9 Fruit Bushes You Can Grow From a $0 Stick

🔗 Save hundreds at the garden center — all 47 grandmother-tested recipes in The $25 Garden: https://payhip.com/b/3SfIo?utm_source... Rather start free? The 30-Day $25 Garden quick-start checklist: https://payhip.com/b/HZS9Y?utm_source... A single potted elderberry can cost from about $25 to over $40 at the nursery. The sticks that get pruned off fruit bushes every winter can grow new ones for nothing. Here are 9 fruit bushes and vines you can start from free dormant cuttings, and how to cut each one so it roots. In this video: red and white currants, grapevines, elderberry, black currants, fig, gooseberry, pomegranate, mulberry, and jostaberry. You'll learn the one cut that works for nearly all of them (slant on top just above a bud, straight across the bottom just below a bud), how deep to bury it, when to take it, and which plants need extra help, like warmth for figs or layering for slow gooseberries. You'll also hear why grapes don't need rooting powder, why black currants call for a quick check with your county extension office first, and why you should look for a plant patent on the tag and ask before cutting anyone else's plant. An honest note: not every stick will root, and fruit usually comes a year or more later. But sticks cost nothing, so push in extras. Sources & References Royal Horticultural Society, hardwood cuttings: https://www.rhs.org.uk/propagation/ha... University of Alaska Fairbanks, Georgeson Botanical Garden, currant propagation: https://www.uaf.edu/afes/places/gbg/r... Montana State University Extension, currant and gooseberry guide (PDF): https://www.montana.edu/extension/pow... New Mexico State University, Guide H-322 (grapes): https://pubs.nmsu.edu/_h/H322/index.html Ohio State University Extension, Ohioline ANR-0110 (elderberry): https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/an... University of California ANR, how to propagate blue elderberry: https://ucanr.edu/site/california-eld... Stark Bro's, elderberry plants: https://www.starkbros.com/products/be... One Green World, rooting dormant hardwood fig cuttings: https://onegreenworld.com/rooting-dor... University of Maryland Extension, growing figs in Maryland: https://extension.umd.edu/resource/gr... UC ANR Under the Solano Sun, pomegranate tree propagation: https://ucanr.edu/blog/under-solano-s... University of Vermont Extension, plants and intellectual property: https://www.uvm.edu/extension/news/pl... Magnificent Mulberries, how to propagate mulberry trees: https://magnificentmulberries.com/how... Royal Horticultural Society, jostaberry (Ribes x nidigrolaria): https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/297045/... BBC Gardeners' World, how to grow jostaberry: https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to... Philadelphia Orchard Project, edible perennial propagation, cuttings and layering: https://www.phillyorchards.org/2016/0... 🌱 Backyard Harvest — grow more for less. New videos every week.