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Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Sat Nov 21, 15 4:20 am Post subject:

Falstaff wrote:

katie wrote:

I usually stick them in water to root, then pot up and grow on for when I need them. Yes, I know you can just stick them in but this works too.

I think that's quite important katie - yes you can stick 'em in upside down with no rooting powder and little water and a few may fight their way through the obstacles you've put in their way and grow - but why not, in the natural scheme of things do your best to get a decent result ?

TAva - wrote :-
".........I haven't experimented with planting upside down,................"

How odd that I should think you said :

Tava wrote :-
"..........With willow you don't even need to worry about which way up. .............."

I believe what I've read from Windrush willows & elsewhere that it makes little difference.
They know more than you or I about the Salix genus & the best ways to propagate it.
Of the hundreds I've planted I'm sure I will have accidentally planted a few the wrong way up but haven't put it to empirical experimentation .

NorthernMonkeyGirl

Joined: 10 Apr 2011
Posts: 4587
Location: Peeping over your shoulder

Posted: Sun Nov 22, 15 8:33 pm Post subject:
They are currently in a bucket of water while I get around to doing something with them, so maybe they'll root anyway They're for a hedge / fedge / living fence thingy so I plan to space them fairly close so the stems can be woven together in time. Dry soil is not currently a limiting factor

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45472
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 15 12:27 am Post subject:
if you plant them in two rows fairly close (the rows not the cuttings) is should be possible to lay the first shoots to subsequently produce verticals that can be woven which avoids the problem of the odd one failing and messing the pattern(or leaving a thin patch) i takes an extra year or two but the end result will be far sturdier and pretty sewing but it works with hedges

cassandra

Joined: 27 Mar 2013
Posts: 1733
Location: Tasmania Australia

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 15 4:55 am Post subject:

I have been regularly and optimistically poking sticks in the ground for several years now - I ignore them and so some have failed to take. But i now have a clump of several varieties all growing in one spot (pussy willow, basket willow). I will be taking cuttings from this next year to poke into other spots.

Once in the ground they have been variously subjected to flooding, drought, vigorous competition and other impediments. Once they take off this does not appear to worry them.

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