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RE: Potting up my new Steemit Facilitated Elderberry cuttings
Whenever I pot cuttings that are not 'same-day fresh', I have a tendency to want to cut off the old 'stump' at the end and so it's a fresh cut end with a fresh start with the rooting powder. My feeling is that the old end is kind of dried out and scabbed over. I have no scientific basis for that though.
There are many different schools of thought on that. I feel that it is best to give a fresh cut at the base. Most things it seems to work well for but some plants require a healed end to be planted, sort of like cactus. One reason for making a new cut can be to eliminate possible pathogens or funguses/molds that might attack it. Rootone has a fungicide in it for that reason.