Today’s video is a road trip with Mark 'Right Plant, Right Place' Goodlad to Sunk Island garden centre over near Hull in Yorkshire to propagate Brassaiopsis, Schefflera, Metapanax and Pseudopanax from stem cuttings after 'professionally' hacking them off. We learn some evergreen exotic propagation tips and tricks for these rare and cool plants with the knowledgeable and obsessed @plantsmandave - Dave Jones. It's actually surprisingly easy and budget friendly to propagate these tropical style and exotic plants! Dave explains how to propagate hardwood cuttings with minimal equipment, the whole process from cutting to compost to a growing plant, how to make a cheap DIY mini greenhouse for cuttings (such a simple idea!) and why he doesn't actually use rooting hormone for his cuttings.
After the propagation masterclass we then talk about Sunk Island's big exotic plant plans including becoming a UK mail order supplier of cool and niche exotic plants, some exciting tissue culture / micro propagation news and how some of these really rare forms and varieties will hopefully soon be more widely available. To finish off we see behind the scenes at Dave's Tetrapanax incubators and some of the amazing tropical style plants in the owner Shaun's overwintering polytunnel. I hope you enjoy this hopefully light-hearted and informative plant chat filmed on a grim and stormy day (you wouldn't believe the noise of the wind I had to edit out!). As always, feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions or requests!
See our May 2024 Sunk Island HUGE plant shopping trip (Musa banana plants, Cannas, Colocasias, Hardy Ferns & Tropical style summer bedding plants) here:
https://youtu.be/5e4a5XG2bhM
Sunk Island Garden Centre Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/100036409286101/
Dave Jones Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plantsmandave?igsh=MTFoNjEyd2lieHI5bA==
Sunk Island Garden Centre Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sunkislandgarden/
0:00 Intro
0:26 Taking Brassaiopisis, Schefflera, Metapanax & Pseudopanax cuttings at Mark's Crazy Tiki Garden
9:04 Rare Brassaiopsis evergreen plant propagation tips with Dave Jones at Sunk Island
10:38 How to take winter exotic hardwood cuttings - chopping up & compost mix
14:51 Treating cuttings with yellow sulphur to prevent rotting, cheap DIY mini greenhouse, watering & how to avoid propagation mistakes
23:42 Sunk Island Garden Centre's exotic plant UK mail order & micropropagation / tissue culture plans!
24:58 Propagation tunnel - Tetrapanax root cuttings propagation & tropical style plant range for UK gardens
29:56 Bonus section - Shaun's exotic plant overwintering polytunnel - Schefflera, rare Musa banana plants, Brugmansia & more
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Thanks,
George