Err why would you want to? They are like rabbits and are everywhere. Our Park and Rec group burn them out to release habitat back for other native plants. They grow as a moniculture preventing anything else from growing.

These guys did it with good success, of coarse, they have all the right equipment. http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/content/27/12/1272.full.pdf

OP should take note cuttings were ……. misted daily for 4 sec every 6 min.

as per link provided by Bill. That's an important factor in getting them to root.

i have rooted these... in dormancy .... in winter ... under lights.. indoors ... i THINK they can also be 'stuck' in rooting beds in fall ...

as far as i know.. you need mature year old wood.. that will not rot .. and will root ... i wonder if it can be done with fresh growth .. or even if you went far enough back into last years wood ... how you could provide enough humidity/moisture .... that the large cutting ... would last long enough for roots to appear .. which could take months .....of course.. that is the point of a misting bench ...

where did you get info about doing this in summer??? .. any chance at a link???

anything possible... so you may as well give it a go.. worse that can happen is that you fail.. but in doing so .. you will learn ...

you might profit from reviewing Dirr's manual on propagation of woody plants ...

ken

Yes, I'd either try new growth under mist or young (but at least semi-woody) under dormant/cold-season condtions.

Good point about Dirr Ken.

No, but it prevents dessication (and death).

you need the cutting to live long enough for roots to appear so that they can provide the water the cutting needs .. to live long enough to root .. full circle there ...

and with trees.. aka conifers.. it can take 1 to 6 months for roots to appear ... how are the cuttings going to get water.. in the meantime ...

you need to do some base research ... other than us ... isnt there a propagation forum???

btw .. i consider these near invasive in habit in MI .. lining hundreds of miles of roadsides .. yet it is native down south where it is the base of the cedar pots/mulch industry ...

i have a couple hundred bird sown seedlings on my 5 acres right now ... and i have no clue why anyone would need to root anything but named cultivars ....

that said ... they would be a great plant to experiment on ... as they are tough plants to kill ... other than with mens rea ....

ken