Want more blueberry plants for FREE? take softwood cuttings!
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- How to take cuttings from blueberries.
Rachel discusses a simple technique to propagate your blueberry plants from softwood cuttings.
Expand your fruit garden for free!
Time Stamps
0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Choosing cuttings
1:52 - Getting compost
2:53 - Preparing cuttings
6:22 - Potting up
10:54 - Compost tips
12:15 - Types of cover
13:26 - Placement
13:17 - Recap
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At $36.00 for one blueberry bush, this isn't just a hack: it's a life skill. Thank you. And my daughter thanks you, too.
they are super expensive here in the UK too!
how big of a bush? here in Portugal I bought my medium sized bushes for 5€ and I got a larger one for 12.
I lucked out one fall when a manager at a hardware store told the cashier all remaining plants were now $1. I picked up the last few blueberry plants. Quite a bargain.
I’ve had some success propagating both softwood and hardwood cuttings. I’m also going to try air layering some.
The cost of plants definitely fluctuates seasonally.
$3 in south Georgia for a small bush
$36 a blueberry plant. Where the f*** do you live. At $36 a plant I'll ship you a hundred of them I want 70%😅😅😅❤❤❤
Please give a update about your Blueberry cuttings growth.
Its also important to pinch off the top (apical meristem). Due to apical dominance, by removing these auxins, the topmost leaf nodes begin to develop, and they produces their own auxins that suppress the growth of nodes below them on the stem. This is a way of stimulating the auxins to root. It will definitely get you more success. Thanks for your tips.
So pinch the tops off to promote root growth?
TY for info!! I looked it up : )
Thank you !
I would have loved to have seen the results.
Could you give us an update on the blueberry cuttings?
Yes that's a 2021 video I didn't catch that when I first watched it , by chance do you know if it turned out well
Thank you so much for this demonstration and information. And there I had thought I'd have to buy more blueberry bushes when all I need to do is take cuttings from the two I've had for years. Very helpful video.
Thank you for this video! I will try it this year.
Good information. One of the clearest I've seen on this subject.
I want to say thank you for taking time out and showing people the proper way to take cuttings. I would also like to say thank you for showing people that you can reuse your spent compost. And some people might not know this but adding a few worm castings and maybe even a little drop of bat guano or some chicken manure and then allowing your compost to sit a few days to cool down before adding it into your pots seems to help.. don't forget you have an invasive species a plant called the Mexican sunflower which is not evasive and it is identical to comfrey plant and its precepts of being a cold fertilizer manure substrate taking minerals and nutrients from deep within the Earth and pulling them to the leaves and when the leaves die and fall off it replaces that mineral content to the top layer of the soil. Mexican sunflower or comfrey can be chopped up and added to your compost to create extra nutrient mineral-rich material, I've also found that the blueberries that we have in our property right now that we've planted at the beginning of this spring are actually doing very well with biochar added to the soil
Hey if people don't have the ability to use the rooting powder or rootinghormone or rooting increaser, they can make their own from home using aloe vera gel from the aloe plant directly and a little bit of raw unfiltered organic honey. What I'm finding out is there is a hormone in the honey that actually increases growth of mycelium and root hormone producer to establish growth inside of the colony because bees Doo Gro a type of fungus to feed from in the winter time, that fungus is actually in the honey and it's super beneficial that's what keeps us from being allergic to bees if we eat raw local honey from our indigenous areas. But I've noticed that honey and aloe also work very well when grafting fruit trees
@@r.a.w.r.news.t.v.2 …what proportion of aloe to honey do you use
@@RhinoDNA what I do is I just take a little bit of honey and put it in the shot glass and then I take my aloe and I put it in a separate shot glass and then I take a quarter teaspoon plastic or metal whatever and I add a quarter teaspoon of honey and then I add a low and I mix it together until it's kind of watery but still tasty and then I just dipped my ends and then stuff them in and wrap them.. think the land of milk and honey everything that we do here we can use milk and or honey and it will thrive in our plant life. Their secrets to what I'm saying there's parables in the words I speak
Lol guano! Sry Instantly thought bumblebee tuna. OK now serious I have a huge garage can filled with worms and soil I been composting for few yrs now I'd love to get some one on one help from anyone who has advice
@@andreagnadinger1797 well number one you could possibly sort through your largest of your worms or make what's known as a screen classifier..
What you can do is take several Rubbermaid totes and fill them with newspaper compost soil and other bio-organic leftovers. What you then do is take your main trash can make what's known as a classifier system three different sizes of bigger metal mesh screen so that you can put your dirt and kind of shake the worms through separating the very large worms from The Medium to smaller size worms.. what you then do is take your larger worms which are your breeders in your main producer of Young and the main breakdown of most of your compost and you re add them to a new trash can loaded with fresh dirt and substrate and manure and so on to be broken down..
You can then go out to your yard and you watch your yard over a period of a week and find out where the shadiest spot in your yard is.. go out and dig down 3 ft and put plastic down or cardboard down first, lining the sides of the pit and the bottom of the pit.. next you want to take some rocks very gently placing them inside the bottom after you add sidewalls and then putting your plastic liner or a landscape liner inside allowing for drainage but very little Escape of your slimy Wiggly Little Friends.. you go ahead and you take the medium-size worms and few small handfuls of the little worms and incorporate them into several outdoor wooden beds . Find something like a piece of marine pressure-treated plywood or sheet metal or plastic and cover the top making sure to moisten the bed every few days adding fresh compost every week or so.
You can even go to a lot of the smaller mom-and-pop grocery stores that sell produce and raid their dumpster for fresh produce bringing home avocados and other vegetables just by throwing those in those compost piles and warm beds a lot of times you'll have fresh vegetables just pop up out of nowhere🤣🤪😁💪🦁.. you know that's always the best when you go to check a compost pile to turn it you got fresh veggies blowing out of the side of the box and you're like wow okay you just have to let it grow its meant for you to have and eat😁🦁🤣.
So yeah basically you want to classify your worms down separate your big breeders and put them into a new bucket to start over life then depending on the variety of worms you're using you can actually separate some and put them online and sell them in bulk for weight for fishing and or for introduction to people's gardening beds and or compost. Believe it or not a lot of people don't realize this but some people that run worm businesses for compost and for fishing make tens of thousands of dollars a year.
And most of them only have several small worm boxes on their property they just deal with certain types of worms because you have nightcrawlers you have wigglers than you have grunt worms... grunt worms are in Sandy or soil Sandy or climate and basically the only way to get them to the surface has two pound a two-by-four into the ground and rub another 254 violently back and forth across the top of it to work them out of the soil from The Sound vibration..
You can also use two zinc or two small copper rods with a low current electrical pass-through by placing those in the soil and probing the soil and giving it a small electrical discharge you can bring the worms to the surface of the soil very simply..😮🤣🤪😁🦁 so it looks like you have a kick-ass project on your hands they could go a whole ton of different ways and you can possibly make some decent little bit of money doing so. Especially in the community because a lot of people like to trade and barter you could possibly trade couple hundred worms for some fresh fruit some fresh vegetable seeds some heirloom plants so on and so forth even fungus mycelium is going to be very viable coming soon in the future mushroom spores especially..
I'm already thinking ahead for you LOL nothing but light and love to you and good luck and let me know how it works out...
That was so wonderfully done! Thank you!
Thank you 🙂
Great video 👍 Thanks for taking the time to make it! I’m excited to try it. Ignore all the negative Nellies.
i don't have fruit bushes in pots or use any fancy soil medium for them but i do find woodchips work real well for acid loving fruit plants, mind you i'm in Yorkshire so we're pretty acidic to start with. I will give them a decent watering with compost tea at the end/start of every season too and top up the soil when i see some sinking. When i make cuttings from my gooseberries i usually just bend a large branch over and half snap it before poking it into the soil and leaving to root, works a treat. I'll do that early on in the season with new growth, like now, so that this time next year i've got a solid plant to do whatever i want with. My blueberries are still pretty new so not tried anything with them yet but would like to do some guerilla gardening with them, not got the space for too many but i live right next to some abandoned railway lines thats ideal for fruit bushes. I saw them in Asda earlier today at a fiver
I use peat moss as a growing medium for my blueberries . It’s perfect acidity for them. They Can be grown in pots or in ground.
I use rabbit manure and azalea fertilizer. Avoid any other strong manures as it will burn the roots. They will thrive in this mix.
I grow high bush varieties in central Texas with great success using this method.
TY! Happy growing
Thank you. Will try this today.
Best tutorial I have seen yet.
Thank you
Thank you glad it helped!
I’d have liked to see the results. I’ve tried to root blueberry cuttings for 2-3 years so far without success.
Thank you for sharing. Your teaching was great! Never knew you could do this.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for the garden advice 😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Extremely helpful...from Tennessee. Thank you
you have my attention. continue to help me grow with you.
Thank you. That was excellent.
Thanks for your information miss, happy Wednesday
Thank you so much! Very well explained!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! Appreciate the details. I’ve tried and failed a few times. I’ll try it with the cover and keep in the shade.
I have trimmed some small cutting from my plant,,, and now I'm going to plant them,,, thanks for the video
Brilliant idea, thank you 😊
Thank you. for sharing this information with your us.
Great video and thanks for the reminder to take cuttings of ours!
This was prompted by one of my plot neighbours discussing how he didn't want to pay £30 for blueberry plants. Simple to do so worth the effort :)
@@DontCropMeNow I don't blame them!
Thank you for this video.
Thank you!
Thanks very much for sharing 😊
They look good
I've been trying for two years and failing. You included things in your video that the others didn't. I'll go try again with these methods. Thanks. It was a great video.
God bless y’all.
Thanks for the video
Thank you that was so helpful and so well explained.. do you have an updated video to show how it all went? Thanks again 😊
That video was awesome..I got a kit for growing pink oyster mushrooms..I love shitake and white button mushrooms!!..nothing like fried onion,squash, potatoe,mushroom&tomatoes❤❤❤
thanks for the video.
Great video
thanks for this
Thank you.
Hi, is there an update video of the results from the cuttings?
Interestingly she never answers that question.
Thank you so much for explaining the why cove part, that’s one I wanted more information on. Subscribed.
Thanks for the sub!
@@DontCropMeNow You’re welcome!
Wish I had seen this sooner just cut back my blueberries . Thank you for sharing , guess what I’ll be doing from now on . Just paid £25 for a new blueberry bush . A newbie from Scotland best wishes .
Thank you for the tutorial
You’re welcome 😊
The detailed instruction was good like how/where to cut, reason for removing leaves, rooting method and reasoning, how to cover and why, what type area to leave them in, etc.. Quite notable was finding out that there is a such thing as an organic, nonhormonal rooting powder. Thanks for giving explanations in this video.
Thank you for the kind comments
@@DontCropMeNow dá pra fazer mudar de mirtilo por sementes.?
Thanks 👍
No problem 👍
I enjoyed your video and am happy to see you are a bit of a rebel and like to try something different. Kindred spirit.
Great video 😊
Thanks! 😊
God bless and good luck
Nice vid
I have a blueberry plant in my back yard. I never flowered or produced fruit because it is dry, often drought conditions, and poor soil and I never took care of it for years and years. I'm surprised it is still alive. I could grow it in a pot. I'll take a cutting and try it.
I hope your blueberry ideaworks because if it does I'm definitely going to try it
Thank U Mam
Valeu, muito obrigado pelas dicas, Comprei um pé de mertilo e quero fazer mudas com ele na hora da poda, suas dicas vão mim ajudar, quero fazer uma plantação dessa fruta na minha chácara.
Thank you
Thank you! I put my little cuttings into individual plastic cups (with drilled drainage holes) and then put the lot of them into a fairly clear lidded tote box, in the shade. When I moved here, I found 4 blueberry bushes planted in very dense shade, so I'm hoping to move them, more or less, via cuttings. Fingers crossed. Great video. Where do you keep them over the winter? It can get really cold here (-20C). Should I take them into the house? Bury them hay/shavings?
-20 is tough! We rarely have significantly below zero for long. At those temperatures I would be tempted to get them undercover in some way!
im going to go do this right now...but i have to substitute the root hormone with honey as that is all i have right now.thank you OP!
You can do it without any rooting powder it just increases chances of roots forming!
Very good video, explainig every step. I'm going to try this method to see if I'm successful. Do you need to water them during the month whilst rooting? Thanks for sharing and take care 🙂
Hi Christina, you need to keep them moist so you might need to in warm weather. Keep a check on it.
Would like to see results when ready
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Very informative. Thanks
Sadly there is no kind of plant to buy here in the Philippines. Hoping to get one.
If you send me some mango cuttings, I’ll send you blueberry cuttings in exchange!
Blueberries do have seeds. It is harder to get them to sprout into get rooted well but if you can get blueberries in the Philippines you could potentially start your own plants
I am giving your protocol a try; Not to proliferate the species, but rather this.
I have whittled down my patch from a dozen or so plants to just four to make room for other “stuff”. Of the four one is a pathetic producer and one provides berries twice the size (and twice as sweet) as the others. So my goal is to clone this plant. If I can get just one, I would consider it a success.
I took numerous cuttings (15) of various configurations and planted them in pure peat. I could find no suitable cover so I made one from translucent vinyl and soldered copper wire. They have been sitting under a tree, but do get a coupla hours of direct sunlight, mitigated by the vinyl. The moisture has been maintained evidenced by the condensation inside the cover. After two months (today) I looked at a couple and there seemed to be some ever-so-tiny protrusions that I optimistically hope are roots forming. Most of the leaves that were attached are brown and have fallen off.
Should I fertilize?
Come the winter months should I leave it to harden - temperatures here are below freezing? Alternately, I have a “grow” area in the basement that we winter the moveable outdoor plants, including a Meyer lemon. It is about 65 degrees F and I maintain the humidity at about 55% with a light source that was sufficient for the task. I lean toward the latter.
Thanks for the reply.
Bob
You need to leave them for a good 12 months as they don’t like disturbance until they are well established
Good information! How many of them took root? I am thinking of trying this with my plant.
Usually about 50%
GREAT INFO! I only have one blueberry, it's getting bigger but no blooms. I JUST learned you have to plant at least 2. So when is the best time of year to take these cuttings and eventually transplant? Spring? Summer?
It is better with 2 different varieties. I would recommended to buy another. Then take cuttings if both to increase stock. Spring is best for softwood.
Going back looking for info on blueberry cuttings and who popped 😂😂Rachel and Anthony ❤❤
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Wow, falling a sleep, getting to the point someday
Two years ago plants were $15 at my local. Now they are $35. Even tough this takes a Year, ill try it.
Coming a little late to this party but I loved your video. A question you don't cover is when is the best season to take these cuttings. Should I wait until after we have harvested our berries or should I take some cuttings before the fruit has set? Thanks?
I would cover in the spring/summer. Here it is very wet and cool from autumn
I'm not even halfway through and this is pretty good. Did u explain soft wood vs hard wood cuttings, time of year ect? I just read hardwood cuttings are easier. Softwood needs constant misting and high humidity I just read. Sorry haven't watched the whole thing yet so sorry if any redundancy. I have no idea what I'm doing but gonna give it a shot. Good thing I ask because someone else suggested vinegar water, I asked another person I trust more and they said no.
What If they are in bloom already? I have some with flowers and I just got them so I was gonna cut them off so the plant downs fruit the 1st year I have it. They say 1st year but is it my first year or the plants first year? How old are those foot tall plants u get at the store? I'm confused about that
Yes hardwood are easier! The foot tall plants will be 1-2 years if like a small twig. They are slow burners- takes a while to get a decent plant.
Well
Dooon
I should make a on how to make cutting very t with stuff you can find around your home
Great tutorial. It's been a year. Are you planning a follow on video with the results?
Yes I will do we have lots of various cuttings snd I am going to do some more too when this weather settles!
is there a part 2 on how the cuttings did?
Awesome! How long does it take before they produce fruit?
3-4 years from my experience!
Thank you for sharing. After they root, put them in the ground or pot up?
I would leave them for at least 12 months then you can pot up wherever you wish to.
@@DontCropMeNow Thank you for taking the time to reply. I really appreciate it.
I’d like to see the results
hi what season do you take the cuttings please.
Do you need to mist or otherwise add moisture or is a "mostly sealed" containment enough to keep high humidity / moisture in soil? Also should you check every few days and let a little air in or mist?
Depends on the temperature! Keep an eye on them.
Do you continue to water them over the month while you’re waiting for roots to form? If so, how often do you like to water?
Just don’t let them dry out
@@DontCropMeNow thank you!!
Do you have to check in over the course of the month and add more water?
I see you’ve answered this already in another post the further down I read. Thanks! And yes a follow up video on how they look once they set roots and transplanting! 😊
What if i don’t have Rooting powder? What can I use instead
New here
With the done on do you still have to water or will humidity take care of that?
Yes depending on the climate
Hi, is there an update on these blueberry cuttings? What was your success rate?
Great video will this work on grapevine as well and I have a blue Berry bush that died will this work to revive it
Yes
@@DontCropMeNow Thank you
About using rain water, well here in New Jersey, this year, we haven't had much rain. So I have no choice but to use tap water. Will that not produce a good crop plus it'sy first year growing B.B? Reply please
Hi Pat, rainwater is better, but tap water is better than no water! They should still produce. Depends on ‘hard’ your water is…
In the short term it will be okay. Feed them well with a suitable ericaceous feed…
Love the accent. "Blue breeze"
Sort of mixed up Midland to Northern English accent! 😁
My one blue berry bush arrived with half of the bush slightly yellow. I thought it would perk up after being planted. I learned toda that my soul needed a 5-5.5 pH. Something has been eating the plant. I have used diatomaceous powder & Neem oil to no avail. The only blue berry that turned blue disappeared over night. I covered the plant with netting. What else would you suggest? I am ordering supplied to made an acidic dirt. Am I too late to save this plant?
Planting in the right medium should help. If it is a small bush I would wash all the soil from the roots and dip the whole plant in a big bucket of water before replanting to wash off any bugs.
Please tell us what time of year do you take the cuttings?
Late spring
would it not be better to put the pot of cuttings under 24hr light to promote root growth?
Yes just trying the easy ways really! These lit did root quite well, but I then let them dry out 🤦♀️
I find under the trees quite good for cuttings as gets light, but not full sun.
Hi- how did your cuttings turn out please? Thanks.
All good! Never get 100%, but pretty decent. I have just taken winter cuttings too!
Somebody commented that two or more varieties are needed to get pollination. I haven’t seen that to be the case, with my high bush blueberries (3 of, I think, the same variety). But I’ve read that rabbit eye blueberries DO require more than one variety to get production.
It’s all a bit puzzling. I learned that tomatillo plants seem to need a second plant (not variety, just a second plant), to get the flowers to pollinate. That’s personal experience and is puzzling, because plants needing a second variety makes some sense, but merely needing a second plant of the same variety is another twist to pollination. Anybody have good resources or links on pollination like this?
You will get a better yield of blueberries if you have a second variety for a pollinators.
If the second plant is close enough to the first plant they will cross pollinate or be cross-pollinated with your pollinators. Seems to provide a better quantity and better yield overall and taste.
Hello ma,am ,
I needed blue berry plants फार्टिलेजेशन shedool,
But will it root??? I've tried this method b4 and it's a hope and a prayer and takes years
Blueberries are certainly more tricky to root than other berries, but we normally get at least 50% success.
@@DontCropMeNow50% is better than me. I’ve had at most 20% success rate, across both hard and softwood cuttings. But about 10 "free" plants is better than none.
Do u water any more after initial watering
Just keep moist
Doesn’t pulling all the leaves off of your sprout add to the shock?
No it removes leaves that will add to losing water whilst it is establishing roots
When is the best time to take cuttings to root?
Spring ideally!
Any update??
Question: Do I water the starts during the month long rooting period?
Yes you need to keep them damp ish
@Don't Crop Me Now I thought so. Probably just borderline root rot phase. Just like seedlings-need to keep moist. I that once we see growth; uncover and plant?
@@joefilson5577 i would leave them a good 12 months before potting on. They don’t like early disturbance.
@@DontCropMeNow oh, thanks for the recommendation!
Thanks for the video. How long do they take to root?
6-8 weeks, but i like to leave them to grow on for a full season before planting up as they don’t like the early disturbance
Why not pot them individually to start with? Seems like you’d have some root damage separating the rooted cuttings from same pot.
Qual hormônio vc recomenda?
I have used lots of different ones - hormone and non hormone based.