Cutting propagation of Common Privet (Ligustrum japonicum) problems

[nemodot]

Hey all,

i took cuttings from this plant to make clones.

After 2 weeks most of the plants are losing leaves and I am worried.

They are on a tray wrapped in plastic. It's winter here in the southern hemisphere and they get very low amounts of sun. Window looks west and there's a building so they get about 1 h of the limited sun of this time of year (think late November for northerners).

- Should I give them light at all?
- Should I keep the humidity at 100 % like they are now?
- Any recommendations??

 

[Oliver Buckle]

We have a privet hedge that has overgrown, I took some lengths out dead straight about four feet longto try and get it to thicken up further down. A week or two later I was putting a board along the edge of a bed and chopped one of the privet pieces into 9" lengths to hold it in place, now, a month or so later, they are all sprouting. I think you would have trouble stopping privet cuttings from taking no matter what you do to them. It is amazingly hardy, I have cut a very overgrown hedge back to ground level and had a decent hedge back by the end of the year.
By the way, my bits were about the width of my little finger, no leaves, straight sticks.

 

[cpp gardener]

The warmer and brighter you can make them, the faster they will root. As Oliver said they are usually pretty easy to root. Not Coleus easy, but pretty reliable.