Good work, mate.

okay.. I'm trying a couple your way and see what happens.  Thanks!

Very nice!  How tall is the humidity bin?

Its really awesome Rich. !!!.

Can I share your PIC...?  and I'll try it ,Hopefully it would work as well as your tree in our tropical climate.

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Very nice tutorial..... Does it work in tropical climate with high humidity ?.... I do rooting quite a lot of cuttings, they do well in the humidity chamber.... But when I repotting them and put it outside of the humidity chamber... All starting to dry out..... From 40 cuttings that root, only few is survive..... Maybe I should use perlite like you do..... Thanks Rich....

Thanks for sharing Rich!

Rich, This is an Outstanding Post!! I've learned a lot just from this One Post! Thanks! :)

I am posting here several photos of cuttings with which I have had good results using this method, with a little tinkering on my part. Two of the cuttings were in real trouble and have been rescued from near death. I will show the cutting and the roots if possible. First is a BM cutting from Jon, after nearly losing it using another method, I place the cutting in Spaghnum Moss and it developed a couple of small root initials and a small leaf. Then, I put it in a small cup of perlite, into a humidity chamber with heat mat on the bottom, set to 80 F. As of today, leafing out nicely and even the terminal bud, which was nearly dried out, has broken bud. The roots are looking nice. I am hydrating with a custom blend of Cornucopia fertilizer, Cal-Mag for calcium, root start rooting enhancer, and a little peroxide.

This is a cutting of Paradiso Gene, it struggled in a cup of perlite for about a month under hydroponic lights in open air. There were 2 unhealthy looking leaves and no terminal bud visible. Not good. After a couple of days in the humidity chamber, a new bud appeared and after about a week we have 3 new leaves.

Finally, I had two Adriatic JH cuttings, they started to root in Spaghnum Moss. One went into straight perlite, the other into a mix of 2/3 perlite 1/3 peat moss. The peat moss cutting is showing particularly vigorous roots.

At this point using this method Rich, what would you say is your success rate? Judging by this tutorial this is a method I will employ in the future.

I'm 36/37 so far

I think I killed the one by fertilizing and then allowing it to dry out so it was due to me not paying attention

That's a fantastic success rate Rich! I will definitely use this method next year. Thanks for sharing your technique.

Rich,

I was wondering how often you water the cuttings while they are in the humidity chamber and if you do, what do you use? I understand that you water with the 2 part solution once they are on the tray/heat mat alternating with water, but not quite sure in the chamber. BTW, I put a couple of struggling cuttings in perlite yesterday in a chamber, so I am curious. Thanks!

I water the cuttings in the humidity chamber infrequently with plain water. Maybe once a week or 10 days. One baser full will usually be enough. There should allways be a couple tablesppons of water on the bottom of the chamber

A few of the featured plants post summer growth ....more photos later

Impressive work and excellent results.

Thanks.... Anyone of you folks out there can do this.

Thats impressive! Great work. I have a MBVS that has about that much growth over the summer, but its the only one. I think I had them too shaded. I left them all in indirect sun for half the summer. Once I put them in full sun, they all took off!

I'm going to hopefully try your method in the spring. You really gave a great tutorial. Very detailed and informative.

Looking good, congrats Rich.

Thanks for this very informative post!