Can you make an actively growing cutting a dormant cutting by refridgerating it.

I took some interior lateral branch cuttings that were lignified and showed a tight green bud. These were placed in the refridgerator. Would these ever be considered dormant cuttings?

When grafting other types of trees, stripping the leaves off is considered the equivalent of dormancy.

Charles, I remember reading about a technique called Vernification that simulates the induction of dormancy by refrigerating seeds or cuttings for 3-4 weeks. I don't recall the source. Perhaps someone else has more info.

Its got my attention.

*vernalization

Well it appears that you can vernalize and devernalize plants and seeds. I guess the only question is can the same effect happen to plant "parts"? Frank's recollection seems to say yes.

If so Summmer cuttings that some find harder to root may become the equivalent to Winter cuttings through vernalization.

I'm guessing that this would only apply to lignified wood as I don't think the green wood would stand up but I may be wrong. Does anyone have any thoughts on green wood vs. liginified wood?

Cold storage of Mission olive tree cuttings for 30 days at 50F in combination with IBA 15ppm made a large difference in cuttings that rooted and the number of roots per cutting. Apparently cold storage is helpful when rooting some fruit trees.

http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/repositoryfiles/ca904p7-59507.pdf

never had any luck with green cuttings, but if it's lignifed wood, why not just root it now?

Charles,
A dormant plant and a growing plant are physiologically different. There are changes that occur at the cellular level when a plant goes dormant.
But, I have been able to root similar cuttings after being stored 9 months in the refrigerator, without a noticeable loss of viability. They were collected cuttings from "found" fig trees in late summer last year, they were rooted this spring. They were stored dry, with a small amount of shredded Long fiber sphagnum moss in zip lock bags.

Thanks all,

My thoughts are that I have felt many people have better results with dormant cuttings as opposed to Summer cuttings however it seems that we all have opportunities to acquire the Summer cuttings and wish to propagate them so if storing the Summer cuttings and then rooting as faux dormant cuttings increase their odds of success that would be great.

Pete,

That is excellent news. Maybe it's just me but I just felt everyone has better results using the dormant Winter cuttings. Having the knowledge to convert Summmer cuttings to Winter cuttings would seem to be a big plus.

as long as the cutting is hardwood cutting, and not green cutting, rooting shouldn't be any different. with green cutitngs, moisture control becomes rather tricky, or at least for me. but onc the branch has lignified, they typically root and act just like dormant cutting without much issue. if you must root green cutting, and if the tree is  yours at your location, why not just air layer it?

I was thinking of those times when you are away from home and found a tree you wanted a cutting from but it really wasn't a great time to take cuttings.