Cuttings From Sloe Bush

[broadway]

Hi Folks,

Any advice?

Regards
Danny

[starloc]

according to the plants for a future database
- Plants For A Future database report

`Cuttings of half-ripe wood with a heel, July/August in a frame[11, 200]. Softwood cuttings from strongly growing plants in spring to early summer in a frame. Layering in spring. Division of suckers during the dormant season. They can be planted out direct into their permanent positions.`

i would do it like this though, sloes will be similar to plums and lots of other trees and this woks for most things ive done plums and apples with this in fruit trees, just chop a lump of fairly new, but hard wood, cut just below a leaf node, slice both sides through the bark, through the edge of the lower leaf node, leave 2 leves at the top, dip in a rooting compound, the one by doff has a greater level of auxin rooting hornone, then plant it it in a pot ( compost works, perlite or 50/50 perlite compost works better ) ( clear is best, but cover with dark plastic ( you can remove the black plastic to see if its filled the pot with roots yet) ) , water it, then put the pot in a large clear plastic bag and tie the top leave it somewere that gets light, but no direct bright light and it will root

Dont miss out the rooting hornone, it makes a big diffrence, some plants root without it, but all root better with it added

If you have more cuttings, maybe try rooting them in water instead of compost, use the same cutting and rooting hornone, root in a solution containing 30g of sugar per 1L of water , the sugar provides food for the cutting and makes it root faster and stronger

[broadway]

thanks starloc

[Lovage]

Sloes usually produce plenty of suckers which can be dug up and transplanted in the autumn - should be quicker to establish than cuttings

Alternatively if you want a lot of plants, for a hedge perhaps, you can buy bare root seedlings from a hedge or tree supplier for around 40p each