How To Propagate Dawn Redwood Trees With Cuttings Made Easy!

[@paulbroussard8835]

One of my most favorite trees on the planet, I bought my first one at the beginning of 2024 and it is beautiful I am saving this clip because I am going to try this method😊

[@DrBaconCommunity]

simply awesome... i have a ten year old girl that I have sold.. this is great! now I can keep a daughter!

[@keithlatham8173]

hi dave. i just bought a few seeds from yourself thank you, so i thought i would watch a few of your youtube vids which i have done now but like a few comments from other watchers, please look at your sound because it is very low and this is on all your vids. the vids you are showing are very helpful, please keep them coming, many thanks keith.

[@devon12346]

Thanks for the video I followed it about 3 months ago and so far I have around 15 rooted cuttings. I found I have to be really careful moving them into individual pots because its really easy to rip the roots off so when checking I scoop my hand under the soil and pull the whole thing up

[@dognparrot1629]

I've just bought 2 dawn redwoods and 2 japanese cedars... hopefully propergate 100s with a bit of luck.... Great vid...

[@indiantinamorals5791]

Thank you ever so much for this video, very much appreciated. I shall try this today and let you know how the cuttings worked. Again "thank you"

[@Vandz]

Hi there, You're welcome. Just keep them somewhere warm but not in direct sunlight. Water plenty and you should be good to go.

[@indiantinamorals5791]

@@Vandz You are the best, thank you x

[@jacobsoto2111]

Thanks I've been thinking of getting a Dawn Redwood.

[@Treegrower]

Very helpful, I'm going to use your method for my Coast Redwood tree.

[@stevepalmer03]

Does this method work for coastal redwood?

[@thegreenmanalishiyamadori371]

No​@@stevepalmer03

[@true7500]

Hello can you please show me results of those redwoods that you propagate in video

[@blakespower]

I wonder if I should have planted Dawn redwoods 16 years ago on my partially flooded property, I planted Bald Cypress instead, oh well they are native to the United States so I guess they will do better in the long run. but I did just but one Dawn Redwood not many sunny places left though all the bald cypress are like 35 feet tall now

[@logmeindangit]

Hi, I have a California Redwood that's about a century old in my yard, Pacific northwest, and want to clone it. I am thinking of air layering a branch that is low and reachable. Will a horizontal branch, if I can get it to grow roots, complain about being turned vertically to become a trunk? Also, what is the most reliable and easiest way to clone this big beast?

[@ankualex]

how us the tree, bro

[@TheMonstrosity4]

Can you do another video, sound quality was hard to hear

[@ianhargreaves4978]

Dave my dawn redwood lost its leafs last autumn and left the branches on with no leafs should I have cut them all off

[@indiantinamorals5791]

It is a decidious tree, so it does lose it leaves every autumn

[@letmebereal]

Da-ah!

[@ابوالليثعربيلبنانيوبكلفخرناصري]

Hi mate, I have recently purchased Juniper bonzai seeds, and I have seen many methods of how to grow them from leaving them in moist tissues for 3 weeks in the fridge to just stick them in a pot with sandy soil and water them. Any suggestions? Many thanks. Maz

[@uniteamerica9446]

Thanks for the video. There's no like button for me. There's only a dislike button. I would like your video but I can't. I've seen a couple of other videos like that. I'm not sure if it's just on my PC or if other people are having the same issue.

[@rhombifer566]

No fear they grow this tree all over the world 🌎 it will be here long after we are gone

[@Kwood10]

What kind of soil ?

[@howtogrowdragonfruitplant7849]

Nice. So no rooting powder is needed?

[@indiantinamorals5791]

I used to use rooting powder when I started gardening, never knew if it really made any difference really. Now for the last 20 years, I never use rooting powder, and I still get great sucess "without" it, so I wouldn't even bother wasting your money on it, that's just my opinion though! Hope this helps!

[@howtogrowdragonfruitplant7849]

@@indiantinamorals5791 It does! Thanks for the answer:-)

[@IAmHumanJake]

Little hard to hear but great info. Have you tried airlayer? Also thanks for even making a video on this. Not alot of KZbin videos for the dawnredwood

[@teddybear9723]

Only 1 person got this tree in my place,last two months i do air layering of 3 branch,following a perfect instruction given,but after 2 months and little more I check it,but it all fails,the owner also didnt allow to do again.I feel so bad,all the branch that im doing were dead

[@IAmHumanJake]

@@teddybear9723ah man. Maybe it's not possible then?

[@teddybear9723]

@@IAmHumanJake ..It will be possible,I think the owner and me were not match.

[@michaelbahr7267]

I have a 2-year-old giant sequoia, I would like to propagate this spring; what would you say would be a Good "Warm temperature" new subscriber left a like

[@Vandz]

Hey Michael, Cheers for the sub. I haven't really propagated giant sequoia from cuttings. I think I did a couple in the past and one took, but haven't really looked into it too much. I don't think they take as cutting so well. Definitely worth trying this with them and taking off most of the foliege. I normally focus on growing them from seed as it's easier then the dawns are from seed. The giant sequoias are so root space hungry like the coastal redwoods though. Always need to plant them into very large containers or control them in the ground. Dawn's roots don't need as much room to grow out. You'll have to let me know how you get along. I'll do some experimenting with them in spring.

[@michaelbahr7267]

@@Vandz I have a couple 4 month old seedlings I started in my basement. I had 7 but I think a mouse got to a few. And i think i let the other stay too dry. I'm spraying them 2 times a day now. It's 25-26° C with the rest of my tropicals. But I have more seeds in the refrigerator the I'll be planting about February.

[@AIRMANBEAR]

IS IT BETTER TO DO IT AFTER THE NEEDLES FALL OFF IN THE FALL??

[@Vandz]

Yes, you can do it both ways but there is greater success around March. Good luck 🤗

[@mcmerlla]

Have you tried propagating giant Sequoia using this method? My folks have two trees I can potentially propagate.

[@AIRMANBEAR]

GIANT SEQUIA WONT SURVIVE 5 BELOW ZERO FARENHEIGHT

[@thornhillcleaningservices7912]

Im in zone 8 and have a giant sequoia, what soil mix do you suggest?

[@jeffburgess9982]

This is a dawn Redwood not a giant sequoia

[@seinfeldsvanseinfeldsvan5176]

what soil are you using?

[@indiantinamorals5791]

Good question, I would like to know that also?

[@andrewbetrosian2784]

Wish I could show you mine, much bigger and grown from seed. have two.

[@mkloppel]

Thanks a lot for this info dude. Can I ask if you ever take cuttings late summer? I live in NYS and sell these trees as seed grown seedlings 6-12" tall. But I am terrible at making cuttings. I have many double and even triple leaders now and plan on chopping those leaders and making them cuttings. Is this even viable late summer early spring?

[@Vandz]

Hey Mike, Early spring as the buds break as Hardwood cuttings. Or as I've shown here as soft wood cuttings early June. You'd be better off waiting until March now. I actually find they grow stronger as cuttings then from seed.

[@caseypauley5253]

When do you think you will get more redwood trees and do you have giant sequoia I’m gonna get some red dawns but would really love the others to plant with them

[@caseypauley5253]

Never mind I saw sequoia but I can’t have anything shipped to my house why?

[@daz464]

It's that the same with other trees to get cuttins

[@Vandz]

Yes very similar practice. Though each tree species vary in regards to if they'll take or not. Example, Japanese maples do not take well and I'd only use hardwood cuttings. Dawn's are the only trees that.. So far will easily take using the growth from this year. Softwood cuttings.

[@georgeschannel6168]

You should re-record it when the wind is not blowing

[@marksandor2830]

Next time zoom in on cuttings and a less windy day.

[@JoeCangelosi-e3r]

Good job but tons of wind noise , hard to concentrate on what youre saying !

[@askjeevescosby2928]

Wouldnt a cutting give you a overall worse looking tree. Itll always grow branches at the bottom because its a branch and the top wont look the same as one planted from a seed.

[@Vandz]

Hey, they grow just the same. The larger trees I'm cutting from are from cuttings.

[@coltendavison9431]

i'm worried if there are any wild dawn redwoods left, i'm trying to find vids on wild dawn redwoods, but to no avail, so are these trees extinct in nature? are they no longer a natural tree, only a urban plant? are they finally gone from nature? are the only wild trees finally dead? plz tell me! i love these trees along with there larger and taller kin, i'm just worried if there are natural ones left

[@rhombifer566]

Yes there is

[@thetobyntr9540]

The last remaining population found growing in the wild is in china, and they've been propagated by the locals in a nearby area for centuries if I remember correctly. You can find a few sites talking about them if you use a search engine.

[@rhombifer566]

Yes there is Google it not too difficult they live in China

[@timteevin4517]

What ? I can't hear you.

[@Vandz]

Then move onto another video. What do you want me to do with that comment? Go back in time and stop the wind? 😂

[@caveman4christ822]

Your hand measuring ten inches tho lmfao hahaha more like 3 lmfao

[@Vandz]

I said inches instead of CM but thanks for your input. I'll sleep better at night that you told me that.

[@atanaca]

That is not the Redwood tree, it's a Metasequoia

[@Vandz]

They are clearly called "Dawn redwood" trees. What you mean to say is "This isn't the coastal redwood or giant sequoia evergreen redwood trees" which is a pointless comment as I never said it was. It's like saying the wollemi pine isn't a pine or a ladybird isn't a bird. But thank you very much for your brilliant input.

[@atanaca]

@@Vandz Thanks :-) I've just said it's METASEQUOIA

[@thefuhrer183]

Hello sir How to germinate mahogany tree seed at home Would you tell me please

[@deersbrook4485]

It's a shame you have now closed your business. Hope all okay.

[@jeffburgess9982]

Sorry bro but I've been doing dawn redwood cuttings for years and your method is wrong, you take the cuttings in winter when the tree is dormant that way you don't have to strip off all the leaves and it's easier on the cutting to recover. Then you gently slice off some of the bark and dip it in rooting hormone and plant it in a coarse potting soil in a mini greenhouse like a Nano dome to keep the humidity in so it Roots quickly

[@Vandz]

I do it both ways. Winter and sumer. Both work for me. So it's not "wrong"

[@jeffburgess9982]

@@Vandz I'm in arborist and we propagate several hundred of tree cuttings and the best success is when the tree is dormant and lost its foliage. I mean you took a cutting with foliage on it and you strip it all off so you might as well just wait till the tree is dormant and you don't have to do that.

[@Vandz]

@@jeffburgess9982 I'm spreading my work load and I do mention on the video that you can do that.

[@Warriori2i]

whispering propagator presents....huh..?

[@Vandz]

Okay👍

[@rhombifer566]

Can you talk a little bit louder

[@paulmorris6177]

Why do all of these tutorials that have to do with Dawn Redwoods take place on the single, windiest day of the damn year?! Can't you do it INSIDE or wait a day until the wind dies down?! Sorry...next video...

[@Vandz]

Can't you just not comment and move on quietly?

[@paulmorris6177]

@@Vandz No. That's the problem with people today (especially in the bonsai community). They're so concerned about being polite, demure and PC that they don't say what they mean and give honest feedback. People are SOOO invested with their plants, that they've become almost incarnate and if someone criticizes a plant, it's as if they've insulted them, their wife/spouse/partner/child and they take GREAT offense to it. They take criticism SO hard and SO personal that it almost crushes their egos and their souls! I am a blunt and to-the-point type of person (probably comes from my career in the military). If I give my opinion, it's honest and how I fell. It's not wrapped in a lot of niceties and politeness. MANY people that deal with bonsai's are meek, mild, polite, soft-spoken, "Mr. Rogers"-like, almost-feminine. I am not. I say what I mean and if that offends you, oh well. If you do not want open, honest, frank (and yes blunt) comments ON THE INTERNET, then don't post. Stay off of it. You're not going to get 100% of the people fawning over what you have done. "Different strokes for different folks". YOU may think that what you have created is the greatest thing since Michelangelo carved David, others may not think so and if you post on the internet, where the ENTIRE PLANET can see what you have done, don't expect 8 BILLION people to agree with you.

[@Vandz]

@@paulmorris6177 😂 Definitely not reading this. You need to get out more. It's just a video on KZbin. Move on with your life.

[@paulmorris6177]

@@Vandz I’m sorry you’re so thin-skinned. I’ve done more in my life than you’ll do in 5 lifetimes!

[@rhombifer566]

Can you talk a little louder

[@michaelvargas2359]

Your very handsome

[@botchman5947]

Just cut half the leaves off. Use hormone rooting gel. And keep in a cloning tank. Do t do whatever this guy is doing.

[@Vandz]

Don't do what I'm doing? Why do you say that?

[@thetobyntr9540]

That's basically of what he did; he cut most leaves off, then he used rooting hormone and put them in the substrate. Trees were rooting out of branches way before anyone came up with specialized equipment for it (that would work, but Id rather make something out of some plastic bottles than use pay $50 dollars to have most cuttings still die. They need to stay hydrated so most leaves need to go off, redwoods have a different system for moving water than angiosperms and it isn't as efficient so they need more prunage, and assuming you have a good soil microbiome then there will be beneficial fungi helping it under the surface when it comes to nutrient uptake and they keep it from getting infected. One thing that you might actually want to do different is use some mycorrhizae.

[@jomckeag4482]

Why would you post such a poorly produced video? Perhaps the content is useful but how would anyone know given the overpowering and overwhelming sound of the wind? How hard would it have been to reshoot on a better day?? There’s many videos on this particular topic that are easily more useful