Take cuttings in January, place them in a trash bag, place the bag in the shade, vary the weather from sunny to rainy, 38F to 90F, wait 10 weeks, and, presto, you get roots. Who knew it was so easy to root cuttings.

Looks like I have to try this neat way of rooting cuttings. Makes me want to apply for a green card. Wish it was this straight forward in canada.

it is for real, i was just in California on vacation and i stoped by jon's place to check out his amaizing looking garden ( fruit forest ) and pick up some goodies. he said check this out and opened the trash bag. wow there they were , a pile of cuttins with roots and no special attention to them and he gave me 1 to pot up. so rooting  is easyer than we think ,hmmmm or is it ?

LOL

kevin

Well, I opened the bag again today. (I had "planted" the ones with roots.) More have roots. Now it occurs to me that the ones with roots have two things in common: 1) they are all at the top of the pile, and the top of the bag and 2) they all have the bottom end higher than the top end, though not vertical. Perhaps there was a reason that people used to bury them for the winter, upside down? I see some more experiments in my future.

Jon,

The cuttings rooting in the bag is very interesting. I still store my cuttings the old fashioned way; that is buried upside down in a sand pit until planting time.
Most usually have small roots forming and the top which is in cooler deeper soil is pretty much dormant. This method is so easy for me as I don't have to check on any thing until planting time.

At present, it appears that I have at least 95% takes and I have lost no varieties.
Half are in pots and half in the open ground. The ones in pots will be moved to their permanent location in the open ground later on. The ones rooted in the open ground will be used for cuttings in the dormant season.

Jack

How do you keep track of the varieties- do you write on the cuttings?
Christy

Each variety is cut and goes in a separate, labeled bag (before beginning the next); and each bundle rooting in a bag has a name tag, and when they are planted, each twig gets a name tag. If I miss tagging something, then it gets tossed, or labeled as "no tag" or unknown. Somewhere I have a pix of them all piled high in my driveway.

Jon mentioned "Perhaps there was a reason that people used to bury them for the winter, upside down?".
The reason is the same when people place down-side down in clear glass in rooting mix with heating pad below. In both cases the down-side (rooting end) is near the source of the heat.