{"id":236,"date":"2010-02-16T18:37:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T23:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2010-02-16T18:37:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T23:37:49","slug":"rooting-cuttings-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Rooting Cuttings, Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_238\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/clonepost-overview1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"size-full wp-image-238\" title=\"A Six Foot Tall Cutting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/clonepost-overview1.jpg\" alt=\"A Six Foot Tall Cutting\" width=\"540\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Six Foot Tall Cutting<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an attempt to keep myself from being a gloomy grump this winter, I&#8217;ve been experimenting with Cuttings from various plants. My main focus has been trying to figure out a way to clone Fruit Trees. I&#8217;ve had some progress, and much failure, but without missteps, you may never taste success. I started my experiments with small cuttings, similar to cloning grapes; the results are promising at first, but the plants died from Desication, or the lack of water.<\/p>\n<p>I have been trying a slightly different method, with longer cuttings, 3 ft or longer; as well as changing the method of &#8220;planting them&#8221;. With the original experiment, I simply poured miracle grow into a plastic tote, and stuck the clippings into the dirt. This time, I&#8217;ve used Peat Moss, with a bit of Miracle Grow, and I&#8217;ve packed the soil tightly to keep air bubbles out. I next placed the whole container in a bucket of water, which will automatically water the plant.<\/p>\n<p>So after a few weeks, I have two clones that are doing well. I am hoping I finally get some plants, but if I don&#8217;t, I will keep trying with more and more sophisticated attempts&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_242\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/clonepost-detail2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242\" class=\"size-full wp-image-242\" title=\"A Detailed View.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/clonepost-detail2.jpg\" alt=\"A Detailed View.\" width=\"540\" height=\"639\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Detailed View.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to keep myself from being a gloomy grump this winter, I&#8217;ve been experimenting with Cuttings from various plants. My main focus has been trying to figure out a way to clone Fruit Trees. I&#8217;ve had some progress, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=236\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}