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These are the tools I use (Brian here) to take cuttings with. The knife is the primary tool used. I use a small lock-back pocket knife about 3 in. long that I can easily get @ the local Home Hardware. A knife that is fairly thin is best. It cuts much cleaner |
| and with less resistance. In order to keep that knife sharp I use a "steele" (I really did try to find the correct spelling for that word!) to sharpen the knife. A few quick strokes and its as good as new. For some cuttings that have stems that are not turgid or are very fine the scissors are the tool of choice. This is often the case with items that produce a lot of branches and so you can take several cuttings with one cut. |
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| The cuttings are stuck in the Seedling House. In this case it is Jeffrey doing the sticking. |
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| Our cutting and seeding is made easy by the fact that we have 3 of our greenhouses with heated floors. This makes the job of maintaining root zone temperatures very easy. | |
| You can see from the hanging basket at the right the root system that will develop in this environment in about 10 days from transplanting. The warm root system tends to reduce problems with root |
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