Cuttings ?

[five bellies]

Hello all,

a question for the gardeners I am researching how to propergate a cutting Of a Nespero tree (Eriobotrya Japonica) There is one at work and they are going to give me a bit of it, although they dont know it yet It seems quite easy but it states that I need to take a cutting of half-ripe wood with a heel The half ripe bit I understand but what do they mean by a heel

I haven't before come across this term can you help,

 

Im looking forward to getting the tree on the go as in Valencia They grow all over the place and they are delicious and this one at work bears fruit .

 

Thank in advance

 

FB

Edited June 10, 2007 by five bellies

[Sportsman]

If you pull a twig away from the branch it is attached to it ttears away a bit of the branch bark attached to it. This sort of oblong attachement is the heel, so the trick is to pull it away rather than cut it.

Hope that makes sense I could draw it for you

 

Here you go, everything you ever wanted to know

 

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-propag...e-stem-cuttings

Edited June 10, 2007 by Sportsman

[five bellies]

If you pull a twig away from the branch it is attached to it ttears away a bit of the branch bark attached to it. This sort of oblong attachement is the heel, so the trick is to pull it away rather than cut it.

Hope that makes sense I could draw it for you

 

 

Cheers mate I will put the chainsaw away then

[morue]

Cheers mate I will put the chainsaw away then

 

http://middlepath.com.au/plant/loquat.php

Five bellies, even more than you wanted to know.

[captain cojones]

hi mr 5 bellies......the tree is called a nispero...we are surrounded by them here. the main centre of production in spain is a town called callosa dén sarria.(3km from me).

there are dozens of different varieties, we have a lab here that is always trying to cross different strains to produce better crops etc.

nice tasting fruit, here they are picked in may. we get sick to death of them though after a few weeks.

they grow from their seeds very easily, but take longer to fruit like this.

 

http://www.nispero.net/english.asp

 

here you go.

cheers dave.

[Bobj]

hi mr 5 bellies......the tree is called a nispero...we are surrounded by them here. the main centre of production in spain is a town called callosa dén sarria.(3km from me).

there are dozens of different varieties, we have a lab here that is always trying to cross different strains to produce better crops etc.

nice tasting fruit, here they are picked in may. we get sick to death of them though after a few weeks.

they grow from their seeds very easily, but take longer to fruit like this.

 

http://www.nispero.net/english.asp

 

here you go.

cheers dave.

Strange, but here in Australia, the loquat is considered a pest. In the early days (1900-1930) of fruit growing, they were extremely popular, due to the ease of propagation, foliage etc, almost every garden had one; but now it is being pulled out and eradicated due to its nasty habit of harbouring fruitfly.