How important is the type of plant cutting? If you for example, take a hardwood cutting when it should be a semi-ripe cutting, would the plant still grow?
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If you dip the ends in rooting powder and harden them off before you put them in the ground they should all be fine.
This site provides an overview of the different plant cuttings:
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To truthfully answer your question; Yes - No - Maybe
I'm one of those gardeners that do not like to discard cuttings of any kind so I keep good planting medium waiting in pots, 'just in case' I do some unexpected pruning.
I have grown beautiful plants from all sorts of cuttings without ever checking to see what type of cutting grows best from that plant.
I do not advocate doing this but it's just easier for me and if I only get 2 good plants from 8 cuttings that suits me.
I do place my cuttings in separate containers so I know which is which when the plants start growing.
There are lots of plants that can be started/grown in water but I like using my potting soil.
Here are a couple of links that I keep handy just in case I'm looking for particular information about cuttings.
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There is the following rules:
softwood cuttings are taken from soft, young plant stems, usually in spring to early summer;
semi-hardwood cuttings are taken from stems that are not too young and also not too old, and usually in late summer to fall;
hardwood cuttings are taken from mature, dormant stems of trees, shrubs and climbers that do not bend easily, in mid-autumn all through winter (avoiding times of severe frost) or early spring while the plant is still dormant.
It is best to follow these rules if you want to successfully propagate plants.
Hardwood cuttings are a simple way to multiply plants.
Suitable plants for hardwood cuttings include most deciduous shrubs (abelia, buddleja, cornus, forsythia, ribes, rosa, viburnum and more), climbers (lonicera, jasminum), fruit (currants, fig, gooseberries) and some trees
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I think these links will be useful to you:
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www.ugaoo.com/
deepgreenpermaculture.com/
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If you take a hardwood cutting when it should be a semi-ripe cutting, then the probability of successful propagation of the plant is low.
Also, I would advise you to first check whether a particular plant can be propagated using a cutting.
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