Anyone experienced in "stenting"?

10 years ago

Yesterday I was at the supermarket and the lady in the florist section let me take a few clippings she was gonna throw away from a bouquet someone else bought. They don't have "tail", of course, and they're small, they have 2-4 scions each.

Since I don't have any form of rootstock rooted, I remembered watching this video a while ago on "stenting", where the roots and graft union form at the same time, so I improvised and went to a park where I know a large bush grows and took some cuttings.

The thing is, if I recall correctly, moisture would ruin the union of scion and stock. But apparently that's not a problem in the video below...

Maybe it's because they're actually grafting and not budding? like, it's a tongue graft, I think.

I did not remember this bit and so I was thinking of budding them while they root... but it might not work, now.

I f anyone has tried this let me know your experience please.

The video

Thank you!

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cl15dangn
10 years ago
http://file.scirp.org/Html/15-2601440_46076.htm

Here is a good experiment someone did on stenting florist roses...this is very informative and I very much recommend
bethnorcal9
10 years ago
A few weeks ago I did some attempts at stenting. I cut some DR HUEYs that one of my roses died back to, and I budded some eyes of the florist rose QUICKSAND. Wrapped them with that Parafilm tape and potted them in a blend of sand, peat moss, perlite and an organic mulch-like stuff. It'll be awhile til I know if they go or not. So far tho, they look pretty good. Keeping fingers crossed....
rosaceae thanked bethnorcal9
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10 years ago
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Best of luck, Beth! I've seen the photos you've shared of Quicksand, it's stunning!

I think what I was trying to get going was Blue Curiosa, but that's just a guess. The rarest color I've seen in the supermarket near me is Coffee Break, but they usually disbud them. The other day I did see a whole dozen bouquet with their buds on, but I decided I need to practice more before spending on that. I haven't actually gone to actual florist shops, but I doubt they'd have anything fancier, let alone labeled.

In the end I tried to bud it too, and stuck the original cane in peat too, just in case.

In this season I have excellent success with pure peat moss, I'd say about 90%, and the varieties that have been fussy to root have been too in other mediums, so I think it is just how those are...

I bud about three of the scions onto a quite thick cane of Mrs Dudley Cross, which has already rooted for me several times, although it is very slow to develop a good root system. But like I said, I had nothing else around.

The original cane rot kinda fast, the budded stick is looking alright, but I doubt it'll make it. Still, like you said, fingers crossed!
ndev0524 Nick
10 years ago
We did stenting on red cane dogwoods in a plant propagation course last semester. We did it with splice, Veneer, Whip/Tounge, Saddle, and wedge, graft along with 'T', 'H', and Chip budding. The cuttings of dogwood were taken at the same time and were actually the same plant for the most part. In my experience from the test we as a class got a lot less success than grafting/budding to a rootstock as the rootstock doesn't need as much nutrients to heal the union and grow roots.