Reverse taper bad?

Never too late. They will not have started to grow roots yet so transfer should be straightforward. I would wash the cuttings before putting in the new mix. No sense transferring bugs into a clean mix. Rinse well under clean water as a minimum. Bleach or peroxide are more effective and can be used to sanitize used pots and plant material so that you start with everything clean.
 
If the cow poop is sufficiently composted, the rooting should be fine.
If you can get some sphagnum moss, that is suppose to be good for stimulating rooting. You can split the cuttings in the manure and moss to see which works best.
 
Peat is used because of the high water holding capacity, and it is fairly sterile, and does not support fungal or bacterial growth to any great degree. Peat has some residual phenolic content remaining from when it was living. The phenols serve as biostats, they retard the establishment of microbial growth. Not so much an antibiotic, rather a biostat, in they only retard bacterial and fungal activity.

Fresh long fiber sphagnum from New Zealand has the highest phenol content of any of the tested sphagnum species. The sphagnum moss from northern Wisconsin and Canada has the lowest phenol content of the tested sphagnum species.

That peat discourages plant pathogens is the main reason it is so popular as a seed and cutting starter media.

Composted manure - if it has a healthy complement of microbes, can work fine as a media for cuttings, but when the microbial community is disturbed, sometimes plant pathogens will get a rapid foothold and it can go south suddenly. So results can be good, if you are lucky, or can be catastrophically bad.
 
Two weeks passed and I thought I saw new growth on the cuttings I tried to root. So I pulled them out and by the end of the day they dried up so bad that they turn to dust if you touch them... gave them a misting when I pulled them out aswell to make sure they didn’t dry up..
 
Leave the bag on longer. Until you can see root tips at the bottom of the pot or until you have fungal problems.
These do look good but often new growth is the result of stored resources in the cutting an d there are still no roots. Removing the bag at that stage will cause dehydration. Err on the side of caution.
 
Reverse taper is actually a very desirable feature on Brazilian rain tree bonsais. They look really cool with it. Let your tree grow freely for a few years and let it develop that distinctive , muscular, twisted look first, before starting branch training. In your climate you will need to grow it out in a green house. I have two decent sized trees in the ground for 10+ years that started from cuttings too. Will post pics when I dig them.
 
Between week 5 and 6

One looks like it’s starting to wilt but the other is starting new growth on the lower node!

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I tried a cutting in a mason jar, something I saw online thought I’d try it, and it turned yellow and died in a week and a half...

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same as a juniper cutting, (wanted to try something different) the tips are starting to brown and fungal problems occurred...

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only thing I can think of is I never opened the mason jar to give it fresh air? I can see through the glass so I didn’t open it. Still lots of moisture inside of it so I thought it wouldn’t need water. As for the bag I would open it every weekend, check the growth for curiosity’s sake, blow into it so it was inflated and not laying on the cuttings and close it back up again... what’s your guys thoughts?
 
@sorce they were put in a mix of 1 part peat moss 1 part perlite mix... the cow manure was before stores opened due to covid, was trying to find something to make do
 
Not too sure what to do.. sacrificial branch at the bottom is growing like crazy and soon to be quite large compared to the trunk.. should I cut it back, cut it off, or trim leaves? As for the rest of the tree I will probably do a hard cut and remove branches I don’t want... just don’t want to leave too many leaves at the top to cause reverse taper... on the bright side the dying branch I thought wouldn’t grow have a solid chute on it now!1B16227F-5627-4F1A-AFBB-9813772421C2.jpeg11B0738E-AED3-4FCA-ABFF-0CD96ED7A156.jpegF916CC9A-1DA5-44CA-B55E-1AFD8169D512.jpegD1CAB4BE-5BCC-40F9-B16B-922B3EAF7417.jpeg
 
BrazilianMoistWood said:
Between week 5 and 6

One looks like it’s starting to wilt but the other is starting new growth on the lower node!

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I tried a cutting in a mason jar, something I saw online thought I’d try it, and it turned yellow and died in a week and a half...

View attachment 314293

same as a juniper cutting, (wanted to try something different) the tips are starting to brown and fungal problems occurred...

View attachment 314292

only thing I can think of is I never opened the mason jar to give it fresh air? I can see through the glass so I didn’t open it. Still lots of moisture inside of it so I thought it wouldn’t need water. As for the bag I would open it every weekend, check the growth for curiosity’s sake, blow into it so it was inflated and not laying on the cuttings and close it back up again... what’s your guys thoughts?
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You gotta give it fresh air once in a while. Once a day is usually good. I just blow air into it then close it up right away. You don’t lose much humidity while replenish CO2.
 
roberthu said:
You gotta give it fresh air once in a while. Once a day is usually good. I just blow air into it then close it up right away. You don’t lose much humidity while replenish CO2.
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I’ve been keeping the bag blown up to the leaves don’t stick to the sides... left the bag open one night accidentally and the new growth started to shrivel a little bit... hope they don’t die
 
Just out of curiosity, can anyone translate what’s on my pot? It came with my brt freshly potted and I didn’t ask what it said when I got it! Figured I’d post here to save a new thread

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I don't read Chinese, or Japanese. Classical Japanese and Classical (traditional) Chinese share about 90% of the same characters for the first 5000 or so words. Both classical scripts are symbolic, with no pronunciation information in the character. The characters are abstract symbols representing the ideas, or concepts.

I think I recognize the characters for the number 3, men (plural) and I think the characters for plum blossoms, and bamboo. But I could be wrong, it has been many years since I looked at a Chinese language textbook.

If I had to guess, it could be a poem about the "3 friends of winter", the black pine, the Ume, and bamboo. The group has cultural significance in Japan, I am not certain of its Chinese significance. The style of pot suggests you are looking at a Chinese poem. The numeral 3 could also be a reference to the 3rd lunar month of the year, which would fall in April in the Gregorian calendar. Plum blossom time.

Since modern Chinese has dropped the use of the classical script, in favor of a simplified set of characters more amendable to a computer keyboard, there are not as many people able to read this as there used to be.

Maybe someone else will know. A few of our BNut members are native speakers of Chinese, and might have read enough of the Chinese Classical literature to recognize the poem.
 
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