Twigz Nursery 50 Hybrid Willow Tree Plants. Austree grows 12 foot 1st year. Fastest growing tree. Rapid growth shade privacy

The media could not be loaded.  First I'm going to say that I deliberately ordered these from Shadyacres. 150+ of these arrived on a 24° day in a large flat rate box. Inside the box were several bundles on 9" cuttings, wrapped in moist paper towels and double bagged with 4 rubber bands to lock the moisture in, they successfully survived the freezing trip. I acquired 8 large vases (should have used 10), divided them up and place them in the window sill in 6" of spring water (NOT TAP) for a week. At the end of the first week every single cutting sprouted leaves and 3-20 2" roots, today I transplanted all of them to 150 18oz red solo cups (knifed the bottoms for drainage). Potting took 6 bags of potting soil (NOT potting MIX). Hung two 75w grow LEDs to help with the low light of the basement for the next few weeks, it wont be reliably above freezing till mid May, once its warm I will plant and cage them for the first year.So far, super impressed, every single plant took through the rooting phase, I will update as they grow.Update 4-21-19: 10 day time lapse added, on day 8 and 9 of being potted, they REALLY started to take offUpdate 4-26-19: Incredible, some of them are a 6" or more tall from the soil and bushy (12"+ overall), they are spread wider than the cups they are potted in. Every single one is still alive and thriving. The last 10 out of the 160 were badly damaged (due to packing too tight in the vases), they were sacrificed in order to pot the rest, after a few more days soaking they rooted again. After potting and a light mix of 'all purpose miracle grow' and soil soak treatment, they are as healthy and tall as the rest, truly amazing. I'm keeping the soil as damp as possible, as soon as I see dryness, they get watered. The basement is a pretty consistent 62°, if I could get them warmer they would take off much faster, but since my basement already looks like a full blown grow. I'm just going to wait for warmer weather, shooting for memorial day or sooner.Update 4-28-19: New photo added. Reorganized the grow area, added fan, heat and plastic walled off the area to trap the heat. It looks like a MJ grow and would work for it, but its just my happy little trees. Lights now set to 19h on, 5 off.Update 5-4-19: It's Starwars day, noticed some leaves falling off and tip burn due to lack of light, normal process so don't worry just keep wateering and add more light. I added 60 more watts of white (2x 4ft shop) LEDs from Walmart, leaf and branch development increased, color improved.Update 5-19-19: Brought them all up outside to start to acclimate to the weather, the last frost warning has passed for the season and I will be planting on memorial weekend. It has been the longest, hardest, coldest winter and just as bad of a spring, worst I can remember in my adult life...Update 5-25-19: All of them are still alive and thriving. Planted and soaked, they all survived the first night and looked healthy in the morning. Really looking forward to them blocking the view of the highway and keeping unwanteds out of my yard. Added root system photo, this is 7 weeks and 4 days of growth. At 8 weeks I would suggest planting but any longer than 10 weeks and they will probably get root bound (in an 18oz solo cup at least), so plan your order date about 8 weeks in advance of your plant date if you live in a cold climate. Every single plant survived, every one planted. Impressed.Update 6-28-19: 33 days later tallest tree is 31", growing 1/2" per day in NW MN, pic added.

I have grown many trees and plants from grafting and rooting over the years. We have an orchard and approx 75 hardwood trees on our property. These cuttings never rooted. I have tried for 10 weeks and even used rooting hormones. They were not dormant, they were dead. I also can’t return them according to Amazon. Be weary.

I received these clipping just over three weeks ago. They arrived fast and very well packaged in wet paper towels, plastic bags and rubber bands. I allowed the bottom 1/3 of each clipping to soak in water for just about those three weeks [used fish tank water]. All clippings developed roots and buds, to one degree or another, but many root systems were very extensive [9-10 root sprouts on each, some several inches long]. The seller advises not to allow the roots to grow too long as they could be damaged when planting. I was careful to avoid this, but do note the roots were durable and none gave any indication they would/did break when I planted. I chose to pot these plants to be better able to get them sun and water and foster growth- I'm in SE Pennsylvania so I think I can get away with planting in July or August and have them hearty enough to withstand the generally mild winters. I ordered 50 and received 54.4 WEEK UPDATE: It has been less than a month and many of the stems are showing a ton of growth, upwards of 6 inches in some cases. Four of the fifty-four did not survive the potting process, and another five survived halfway dying to come back healthy. Tried to get the best pics I could8 WEEK UPDATE: Just over two months in the pots and growing very well. I observed good root growth while moving several plants into larger containers (shown in pic).

I've placed two orders of these trees because when I planted them, I needed more room to create a privacy fence/border. I lost about 8 of the original ones because they failed to sprout. I put each one in a flower pot with potted soil and watered them twice every day. They appeared to be show great potential after a few weeks. However, their growth slowed down. I had to keep them inside because by the time they began to show roots and were ready for planting, the temperature dropped and I was afraid to plant outside. Therefore, I continued to keep them inside. I had them in front of my sliding door so that I could open the blinds each day to expose them to sunlight. Some of the trees got about 24" tall but seemed to stop growing.After a while, I did some research and ordered a plant light. Once I started using the light, the plants started showing growth again and some plants grew to a total height of about 3' before it got warm outside. I transplanted them outside and after 25 months of growing, the tallest one is a little over 4' tall. Amazingly, I ordered my second group of 50 and put them under the same light. When I finally planted all of the trees, there was little difference in height between the original 50 and the second 50. The state mowers cut down 21 of them at the end of last summer so I am going to order another 50 to fill in the gaps. I was so excited to read that I could expect 5-12' of growth in the first year, but I have not seen anything near 12'. One thing to note is that the descriptions stated the trees will grow well in shady and sunny areas. We watered these trees every day during from the time we possessed them but the growth rate has been extremely disappointing.