Where to cut? Propagating Camellia

[onefivenine]

Hi Grapes

Never done this before so could use your advice!

I'd like to propagate a Camellia bought last summer which is growing in a container, so the 'plant a growing shoot into the soil' method isn't ideal.

I've got two cuttings in mind, and have read a useful RHS guide that Two Sheds shared on the forum here a while back, so am planting:-
one in a 3" pot in a heated propagator
one in a 5" pot that will go outdoors either in a growhouse or beside a shed (in north facing shade).

Here's a pic of one of the shoots on which I've marked some potential cutting places - could you offer some advice on which one to go for and why? also, how many leaves to take off?



Thanks in advance guys

[Two_Sheds]

You're a bit early are you?
Semi-ripe cuttings root best. Take them from mid July to mid September, as soon as the growing season has ended and as the wood is ripening from green to brown. Royal Horticultural Society - Gardening Advice

[onefivenine]

Thanks Two Sheds.
I was thinking of doing it now as I was flicking through an old article - in the June 2007 Gardeners World - in a hospital waiting room yesterday. Maybe I'll hold off for a bit then if it's better to wait until the end of the growing season.