Propagating Complete propagation information is included with the cuttings.
My ambition is to help ‘green’ the world and it can be done if everyone helps. From every package of 5 free cuttings there are potentially 30,000 trees in 2 years and 3 million in 3 years! but I am not going to ship only one package, the plan is to send at least 5000 of them every year!
Some of you will feel that just propagating them is not enough fun, then grow them (in bags) and when they are about a foot tall, sell them. I sell over 1000 of them every year and I charge $7 for each tree.
While the OP-367 has been used extensively for many years in Phytoremediation projects all over the US by agencies complying with the EPA’s requirements to remove dissolved metals from the environment, the homeowner has been kept in the dark about the tree and its benefits, specially to the environment.
Nurseries do not help either. If you ask for a hybrid poplar at any nursery they will tell you they don’t carry them. Why? Several reasons: It grows too fast for their ‘repeat sales projects’. it is too inexpensive and they cannot make money on it, they know you can get a canopy over your head in only 3 years which you cannot do with a Japanese maple and finally, you can propagate it to no end! That really hurts their profits. The OP-367 grows from Zone 2 in Canada to zone 11 in the Texas Panhandle.
After you plant the trees outside, they need very little encouragement to grow. They will be happy if you just give them water every other week for the first year, and happier if you fertilize them every month or so They will look their best with 48 inches of rain yearly but it will get by with only 22 inches. They will require no attention at all after that.They can be cut down at any time (any season) and will resprout from the stumps!
I have 10 trees that I use for cuttings- (You can come and see them) grow from the stump 16 ft. in one year. I cut them down every year to about 4″ from the ground. The point I am trying to get across is that the more you trim them, the more they grow.
I sold many of these trees to homeowners who just wanted to have a quick living fence or quick shade… well, after 3 years they changed their minds and decided to keep the trees. These trees have something that makes you like them…