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Hi everyone,

I'm removing a 20 foot corkscrew/curly willow (Salix matsudana) for a customer next week, it's a bit of a mess but alive.

I wanted to to save some of it and try to set off some new trees for replanting elsewhere but there's a big mess of contradictory advice on line.

I've grown willow with some success from 6 inch wood cuttings before but it took a  while and produced short bushy specimens,  I want to use the largest woody starter cuttings I can so I can get to an established tree sooner.

Does anyone have any experience/advice on the best way to do this? e.g. woody vs non-woody stems. Maximum stem size and so on?

Thanks.

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  • wiggly willow as i call it... hardwood cuttings in winter the usual method... i used a pot of sand with loads of pencil length bits inserted and most of them rooted... maybe a bit late but worth a go, even just pushed into the ground you should have some success.. just make sure it is shaded and doesnt dry out...just as an aside, if it isn't in leaf yet your local florist might well buy the usable pieces, I took one down once and made more from selling the "waste" than I got paid for removing the tree lol

  • You're looking for stems around the same size as a pencil (it'll be a bit longer to allow for shape), but it should be around the same thickness. It's a bit late to reliably do hardwood cuttings but if you're not looking for vast numbers just cut some lengths and put them in a jar/tub/bucket of water!

    Once they've put out roots wean them into some ordinary multipurpose compost in a shaded spot- they'll look crap for a while but will grow away. Usually the hardest thing about getting willows to root is making sure you put them in the right way up!

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