Propagation Experiment Results

I did a propagation experiment this spring with seedless concord and concord cuttings. I put a third of the cuttings in some moist newspaper and put them in a warm place by a heating vent. I put a third upside down outside underground with the bottoms of the cuttings near the surface. I put another third of the cuttings in a vase with water covering about half of the length of the cutting.

After a month and a half, I planted the cuttings outside. I noticed that every single cutting that was put in moist newspaper had a callous at the bottom. The ones that were upside down underground did not have any callous or root formation. Some of the cuttings in the vase rooted and some didn't. It was about a 30% root rate. I planted them all outside and only about half of the vase cuttings survived, while none of the underground cuttings survived. Amazingly, every single cutting that was put in newspaper survived and had a lot of growth the first year. From now on, I'll do only this method for propagation. It had a nearly 100% success rate!