You can even use honey.

Oct 08, Either hormone powder or the liquid or gel version, which is particularly good if the cutting is from a plant that bleeds sap as it seals the whole cut. You can even use honey. Aug 15, Stem cuttings: Stem cuttings are taken from the main shoot or any side shoot of the same plant or stem.

The high carbohydrate content is typically associated with better rooting. A stem cutting may be hardwood, softwood, semi-hardwood, or herbaceous. Hardwood cuttings: These are cuttings taken from mature and lignified stems of trees and shrubs.

A 4- to 6-inch cutting with a straight stem and plenty of leaf nodes along its length is the best choice for rooting peach trees.

Hardwood cuttings should be entirely leafless with brown, hardened bark and plump nodes. Softwood cuttings typically have a bendable, green stem, while semi-hardwood cuttings are green and leafy at the tip with slightly hardened bark at the base. 1. Take your cuttings in spring or early summer when trees are producing new growth.

Clean your pruning shears or knife first with rubbing alcohol, or dip the blades in a mix of 1 part bleach to 9. Jul 08, A tree pruning sealer is a specially designed waterproof product that is applied, or “painted” onto the exposed cut on a limb or branch after pruning. For many, many years - and still to this day in some cases - people were told by an arborist that tree wound had to be covered with a sealant. A tree pruning sealer is a bandage of sorts.