I have been online, particularly YouTube, looking at rooting methodology for cuttings. Two that peaked my interest were the three cup method, championed by Dave on the forum consisting a planting in a clear cup with drain holes. A clear cup tapped on top pressed into service as a humity dome creating a mini, macro humity chamber. Then that system is placed in a colored cup to serve as a sunblock for roots that would develop.
The second system, seen on YouTube, is a simple pan i.e. Lasuania pan with a cover. You would layer a pea / pearlite mix, I believe a ratio near 80% pearl to 20% peat. You would put a layer of that concoction and then lay the cuttings down horizontally. Then another layer of the peat / pearl. Moisten it down ever so slightly put a top on it and as Ron Poppell would say "set it and forget."
I set some cuttings I received about a week ago to see which would root first. To my surprise. The pan method produced roots where as the tree cup method hasn't. So I put the ones in the pan in cups today so they will finish out and start leafing out. The cups I am still watching. Now I will add the slight possibility that there are roots in the cup method. I didn't take any cuttings out to test the hypothesis.
In the pan I had one cutting that developed roots on every node. Don't know how you deal with that. I planted the whole thing hoping a new stem will push its way up by Spring.
This is brought to you for your educational consideration and of course comments. Will try and post some pictures when I get to my MacBook Pro. Hard to post from the iPad.
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