l started growing hydrangea trees after you showed us how to propagate hydrangeas. What I've learned was that you can grow them like single node hardwood cuttings, but the cuttings will be longer. Take your cuttings after winter but before they break dormancy. Cut your stem as close to the base as possible because the length you cut will be the length of the trunk forever, the cutting will not grow in length after you cut the stem to make a tree. You don't have to trim the bottom of the cutting after you cut it from the main plant to freshen it up because trimming the cutting will affect the height of your tree.The stem will grow in circumference but not in length after you cut it off the main plant. Just like single node cuttings, the leaves will appear before the roots. Trim the leaves off the stem except for the cluster of nodes at the top of the cutting. This is where your branches will form to create your tree. Place the cutting in 100% shaded area and keep the soil moist . It will grow into a tree. To make a perfect straight tree , tie a straight piece of wood on the side to train it to grow straight. To make a smooth trunk, file down the nodes , so when the tree becomes mature, the trunk is smooth and anesthetically pleasing and you can sell them for more money. Making a hydrangea tree is just as easy as growing single node hydrangea cuttings. If you see any variety of hydrangea trees , it's a Panicle Hydrangeas. You can take long cuttings off of those trees and make hydrangea trees from them, too. All Panicle Hydrangeas can be made into trees. This spring, l will be trying to make Macrophylla Hydrangea trees. It's possible because l seen a Macrophylla Hydrangea tree before in someone's landscape.

I did similar with lantana, to make them into "trees" which was a lot of fun. Never thought about doing a hydrangea like that. I may try it!

Another awesome video on limelights🌱 I love seeing the steady traffic going by your nursery 👍 I bet they are watching to see what you are doing and when you are going to open up for business 🌱🌱 Thank you for sharing your knowledge and journey with us! 😊

Isnt it fun learning and experimenting instead of sitting wondering what if? Great job and hope you have great sucess. 👍savvy crew

Im glad i found your KZfaq. Ive got each hydrangeas, small still. But im going to propagate a bunch. I practiced a few and they all worked/rooted. Lilacs too. Boxwoods, weigela. All the cuttings i took. I was so happy to see that. Seeing roots, its a Feeling I cannot describe. Im trying lavender this year too. Adding few things. I staryed rows already.

I am anxious to watch these grow! I just love them! Thanks for sharing your ideas!

I'm so glad things are going in the right direction for you amd the family I'll keep my fingers crossed that it remains to do so

I did this with Dappled Willow one year and really loved them. Looking forward to following your success with the Hydrangeas. Thank you for sharing!

We mainly focus on palms and tropicals here in our backyard nursery but watching you we have bought a hydrangea to be one that we cut from

This will be a great addition to your plant selection. I'll be following along to see how well this turns out. In the mean time I'll be starting extra tomato and cucumber starts to trade for hydrangea cuttings with my neighbor. 😊

I appreciate your experiment and all the positive comments after it. There are Limelight & Nikki Blue hydrangeas in my church’s landscape that get pruned every year and I am going to speak for the cuttings this year so I can get some hydrangea trees going. Thanks to all! 🙏🏻👍🏼

I have learned so much from your channel. Thank you so much for sharing your journey. I am a plant lover and am in the beginning stages of starting my backyard nursery. I do have a few questions I’d love to ask through inbox that I haven’t been able to find an answer to but outside of that I’m excited to start my own journey. “Just subscribed”

I will be able to take a lot of long cuttings from hydrangea at my church, so I plan to follow your example and heel them in this winter and hope for roots in the spring, pot them up and keep them shaded so they will grow more roots.

Thank you. Prayers over your family and venture. Psalm 91 over all believers.

Hi, I’ve been watching your videos almost since the start, yours and others keep me entertained while up-potting. Congrats on bigger space! It’s been 5 years since we bought our few acres for our landscaping business which we are slowly working on retiring to focus more on the nursery which I find more rewarding. It’s hard work and as you’ve said you have to be resourceful and dedicated to make it work. Keep in mind, you and I both are in the process of constructing the nursery while also trying to operate it and build a market for your plants in your new area. That’s 3 different jobs and that’s a lot! At some point the nursery will be built and you will have built a customer base so you can focus on growing plants and making incremental improvements rather than setting up the whole system. Hang in there! The hydrangea experiment is interesting and I’m looking forward to seeing the results. There was one moment in the video that made me say why did he do that which is when you cut the ends off. If that mulch pile was bone dry I could see the possible benefit of cutting off a scarred tip. However, I would expect an outdoor mulch pile to at least be moist meaning you could have had callusing and undifferentiated cells beginning to develop into root cells that you cut off and the process may now be starting over. I’m no expert on this either but I would suggest if you try this again that you leave at least some of them uncut at that stage and compare the results. Also make sure you can keep a plastic covered shade house cool in your climate. In our Oregon dryish summer climate we use mist and fans for evaporative cooling. I’m not sure how effective that is in your region though. Maybe just some ventilation fans will be enough.

I think you can sort out the most leggy hydrangeas with the least amount of branches when you prune your first year plants and start making standards out of those. Things grow amazingly well under your supervision, they will turn into amazing standard hydrangeas in no time, and will have nice roots. Easier and more fool proof than planting long branches. Interesting idea though

Hello mate. Love the videos of your progress. Totally awesome 😃 Please can I ask why you don't use hormone powders or liquids (dipngrow or say hormoden powder) when doing cuttings. Thanks again for your videos mate 👍 Joe

Can’t wait to see how these go!!!! So neat.

I ordered a box full of Limelight hydrangea starter plants last year, they arrived all mildewed. I stripped the leaves and pruned them, but have had to toss most. I only have a couple out there now and don't have high hopes for them.

Yes. These are cool. I have been growing these in my yard. What do you think you will charge for these?

Maybe dipping the freshly cut end into the rooting hormone powder will increase the survival chance of those hydrangeas.

just saw these at the garden shop today... price $199.99 WOW

Use bamboo straws to aerate the soil and add compost tea and worms 🪱

Do you think it is too late to take hardwood cuttings? Things are budding and blooming in South Georgia (8b).

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A savvy farmer do you think if you added hormone treatment to the bottom when you stuck them in the mulch, they would get route better?

I my area Midwest the Limelight and its sub varieties ,and Oak leaf hydrangeas seem to be the go to Hydrangea in my area seems the heat is the reason ?

can I take cuttings and attempt to root them now from my green giants and cryptomeria ??? I'm in NC in 7b..can i do it????? thanks a lot Greg

what about using coarse sand instead of potting soil...once they root then potted.. Coarse sand with the plastic over and the shade cloth...I am sure u will have more success...

Could you have cut each stem into shorter sections, like your dappled willows, and rooted shorter plants? 37° in Massachusetts today, not shorts weather yet

Is there a update video to this

Should some have roots after 8 weeks of sitting in a mulch pile?

i want to grow a wisteria in a standard form

Have you ever thought about using plastic grow bags instead of pots?

What do u use to fertilize

Obviously you can do whatever you want, but I would of started them over as hardwood cuttings to root out and then form it to what you want. Doing them as a 3 foot cutting is too much to try to root out. Hence the low success. You can do longer or bigger cuttings with willows like that but not normally much else. Also it doesn't seem like you used rooting hormone, that would probably up your chances alot. But I still think the cuttings are just too much that long. Still cool though you did that experiment and got some good results out of it.

Can you seed that tree in the mail to me?

I do the same thing but with Lavender as an small tree or Dappled Willow

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