I cut 2 bud tip sticks off my hardy chicago same branch right next to each other and did the same with my el sals same branch right next to each other 21 days ago .

I dipped all 4 sticks in clonex red gel just in and out of the gel all four treated the same.

I took some peat pellets expanded them in water then squeezed them hard to get execess water out and removed the netting and broke them apart into cut up water bottles and all 4 out in open on shelf in laundry room not in bin.

One hardy chicago and one el sals are getting roots.
One hardy chicago and one el sals are not yet.

Its been my experience in past that some sticks root faster than some sticks even when cut from same branch same tree useing gel, no gel, baggie, or just putting sticks directly into potting mix .
Best Health

Yes, Martin,

Cuttings from the same tree on the same day, planted, even i the same pot and soil, getting the same water, etc. do different things. Some grow leaves, some grow roots, some both, and some neither. Some are quick, and some slow. It is a bit like having IDENTICAL twins, one with red hair, one blond, one short, one tall, one a boy and one a girl, and yet identical.

This morning i carefully cut open the water bottles of 2 of the 4 plants then slowly tore the water bottles open, first one no root damage, second one 2 small tips of roots lost in process. Soil i pre wet with mister bottle very lightly. I then put into small containers and added soil with spoon and lightly tamp the top around stem. These never where in a bin but left out on shelf in laundry room that gets window sun.Today a nice day at 70 degree's they will go in partial shade on driveway. In short while they go to a friend. One of the others first pictured of the 4 had roots showing and 4th one not yet.From the first day i cut these 4 off the parent plants till now is 27 days total and so far there doing fine. I made mistake of not making drain holes in the bottles and i felt it was there time to come out of them.

Good Job Martin

Very nice Martin great results especially in such a short amount of time.
Sal

Thanks ,
truly it was none of my doing though it was the partiicular sticks that rooted well this time around. Jon is so right in his post what he mentions as that has been my experience some fast, some slow some not at all etc.
But i no lie it caught me by surprise a little how fast it happened, its happened fast before like this just not as often.
I like most that they were left in open not enclosed and before i give them to some ole co -workers that we talk via email i will make sure there out of the woods as i put them outdoors now., i have a few more other types for them in near future that im waiting on .