Bonsai Hardwood Cuttings

There are a wide range of cuttings in general horticultural use that can be used to propagate garden plants from leaf cuttings to root cuttings.

Bonsai hardwood cuttings.

Fortunately several species of trees can be propagated by winter cuttings or hardwood cuttings. In this process you place a small limb that you cut off into the dirt and over time it will grow its own roots. This is very common in plant nurseries because you can mass produce plants for very little cost. Before we start propagating trees from cuttings let s look at the stages of development of young trees first.

Read the bonsai tree species guide for timing. So if you are trimming your bonsai and you would like to propagate some of your trees here is how you go about it. Hardwood cuttings come from wood that is fully ripened and sometimes even several years old. 1 a clean well drained rooting medium 2 a rooting hormone provided either naturally or by applying one 3 a constant supply of moisture to make up for the lack of roots 4 sufficient light to allow the manufacture of food softwood and semi hardwood 5 bottom heat in some cases although almost all do better with it.

One of the easiest ways to reproduce a bonsai for free is to grow it from cuttings. Many bonsai enthusiasts however successfully take cuttings at what is supposed to be the wrong time of year recycling prunings from their existing bonsai rather than throwing them on the compost heap. Some hardwood cuttings can be prepared and planted after their growth season late summer. For bonsai however it is stem cuttings that are normally used.

There are 3 types of stem cuttings commonly used softwood cuttings semi ripe and hardwood cuttings.