Q. I understand that I can take conifer cuttings during the next few weeks. Please advise me as to how I should do this?
A. Conifer cuttings root easily if taken at this time of the year. Select growth, which is of the current season and of the same habit and colour as that of the parent plant. Often horizontal growths of an upright conifer or upright shoots of a prostrate conifer are reversions to type and produce distorted plants. So these should be avoided.
Take a piece of undamaged growth and remove it with a heel or piece of the old wood. Do this by tearing it away. Trim the heel and remove any foliage, which is likely to touch the compost. Dip the cut ends into a hormone rooting powder if you like and then insert the cuttings into an equal parts by volume mixture of peat and sharp sand. Place in a sheltered position outdoors or in a cold frame. If the rooting medium is not allowed to dry out, the cuttings will be rooted by the spring.
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