Rooting hormones may be dusted onto the grooved area before the moss is applied. Keep the tree in its usual situation and be sure to keep the moss moistened. If needed moisten the moss and never allow it to dry out.
Rooting hormone: A powder or liquid growth hormone is used to promote the development of roots on a cutting. It's formulated for the propagation of cuttings and stimulate the development of adventitious roots .
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Rooting Hormones
There are two types of rooting hormones on the market, talcs and solutions. Talcs such as Hormex contain the hormone indolebutyric acid, or simply, IBA at various concentrations, that's what the numbers mean, Hormex #1 is 0.1% IBA.
Strip the foliage from the lower half of the stem with your fingers, taking care not to damage the stem, and dip the lower end of the stem in rooting hormone.
Dust the area to be rooted with rooting hormone.
Take two handfuls of sphagnum moss and saturate it in water. The dry sphagnum moss will reduce in volume considerably when wet so make sure you soak enough to cover your ring barked area completely.
Once the proposed site has been injured, put rooting hormone on the site and then wrap it tightly with wet long-stranded sphagnum moss. Wrap the moss in clear plastic bag to keep it in place.
Use damp vermiculite as a rooting medium, and dipped the cut end in a rooting hormone before inserting it in a hole made with a pencil in the rooting medium.
With both methods, dust the section to be rooted with rooting hormone and tightly wrap wet long-stranded sphagnum moss around the whole area. The sphagnum moss is then held in position with clear polythene or a clear plastic bag.
Sprinkle the root mass with rooting hormone and place the mass in the correct position in the pot. Add more soil and secure the tree with the wires front and back of the trunk.
As you add soil, use your chopstick to remove air pockets.
Remove a very thin slice of bark at the base of the cutting, rooting is improved if a rooting hormone is used. The cuttings need a humid atmosphere as they can wilt and quickly die in dry conditions.
Cuttings should be dipped into rooting hormone and inserted into a seed tray or plant pot of a standard pre-mixed cutting compost or equal parts peat (or substitute) and perlite or sharp sand.
Cut the roots off with a very sharp blade from where the green part on the shoot ends. Dip the cut end in rooting hormone and plant shoots in individual 3" to 4" pots in a light granular potting medium.
cuttings over three inches long are very, very easily propagated, so you can start with a branch or trunk portion that is already well shaped and branched; cuttings up to at least two inches in diameter don't need to be callused; rooting hormone ...
Dust some rooting hormone (available at Bonsai shops) around the 'wound' and cover it with normal soil. Do not cut off the part underneath the wire until enough roots have developed above the wire; this will take one or two years.
In air layering (or marcotting), the target region is wounded and then surrounded in a moisture-retaining wrapper such as sphagnum moss, which is further surrounded in a moisture barrier such as polyethylene film. Rooting hormone is often applied ...
When covered with a rooting medium (such as Sphagnum Moss) and treating it with rooting hormone, the affected portion will sprout new roots and may then be cut from the parent tree and planted as its own tree.
P. afra propagates easily from cuttings, even large ones. Let the cutting sit a couple of days in the shade to 'harden off' before planting in a fast draining, dry soil mix. No rooting hormone is necessary.
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