So there's this Willow tree at my parent's house.
And, I'd like one of them in my yard.
But, I don't see any seeds on it.
And there are no baby trees sprouting up around it.
Is that because there is only one of them and it needs one of the opposite sex to procreate?

How do I get one of these trees in my yard? I'd be willing to take care of it in a pot for a few years if I have to.

This mountain hag came to my house one time and took "cuttings" of a bunch of bushes and flowers, so I'm guessing she knows how to do this; but I don't know how to get in touch with her.

8/15/2006 12:01:02 AM

too much work

ask your pothead friends how to split a tree

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8/15/2006 12:07:47 AM

You just reminded me.
All I had to do was google search "clone weed" instead of "clone tree."

Thx potheads.

8/15/2006 12:19:13 AM

hahaa

why don't you just go to home depot and buy one? they're only like $15 for a 6 foot.

8/15/2006 8:39:50 AM

lol

Thx potheads.

8/15/2006 8:49:33 AM

I am not sure if this would work for a tree, but I do know that you can take a limb of a hydrangra or a gardenia and stick it in the ground with a brick to weight it down. My dad has gotten several bushes to grow from limbs that have rooted.

Its best to wait till Fall to do this and you have to baby it. It also took 4 years for the gardenia bush to reach a good size

8/15/2006 8:54:52 AM

willow trees are really beautiful and all, but the roots will search forever until they find your water lines, and then they will break in and fuck everything up. so unless you have a stream in your backyard, you ought to find a new tree

8/15/2006 9:20:07 AM

^

8/15/2006 9:48:35 AM

I'll just keep it in a big pot then.
Or maybe make a bonsai tree out of it.

8/15/2006 11:03:28 AM

willow can grow from a cutting

8/15/2006 11:05:24 AM

nm i was thinking about willow oaks.

8/15/2006 1:58:17 PM

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"Is that because there is only one of them and it needs one of the opposite sex to procreate?"

8/15/2006 2:01:16 PM

my aunt has a big ass willow tree in her yard in marion VA

8/15/2006 2:05:07 PM

TakeRoot®

8/15/2006 2:24:30 PM

anyone know how much dogwoods cost?

i wanted to plant a dogwood tree somewhere and find it again when i'm like 40 or something and see how big it is

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8/15/2006 2:26:48 PM

Can't you just find one? Most of my trees have little trees springing up all around them.

It is supposed to be much easier to transplant in the fall.

8/15/2006 3:02:12 PM

8/15/2006 3:15:54 PM

just cut off a branch and stick it in a pot. keep it really wet for about two weeks.

You can also stick it in a bucket of water, when roots appear, pot it up and you're good to go.

8/15/2006 3:23:26 PM

Are you talking about a Weeping Willow or Willow Oak? There's an important difference.

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8/15/2006 3:24:13 PM

Weeping willow.

8/15/2006 3:29:36 PM

Take a cutting from the tree, buy some TakeRoot, put it in a glass cup or jar or short vase, mix water and TakeRoot, leave it behind the sink faucet near the window so it gets some sun but not too much, leave it alone. Eventually, it will sprout roots, THEN pot it until you're ready to transplant it into the yard. This is the best way. You can even do more than one in case one doesn't make it. (My Mom should have been a Botanist because she has such a great green thumb. She's taught me all that kind of stuff.)


The traveling roots are a potential problem but can also mean a more stable tree.

[Edited on August 15, 2006 at 3:48 PM. Reason : ]

8/15/2006 3:36:39 PM

seriously, with weeping willows, you can almost just throw the branches on the ground and they'll grow. Practically weeds.

8/15/2006 3:40:35 PM

^True, but I am a firm believer in TakeRoot and suggest it alot!
"Weeping Willow (Salix spp.)
The willows are fast growing trees that often expand
beyond their original growing space. Roots affect underground
water, sewer and septic lines. The willow’s brittle
wood is susceptible to ice and wind damage. Trees are shortlived,
from 20 to 30 years. Willows are very tolerant of
wet and poorly-drained sites.
Willow is not a good tree for residential settings because
of its large, lateral size. If a weeping form is desired,
select from weeping cherries, mulberry or birch."
http://www.utextension.utk.edu/publications/spfiles/SP512.pdf

8/15/2006 3:48:41 PM

I used to do it to my grapefruit trees. You can take the bark off a limb and attach pete moss to the exposed part of the limb, after a few weeks you could cut it off and plant it.

8/16/2006 12:37:31 AM

you dont really need the rooting hormone, youll just need more patience

rooting hormone is good tho, its not terribly expensive

8/16/2006 12:54:14 AM

there are much better trees than that. Thats all people plant around here aside from those horrid bradford pears.

8/16/2006 1:51:21 AM

it's better to root in soil, yes, it can be a pain to mist 1 or more times a day, but the shock of the eventual transition from water to soil is too much for many cuttings, imo especially woody cuttings

8/16/2006 4:41:39 AM

Drill a hole in the tree, drop your shorts, and go to town.... you may have a new tree in about nine months....

8/18/2006 10:54:32 AM

take a knife

cut a circle around the tree trunk until you hit the wood(you gotta go through the cambium)

about 1/8" deep

go completely around the tree


it'll sprout from there

works great on bradofrd pear trees!!

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8/18/2006 10:58:21 AM

^^0/10

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8/18/2006 11:01:00 AM

cut a sliver off a thin branch. expose about 1/2", then take a styrofoam cup with a hole at the bottom and thread the branch through. pack with loose moss. wait.

the branch will sprout, cut it off the tree at the base of the cup, peel the cup off and you should be able to plant that bad boy in the ground.

8/20/2006 11:10:02 PM

^^^hahahahhaha yea i can vouch for that

youll get exactly what you need out of your bradford pear

8/21/2006 1:36:22 AM

I R SMRT

8/22/2006 2:13:29 PM

bethaleigh has definitely had the best idea. You can put a cutting in a medium and it might root, but some rooting hormone most always gives better results.

Willows are particularly easy to propogate from cuttings, and since it's a woody plant, your best bet is to get one and cut it just beneath a leaf or shoot, then before you place it in the rooting hormone, remove that little branch or shoot, wet that portion of the cutting, cover it in hormone, tap off the excess, then place it in a good potting medium.

Try to do all this as quickly as possible to avoid drying it out. Once it's in some good soil, mist it once or twice a day and keep it out of direct sunlight.

Make sure it stays just a little moist and in a week or two it should begin to develop roots. Once the roots are well developed, you can put it wherever you want and begin to water it normally.

8/22/2006 11:46:06 PM

i'lll ask my dad for ya, he's a forestry professor here at ncsu

8/23/2006 8:32:13 AM

^whoa whats is name?

8/23/2006 9:01:36 AM

^^^if u gonna do that, cover the plant and the pot in a plastic bag

its alot easier than misting and alot less likely to fail due to water loss, u can also get rid of all but 1 leaf

8/23/2006 9:03:14 AM