Bottom heat can also be used to induce and speed the rooting of hardwood cuttings of deciduous plants. Purple Sandcherry is an extremely popular landscape plant. This plant does not do well from softwood cuttings, unless you have an intermittent mist system. They can be grown from hardwood cuttings, but the percentage that actually root, is usually not high. However, if you make your cuttings as described the web page on hardwood cuttings of deciduous plants, tie them in bundles, and place them right side up in a bed of coarse sand equipped with bottom heat for a period of 14-20 days, the cuttings will develop callous and be ready to plant out with a much higher degree of success.
Some plants are extremely difficult to root using other methods.
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