Hydrangea Early Winter Hardwood Cuttings

Hardwood cuttings of hardy plants like crape myrtle and forsythia may be stuck right away.

Hydrangea early winter hardwood cuttings.

The hardwood cuttings taken in winter will strike easily. Your mop head hydrangea should root from hardwood cuttings. Start new cuttings early in the summer to give them the best chance for surviving the winter. Learn more about that here.

Do some both ways. You can take hydrangea cuttings at two times during the year. A new growth stem will be a lighter green than old growth. Also i m now doing my hardwood cuttings in very early spring with great success.

I find it is best to take them in early summer around july to ensure they get plenty of time to get a good head start. Also be aware that if you live in a colder climate where the hydrangea. Hydrangeas cuttings are generally easy to take but are slow to root so it can be a problem getting them to survive over winter unless they have rooted really well. Getting cuttings through the first winter without a greenhouse is the hardest part of starting new hydrangeas from cuttings.

The best time of year to take hydrangea cuttings is from spring when the plant is leafing out to late summer when the leaves are still lush and green. The first step for how to root cuttings from hydrangea is to select a stem for cutting. Early summer cuttings are known as softwood cuttings. However stick a lot more than you need just to increase your odds of success.

In early fall choose a stem for hydrangea propagation that is at least 6 inches 15 cm long has no flower and is new growth. This method works with most hydrangea varieties. Early winter cuttings are known as hardwood cuttings. While some people manage to take cuttings through the winter indoors in general this does not work well.

But for plants prone to cold damage like pomegranate and fig take the cuttings right after the leaves drop and store them in the crisper drawer of your refrigerator through the winter and stick them in the early spring. Winter time cuttings are tough as nails and require very little attention as you will see. In winter when you take new hardwood cuttings and again in summer when you take cuttings of fairly new growth that has just started to harden a little. Hydrangeas are deciduous plants so it s best to propagate them and give them some time to develop roots before they go dormant in winter.

However summer time cuttings are very fragile and need special conditions to survive.