I have just discovered that something went horribly wrong with some of my cuttings that were stored in the fridge over winter.
I did not see a hint of mold on any cuttings until they were placed into plastic shoeboxes with sphagnum.
Somewhere around November 15 last year I began taking cuttings from my inground trees before wrapping them.
After cutting them I dipped just the ends into candle wax and into freezer bags they went. Each labeled freezer bag was then placed into another freezer bag containing a wrung out damp papertowel. I thought this would stop dehydration over winter. When I opened the bags about a month ago nothing looked strange about them. There was a small amount of condensation on inside of the bag containing the cuttings, but I did not think anything of it. All bags were stored in the vegetable crisper with the fridge temp. set right in the middle. I don't have a clue what went wrong as some of the varieties I had stored are thriving and some have fallen to mold. Surely I should be able too keep these cutting viable through such a short storage period, some people say they keep them in the fridge up to a year. Any ideas what I did wrong? I would like to hear what methods of storage others are using as well.
I did not see a hint of mold on any cuttings until they were placed into plastic shoeboxes with sphagnum.
Somewhere around November 15 last year I began taking cuttings from my inground trees before wrapping them.
After cutting them I dipped just the ends into candle wax and into freezer bags they went. Each labeled freezer bag was then placed into another freezer bag containing a wrung out damp papertowel. I thought this would stop dehydration over winter. When I opened the bags about a month ago nothing looked strange about them. There was a small amount of condensation on inside of the bag containing the cuttings, but I did not think anything of it. All bags were stored in the vegetable crisper with the fridge temp. set right in the middle. I don't have a clue what went wrong as some of the varieties I had stored are thriving and some have fallen to mold. Surely I should be able too keep these cutting viable through such a short storage period, some people say they keep them in the fridge up to a year. Any ideas what I did wrong? I would like to hear what methods of storage others are using as well.
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