Taking a cutting from a grafted corkscrew hazel

Hello!

I have a lovely corkscrew hazel which is top grafted on to a standard hazel stem. I'm keen to make some more (as they are not cheap, and I don't require them to be standards).

Do you think I'll be able to take a few cuttings from it, and that they would grow well on their own roots?

 

Sadly the only way is to graft a piece of your Corkscrew Hazel on to a rooted ordinary Hazel sapling. Hazel does not (or very rarely) grow from cuttings.
Grafting is not that hard though. Plenty of tutorials on line.

 

Hazel hedging is widely available to provide source root stocks for your attempts.
These folk are known to me and should oblige.:
Bare Root Hazel Hedging

 

Ah thanks @Palustris and @infradig . Funnily enough, I had designs on having a bash at apple grafting in the new year.

Now, the internet is obviously awash with guidance for grafting apples, less so for a corkscrew hazel! But I did find something suggesting chip budding makes a more vigorous plant, but that the same method used for appels with slanted cuts in Scion and root works.

Do you think now is a good or bad time for having a bash at it?

 

The best time is when you have the material available. Spring is probably better when the sap starts to rise, but it can be done now.

 

If you want to try chip budding then you are a bit late for this year because ideally you want the bud to have had enough time to harden up before winter.

I have great success with whip and tongue grafting and that's one that works well in the spring when the buds on the root stock are just starting to break and your scion wood is still dormant in the fridge.

You can also stool bed or layer hazel so getting a good low graft healed and then burying the stem partly should produce roots on the twisted bit where repeating the process can make more plants. Their is a process in bonsai called rafting that might work and produce plenty of new plants in a few years.