Excellent video Jim. So great to watch a video without annoying, monotonous, distracting, music. Thank ye kindly, from Scotland!

Thanks so much Jim for your reply

Great job. I have been a master gardener for 35 years.

The top soft stuff is good for people who are a little more proficient in tissue culture cloning.

Hey Jim, thanks so much for posting this video series. Very helpful and I really enjoy watching it.

@JimPutnam

6 жыл бұрын

+Jeff Pebbles thanks for watching. I have one more this week

Thanks so much for this information! Currently I'm learning how to work on my family's blueberry farm and this is really helpful education.

Just got done watching the entire series..thank you great job..blessings

Excellent video and series! Thanks.

great blueberry videos thank you

Thanks for sharing!

best I have seen so far, thx

Thanks for sharing

Hi Jim, nice straight forward presentation. I like the plastic dome method and I'm on my way to find one. Thanks for sharing.

Great video.... thank you for sharing

Thank you

Great info, thank you.

Hi from North Yorkshire England. Thanks for the interesting advice.

Great video well done thank you

Ecellent vid thank you

Good video, I did not learn anything new, but everything look like the way I was taught, I am sure you have propated by layering & sucker,also.

Awesome video

@JimPutnam

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching.

great guide ty

@JimPutnam

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Hey Jim...Nice work mate...Even in Australia I found you vids most helpful...Thanks mate..

thanks nw grower love growing keep it up #growforyourlife

Very good .i like it keep it up .

Really helpful! Thank you - I have SUBSCRIBED…

Good .

Hi, thank you so much for sharing your expertise. I am planning to root my blueberry plants in June but I live in southern Quebec where we can have -20° Celsius temperature in the winter. Should I protect the cuttings over their first winter if so how and where? I have a cold greenhouse and a heated garage at 12° Celsius (54° F) with special lightings where I grow my vegetables seedlings. We usually get our first frost in early October and the coldest temperature is from January to March. The cuttings would be about 4 months old by the first frost. Thank you for your advice.

Thank you Jim, very useful video. Please tell me the soil PH at which level we need to support?

Hey Jim! Use yucca extract to wet your peat. :)

Thank you your great videos. I may have missed this but did not hear if you take blueberry cuttings after they have bloomed. You did say the latest should be middle of July. Just wanted to confirm to cut after they have bloomed.

Great video. I hope there is a fallow up.

Jim, You have me hooked on blueberries. However, it is the 1st of July and in the mid 90's. I am trying to root some green cuttings in the mixture you use and then slide under your deck with the dome covering. With the high temps of 90-95 do I keep them outside in 100% shade so they can get some light or bring them indoors.

@thepincushionman7063

5 жыл бұрын

Indoors or around 70-80 degrees.

You keep them out of direct light for about how long? Thanks - great video!

Hi Jim. Please tell me, does the humidity level affect the rooting process? The fact that I put the cuttings from last year's shoots in early March, the PH of the water is stable 5,0, the air temperature during the day 25-30 C Celsius at night 16-20 C. after 4 weeks, small leaves began to germinate, some even had shoots 4-5 cm long, the end of may all the leaves died. Cuttings continue to remain green and not rooted. Irrigation is done with sprinklers 40 l/h, every 8 minutes, throws for 10 seconds. All this happens in the open field where the humidity during the day at the level of 30-35%.

How would you handle rabbiteye cultivars that fruit late in the season?

I am having a hard time finding pine bark soil conditioner. What brand do you use for your blueberries.

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What do you think of doing this in early August? How can I keep my plant alive during its first winter. We live in Canada... Thanks!

Ever try it on wild blueberries/huckleberries, or any wild berries?

So on the small box with the plastic tub top didnt need rooting compound ? Didnt see you dip them and does any rooting compound woork i have stim root#1 i guess is softwood rooting powder

Did you use the rooting hormone in the second group of cuttings?

Great video! Thanks for putting it out there. Do you have any suggestions for something on a smaller scale. I'm in Zone 8a (DFW) and am looking for a smaller scale option, something that can handle maybe 3 or 4 cuttings at a time. Our summers get pretty hot (mid to upper 90s generally). Would the Tupperware type setup work keeping the container in the shade and misting the plants every day (or every other day)?

@CardiacCat

Жыл бұрын

This is an old question but others may be interested too. What my mom taught me to do for just a few is to get an old flower pot. The 3 gallon size like you buy plants in from Lowe's or other garden center works great. Put your potting medium in about 1/3 of the pot deep. Prep your clippings and stick them like he has done here. Don't forget to moisten the soil and mist them after sticking. Then get a white kitchen garbage bag (still lets light in) and sit the pot inside, then close up the top of the bag with a twist tie or something that you can take off to mist the cuttings every so often. Place it in a shady area outside where it will still be warm but not in the direct sunlight and be sure the top is pulled tight so that it doesn't sag down inside onto the clippings. After about 3 weeks I start to open the top on mine for an hour or two a day to let some fresh breeze in, then close it back up. You will start to notice new growth when they have rooted.

In the alternative plastic tub method do you only need to mist or is there a requirement to water the substrate too?

tell us about the varieties of blueberry Calypso and Osorno. Are they analogous to existing varieties?

Excellent video! Do you have a video on growing bougainvillea from cuttings thx!

Hey man great video. I haven’t read all the comments but I find the easiest way to fully saturate each cell by bottom watering them with another standard nursery tray and put the cells in the tray then fill the try about 1/4 with water then when it’s all saturated drain excess from the bottom Nursery tray. Hope this helps because peat can be a pain to wet

@user-hr7tz6jx6p

4 жыл бұрын

ozz mann just do not fill the cells up with the dry peat moss)))

Jim. Love your channel............... I have blueberry starts that I started in July that are growing in 1 gallon pots. If the temps where I have them get down to zero do I need to bring them indoors or will they be ok.

@JimPutnam

5 жыл бұрын

Starts, I would probably protect from staying frozen for a long time. Once established, they are super cold hardy

So you prefer late summer cuttings? are they strong enough from then until winter to survive the winter when transplanted?(Zone 7a) thanks

Can the blue berries roots be placed into a flower pot and place under a deck ? They will still get the light but not direct sunlight?

The growtent mister, where can I find a design for that?

Is T5 light ok to propagate under?

I took some cuttings from Rabbiteyes and they successfully took but after a year in a pot I have one central 'trunk' as it were with quite a few canes branching up from the one central point. There are no other canes coming up from the crown. Should I remove all but three or so of the current canes and cut those back by half? Will this force the bush to push new canes from the roots under the soil and thus widen the crown? The plants are still in felt pots approx 12" round by 12" deep. I’m going to put them in 21 Gal pots this winter. The new pots are 22 in dia by 17 in deep.

Hi Jim. On your alternative method of propagating blueberries. Does the box have a bottom, or is the weed barrier the only bottom? Also, do they need some light? Does light filter under your deck? Would putting it under a tree work? Thank you for your very detailed explanation. I really want to try it. I am trying to grow blueberries, but what I bought from the store is not blooming out. Still just sticks. I am a little frustrated.

@JimPutnam

6 жыл бұрын

A tree would be fine. Just no direct sun on that box or it will cook them. The fabric bottom is perfect for drainage.

Thanks Jim, great video. I have been waiting on this one! How long do you anticipate it will take them to rook 6-8 weeks?

@JimPutnam

7 жыл бұрын

+Tim Goodin 6 weeks is about right.

I have a couple of shoots that come directly fron a shallow root. How do I cut them?

better to use a sharp knife than a bypass cutting tool such as pruning shears. If you have a very sharp set then maybe it's good. A razor knife will collapse less of the vascular bundles. What I learned back in the 70's and 80's for landscape plant propagation and cut flowers.

thank you for the info what if we just used only perlite and used the misting system is that ok for rootin percentage? thanks

@carmenfisher9392

3 жыл бұрын

Why would you do that? He just gave you a system that works and you want to change the ingredient mix. Have at it. Hope you have lots of blueberry plants for cuttings. You'll probably need them.

@ForestToFarm

5 ай бұрын

Perlite is basically a product used to drain soil. It lets the water drain out. Peat moss once soaked holds moisture and could get a little clumpy. The combination of perlite and peat moss is likely an ideal combination of both water retention and drainage. I am no expert so just my two cents worth. With only perlite there would likely not be ample water available to the plant. Terry

This is ingenious!! Can I do what you are doing but keep more leaves on the top, making a longer plant?

@ForestToFarm

5 ай бұрын

No expert here but to many leaves would most likely be stressful on the plant and lower its ability to root. Terry

Now we are approaching the spring and the leaves are falling. My tree can you grow it like this before spring ?

I'm going to try this. But once I have mine rooted in the Tupperware, what do i do once winter comes around? I'm in Zone 5 where temps can are anywhere from 25 to -15 at times during cold snaps. Do i bring them in doors? cover the whole Tupperware with hay/straw? I assume i don't water them since they would freeze over..

@zernestro

4 жыл бұрын

hi, i'm in the same position right now, what did you do in the winter, did it work?

hi Jim nice video . we should water them everyday right?

@JimPutnam

7 жыл бұрын

+buna rith check them yes. I will only water every few days. To much water would be very bad. Keep it moist not wet

I live in Zone 8b and have several rabbiteye varieties I want to propagate, but "early summer", my bushes are loaded down with berries. Do you just wait until they stop producing?

No bottom heat?

no rooting hormone needed for the 2nd process?

How many days are they left in the shade under the deck?

I need to know if you do air layering of persimmoon fruit trees.

@petersom4882

3 жыл бұрын

I meant to say persimmon

which blueberry plant are the best sweet and big I try to find one to grow thanks

Hi Jim do you have a follow up yet to see how the propagated blueberries look?

@JimPutnam

6 жыл бұрын

I actually pulled them out on my backyard plant propagation series. Episode 14 I think. They were rooting but not ready to come out yet

Hey Jim, do you think I can to propagate blueberries in aerophonic propagator?

@wayne251975

4 жыл бұрын

I have done it with one I made. The problem I found was keeping the top end as responsive as this method. It seems to me that the stem and limited leaves left intact have more to do with growth and regeneration than what goes on in the root zone. As far as keeping the plant tissue alive long enough to get root formation anyway.

Have you ever had any success rooting persimmon cuttings (icchi jiero) I need tips.

Can you give me some advice? A neighbor gave me a lot of raspberry clippings, most are about 2 feet long and all are this years growth, at the beginning of September. I put them in water under the porch (2 hours of afternoon sun) but they are not rooting. This is my first time trying to propagate plants. Should I get some rooting compound? Should I cut them into smaller plants? Should I bring them into the garage where it stays warmer at night? Should I put them into a perlite/ peat moss mix? Should I make some kind of humidity chamber?

@JimPutnam

5 жыл бұрын

It hasn't been that long, but since it is so late I would make changes. Perhaps cutting them in half and doubling the number of cuttings would be advisable. I would want more heat on them at this point, so maybe try and get a little more early and late day sun on them. I think they would be better under plastic, but be careful not to heat it up to much. I don't know how far north you are, but if they had already started to go to sleep that would lower your chances.

@ForestToFarm

5 ай бұрын

I grow raspberries. Every summer mew plants grow where I walk down the paths. It would be easy to dig a few up if the neighbor would allow you to do so. In one year you will have berries. Terry

I did something very similar a month ago and they both died without a sign of hope. The leaves dried up in days.

Thanks Jim...Gonna have to give this a go!!! How long would it be to expect an actual harvest from these little cuttings?

@JimPutnam

7 жыл бұрын

+northernpike56 they will root before fall, but I don't transplant until the following spring.

@northernpike56

7 жыл бұрын

How do you over Winter them?

@chestercarr6672

6 жыл бұрын

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@chestercarr6672

6 жыл бұрын

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@chestercarr6672

6 жыл бұрын

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My blueberries are full of fruit in early summer, so how do I deal with this in regard to the right moment for taking the cuttings?

@JimPutnam

5 жыл бұрын

I dont do blueberry cuttings until mid June, so it shouldn't matter at that point

If I took a cutting from the Tif Blue that I have, could it be used to make the original plant fruit? It's out there all by itself and I don't want to spend money on another one.

hi i tried your method in last july and my cutting turning brown and died and the others did not grow any roots until now what can i do thanks very muct

@JimPutnam

6 жыл бұрын

+remanosh If they are rooting now, just leave them in place for the winter and transplant in the spring. I have had blueberries take several months to roots before, usually from plants that aren't very vigorous. Make sure you add fertilizer in late winter on the plants you are taking cuttings from later in the year.

Is your dip and grow labelled for fruit trees? I was informed that a lot of root hormones are not for fruit plants.

@bw-mi9xp

3 жыл бұрын

why arent they?

How long is it before the cuttings are rooted and ready to pot?

@AlpacaRenee

2 жыл бұрын

The following spring

Thanks for the video! How long before those cuttings will be big enough to produce fruit?

@j.armstrongsr.7009

5 жыл бұрын

Like 3 to 4 years

@chara173

4 жыл бұрын

@@j.armstrongsr.7009 No that's probably for normal fruit trees, bluebberry cuttings could produce one year later only if given the right soil and sun exposition

Hello Jim. Thanks for the videos on blueberry bushes. I have a question. The gentleman I bought my bushes from said that there are male and female bb bushes and you needed both to have productive blueberry plants? Is that true?

@calebbutcher9249

4 жыл бұрын

Jeff Davis No, not male and female, but many need cross pollination with other varieties.

How long does it usually take to root the cuttings and before you can take them out and plant them?

@JimPutnam

4 жыл бұрын

With Blueberries I generally see roots within a few weeks, but I overwinter them before I pot them up

@DreidMusicalX

4 жыл бұрын

@@JimPutnam Ok, thanks a bunch! I'm new to this stuff and decided this year I wanted to try to make more from the bushes I already have. And maybe I might get more berries instead of the birds leaving me what they see fit. haha!

perlite?? Chemical waiste??

Can I dip it in water instead of soil?

@ilovehorses5714

2 жыл бұрын

It needs an acidic pH, so I'm not thinking it well root well in just plain water .

Is perlite potting mix?

@ericshaun6078

4 жыл бұрын

It's volcanic rock. It's main purpose is to supply oxygen to plant roots and it also helps with drainage.

hey jim is it too late? i tried about 200cuttings last year but it was late summer like the end of august, i definitely will try again

@joelyboyblue

7 жыл бұрын

they never rooted, i didnt use rooting hormone

@JimPutnam

7 жыл бұрын

+joelyboyblue now is the time

@joelyboyblue

7 жыл бұрын

HortTube with Jim Putnam awesome thanks Jim

Is there an organic option for the root growth mixture instead of what you have used?

@JimPutnam

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, there are organic rooting hormones. I don't have any experience using them so I can't speak to their effectiveness. Good luck with your project.

@aaronnauer2398

5 жыл бұрын

search diy willow rooting hormones pretty easy to make just whizzed up willow branch and water if i remember right

@AlpacaRenee

2 жыл бұрын

You can use honey or cinnamon

Jim What is the title of your small hoop house with the automatic misting system with pvc to propagate blueberries. I saw it on how to grow blueberries part 5 but wanted to watch the how to build misting system

@JimPutnam

6 жыл бұрын

I did a series on building it last year called backyard plant propagation. I have restarted this year building a bigger house

@gregbrooks9546

6 жыл бұрын

Jim, If the temps are in the mid 90's should I bring small fresh blueberry cuttings that I am trying to root inside. I do have them in full shade.

ब्लू बेरी प्लांट के प्लांटेशन के लिए क्या आप कंसल्टेंसी सर्विसेज देते हैं।

G'day, do the cuttings need much sunlight ir can they handle full shade? Great vid!

@chara173

4 жыл бұрын

G'day the cuttings need to be in a humid place with at least 4 hours of sunlight from what i've heard in half shade

@adamschulze2734

4 жыл бұрын

@@chara173 awesome thankyou!

@chara173

4 жыл бұрын

@@adamschulze2734 No problem mate!

How long does it take to root? How long to fruit?

@betterworld3782

4 жыл бұрын

i would pull off any blooms you see on the plant until its large and full, creating fruit requires a lot of energy from the plant and the yield will be small anyways.

Jim on the new green blueberry cutting do you take a spray bottle and mist the leaves on the one you put under your deck

@JimPutnam

6 жыл бұрын

I open it up every few day and evaluate whether to water or not. Usually no additional water.

Can blueberry grow from seed?

@bw-mi9xp

3 жыл бұрын

if it couldnt, how did it first start?

Is it 50/50 weight or by volume?

@ilovehorses5714

2 жыл бұрын

Kay, Say 10 Cups of pearl lite to 10 Cups of pearlite.

@ForestToFarm

5 ай бұрын

@@ilovehorses5714not using perlite?😬

When is the best time to do this? I live CA.

@JimPutnam

6 жыл бұрын

+Molly Salout I would think in the late spring when the new growth is hardening off

I have done this. My might my leaves be turning brown.

Nice video, although we shouldn’t be using peat!

How can i find part 1.

How to Root Organic Blueberry Plants ? is it the same process ?

@JimPutnam

6 жыл бұрын

+Michael R Exactly the same. No difference at all

@triplecoutdoor7495

6 жыл бұрын

organic .. no chemical only natural feed or fertilizer..

how long does it take the cuttings to reach full size plant?