Frank:

1. Take blueberry cuttings when they are fully dormant, in the months of December or January. Choose the healthiest, clear canes, about 3/8 inch thick with 3-6 buds or so. Pack them in barely moist peat moss in a dishpan wrapped in a plastic bag, and place them in a cold environment like a garage or shed. This will allow the cuttings time to callus.

2. In early spring, say about mid-April where you live, dip them in Rootone and line them out in soil well-prepared with peat moss. Bury about 2-3 inches into the soil, buds up of course.

3. You should get about 80% takes, maybe more.

Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA

I came across this oregon state univ site about blueberry propagation: http://berrygrape.oregonstate.edu/blueberry-propagation/

it says (for hardwood cuttings): "Cuttings made from wood greater than one-fourth inch in diameter donÂt root as well"

it does not say much Softwood Cuttings. does anyone have experience?

Softwood Cuttings

My experience is with rabbiteyes. Cuttings from near the tips, but I cut off the very tips (immature leaves). Cuttings maybe 4-inches long, dipped in hormone, rooted in clean sand and some (~1/3) peat moss (the baled kind). I use a low but wide 10-gallon nursery pot maybe 16-inches wide and only half fill it with soil. I make the planting holes with a pencil to keep from scraping off the hormone powder and then jostle the whole pot and push down the soil in between cuttings to firm the soil against the cuttings. I place a pane of plexiglass over the pot to keep in moisture and put the pot in enough shade to keep it from oveheating. This procedure eliminates having to have a mister, but plant more than you need as not all will root.

Interesting. Thanks. I'll pick up some of that hormone.