How To Propagate Dawn Redwood Trees With Cuttings Made Easy!

hi everyone it's the end of june and i am taking dawn regular cuttings um you can take the cuttings as hardwood in about the start of march when the bug starts to break or i find taking them now at the start of summer is quite quite good as well they do take some remove most of the foliage which i'm going to go through and this is originally a government cutting which is i've already taken a trunk off of it but since as you can see it's quite big you can probably see the top of it originally this was about it was about 10 inches long two years about three months ago i took this as a hardwood cutting in at the start of march um so you can see they really grow and it hasn't always been in this 35 liter party it wasn't intended to pop until the start of this spring and the bigger the pots the more root space and the more vigorous the growth is it's definitely worth remembering you can't just put i told redwood cut in in a small pot forever it's never going to grow big like any other tree so let's get started shall we i've got rooting powder here i might do a line where i use the rooting powder i've never used roofing powder before and i've been absolutely fine but surely no harm will come with us using it so let's get started so the bits we want to take if we take a branch rather than a vertical cut in first and then i'll go through the taking the trunk so here what we want is just we want this bit here these bits will die back they'll turn the whole of the foliage will turn a dawn hence the name dawn redwood it'll turn like a golden color in autumn and then it'll just fall off these aren't good for cuttings you can tell easily the difference because they're quite flat the arches are quite flat um so i'll be able to take probably three cuttings out of that and so i'm gonna chop so we want them yeah about six to ten centimeters long so i'm going to cut here and when i do cuts i'm cutting about a centimetres two centimeters just above where the where we keep in the and foliage here let's go on the floor i'll grab that later so this is the end as well it's worth noting the end will have the light green color which is the newest growth um the newest growth will die back so we don't want to keep any of that really you'll see smaller light green colored leaves but then you'll see you'll also see darker colored leaves that are a bit larger in size they're the ones we really want to keep so with this i'm actually just gonna take all of that off because it's just a new growth it's just gonna die and then i'll get rid of the rest so this is a bit small it's probably about as small as i would cut and then literally in it goes that is it so let's find out what else we've got here so here we go another example so that's yeah that's about right size get rid of that we've got less new growth on this one so less whistle around pinch pinch pinch so we want to go back to about a pair of leaves or two pairs so it's only a little bit like that and then straight in when you're doing cuttings in the big tray like this it's worth noting the foliage should be facing the same direction i probably haven't done it anymore but every little helps because if you're facing this tray that south to the sun you wouldn't want the cutting facing the other direction where the sun's sitting the underneath of the uh loose obviously when you take from the main front this isn't an issue the only take from a branch that could potentially turn into a leader if you and contracted this does become an issue so again that's how easy it is done all right let's take from the main front so when i click on the main trunk as well i won't cut all the way back i'll still say a pair of branches so it will become more vigorous there it'll probably try and develop two leaders from that trunk that dawn red was just so easy to look after that you can you can pretty much chop it right back and you'll still survive as long as it's got some form of phobias on it right so all these bits i could take as cuttings this bit's a bit flimsy i don't think that would that's not going to make it you could tell that the sturdier ones you can see the thickness so this is ideal this one here so when i'm taking this cutting i'm not going to cut all the way down to the trunk i'll be cutting so there's two pairs left because remember we're going to use this whole trunk as well um for a cutting so i'm going to take this off first and these will probably i'll probably get two out of these maybe three so we'll do that and then i don't mind messing with the top you see how flimsy the top is that will just wither if you take that as a cutting so we'll just get rid of that there's no point messing around with that and again and this is a lot of the top i'm just going to cut that back a bit that that's i've taken too much it's gone okay that will do right so we'll move on to that in a second so this again is what i've just done um when it wasn't so this is exactly the same as the one that wasn't a a leader um so here i could take so one inch two inches away from the top foliage like that and then remove and then just pinch most of that growth so we're left with either repair or um or two pairs of uh foliage between each you can i mean i can have it like this it just means that it's only going to grow in one one direction there um if i save both of them i'll have new growth coming from each bit and it'll probably end up being a twin trunk actually whichever you want whatever you want to do you know so this looks like the top we don't want that we've just been through this so this is the main trunk now these ones the mate taking from the main leader i found i've been less successful it seems like when when the cuttings are this thick they don't seem to take as well in my experience anyway so there's a cut in there but we're going to test it out anyway cut it now and this was a bit awkward because i've got all the folders down the bottom there so it looks like i'm going to make a long cutting take these off you know what because i took that foliage up there let's take that off we don't really need ourselves and then again it goes with this one so you've really got a limp [Music] where it's going in the ground so you want it level about there then it goes down um if you want to propagate dorm redwoods by a seed it's exactly the same as any m3c really that needs a winter dormancy that means cold stratifying first so if you look on my video covering how to grow a tree from seed this will cover it will be exactly the same thing but with the dawn redwoods i finally need to have them [Music] more on the surface you need to put less soil on top so the sunlight can they can feel the heat of the sunlight a bit more and other trees always stay wet even the top even if the topsoil dries out you could potentially lose your seeds and it's the same with this so when it comes to watering what i'm going to do first off because they're going to require so much water every day you can't let them dry out and by doing this it stops weeds and all that growing it's just a nightmare without say any bark or perlite on top once the pearl is on top you need to water it straight away because the stuff is just going to fly everywhere otherwise and then once we're done we need to put this somewhere warm but not really in direct sunlight so if you've got those polytunnels that blocks on the sunlight that's what i do um or if you just have them somewhere where it just gets a bit more in sunlight or the it's probably that's uh but this would be fine um yeah so that is about it i think i've covered everything it is that simple and as i said come winter or next foot high easily apologies my uh video cut out at 10 minutes so while we're here i focus in a bit more so you can get a close-up of what i do hopefully the wind's going to calm down a bit so you can hear me properly okay so this was part of the leader get rid of this and then this is what i meant about the new growth since it's a lighter green color and it's smaller you don't really want that it'll just die back as soon as we put the cutting in so we'll just pinch back until we've got about a pair of a pair of leaves there that's fine just like that we can get rid of this all together we can do the same we'll probably a new growth will develop anywhere where there's a leaf basically so i'll get rid of these bits as well and where the new grocery developed is here here anywhere here so you see where the darker leaves are that's where they're likely to develop you'll have buds pop up and um they'll do all this and the cutting won't even root for maybe another two years fine as long as you keep the cuttings in wet soil because dawn redwoods absolutely love wet feet they normally grow next to quite wet areas so yeah that's it let's go for another one quickly so make sure you've got it so this is a bit more flimsy i'm probably not going to use any of this topic here and we're going to cut it as i said before about a centimeter 2 centimeters above this is a polish wicket so we're going to cut there and then the soil level will go up to about there and there it goes uh i'm on a new tray on a new tray here now i'll be here for a while i've got quite a few stormreaders to take um i did do this line with rooting powder and let's uh i'll find out later on whether it helps at all but it's hard to tell because uh there's there's about 70 or 80 as i said chance that they'll take so very high chance indeed um so i don't really need to use rooting power so yeah that's about it really hopefully that um that cards i think you need to know about the cuttings for dawn redwoods as i said before the seeds just watched the uh how to grow a how to grow a tree from seed video and just make sure you don't put too much soil on the top of the seeds when you do it and that's it really let me know if you think because this is completely uncut except for uh part one part two because of my video lasting ten minutes but uh let me know if this is this is good enough otherwise i'll keep spending time putting content together and taking longer to make videos otherwise i might just start doing them like this because it's so much easier for me i'll just recall waffle one and uh that's it really isn't it so cheers everyone i'll see you later

Channel: Vandz

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Keywords: Tree, Dawn redwood, Redwood, bonsai, propagate, plant, cuttings, guide

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Length: 13min 16sec (796 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 29 2020