beautiful blue spruce next door just got chopped down by "green" rehabbers.
It was 20+ years old and 15-20 feet high. Always perfectly healthy.
Most parts are still lying around (cut down today).
Can I propagate? please advise!!
I'd especially like to get one going for our foreclosed neighbor who loved that tree,
and had raised it up from a foot high spindly little thing.
Blue Spruce chopped down - can I propagate ?
Unfortunately, not. Spruces are effectively impossible to propagate by cuttings. Grafting on a seedling rootstock would work, but needs a lot of expertise.
If it had any cones on, you could collect them to see if there's still any seed in (though usually the seed is shed by Oct / Nov).
Resin
Resin, thanks. I thought it was not very likely, but was hoping to be wrong!
For grafting, I don't have the expertise, and I'd have to locate rootstock too.
But it's 100% sure that it's gone if I don't try, so I just might.
My cuttings do have cones - sets of 3 at the tips. One about 1/2 inch in length and two smaller ones.
I don't see any seed. But maybe I'm missing it. What does spruce seed look like?
Doesn't sound like cones, perhaps galls, or old pollen cones. Blue Spruce cones are around 8-10 cm long, straw-coloured: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picea_pungens2.jpg The seeds (2 under each cone scale) are black, around 3 mm long, with a papery wing 15 mm long.
Resin
Yep, a Blue Spruce. Those are the foliage buds there, not cones.
Resin
thanks again Resin.
seems this spruce will live in memory only then.
what a pity.
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