This is a RdB cutting i seem to have started upside down. It is, nevertheless, doing what can be seen in the pic. I haven't uprooted to explore what might be going on under the soil line. Would this become a tree, or ?

Well you can carefully take it out and turn it sideways and leave the growth stick out and it will really take off. I always thought it would be cool to see if one could grow a tree upside down. B uh t if its your only tree of RDB....... PLANT IT SIDEWAYS. IT TRULY WILL GROW QUICKLY FIR YOU. thats the way i grow fat cuttings

I had this same problem. I waited too long, plant yours sideways now! lol

Can a cutting survive upside-down?
BY THE WAY. LOOK AT THE NODE. IF IT LOOKS LIKE A SMILE YOUR GOOD. IF ITS A FROWN ITS UPSIDE DOWN. This first pic is a frown so its upside-down. Second is a smile.

I have to agree with the others. Its best chance of growing normally is if you turn it sideways.

Just leave it. It will make a conversation piece

Upside down

That is one confused tree.

Okay, let's play. I de-potted this little fella and it was, in fact, upside down. But notice how the cutting seller labeled the cutting--he or she wrote on the wrong end. So, I am not a COMPLEAT moron; I had help!

Four nodes total on the otherwise pristine cutting, the two that had been under-grounded are swollen and ready to do...something. So, I chopped this puppy in half: one to go horizontal as per the (hopefully serious) commenters above, and one with just the two nodes to a simple 3-cup treatment. See engrossing photos, following

E Unum Pluribus

Yes, I was serious about potting it sideways, lol. It actually seems to give the little tree more surface area below for roots to grow from.

Hi,
Watch out for slugs ! Damn creatures they just cut such a bud on one of my cuttings. I'm sick of them !
Man, there is plenty of grass around, why did they have to go for the tender shoot !

This happened to a couple of my Kadota starts this spring. Consider yourself lucky - I couldn't turn mine around and they died. Tried planting them sideways because upside down grew tons of roots bit it would NOT leaf out. When I reported sideways I think it got a bit to wet and it went south!

I doubt there are any roots after only four days or so of this re-grooving, but a doubling of the surface area of a clean cut, and of the cambium exposed to a bit of moisture...I like the odds

I never thought of planting a cutting sideways, I bet you could get a bushier tree that way, or no?