Can a branch or trimming from a Lilac Tree or Bush be rooted?
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Peggy
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My Mother's favorite aroma is fresh fresh lilac clippings. She especially loves the deep purple variety.
She asked me if she got a trimming could it be re-rooted and I wasn't sure.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Peggy P
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Yes, you can get a rooting hormone. Dip the cutting in water and then in the rooting powder and then put it wet dirt. Keep it watered good until it sprouts. I grew a mulberry bush from a stick lol
I have re rooted lilac cuttings by putting in a vase with water until it had some new roots and then replanted in ground. I will say it took several years before they had flowers.
I've never had success rooting a lilac, even with rooting hormone. If you look closely around the bush, you'll see small seedlings near the base. I've dug them up and replanted with great success!
My friend gave me a pink lilac she rerouted from a cutting and it took forever to bloom but this year, just when I expected nothing of it this spring, bingo, she bloomed gloriously!!!even a plant that I thought was dead Lazarused and BLOOMED! No explanation for the length of time or what made them blood THIS spring. Mother Nature blows me away again!
Thank you all so much for your responses. I was told the rooting hormone is great to use in wet soil, but to use a "younger shoot" as an older shoot might not root as well.
Thank you again for the responses.
I use Root Tone.