Gardening Tips : How to Root Blueberry Plants From Cuttings

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Blueberry plants can be rooted from cuttings and eventually will grow roots and become a brand new blueberry plant. Use cuttings to root your blueberry plant with advice from a third-generation flower grower in this free video on gardening. Expert: Yolanda Vanveen Contact: www.vanveenbulbs.com Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Wash. Filmmaker: Daron Stetner

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if only it were this simple -- get a plastic coke bottle cut in half and put some drain holes in the bottom. Fill it with wet peat and perlite. Put your cutting in that and put it in a one gallon bag - stick where the sun don't shine, you'll have blueberries growing out of your butt

^ doesnt this guy feel dumb :)

Well perhaps you should re-read my comment, I was not talking about willow tree cutting... I was talking about rooting hormone for an edible fruit plant, namely blueberries. My comment was well within the boundaries of the subject at hand. The willow bark makes a natural rooting hormone, for blueberries or any other cutting.

that is right .also think putting a bag over the pan or what ever you are using will help and checking it ever day or so will help.

she was talking about blueberry tree cutting not willow tree cutting people need to stay on the subject. at hand but what you are talking about will most likely work for a willow tree.

Thanks for the video. I loved it. Short and to the point with out a lot of bla,bla, bla. I am going to try this today!

If I were you, Id find me a willow tree and cut a small diameter branch from it. (ie less than 1/4 inch in diameter). Then I would cut it into 1-2 inch sections. Place these in a jug of water for several days. The result is a natural rooting solution. This is a natural way to start roots or help plants along.

Rooting hormone for edible fruit plant? What hormone brand and name is safe for this?

As far as I can tell you need an intermittent misting propergation system that mists them for afew seconds every few minutes all day for weeks non stop except night time. That is what pro blueberry farmers do and they make thousands at a time.

Hardwood cuttings don't need leaves to root, but greenwood cutting do. If you try to root cuttings by the metod described here, your chance of success will be 0.001%

Agreed and am l missing something here as well. Do you not need leaves on a plant to root it. I

NO!!!!!!!!!!

@penandpike Not when you have juicy roots cloning gel, cuttings during early spring, a very good soil medium, and clear plastic to cover them to up the humidity. I've rooted these guys pretty easily. If you need any help, just contact me at steve's garden. I have a gardening blog where I share my gardening experiences.

It looks like you're getting ready to get some serious storms in the background. Hope you're ok.

I really like your videos. You have a pleasant personality. I have just one suggestion that I think would really improve not just this video, but all videos in this genre. To me, it should be like a cooking show, where you show the preparation and then in the same show you present the finished product. I'd really like to see how well the blueberries rooted, because I'm interested to see how well this method works. I've never had much luck without a misting system.

Trying to figure out what I am doing wrong in trying to start some plants from cuttings off my High Bush Blueberries. I took some cuttings stripped some leaves dipped them in root hormone. Put in Part Sand and part Perlite. Put them inside a garbage bag, white, to set up the humidity. Put them in the shade outside yesterday. Today I check and they had wilted and turned brown. What am I doing wrong? I am also trying to see if I can root some of them in a glass of water. Any ideas appreciated.

All these videos just tell you about taking off leaves and putting in root hormone and then soil. They stop there and don't tell you how long it takes to root. I buiit a rooting box with an Aquarium dome to create humidy don't know how good it will work. Need cuttings to try this. Any other ideas appreciated. My hardwood cuttings I tried have leaves but no roots on them. macmike

@stevelau1933 So you use her's metod but with juicy roots. It's hard for me to belive but I'll try it.

@penandpike I root them very easily by using juicy roots cloning gel. Only takes about 3 weeks for it to work on my plants.

What about water small tree with honey water??