Southern Research Station

Title: Girdling and Applying Chemicals Promote Rapid Rooting of Sycamore Cuttings

Author: Hare, Robert C.

Date: 1975

Source: Res. Note SO-202. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 3 p.

Station ID: RN-SO-202

Description: Shoots of 6- and 13-year-old sycamore (Platanus occidentalis L.) were girdled and treated with rooting powder 4 weeks before cuttings were taken. The powder, which contained auxins, sucrose, and cap tan, was also applied basally to nongirdled cuttings immediately before iwertion in a rooting medium. Thirteen days later, 100 percent of the girdled cuttings had rooted; they produced an average of 21 roots per cutting. Only 22 percent of the nongirdled cuttings rooted during this period; the average number of toots per cutting was four.

Keywords: Vegetative propagation, growth substances, Plantus occidentalis L.

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Hare, Robert C.  1975.  Girdling and Applying Chemicals Promote Rapid Rooting of Sycamore Cuttings.   Res. Note SO-202. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 3 p.