Apple fruit trees live as long as a hundred years and even more.

Plum is the easiest stone fruit to root by cutting. Preparing Cuttings Hardwood cuttings should be collected from healthy exterior shoots growing in full sunlight, with normally spaced internodes.

Cuttings should not be collected from overly vigorous or weak shoots. Basal or central stem portions of last season’s growth have the best rooting ability. Jul 06, Cuttings.

More or less, there are two options for rooting fruit trees from cuttings: softwood and semi-hardwood. The basic technique is the same in that the cuttings should be removed with a very sharp, clean knife from a branch of the tree, and they should be at least 15 centimeters long but no longer than Author: Jonathon Engels. May 28, Take fruit tree cuttings from the semi-hardwood and softwood parts of a branch.

You'll remove the leaves and apply a rooting hormone to the open. Jul 21, Although cuttings from fruit trees are rooted less often than herbaceous plants and woody ornamentals, you can root hardwood cuttings taken from numerous varieties of deciduous fruit trees.

To root a truncheon, select a branch roughly as wide as a human arm, about 4 to 6 inches, and from 5 foot 9 inches to 5 foot 10 inches long near the end of its winter dormant season.

Sep 21, Propagate fruit trees by taking softwood cuttings in late spring through early summer or semi-hardwood cuttings in mid summer to late summer. Softwood cuttings are fragile and dry out quickly, but produce roots quickly when placed in the proper environment. Cut a six-inch softwood or hardwood branch section of the fruit tree with a sharp knife.