PLANT TREES with STEM CUTTINGS: Complete Guide. Multiply your FOOD FOREST ABUNDANCE, Prevent EROSION

[@ssstults999]

This is my favorite gardening-type video channel because the information is abundant and simply explained with about all bases covered in one concise video. Thank you for sharing your wisdom (that's more than just knowledge) with everyone so freely and happily.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! This means a lot to me! 😊 It gives me great pleasure to share all of this.

[@StephanieS-v5y]

Yes! I just grew my first elderberry shrubs from your exact method this year! Thanks for sharing! People dont realize how easy certain species are to propogate....and how much money they are wasting when they buy potted plants/trees/shrubs. As a landscape designer and installer, i always have the best plant success from smaller specimens and growing from whips. Almost a lost art now with people thinking they have to purchase everything. Propogation can be easy, cheap, and fun!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you for sharing! And all the best with your landscape designs!

[@peterellis4262]

I got willow and elderberry introduced on our site by taking cuttings from roadside willows and elderberries. Totally free ;) It's a very valuable approach to expanding your plantings.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

It sure is! 😊

[@JelliinaCup]

Thank you so much for what you both share, brings a lot of hope to this gen z's heart 💙🐦

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

You’re very welcome! 💚

[@mariamosher5053]

Thank you Sr. It’s beautiful. 🤗🙌

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

You’re welcome, Maria!

[@anthonyburke5656]

Traditional Basketmakers in Britain, they cut their cuttings they select for using to make baskets, then plant them densely in water meadows, just cutting them when they want the canes to make the baskets. That way they use green cuttings to make the basket, much easier basket making with green cuttings as compared to dead dry cuttings which have to be soaked thoroughly to use.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Yes! Thank you! We hope to experiment with basket making too!

[@ssstults999]

Brilliant! No need to buy a thing! I'm going to try and find local wild elderberry and do this. Thank you immensely Mr Willows Green 💚

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

You’re welcome. You may find wild thickets along creek banks or in generally wet areas. What’s great is you take a few cuttings, which does not negatively affect the thicket in the least. As if you were a dear foraging a little.

[@AlmostaGreenAcre-zs5eu]

I enjoyed the video very much ❤Thank you for sharing. I don't have a creek here but was very interested in the rain garden. Do you have any video where you made that area?

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you! I wasn’t making videos when we came here, so I only have photos. I’ll see if I can put something together. I can certainly make a video about making rain gardens in general. 😊

[@AlmostaGreenAcre-zs5eu]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture That would be swell if you did make a video about it. I live on approx 3/4 of an acre and the property has a slight slop from the west to the east. I was thinking a rain garden would work nicely because I already have a great deal of moss growing in the section. I have no trees on my land yet and full sun with a tight budget.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@AlmostaGreenAcre-zs5eu yes, a rain garden would probably work. The fastest way to get more trees by 'doing nothing' is to establish 'NoMowZones' - areas where you don't ever clear. Just let stuff grow. You will soon see saplings growing there, either planted by the animals, or because the seeds have been there dormant for years. And then, of course, if you can get your hands on cuttings, then you're good!

[@AlmostaGreenAcre-zs5eu]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture Thanks so much 🙂

[@Ismael-o9h]

Thankyou you have blessed me may the Lord bless your hands in Jesus name❤

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you Ismael. God bless you as well.🙂

[@barbsoddznendz1896]

Loved the video Stefan. I want to try this with the one nectarine tree I have. If I have several more nectarine trees, maybe I can get some fruit before the squirrels do. They can't possibly eat them all!

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you Barb! And you are right about the squirrels! I've never tried with nectarines, because I don't grow them. Maybe next year. Try using branches you would have to prune anyway: Branches that are crossing other branches, or crossing through the middle of the canopy.

[@begoodbebetterbeblessedix3766]

Love how easy this is. I do have a question. Moved to a 2.10 acre area. We have 1 peach tree that thrived last summer and produced tons of peaches. However I noticed some of the bark from the ground up to around my knee has lost bark on one side of the tree. I don't know if I can save it nor know how. Also I wonder if I can do this with my peach tree with cuttings? I tried multiple ways trying with the pit to grow peach trees, but none has taken. We also have walnut trees n wonder if I can do this with cuttings too? PS. Going to plant pear, apple, cherry trees this coming year. Some for my family n friends, the rest for the deer when fruiting arrives. Thank You for providing KZbin generations the skill and knowledgeable know how's sir. It's most worthy and rewarding to know that many more trees will be provided abundantly and for free. God bless and Merry CHRISTmas

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Your peach tree bark was probably nibbled on by animals, try to get a small spiral tree guard for it. I’ve never tried stem cuttings with peach trees because I’ve never planted them, but I hope to plant some next year. For walnuts, you could always give it a try. The great thing about this method is if you’ve got trees with branches, it costs you nothing either in time or money to give it a try - also with walnuts, if you have other walnuts growing in your area, you can allow vegetation to grow freely in some areas and you’ll likely have squirrels. That’ll plant walnuts for you. You just have to keep an eye out for the saplings.

[@begoodbebetterbeblessedix3766]

@WillowsGreenPermaculture appreciate the help with suggestions immensely. TY!!! N yes, we do thankfully have squirrels. Unless it's skunks, rats, or coyotes, we enjoy nature at its finest.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@begoodbebetterbeblessedix3766 You're welcome bgbbbbd! Love your channel name! And love your attitude to nature!

[@GrandmomZoo]

❤❤❤ I plant my trees like this. For my fig trees I cut away some outter bark, spit on the part going in the ground for rooting hormone, stick it in the ground, wait. ;)

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Really? Spit makes a good rooting hormone? Love it! 😊It wouldn’t surprise me!

[@GrandmomZoo]

@WillowsGreenPermaculture I saw it on one of the channels I follow, I think Danny and Wanda fron Pecan Grove aka Deep South Homestead. I am a free food forrester here and will not buy products when I have free to use. :)

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@@GrandmomZoo absolutely. Nature gives abundantly, and as we all share our knowledge and talents, then we just all create wonders and joy together!

[@AlsFoodForest]

another masterpiece 🙂 i planted over 100 pussywillows last year of red, black, and regular varieties and two varieties of elderberries this way. the only way to go 🙂

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you Alsan. 😊

[@janew5351]

I am going to try elderberry, Bob Gordon, variety. Merry xmas to you and your wife.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you Jane. Merry Christmas to you to too!

[@tracybruring7560]

i love willow. i feed them to my meat rabbits. i start new trees every year

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

That’s wonderful. I hope to have goats one day. This would feed them!

[@IMbirdieful]

Can I ask what area you’re located in? And are basket willows native to your area? I’m from southern Ontario

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Basket Willows are native to, among other areas, the Carolinian zone, of which all of Southern Ontario is part. I’m north of Belleville.

[@IMbirdieful]

@ amazing! In my area, our riparian zones are entirely dominated by black locust stands. I wonder if planting native willows would do anything to compete and re-establish.

[@doinacampean9132]

Quick note, salix alba is white willow (alba means white). (And yellow willow is salix lutea).

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you Doina! So this one must be Salix lutea. Because it’s very yellow. I’ll have to look the two up at the same time and compare. I knew about alba being white, I just figured the common English name didn’t match well with the Latin. I find in French, the names sometimes are almost identical to the Latin. It’s like in music, do you know what the French for French Horn is? Corne Anglaise - which means English Horn! Haha. - You triggered my other obsession, along with gardening, which is language. 😊

[@doinacampean9132]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture :) same with French key / cle anglaise :) Languages are fascinating. For example, verde means green in more than one language :)

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

@ yes! I love to discover all the similarities between languages!

[@Veritas-dn6ss]

Willows are super easy to propagate by simply shoving cuttings into the ground as you show. What would be VERY helpful is if you can find a method to root hardwood cuttings of apple, plum, and pears. I have tried literally a few hundred times over the years with different rooting hormones, different substrates (from sand to cococoir to vermiculite/perlite, etc) and with bottom heat. Zero success. If you can do this please share how.

[@WillowsGreenPermaculture]

Thank you for your question Veritas! As mentioned in the video, I have done a few hardwoods, for instance, Sycamore, Chokecherry, and Manitoba Maple. I have been waiting for my plums, apples, pears, quince, hazelnuts and pawpaws to get established before experimenting with them. This winter, I will be pruning many of them, and I will start the experiment. Likely in February. So stay tuned! 😊

[@Veritas-dn6ss]

@@WillowsGreenPermaculture As a tip, apples, plums and pears only root from callous. If we simply shove a cutting into the ground before there is any callous, the part in the ground simply rots. So first we need to have the cuttings develop a callous over the bottom to have any chance. Good luck and please report any successes!