Absolutely LOVE how you show 'how to,' 'what happened,' and the final result! AND you show the failures... that is what we learn the most from!!! THANK YOU!

The effort and quality in his videos are off the charts 👌

Always helpful. Always great insights, ideas, and very clear "how-to" instructions. Thank you, from East Grand Rapids, Michigan!

I love that you get as excited as me about growing roots and cuttings!!

It was actually a success. Because you not only taught us what to do but what not to do. What not to do is just as important if not more important than what to do.. Always great videos thank you! Also thank you for taking the time to make the complete video instead of posting it out here step by step throughout the months and expecting me to be able to remember to check in on it lol. I know that takes a lot of forethought and patience on your part. It is greatly appreciated.

This is the same thing I did with my rose cuttings. I did 160 cuttings at the beginning of this year. I pulled them out too soon like you did. I still have 25. Next year I'm hoping to do even more cuttings and have a lot more success, and hopefully start selling them! I'm hoping to get my own greenhouse business started before I'm out of highschool! I'm definitely going to be doing dogwood cuttings mostly off of wild trees but I'm going to do some pink ones too. I'm going to do a ton of rose cuttings, off about 6-7 varieties, and I've been working in cross pollinating roses to make some hopefully cool hybrids! I'm going to do lots of confederate rose cuttings since I have a huge one and it has been the easiest plant to propogate in my experience. I'm hoping to order a bunch of varieties of fig cuttings to root. I'm working on getting enough day lillies that I can start selling those. A friend has also going to show me how to breed lillies! Then I can breed my own varieties! I just recently did a few hydrangea cuttings. We've got hemp planted and are planning to harvest this fall. We're going to get a bigger greenhouse to get started doing that ourselves so we do not have to rely on an outside source for our plants (even though that source is owned by a family member) And I know I'm gonna get all kinds of things too to landscape around our new house! I have so many different plants I'm propogating! It's hard to keep up! I've got all kinds of things going on! I'm excited 😁 Looking forward to the next few years. I'm just now going into 9th grade. I'm really hoping to get this rolling in by 2022! If not 2021!!! Dang I'm writing a book here😂 I'm so excited thinking about it now! Maybe I'll be able to go to sleep😂

I love your passion and knowledge in gardening 😍 doing a great job man! Looking forward to more!

it is 100 percent essential to see these mistakes. i really don't like when people act like they are perfect because the end product becomes useless to anyone who duplicates the process. i love this because it will help me avoid the same mistakes and prevent months of wasted oppertunity.

I love watching your videos! Especially that you take the time to show the process from beginning to end result in the same video. I know it takes time and lots of planning ahead. I also like your scientific experimental process videos like the one with the 3 different fertilizer on the petunias. Thanks all your effort to give us something both informative and entertaining at the same time.

I've been trying to propagate crepe myrtle cuttings from my late mother's tree with no success. I finally got some cuttings growing thanks to following your tips and tricks and no watering! Thank you so much for sharing what you know with all of us!

Awesome video material!! Great job hubby!

Ohhhhhhhh the winter interest in my garden is gonna be nuts...once again YOU THE MAN! And also thanks for documenting the boo-boos as well. The advise goes a long way #FirstComment

I am SOOO thankfull for this video! That's a mistake I would probably had made with my cuttings, being new, inexperienced and not always patient. You saved me from painful mistake, thanks!

Really appreciated this info. Thank you very much. I have tried rooting dogwood in the past without success.

Great! You are clear and generous in all your sharing. Thank you 🙏

I hate to say this mike but I’m glad to see you go through the same problems I do. I feel like I’ve gone wrong all year. But your awesome man. Enjoy watching and I’m not giving up.

I appreciate that you shared the entire process, even with the “mistakes”, which are a great opportunity for all of us to learn and do better. I’ve been air layering and have gotten impatient to see the results and have been unwrapping the branches too soon. The “cut” has barely developed calluses! It’s a good sign but I need to wait another month or so to, hopefully, see some roots.

Thanks Mike.. aappreciate showing us your ups and downs...blessings

Hey Mike, Love this video. There is a young Irishman who has been rooting red and yellow dogwoods for years. He started with two plants and now has made a walkway by a road with thousands of cuttings, along the side. He does this in batches of 60 at a time, several times each year. His secret is that he puts a bark scrape on the bottom 1 inch, on two sides of each stick. By exposing the cambia it jump starts the roots. He does say it takes him about a year to get a good set of roots on his plants. He looks to be getting 90% or better root set.

Another awesome video!

it gets very exciting to see how quickly things develop mike. it's only our synapses firing up that cause the rush. no, disillusion, we all know what you are capable of. cp.

Lovely video, you're roots good care, make beautiful plants to growing more and more !😁😁👋🌿🌿

Thank you for sharing the fails and the mistakes and the reasons why. I have been learning a lot. I like to say I have some success. Blueberry bushes, hydrangeas and roses this year. Have had the best luck with the hydrangeas after a good hard Frost in late fall. Your tips on not over-watering will help me this year.

Great mulch, buddy.

Love your instructions

Another great lesson & info. 👍🌱❤

If only this were as simple as you make it seem! I use Rootone a lot, but I can't tell any difference between when I use it and when I don't. I haven't tried the bottom heat method before, and I can't wait to give this a try.

Thank you for helping us grow trees 💕

Nice to see you are human like the rest of us and that it doesn't always work for you either, gives me hope 😉.

great helpful video

live and learn! Haha! great lesson, Thanks!

Thank YOU Mike

Too bad on the cuttings but you never know until you know. TY for the info, can't wait to do some cuttings. Very good tips like bottom heat and the fir bark! 👍 This is an awesome channel. 🇺🇸

Cheers dude got some red dog wood growing locally that I want to take some cuttings off. This is exactly what I wanted to see 💚🤟🏻 going to use the dog wood a a boarder for my allotment ✌🏻

I may have learned more from your "mistake" than if everything went well. Thank you for being so honest. That's what wins people over. Thanks from Brisbane Australia.

dont feel bad it happens to all of us, glad ya learned from the mistakes and explained what went wrong and what ya should have done,, great videos ,, give HENRY extra grain

That a superlative pile of compost you have at your disposal there bud 👍🇬🇧

Aw you lost so many 😢only because wanted to show to us step by step. I'm so sorry! You are brilliant! Big thankyou from United Kingdom!

My comment really centers around soil. My gardening is real small and I've learned about the propagation techniques from you. My petunia's came out very well and they were all over the place. The soil for those types of plants is pretty simple. But I didn't know what fine fur bark was. I know now it's soil conditioner. I just need to know what to get or buy when I can't get a farmer's leftovers. I'm going to try some of the hardwoods in my yard and the neighbors yard. I save seeds for the next year and do well with those. I compost and have some large plants. I do like your videos, even like the screw ups because I learn from that. It is difficult for me, I had a TBI while in the Army, so I've watched the same video two or three times over. I make notes but believe me my results are not always what you get. I am in Ohio...so I contend with winter and I can do some in the house until spring. I want to try the Hydrangeas but mine have never bloomed so I may just forget that. Anyway thank you for the videos.

Wow I got so much roots in just 2 weeks, like 60% of my fig cuttings have big roots already :D

I was just waiting for you to say happy little trees.

This video is released right in time for me, I’ve just got my hands on some Antarctic Beech cuttings I want to propagate. I’m gonna try this method out and see how they go!

Ok, I’ll try again... 😊

oh okay thanks mike

Hi Mike, I love your videos. They're really enjoyable and helpful. I'm wondering why you put these cuttings in a bundle to plant them?

Way cool!

I've lost a few like that early this year.. i potted them up and it had frozen for 4 days after i repotted them. I lost them all. left a like

Oh man, they would have been beautiful....don't touch them next time! Great info as always! Love dogwoods, especially the red twig. Hugs to you and your girls🤗🤗💜

Thanks Mike as always great instructions, very useful to hear the mistakes - perhaps even more useful! Have you ever tried Magnolia Denudata (or Yulan) cuttings? Suppose would be similar to the dogwood ones?

Love seeing that callous! I started about 1000 cuttings last winter. They're pretty little plants now!!

Now that I've watched the whole thing, gripes about music aside, this is a GREAT video. Thank you for showing the intermediate stages. Where do youget such beautiful mulch?

good video... I'm not disappointed as I can profit from your experience!!!

I will be rooting some red twig dogwood. First I'll have to wait til Spring of '25 as there are none available for purchase right now (June 29, '24). 1) Can I take cuttings from the new plant as soon as I get it? 2) As I'm in zone 5, in MI, they will have to come in the house, as I do not have a garage to put them in. If I get cuttings as soon as I get the parent plant, hopefully late April/early May, my second question is, will they still need to be in the pot for a second winter? I have been so excited to try this! I've been wanting red twig dogwood for a long time, but the cost has been prohibitive. One last question. 3) If I can find someone who we let me take cuttings from their plant, what is the best time to take the cuttings? Blessings to you and thanks for the great video!!!

I love your shows as you take us from the beginning to the end and then show them later and sometimes even later yet!! That part is awesome!! I am understanding most of it!! Thank you very much for your videos!! Question?? The saplings from maple or fruit trees, what is the best way to start trees from them if the sapling is higher on the tree? I have a pear tree that is dyeing out, and a crap tree that needs to come down and I want starters from them. I also have a Maple tree that I didn't cut the saplings off, as I intended to try to root those, they are from a tree that had red leaves last fall and I want more of them!! Also birch trees, any good way to get starters from them, like air layering!! Can't find any more small ones on the property I can dig from! Lot of questions, but your the man to ask!! Like I said, my husband and I both love your shows!!

Really interesting video! Thanks Mike! Would your idea of using a soda bottle on top of roses have worked on the twigs too - maybe with some distance between the twigs? Would it have speeded up leave growth or would the twigs have rotted? I mean would you maybe have gotten more success or would twigs in general rot (but just not rose twigs - are they speciel in this matter)?

Wow!

Thanks for the videos. I’m a 66yr old retired man and have gone through the MG program. Unfortunately they do not cover growing plants from cuttings. I wish I would have gotten into this at a much younger age. Do you ever get over to the eastern part of the state for teaching seminars? Just subscribed and again thanks for all the info.

I plan to do red twig cuttings. Why did you bundle cuttings instead of sticking them individually in one pot? Thanks. Your videos are ever informative, I always learn something new from you.

Hi Mike, Too late. I took a few cuttings from my mother's Fuchsia and Hydrangea last month, and yesterday, I did what you've just done by potting them on.

I have a dog wood. I am not going to do this approach. But it give s me hope for the remaining season.

Hi Mike, I'm amazed by your potting media. How do you make it? Or does someone make it for you? Where I live, there is no composted bark (which I think it's what you use). Would you share some tips, please?

Super informative. Is this why one shouldn’t take a ‘peek’ at the cuttings every few days? So hard not to take a look after the first few weeks of planting cuttings. is it somewhat likely if you pull a cutting prematurely it will possibly die even you replant it right away?

Good tip.that happened to me last year I potted mine up to fast and I lost 50% off them .just like you seed just Wait through winter and you'll be ok

Hello! Do you know if thos method would work for western redbud cuttings?

Great video. I'll learn from your mistake.

How long did you let them sit in the rooting hormone before planting the cuttings? Thanks for the content, very helpful!!!

I am hoping my success in rooting cuttings improves this year with bottom heat, I did not have that before to help. I want to start a bunch of blueberries, pineapple guava and bay laurel. Possibly more roses too.

Your videos have inspired me to attempt a Hedgerow so I bought one Burberry plant the beginning of July and took a bunch of cuttings off of it I put them in some moistened peat moss and powder hormone on July 11th do you think I have Roots I haven't had the guts to pull them yet?

Im surprised the roots didn't pull off. It looked like they were in there pretty good.

I appreciate you showing your failures to

You can't rush mother nature thank you

Hey Mike! Have you done or can you do a video on propagating bougainvillea cuttings? I haven’t had much success with them. Trying fine fur and a plastic enclosure like I did with my roses

Have you tried Cloning with long shoots? Most advice goes with 8" scion. However if you can get a 3-4 foot shoot wouldn't that speed things up ? Is the reason they don't clone with longer scions because they fail more, or because you get more scions when you cut to around 8 inches ?

im in new york and just live staked a bunch. If theres no rain for a few days you think i should water them from drying out or you think they will be fine? thanks

Hi. I’m wondering if you could help me. I have a 6ft pink dogwood that was on the edge of my woods & growing for almost 2 yrs, but I think my lawn guy ran into it. I tried tamping it down but it looked like it was dying so I pulled it out of the ground and all the roots were gone. It looks like I saved it just in time but it’s been sitting in a bucket of water and surviving with green leaves, but without any roots. It has what I think you describe as the callous (size of a fist) which I keep cleaning bc green algae is forming on it. Do you think the hormone & planting it in some peat moss like you did here will generate the roots again? I live in up state South Carolina. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

Where do you get that nice fir bark, and do you mix it with anything else?

I noticed you started this project in spring as the plant is finishing its winter dormancy. Would this also work if started in the fall and then allowed to root up through the winter (indoors) to be ready for transplant outside in the spring?

Is there any reason shredded cedar bark wouldn't work as a propagation medium?

Mike would peal moss or soil also work rather than fir bark? I can’t find fine fir bark

No mike you don’t just do it for us you have a root fetish don’t you??? 🤣😂 Anyway We love your enthusiasm with everything you do. Btw I’ve been scouting my neighborhood and I’ve collected some red maple seeds and planted them. I’ll let you know if it was a success. ❤️🌷🌺💐🌱🌴🌻🌸

What temp is your bottom heat I have a heat mat but I’m not sure what a good temp is. Thanks for all your videos. Keep on growin thanks

Mike when are you doing rhododenderon cuttings again?

If i trying rooting maple cuttings I must moist leafs or no? Or only whater soil without leafs moist. Becouse I think when i moist leafs thay daing. No?

I'm moving across the country and want to take cuttings of trees & shrubs. Is there a way to save cuttings for a longer period of time? I'd like to propagate rhododendron, hydrangea, burning bush, verbena and maybe Japanese maples. Besides hardwood can I take next year's buds or other parts of these plants for propagation?

Hmmm I love all your video and thank u for sharing. But I got problems with dogwood rooting ? Can u please explain me abit please? I don’t have greenhouse yet . Thank u!!

How long should you wait for the roots to get before you pot them up? I’ve rooted a bunch of cuttings in water and rooting hormone mixture but not sure how long I should wait. Also, do I pot them up potting soil or should I pot them up in my coconut coir? I’m assuming I should put them inside in my grow room and not outside in my unheated greenhouse because it’s already mid October. Right?

Does it matter when you take the branch and try and clone? I found a beautiful dogwood in the woods and I am looking to clone it and bring it home. Thanks

Is there a reason as to why you had then in a bundle? Would it be better to stick them all in the same pot but spread out?

Can start them in the spring/summer?

Can you use sand for hardwood cuttings? Any other ways to root hardwood, like now in summer?

I have red dogwood cuttings rooting in water. Should I put a heated blanket under them to make them root faster?

What else can be used besides fine fur bark?

I have Rose of Sharon cuttings in water which are beginning to leaf out but no roots should I put them in individual pots with a medium? Will they begin to root faster?

Can you root the cutings in the month of May, here in Michigan ?

Some Blueberry propagation is coming? 🤔😎

I'm new to this process. Where can I find (or make) the warming mat/bottom heater?

How do you propagate boxwood? I'm wanting to create a hedge. I took some cuttings ten weeks ago , rooting hormone, peat covered with sand, in plastic tote. They still look good, but so far, nothing!

how did the 2 that you planted do? I bought 3 rooted stalks online and planted them. I wonder if each one will form a bush or do they stay as 1. I see at garden centers now is some and they have a big stem with 10-12 stems from it. Im hoping the single stalks i got will do that. any thoughts

Have you ever cut down hard wood branches , soaked them in water and proceeded with the cloning procedure when you find yourself with time 4 days later ?? I have macadamia branches iv cut down during a cleaning process and I want to clone them , I have soaked them in water like a flower arrangement and I wonder if I can still proceed with cloning procedure 4 days later now ? The branches still have beautiful green leaves on them

Is there a reason they need to be in bundles when rooting at first? Maybe we can avoid any issues from separating the roots by individually potting each.