The objective of the present work was to verify the best time for cropping stem cuttings of plum for rooting. The experiment was conducted in Pelotas, RS with two cultivars: Reubennel and Frontier. The stem cuttings were taken from the season growth of six years old stem base in three different times: November of 1992, January and March of 1993. Cuttings from the other times were rooting in plastic tubets using rice hulls ash as substrato and kept under intermitent misting. The results showed no cropping time influence in the percentual rooting of Reubennel cultivar, which was low in each determination. However, the cultivar Frontier presented a greater percentual of rooting in November (94.9%), followed in March (34.8%) and in January (25,8%).
Plum; rooting; time
