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Jon's bag method writ large

I've been using Jon's method for very large cuttings and for a whole bunch of cuttings I had left.  They were in borderline storage methods so I wasn't confident enough in their vitality to sell on Ebay.  I am selling some that were stored better.  Here's how I'm rooting the rest.  Some large ones were in large plastic bags.  This is a Costco rotisserie chicken bag.  Note the root at the bottom right:



These cuttings appear to be doing fine:





I put all the ones I had left from the fridge in perlite + small amounts of Napa Floor Dry and even less Peat Moss to try to root in the last 2 weeks.  There are lots of holes drilled in the bottom of these clear Sterlite containers.  I have 5 of these brewing.  Super cheap at Walmart.






I had some very large cuttings in this pot (~ 1.25" diameter by 20" tall) From Grasa's Adriatic.  I let them sit for ~ 4 weeks then submerged the pot in a larger pot full of water to float the perlite and scoop it off.  Even so I damaged a few roots.




The cuttings had plenty left, though.



I'm hoping to get fruit this year from this and at least 1 other.

I tried something similar with some large cutting. Maybe not on the same scale as yours but close enough.  



Just use a old GMC workout protein container filled it with dirt left it in my closet for a week and bam roots. The soil was damp enough for it to stick together, but not enough for water to squeeze out.

This was four years ago though. I really miss those cuttings. :(

Good idea with the submerging in water to make the perlite float.  I was worrying about how I was going to get my cuttings out of their cups without ripping off all the roots.

When it's time to float the cuttings out of the perlite I put the Sterlite containers in a larger container and run water through the Sterlite container (remember there are dozens of holes in the bottom).  If you plop the Sterlite container in a water filled container the perlite floats up quicky and tears the roots while the perlite scatters every where.

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Then when the water's deep enough the perlite starts to float up and takes cuttings with it.  I scoop the perlite out into a waiting 15 gal pot to make room for more

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When you have a cutting floating free (no longer stuck inside the Sterlite container)

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you put your hand under the roots and lift it carefully out.  Hopefully this is what you see and put into a pot.

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Eventually it gets easier

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good method

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