Small Fruit Cuttings

We offer a wide selection of dormant, hardwood, non-rooted cuttings from our small fruiting plants here on the farm.  All of these hardwood cuttings will have at least 2-3 nodes/buds and vary in length per variety of plant with the exception of elderberries which will have 1 node/bud due to length of their stems. 

 

A few supplies you will need for starting your cuttings include: 

• Rooting hormone (Rootone, honey, or willow water)

• Nursery pots or trays

• Soil-less media (Peat, Perlite, Coconut Coir, etc)

• Heat mats or source of bottom heat

• Plants tags and garden marker

 

The cuttings should be placed in the soil or medium as soon as you receive them or kept in the refrigerator until you are ready to start them directly outside later in the spring once the chance of frost is passed. If started indoors, the cuttings will callus over the remaining winter months and in spring will start growing. Keep the soil around the cuttings moist but not overly wet for the rest of the winter. Once you have passed your designated last frost date you can plant those your started indoors directly out in the garden There are so many great cutting videos on doing hardwood cutting. We have made two which you can check out on Youtube. The first is What to do with your hardwood plant cuttings: Part 1: Supplies, and the second is What to do with your hardwood plants cuttings: Part 2: Taking Cuttings and Starting Them. If you have questions on starting cuttings beyond what we describe here, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at the farm. 

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• Availability of stock is subject to change as we receive orders. Hardwood cutting availability on the website will be updated weekly as we receive orders.

• We offer shipping on all of our hardwood plant cuttings. At this time due to certain restrictions, we CANNOT ship any plant material to the states of CA, HI, ID, MI, OR, UT, WA or WY. We also CANNOT ship any Ribes species (Currants, Gooseberries, Jostaberries, etc) to the states of SC and WV.

• Please expect up to 4 to 6 weeks for your orders to ship, we wait until plant stock is dormant and has received the required inspections and certificates from Ag and Markets. We will email you when your order is ready to ship or pick up. 

• In the case of crop failure for any cuttings ordered before they are shipped, we will refund the full price of the cuttings.

• All sales of cuttings are final, and we will not accept changes or returns once an order is placed and/or shipped. 

• We also do no warranty cuttings that do not root because of the wide variance in management practices. If you have any issue with any of our cuttings, please reach out to us so we can help you troubleshoot it. 

• For any questions on your order, please contact us at 607-583-2467 or ortfamilyfarm@gmail.com and allow up to 3 days for us to return your messages.

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