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- Select seedlings in summer (May-June)
- Cut softwood cuttings in mid July
- Stick cuttings in propagation bark in 4” pots (other trays?) in greenhouse
- Mist cuttings until rooted
- Once rooted cut mist; fertilize and water as needed
- Rooted cuttings flower on their own in late fall winter.
- Collect pollen or pollinate with pollen from last year saved in the freezer.
- Harvest fruit in February-April.
- The more cuttings you have root and flower the more seed you can get.
- Survival rate of cuttings in GH prop is harder.
- 1 cutting give about 2 flower buds or about 12 flowers to pollinate on average.
- Probably best to use these as pollen sources.