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From:	S B (dialup-4.238.4.96.dial1.orlando1.level3.net)
Subject:	I put green cuttings in a clean, shaded sandbox and mist them everyday.....
Date:	October 27, 2005 at 3:31 pm PST

In Reply to: Starting a plant from a cutting, (Spearmint Ficus, Japanese Maple) posted by phnx on October 21, 2005 at 3:56 pm:

As long as the sandbox stays warm, most things root fairly easily.

However, I have not ever tried to root the plants that you mentioned -- so I do not know how to root them!

Sometimes, cuttings from hardwood trees are taken in the fall and are stored UPSIDE DOWN in moist, clean sand (with the cut ends up out of the sand) in a cool/cold (but not freezing) place over the winter and rooted in following spring in a sandbox (as described above). The callises that form on the exposed cut ends help speed up the rooting process. The moist sand that they are stored in keeps them from drying out too much during the storage process. I think this process works with these plants' natural seasonal patterns -- keeps the plants dormant when they are supposed to be dormant (and going through internal changes) and lets them bud out when they are supposed to bud out.

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