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How to propagate wineberries and tayberries...
January Man
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in Fruit & veg
Hi all
A little while back, some bad weather caused a bit of damage to one of my wineberry plants and one of my tayberry plants. It resulted in me having to cut off a stem. I put it into water hoping I could propagate a new plant from it. I'm totally new to propagation so I was totally guessing.
I watched a couple of videos today; albeit for different types of berries as I could find none for wine/tay. IN those videos the people put them straight into compost/soil to propagate rather than into water.
So I'm wondering what I should do and if anyone has any tips on how to propagate from a broken stems of tay and wineberries.
Cheers
Max
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The usual way with this family of plants is by layering, where you pin a stem down to the ground and it forms roots at that point. However, you have nothing to lose by trying to root sections of the broken stems and I would snip them into about 20cm lengths, dip the lower end in rooting hormone powder, remove all but one uppermost leaf and put in a gritty mix of compost. Keep out of direct sunlight and putting a plastic bag over the top of the pot may help, as may daily misting with a fine spray of water.
I find that my tayberries throw up underground suckers, not with the profusion that raspberries do, but I usually see a couple come up every year.