I'm rooting hydrangeas, several pomegranates, red and yellow fleshed kiwis, grapes, abelia, many figs, white fruiting blackberries, and several mulberries. besides rooting cuttings I've also grafted a few Asian persimmons & some rare grapes including this one that was first mentioned in the 1800's then lost in history.
I also propagated many seedlings including blue sausage tree, Osage orange, daylilies, nanking cherries, Lotus persimmons, native persimmons, pecans, several varieties of hazelnuts with the red leaf genome, several varieties of canna lilies, and Hesperoyucca whipplei. The picture is just my cuttings I'll be sure to update it in a few weeks and I'll try to get pics of the seedlings also if this rain would ever stop
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Thanks Pril, most of what you see is destined to be traded or sold to acquire more things. I only graft for myself however because I've yet to master it and some of my graft unions can be ugly from time to time.
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Thanks everyone
Angela I have a unquenchable thirst for odd or uncommon plants. The white blackberry is very thorny, my first goal was to obtain it. Now the goal is to make more, then I hope to cross it to thornless varieties to make a white thornless blackberry.
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Name: Teresa Felty Barrow South central KY (Zone 6b) SONGBIRD GARDENS
speaking of odd plants. Anyone know a tropical that has a thick, thorny/stem? It has nice large thick textured leaves and the flowers are red, and in a cluster. Nice!
Sorry Teresa, I don't do tropicals only things hardy to zone 8a and colder even though I'm in 7b. I like living life on the edge lol.
The pictures I posted yesterday was taken about 2 weeks ago this is what it looks like today.
These are photos of some of my successful grafts both grapes and persimmons
this is a failed one notice the sucker at the bottom of the rootstock
These are some of my seed beds for me pots are eaiser than inground seedlings and there is much more roots intack once the plants are separated
Nanking cherry and Osage orange seedlings popping up
This is the successfully rooted white blackberry plant
This is just some of the seedlings I started last year including jujube, persimmons, pecans, hardy citrus, hazelnuts, and some nandina I started from cuttings
These are some modified airlayers on my goumi plants I just shove the limb through the hole at the bottom of the pot, remove some bark, add rooting powder or gel then fill the pot with potting soil. on the limb you can see a standard airlayer but I love the pot trick.
these are some of my in ground daylily seedlings but I have 4 more beds
Finally this is a pot filled with about 15 little abelia plants that where from cuttings
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Wow! Daniel, I'm speechless. I would love to be that talented. How do the white blackberries compare with regular blackberries? Are they thornless? Love all the pictures.
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I just acquired them so I've yet to try them, but they should produce fruit next year. They are not thornless but I hope to cross them with thornless blackberries to make a white thornless . No work has been done on white blackberries since Luther Burbank worked with them and made the elusive snowbanks blackberry. One day I hope to find it as well.
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I was so overwrought with jealousy I forgot to mention my most recent successes. Buddleia, I never new how easy and fast they are to grow from seed, definately worth the effort. The best this year has been Asclepias curassavica and nigella, it's been a lousy year for seed for me, I'm hoping it's the weather and not my juju.
Dee I'll be happy to trade you a blue sausage tree seedling for a hardy century plant start this fall if you are interested in working out a trade, just let me know. Congrats on the Buddleia
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Teresa I love seeing your photos on the daylily threads. They must do really good in KY I've heard of hybridizers moving or living in your state. I guess it's just warm enough to get fat fans and yet cold enough to prevent rust from taking over. Do you ever do any crosses and grow out the seeds?
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Name: Margaret Delta KY I'm A Charley's Girl For Sure
Thanks for sparking a childhood memory Daniel. White blackberries used to grow in my neighborhood when I was a small child. Developers came along and wiped them out. I have no idea how they taste as I was an extremely picky child and would not eat most foods. I would love to get some starts of them.
Could you share your source please?
Unfortunately I can't say where the cuttings came from because of the trouble I went through to get them and their hesitance to share the material with me in the first place. As my plants grow I will be able to share cuttings and maybe someday plants as well but as you can see in the photos they are still very small rooted cuttings 6-8 inchs tall at the moment. I have heard that wild stands of white blackberries are still around but I've checked every blog, forum, and photo on the web to find someone who grows them with no results. There is a blogger who grows snowbanks white blackberry but hasn't answered any of my emails I've sent him over the years in efforts to acquire some. I first heard of white blackberries about 5 years ago and since then have been looking for them. Another hard to acquire plant is the black fruiting nanking cherry. I have red and I'm rooting white but the black nanking is only available in Cananda to my knowledge and every time I contact the one person online with them I get the same thing no answer. Acquiring rare plants is more difficult than propagating them IMO. well.... All except for Dall'Osso which is very hard to not only root but keep alive. Sorry I couldn't be of more help Margaret but you are more than welcome to cuttings in fall 2017 if you don't mind waiting.
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Name: Margaret Delta KY I'm A Charley's Girl For Sure
That is OK Daniel. I was more so checking to see if they were being offered again somewhere.
It's been 50 years since I last saw them growing in my neighborhood.
I'd be delighted to wait until next fall to get a start of them. Thank you for the offer
I have not heard of white blackberries. Sounds very interesting.
