate....and how much money they are wasting when they buy potted plants/trees/shrubs.
As a landscape designer and installer, i always have the best plant success from smaller specimens and growing from whips.
Almost a lost art now with people thinking they have to purchase everything. Propogation can be easy, cheap, and fun!
Thank you for sharing! And all the best with your landscape designs!
Great information and love the fact your demonstrating how easy it is to be sustainable with the land. Natures connection is one i wish alot more people should be encouraged to know about microbes and inoculation and cover cropping,degradation measures. thankyou again
You’re very welcome. What you describe is among the main reasons I do these videos!
This is my favorite gardening-type video channel because the information is abundant and simply explained with about all bases covered in one concise video. Thank you for sharing your wisdom (that's more than just knowledge) with everyone so freely and happily.
Thank you! This means a lot to me! 😊 It gives me great pleasure to share all of this.
I got willow and elderberry introduced on our site by taking cuttings from roadside willows and elderberries. Totally free ;) It's a very valuable approach to expanding your plantings.
It sure is! 😊
Are you one of those who pick up nuts and seeds whenever you see them out and about? 🧐
(Recently got a nice half pocket’s worth of pecan, and live oak. 😅😂😎)
@@davidmgilbreathoh yes. I love finding stuff. Especially wild fruit.
Traditional Basketmakers in Britain, they cut their cuttings they select for using to make baskets, then plant them densely in water meadows, just cutting them when they want the canes to make the baskets. That way they use green cuttings to make the basket, much easier basket making with green cuttings as compared to dead dry cuttings which have to be soaked thoroughly to use.
Yes! Thank you! We hope to experiment with basket making too!
Willow, elderberry, bramble and even damsons grow by themselves all over my property and local area here in Germany. Also some kind of Acer. I live on a street called "Ahornweg" - Maple Way, so I let one grow at least!.
Cutting back any of them, very hard, makes a great bush the next year. The basket willow can grow 3 metres plus in one year! Great stakes for the garden, the same with the elderberry (the European spring flowering kind)
I actually want some hedges round my new garden but am not sure which things I'll propagate for it so haven't done it yet (need to get a move on). Possibilities of other bushes I have already are also beech, false orange, hibiscus, lilac, even redcurrant, whitecurrant, forsythia, dog rose, Leylandii and some stuff with pink brushy flowers that I think was historically used locally for making brooms! Spindle, sloe and hawthorn all also grow wild locally.
I don't want willow or elderberry as my hedges because we have very dry summers here and willows for sure suck up a lot of water and I guess elderberries too since they live in the same places.
Going to do a double row to deter the deer!
So sad to hear you mention Ash. It's dying out all across Europe and seems there's no way to stop it or even breed resistant trees. I hope rowans, sycamores etc aren't next!There's a moth starting to take out beeches in the south of Germany and also in the UK. This is what is making me hesitant, else I'd probably use the copper beech as hedge. Plum is awesome, but would attract too many evil starlings (they strip my cherry, plum, pears and apple trees unless I net or harvest underripe. The cat does his best, but let's face it, he sleeps for most of the daylight hours)
Hi Kirsten. You mentioned hawthorn. It’s well known for making good hedges, especially to keep dear out. Plus it will feed you with its little fruit that are like crabapples. I find hawthorn beautiful. I have two small trees at the moment. I have not tried to propagate them yet with cuttings.
Thank you so much for what you both share, brings a lot of hope to this gen z's heart 💙🐦
You’re very welcome! 💚
Thank you Sr. It’s beautiful. 🤗🙌
You’re welcome, Maria!
another masterpiece 🙂 i planted over 100 pussywillows last year of red, black, and regular varieties and two varieties of elderberries this way. the only way to go 🙂
Thank you Alsan. 😊
Thankyou you have blessed me may the Lord bless your hands in Jesus name❤
Thank you Ismael. God bless you as well.🙂
Very well explained. I've heard this can be done the same way with grape vines as well. Wonder about other fruit trees like apple trees, plums, pears, etc. Ever tried those?
Thank you! You are correct about the grapes! I haven’t tried tree fruit yet, only because my trees weren’t big enough. This winter(Jan. -Feb.) I have to prune most of them, so I plan on trying to propagate them. I’ll have lots of material. I should be making a video out of the pruning as well.
i love willow. i feed them to my meat rabbits. i start new trees every year
That’s wonderful. I hope to have goats one day. This would feed them!
Brilliant! No need to buy a thing! I'm going to try and find local wild elderberry and do this. Thank you immensely Mr Willows Green 💚
You’re welcome. You may find wild thickets along creek banks or in generally wet areas. What’s great is you take a few cuttings, which does not negatively affect the thicket in the least. As if you were a dear foraging a little.
❤❤❤ I plant my trees like this. For my fig trees I cut away some outter bark, spit on the part going in the ground for rooting hormone, stick it in the ground, wait. ;)
Really? Spit makes a good rooting hormone? Love it! 😊It wouldn’t surprise me!
@WillowsGreenPermaculture I saw it on one of the channels I follow, I think Danny and Wanda fron Pecan Grove aka Deep South Homestead. I am a free food forrester here and will not buy products when I have free to use. :)
@@GrandmomZoo absolutely. Nature gives abundantly, and as we all share our knowledge and talents, then we just all create wonders and joy together!
I enjoyed the video very much ❤Thank you for sharing. I don't have a creek here but was very interested in the rain garden. Do you have any video where you made that area?
Thank you! I wasn’t making videos when we came here, so I only have photos. I’ll see if I can put something together. I can certainly make a video about making rain gardens in general. 😊
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture That would be swell if you did make a video about it. I live on approx 3/4 of an acre and the property has a slight slop from the west to the east. I was thinking a rain garden would work nicely because I already have a great deal of moss growing in the section. I have no trees on my land yet and full sun with a tight budget.
@@AlmostaGreenAcre-zs5eu yes, a rain garden would probably work. The fastest way to get more trees by 'doing nothing' is to establish 'NoMowZones' - areas where you don't ever clear. Just let stuff grow. You will soon see saplings growing there, either planted by the animals, or because the seeds have been there dormant for years. And then, of course, if you can get your hands on cuttings, then you're good!
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Thanks so much 🙂
You’re welcome. ☺️
Loved the video Stefan. I want to try this with the one nectarine tree I have. If I have several more nectarine trees, maybe I can get some fruit before the squirrels do. They can't possibly eat them all!
Thank you Barb! And you are right about the squirrels! I've never tried with nectarines, because I don't grow them. Maybe next year. Try using branches you would have to prune anyway: Branches that are crossing other branches, or crossing through the middle of the canopy.
Love how easy this is. I do have a question. Moved to a 2.10 acre area. We have 1 peach tree that thrived last summer and produced tons of peaches. However I noticed some of the bark from the ground up to around my knee has lost bark on one side of the tree. I don't know if I can save it nor know how. Also I wonder if I can do this with my peach tree with cuttings? I tried multiple ways trying with the pit to grow peach trees, but none has taken. We also have walnut trees n wonder if I can do this with cuttings too? PS. Going to plant pear, apple, cherry trees this coming year. Some for my family n friends, the rest for the deer when fruiting arrives. Thank You for providing RUclips generations the skill and knowledgeable know how's sir. It's most worthy and rewarding to know that many more trees will be provided abundantly and for free. God bless and Merry CHRISTmas
Your peach tree bark was probably nibbled on by animals, try to get a small spiral tree guard for it. I’ve never tried stem cuttings with peach trees because I’ve never planted them, but I hope to plant some next year. For walnuts, you could always give it a try. The great thing about this method is if you’ve got trees with branches, it costs you nothing either in time or money to give it a try - also with walnuts, if you have other walnuts growing in your area, you can allow vegetation to grow freely in some areas and you’ll likely have squirrels. That’ll plant walnuts for you. You just have to keep an eye out for the saplings.
@WillowsGreenPermaculture appreciate the help with suggestions immensely. TY!!! N yes, we do thankfully have squirrels. Unless it's skunks, rats, or coyotes, we enjoy nature at its finest.
@@begoodbebetterbeblessedix3766 You're welcome bgbbbbd! Love your channel name! And love your attitude to nature!
Always appreciate a video that helps out with current endeavors! 🤠👍
Am I mistaken, or did your last year’s (willow) cuttings mostly grow out of the second from top bud? It appeared that on several of the examples, the top part of the cutting (including first bud) had died off. Is that to be expected, or was that due to specific conditions?
Thank you! 😊 The plant will always take the shortest easiest route to what it needs. Growth for leaves to make sugar, the lower one will require less work for the cutting. However. I do so many that I don’t pay attention. That’s why I ensure to have at least two buds on top and two underground. That way, if a node is not healthy for some reason, there’s a backup. I will often work with twice that many buds.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture yes, that all makes sense. Thank you. 🤠👍
@@davidmgilbreath you’re welcome! Forgot to say, any part the plant doesn’t use will of course just dry up.
Have you propagated conifers?
Yes. I’ve done juniper, but you can do others too.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture I was also wondering about conifers, is it the same idea: pencil thick? What are buds on conifer? Is is the needles?
@ yes. Minimum pencil thick. Needles would grow from nodes, also the base of small side-branches would provide nodes.
me just being me as i drool watching this ! i use willow for tinctures which comes out the same as working as aspirin, birch bark has it too inside it. i make my tinctures with inner willow bark, birch inner, and wild lettuce. that i have found to make the most potent pain reliever when i do all three together.
That’s wonderful! I’m going to start experimenting doing this!
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture alcohol absorbs best all the nutrients, but if once doesnt want to use alcohol food grade glycerin works as well and is sweet so it much easier used for children as it tastes so good and tastes better then liquid childrens medicine :)
@ thank you Anna. I also remember you recommended a RUclips channel for learning. I will likely use alcohol to make tinctures as I believe that is likely one of the oldest methods. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I am going to try elderberry, Bob Gordon, variety. Merry xmas to you and your wife.
Thank you Jane. Merry Christmas to you to too!
Can I ask what area you’re located in? And are basket willows native to your area? I’m from southern Ontario
Basket Willows are native to, among other areas, the Carolinian zone, of which all of Southern Ontario is part. I’m north of Belleville.
@ amazing! In my area, our riparian zones are entirely dominated by black locust stands. I wonder if planting native willows would do anything to compete and re-establish.
Likely. And if you’re culling the black locust, the wood is very good. One of the hardest. A black locust log, a builder of natural school playgrounds once told me, can last decades. However, on the other hand, black locust is native to the Carolinian zone, maybe not to the Ontario portion of it, but the zones are moving. It likely supports native wildlife here in Ontario as well.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture very interesting! I know that there is a lot of concern for how aggressively black locust dominates ecosystems and modifies the soil chemistry to favour monocultures of black locust. Which can result in the loss of oak savannahs. I’ve also seen roadsides, parks, and as I mentioned, riparian zones all dominated by the tree. While I could understand some ecological value for wildlife, I’m weary of how much habitat is lost by other food webs when black locusts move in.
@ yes. I have noticed the same thing. Here in Ontario, they generally don’t get too big, and so are easily cut. You can use the wood for soil building where necessary.
What density should the trees be planted?
It’s good to plant extra because they may not all take. Which kind of tree or shrub are you interested in propagating? Let me know and I could give you a density.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Elderberry, Sugar maple, Pecan, Apple,
@@shuyungsum the elderberry grows naturally in thickets. So dense. For your sugar maples, give the same amount of space as a full size tree needs to each cutting. However, as they may not all take. You could put several in each spot. Same for the apple and pecan. I’ll be trying apple for the first time this winter.
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Thank you and I look forward to seeing how it turns out for you. I just bought my property and its pretty much a clean slate. I will focus heavy on perennials and food forestry.
@ that’s great. I think you’ll find all of my videos helpful!
Quick note, salix alba is white willow (alba means white). (And yellow willow is salix lutea).
Thank you Doina! So this one must be Salix lutea. Because it’s very yellow. I’ll have to look the two up at the same time and compare. I knew about alba being white, I just figured the common English name didn’t match well with the Latin. I find in French, the names sometimes are almost identical to the Latin. It’s like in music, do you know what the French for French Horn is? Corne Anglaise - which means English Horn! Haha. - You triggered my other obsession, along with gardening, which is language. 😊
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture :) same with French key / cle anglaise :) Languages are fascinating. For example, verde means green in more than one language :)
@ yes! I love to discover all the similarities between languages!
Willows are super easy to propagate by simply shoving cuttings into the ground as you show. What would be VERY helpful is if you can find a method to root hardwood cuttings of apple, plum, and pears. I have tried literally a few hundred times over the years with different rooting hormones, different substrates (from sand to cococoir to vermiculite/perlite, etc) and with bottom heat. Zero success. If you can do this please share how.
Thank you for your question Veritas! As mentioned in the video, I have done a few hardwoods, for instance, Sycamore, Chokecherry, and Manitoba Maple. I have been waiting for my plums, apples, pears, quince, hazelnuts and pawpaws to get established before experimenting with them. This winter, I will be pruning many of them, and I will start the experiment. Likely in February. So stay tuned! 😊
@@WillowsGreenPermaculture As a tip, apples, plums and pears only root from callous. If we simply shove a cutting into the ground before there is any callous, the part in the ground simply rots. So first we need to have the cuttings develop a callous over the bottom to have any chance. Good luck and please report any successes!
Thank you. ☺️