So, I have a couple of cuttings I want to try to start outside now.  They are in a 60/40 mix of perlite/potting soil in a 1 gal nursery pot.  Should the pots be in full sun, partial or shade?  How about a humidity chamber (ziploc bag/upside down palstic cup)?

For summers in Houston, put them in the shade and there should be enough ambient humidity.

i have 4 Conadria EL in a baggie. might try a fat cutting in 1 gal directly... again. we are humid here this summer. hope it will make it in shade. 

My next outside cuttings will be in 50% builders sand and 50% sphagnum peat moss so that I will have good drainage. I think my last mix held to much water.

Here is a picture of the first set of cuttings I rooted from UCD in 2006 in the Clear Lake area.  I started them in February (picture from June) so I had them in dapple shade.  I put the sticks in the containers filled with a 50/50 Perlite and Vermiculite.  Now I root in my normal growing mix.

I let my cuttings get a few hours of sun.  They root as well but they aren't so difficult to move in to the sun later.

all my slow growing cuttings died this yr. i left them to too much sun. now i'm playing safe and keeping them under shade until they show good growth before any amount of sun. i found out that front porch gets about 4-5 hrs of sun. i guess that was too much for the cuttings that didn't have good growth. they all dried up. 

I took some branches I pruning off of my Negronne and Buried them in the ground leaving about an inch above the soil, two out of three rooted and are growing now, that was back in April.

This is one of the potential problems I see with a global forum... there are some instructions which are specific to certain geographic areas.

In Houston (and probably most of the Gulf Coast) it is about as humid as most rooting chambers.  Partial shade is equivalent or better than full sun elsewhere.  As an aside, last year we vacationed in Galveston.  I had several of my newly potted cuttings in Air-Pots on the deck of the beach house.  By the the time we left Galveston, several of the cuttings had roots extending <1" from the holes of the containers.  They were still white and showed no signs of air-pruning until we made it back to the Austin area where they dried out very quickly.

So many different ways and more to come. Here is mine: i put my cuttings in a bucket of water for 2 or 3 days and a couple of aspirins tablets then stick them in the ground anywhere in the garden out of the sun.Cover so that only an inch is showing,and keep it moist, anytime during the growing season till the end of july. Anything later i use pots so that they could be brought in for the winter sooner.

James,

Humidity we have ..but what about rain?  Should they be covered to be protected from the rainfall during rooting?

That's funny James, needing to get the pots to Austin for air pruning to really work.

Protection from the rain depends on the rooting medium.  I did not cover.

I received 2 pomegranates in the mail and one had a small branch broken off. I poked it in the dirt with the mother plant and here we are not 2 weeks later. Houston weather...gotta love it!

I live just a little north of Atlanta Ga. and I stuck 10 sticks of Celeste in 50/50 vermiculate and perlite sometime in april probably quart size pots now all but 2 are growing strong.  I have not gave up on them they may yet root.   I have already up potted 3 of them.  Have done nothing to them but we have had a little rain this year.

goss