One of my chinooks got hit with the mower. Sadly it was my best plant but i decided to make lemonade and thought i'd give propagation a try.
Feeling lazy i didn't really want to bust out the perlite so i chopped two pieces from the bine and placed them in a glass of water. A week later and both cuttings have calluses on them, which means that they will soon send roots out. 100% strike rate is pretty sweet, but not unreasonable.
So to do it i grabed some 'hard' bits of bine. Then i chopped the piece into bits containing three 'nodes'. A node is where the leaves come out. Then i cut all the leaves off except the two top leaves. The two top leaves were trimmed to 50%. In the below drawing the red lines indicte where i chopped.
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I reckon you could probably get away with only using two nodes, this means that you'd be able to make more cuttings.
then i simply popped the cuttings into a glass of water and kept them in a spot that does not receive direct sunlight. It needs to be a well lit area, just can't be in full sun. I put mine above the sink.
Change the water every second day. This keeps the water fresh and oxygenated.
HANDY TIPS
Use clean utensils when cutting the bines, you don't want them to get infected.
When you do the bottom cut on the bottom node, make it as close to the node as possible and angled.
When you cut the bottom node, put it in water straight away. If you don't the cutting will suck up air causing an 'airlock', which will stop the cutting sucking up water, causing it to die.
Using rooting hormone and prop sand would give better results, but the water seems to work ok so far.
I will update as my cuttings get older.
Feeling lazy i didn't really want to bust out the perlite so i chopped two pieces from the bine and placed them in a glass of water. A week later and both cuttings have calluses on them, which means that they will soon send roots out. 100% strike rate is pretty sweet, but not unreasonable.
So to do it i grabed some 'hard' bits of bine. Then i chopped the piece into bits containing three 'nodes'. A node is where the leaves come out. Then i cut all the leaves off except the two top leaves. The two top leaves were trimmed to 50%. In the below drawing the red lines indicte where i chopped.
View attachment hops.bmp
I reckon you could probably get away with only using two nodes, this means that you'd be able to make more cuttings.
then i simply popped the cuttings into a glass of water and kept them in a spot that does not receive direct sunlight. It needs to be a well lit area, just can't be in full sun. I put mine above the sink.
Change the water every second day. This keeps the water fresh and oxygenated.
HANDY TIPS
Use clean utensils when cutting the bines, you don't want them to get infected.
When you do the bottom cut on the bottom node, make it as close to the node as possible and angled.
When you cut the bottom node, put it in water straight away. If you don't the cutting will suck up air causing an 'airlock', which will stop the cutting sucking up water, causing it to die.
Using rooting hormone and prop sand would give better results, but the water seems to work ok so far.
I will update as my cuttings get older.
