MULTIPLY Japanese Maple Trees Using This PROPAGATION BOX | No Greenhouse Required!

hello everyone this is Johnny and welcome back in today's video I want to talk a little bit about the propagation boxes that I created and I've highlighted these in past videos but I just wanted to say that you don't need a greenhouse to propagate Japanese maples whether that be for grafting and we'll talk a little bit about that or whether that be growing Japanese maples from cuttings which we'll also talk about and when it comes to other plants propagating other plants by cuttings yes a greenhouse does make your life easier and I have been restoring an old greenhouse and I've been sharing that Journey with you so you probably are aware of that and I did do some work on that Greenhouse today and I'll have an update video come out in the next few weeks with my progress there but if you don't have space for a greenhouse and you don't have access to Greenhouse space you can still propagate plants and you can still practice and this bin method works really well so so I'm just going to quickly take you through some of these boxes and show you what I do every day how I take care of these and then talk a little bit about these these boxes and what I'm propagating first of all as you can see see here I have these boxes lined up under this bench this is to keep them from getting direct sunlight but they still do get quite a bit of light because this bench is pretty tall and as you can see there's there's some space here so it still allows quite a bit of indirect light so that's ideal now I'm going to pull out one of these and just talk about the Box a little bit and what I do daily with the Box okay so this is a simple plastic storage box and I like this particular one because it has these little latches on the side which do securely hold that it also allows me to if I want to miss this and keep it under the bench I can leave one of these latched and just slide this up and Mist in this so that's handy but for this case I'm just going to remove a lid now the lid is important I didn't want to leave this as a completely unventilated environment because that leads to problems if you leave this completely cut off from any airflow you can get fungus buildup in this so I didn't want that and if you want to be safe you can use a Fungicide and in this box I have various Acer palmatum Japanese maple cuttings but I just use a sprayer and I miss these two to three times a day I actually don't have to add any extra water to this because just the misting keeps this medium pretty pretty wet at a good level and when it comes to the soil medium that I've been using this is a mix of 50 perlite 50 peat moss roughly I didn't measure it but just roughly a 50 mix of those two so I can see here that I propagated these on June 30th currently it's the third week of August so we're starting to come up on two months of these being in here now with Japanese maples and I've mentioned this in the past I've noticed that there are some varieties that seem to root pretty well with as cuttings and there are some varieties that do not I have taken out some here that have not made it and for instance like this one here that's obviously not going to make it so I'll pull that out I see one here that's not going to make it this one it's obviously turned black and it's not going to work Japanese maples don't always have a high success rate when it comes to rooting them but some varieties have a higher success rate but nonetheless you can see that very likely these are rooting because they still look very very good here but generally speaking for Japanese maples it takes three plus months for me to get enough roots to pot these up and that works pretty well here now when it comes to the bottom of this box this box has a bunch of holes drilled at the bottom because you want to make sure that you have good drainage for this and when it comes to accessibility these are quite affordable and you can find these at local stores quite easily you just basically drill holes in the bottom drill holes in the top fill it with your rooting medium soil of choice Mist it two to three times each day and depending on which variety you're trying to root usually somewhere two three four months in you have a good root system that you can transplant this out okay here's another box that I have some Japanese maples in and on this side I have some orange yolas and these are looking pretty good you can see that there is some new growth on these cuttings and I did have good success with orange Yola in the past so those are looking pretty solid looks like this is sango keiku or Sango Kaku I'm not sure how you say that there but I believe that's that there that one although the Leafs are still kind of hanging on that one's not going to make it it's starting to get some white there so I'm going to pull that one out it looks like I'm going to have success once again with the orange yolas sengu keku maybe it looks like some of those are hanging on looks like I propagated these on June 14th so it's been a little bit over two months for these so I'm probably going to wait till about the three month Mark before I dig these up and figure out which one's rooted and which ones did not I did want to go to the other side and just talk about one quick experiment that I'm doing with rose cuttings okay in these two boxes here I have Cecile Brunner rose cuttings this box has 50 perlite 50 peat moss and this is what I've done in the past and I have had some decent success rooting this a seal burner roses with this method but I wanted to try an experiment here with sand and perlite so on this side I have a mix of roughly 50 perlite 50 sand and I put a good amount in here pretty much packed these pretty well with both and I will share the full results later on but it looks like so far uh the the perlite peat moss is doing better than the sand side you can see a lot more leaves have fallen here of course leaves are falling here and there is some yellowing but what I'm really looking for is when the stem turns black like that that that's not going to make it but the ones that don't have black on them that's a good sign so I can see that there's one there I'll pull that out you can see there's one there we can pull that out turn black um that one there is still some green there at the bottom that could send out a new shoot so I'll stick that back down in but there's not a lot of that had black stems but this was done on August 6th so we're still pretty early on but uh when you come over to this side you can see that there's actually it seems like there are quite a few more with the black stems so it looks like I'm going to have a lot better success sticking with the perlite peat moss mix but stay tuned I will have the full results of this I look forward to having a greenhouse and experimenting with propagating in a greenhouse and I should have the greenhouse done sometime in the next little bit I'm doing making good progress on that and I will share an update in the next few weeks on that okay lastly I'm going to talk about grafting shortly here grafting without a greenhouse so I have here an Acer palmatum butterfly that I have grafted onto the seed grown rootstock um and I grafted this one on June 9th and you can see that that's looking great so I believe that one has taken very well I'm using buddy tape here and I just did a basic side veneer graft but after you graphed this new Scion onto your rootstock here when you do that you need to keep this in a humid environment and so what I've been doing is I just take a one gallon Ziploc bag and I cut off the two top corners so there is some breathability to that and I slide that over this and just basically partially close the bottom part and then I'm able to mist this through the side holes that's what I did here for the first parts of this and of course now for several weeks now these have been just on their own being watered and growing out when it comes to this fall I should be able to remove the Buddy tape if that hasn't started to degrade enough and then here I have an Acer palmatum I believe this is mikizuki mikizuki that I've grafted on here and there is some new growth here you can see here but that one looks like it made it as well you can see the graft Union there looks like it's doing just fine this one I grafted on the 13th of June 13th so using a plastic bag and misting this by hand that eliminates the need for a greenhouse does a greenhouse make it easier yes is a greenhouse probably necessary if you're doing High volumes yes but is a greenhouse necessary for you to propagate no you can make use with what you have well I hope that was helpful for you and I hope that encourages you to try your own propagation and to build your own propagation box I will link in the video description to basically a quick tutorial of how to build that box if you'd like all the details there I did that in a video where I talked about lavender propagation and so I'll link to that down below also if you're not yet subscribed to this Channel please consider subscribing and as I mentioned earlier I am restoring a greenhouse and I'm taking you through that process and I did some work there today and I should have some updates for you in the somewhat near future so look out for that well until next time thanks for watching

Channel: Jonny Maple

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Id: 2f58Z4R0zSY

Length: 9min 48sec (588 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 25 2023