Hello Dan, I know you use peat pots to start your cuttings from the baggie method.  My question is..... after you've tranferred your cutting to peat pots, when do you pot them into 1gal container?  I started all my UCD cutting on April 3rd without using the baggie method.  I Just went staight to peat pots.  Some have spider root forming all over and some roots are jumping out of the pot!  I do see a few roots coming through the peat pot but when do you move them to 1gal pots?  I'll post some pictures later this afternoon.  cheers,

I used peat pots too the same thing, I just took them out of the peat pot because I don't like them and there was mold growing on mine, due to lack of space they were pretty close together.  I potted them up when the growth started to slow down, I still have some in the peat pots as they are slower, so basically between 1/3 to half full of roots I moved them.  I also did this because most of mine are infested with FMV and I wanted to give them a nice vegetative kick with the extra soil volume.  I will have to post pictures later, they are looking a little funky right now, however they have rooted in nicely and I think will be ready to go in the summer time for a good bit of growth.

Thanks Chivas.  Mine are doing great.  I did see mold after 2 weeks but it went away.  I am thinking of waiting till I see a great deal of root mass before I pot them up.

Dennis,

I use the "peat pots in plastic cups"  technique mostly for those cuttings that I really want to have an almost definite chance of success. My rooting success is usually quite high without using the peat pots. However, with this technique it makes it even higher.....

I usually will start my cuttings in baggies until I see a tiny root emerge.  Then I place the cutting in the damp peat pot (3 inch) with my rooting mix (50/50 perlite/UPM) and then place the peat pot into the plastic cup (12 oz).  I think it is important to put it into a plastic cup and I do believe that the size of the plastic cups matters. Going directly to peat pots will work.....it just will take a bit longer.

Roots will grow through the walls of the peat pots and out the bottom and try to grow within the rooting mix that is between the bottom of the peat pot and the bottom of the plastic cup.  You can safely transfer it to a one gallon pot at that time. 

The beauty of this technique......NO TRANSPLANT SHOCK. This works especially well for cultivars considered to be  "hard to root". Also, the peat pot  has a wicking action that will help prevent a "too much moisture" condition in the rooting mix.

Dan
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