Sharing little testing. Here I have Panachee cutings that were set at the same time 15 days ago, but they were treated differently. One is just plain cutting. One is wounded as 2-3 strips of the bark were scratched so the cambium layer is exposed (just the brown part removed) and then treated with Rhizopon 0.5% rooting hormone. The third one is Also treated with hormone but it is not wounded.
I rooted all using my method you can find here.
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/the-best-rooting-method-i-found-over-the-years-6717809?pid=1282215217#post1282215217 
 

Today I poted the first rooted cutting and it is from the Wounded group.
I guess most of the cuttings from the last two groups will have roots in the next 2-3 days.
Surely there is a big differense in the three groups. We'll see what happens next. 

Hey Pen!
Looks like you have some roots poking out on all of them , best of luck and let us know how it goes!

I play scientist with my cutting too. Lo9ks like your on your way to see whats the winning method. Which method you have in mind to produce roots the best?

During the last week all cuttings treated with hormone have rooted.
No sign of roots on the plain cuttings and there will be at least another week or more before the first roots appear.
Clearly the wounded cuttings performed the best. Not only they rooted fast but we have multiple strong roots coming out of the wounded areas.
Not wounded but treated with hormone also rooted, but only few and smaller roots if compared to the wounded cuttings.
There is a big advantage when you have early roots especialy when cutings wake up and have leaves already. Now the cuttings without the hormone have leaves but no roots.
pic 2,4,5 are the wounded cuttings.

Great results, Pen.  Can't argue with that.

Thanks for showing us your results!

Another thanks for sharing you results. I wonder what the difference would be if you had done a wounded without hormone as well?

Thanks for sharing your findings. Great test and inference.

Little update:
Today I poted the last Panachee cutting. All cuttings rooted nicely but It took 10 additional days for the plain cuttings to root.

Great experiment! Thanks for sharing.

Here are the cuttings that were not treated with hormone.
One group was wounded and the other not.
Variety is Grise du Bregoux, cuttings set on 10th of January. First cuttings rooted on the 1st of feb. or 22days later. One from each group.
I see no difference in both groups unlike those that were treated with hormone.
My final conclusions are that cuttings should be wounded and then treated with hormone for fast and explosive rooting.
Pen - signing off 

 

Great work, thanks for sharing! I'm trying the wounding/hormone method on some cuttings that are giving me trouble by leafing out before rooting, hopefully it helps.

Thanks for the update Pen.

Thanks for the info

good information, thanks a lot