Haven't heard of Soursop being propagated from cuttings. Getting 50% (so far) looks good. I have one growing where it shouldn't be and being smothered by other plants. Using it for cuttings might be the way to go. Good luck with yours.

I am keeping my fingers crossed. As you can tell from the pic that the small cutting is not out of the woods yet. The leaves are still droopy and not healthy looking. However I noticed it is putting out 2 new small leaves. Hopefully this will continue. I will keep you updated and will post more pics as needed.

Thanks.

Looks like a good start,Hope you have good luck. I will try to airlayer a couple of Atemoya's.

Update: I checked on it today and it looks like it might just make it.

Cwes, it's certainly a great idea to propagate through taking cuttings. To me, it seems simple and easy to do. I just got the idea after reading an article about preventing lost of plants through taking cuttings. This year, I've taken quite a few cuttings from some of the plants in my yard. The ones I've successfully propagated included Hibiscus, Bottle brush tree, Wax Jambu, Jacaranda tree and Crepe Myrtle. I'm also trying to do a Rambutan and possibly a Magnolia tree, but we shall see.

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Yes,I love propagating plants through cuttings. I've had lots of success and few failures. So far, the most challenging yet is the soursop. I've had to check on it everyday and mist it with water daily.

Here is the update on the soursop cuttings. It looks like it may survive.

The leaves do look a bit yellow. But at least they're still there. I wonder if the pot was clear plastic whether you'd be able to see roots growing. Worth thinking about if you try some more.

Yes I was wondering if there are roots now. I almost got rid of it together with the other totally dead one when I lifted both out of the pot and noticed that there were no roots present. So I put it back in the pot, left it outside in a shaded area for 2 days. However, I noticed the leaves were drooping so I brought it back in, hoping that if it wants to live it will perk up and if not, well sayonara. Lo and behold the next day, it perked up. So here is the current pic taken today.

Here is an update pic of the soursop today 11/29/17. Good news I've noticed roots coming out from the bottom of the pot.

Hi C Wes how is your soursop doing now. I am also growing a soursop from cutting and I have roots. I'm wondering how long it will be before I should plant it out. But I'm thinking maybe next spring. (I'm southern hemisphere) so it would have about a year (hopefully ) growing in the pot.

Hi Saltysea, my soursop is doing very well. It has more leaves and roots. Unfortunately, I cannot plant it out in my backyard as my Zone is 8b. It'll surely die. However, I plan on trans planting it to a bigger pot comes spring.

Thanks for the reply C Wes. Even where I am (not sure about US zoning) but I am on a marginal climate between warm temperate and sub tropical..its touch and go whether it will grow successfully outside all year. So maybe i will continue to keep it in a pot for now.

Don't they get really huge though?

They don't get really huge, up to about 8 to 10 metres tall. My biggest have only been 3 to 4 metres, but it would depend on variety, soil conditions, etc.

Thanks Tropicbreezent. 3 or 4 metres would be awesome. Which variety do you have Tropicbreezent and how old are they? I'm guessing with a name like that you are somewhere tropical so probably have the right conditions to grow them.

Here is an update on the soursop cutting from last year. I took it outdoors and now it is in an area where it gets filtered morning sun and seems to be adapting well.

Is that a seedling, or the cutting you were talking about earlier?

Oh yes it is the same cutting from last year. Thanks for catching it.

It's moving along quite well.

Yes it is. I am just enjoying looking at it now considering what it went through and how labor intensive it was to keep it alive. But now its outside and doing so well. But don't know how it goes from here.

Your warm weather will be winding down now, time to plan how you're going to protect it. Good luck.

It'll stay in my kitchen for the winter. Thinking about having a green house in the future.

What an effort, that little tree will take of soon, hang on.

Hope so, we shall see.

An update of the soursop cutting from summer 2017

You've done well. The way it's going you'll need more than a green "house", you'll need a green "mansion". :)

did you use any rooting hormones like IBA or IAA?

Yes, I used IBA.

Nice job. In the tropics most fruit trees are propagated using this method. The only exceptions I remember growing up were citrus (propagated thru budding) and avocado and mango thru grafting. All the other stuff including soursop was thru cuttings dipped in IBA and stuck into wood dust in massive propagation beds made out of concrete with chicken wire tops covered in plastic for keeping the humidity. And the success rate was great.

I recently rooted 2 cuttings. Both took 3 months before showing roots but both rooted well.