The bubble spar, also known as the devil's bush, is a strong-growing tree that produces magnificent flowers and is an eye-catcher in the garden. If you want to admire the pretty shrub in different places in your outdoor living room, you can propagate it in two ways.
How can I propagate the bladder spar?
You can propagate the bladderworts in summer usingcuttingsand in winter usingcuttings. Both variants are relatively easy to implement. It is important that you only take the cuttings and cuttings from ahe althy mother plant.
How do I propagate bladderworts from cuttings?
This is how bladder spar cuttings propagate:
- In June, cut off approximately 12 cm long, slightly woody shoot tips under a stem node.
- Remove the lower leaves.
- Let the cuttings air dry for several hours with the cut surface facing up (infection protection).
- Fill small cultivation pots with a balanced peat-sand mixture.
- Place cuttings in the mixture and cover with translucent foil (optimum humidity).
- Leave outside in a sheltered spot until fall.
- Winter frost-free at 12 to 15 degrees.
- Transplant in spring into a substrate made from garden and compost soil.
- Plant in the final location in the garden in autumn.
How do I propagate the bladderwort using cuttings?
This is how bladder spar cuttings work:
- Cut cuttings in December or January (see below).
- Fill boxes with a peat-sand mixture, peat moss or moist sand.
- Place the cuttings so that two thirds of them are covered with the substrate.
- Store frost-free and dark until spring, for example in an unheated shed or cellar.
- Air regularly (mould prevention).
- In spring, transplant the cuttings into an unheated, coverable cold frame with nutrient-rich substrate. Place diagonally in the ground. The top eye of the cutting wood must always remain visible.
- Keep the substrate constantly moist over the summer and shade the young plants if necessary.
- Plant out in the garden in autumn.
How do I cut the bubble spar cuttings correctly?
Cut bubble spar sticks about 15 to 20 cm long. The cut should be directly above one eye at the top and directly under one eye at the bottom and should be slanted.
You can cut the cuttings from both this year's and mature annual shoots of the bladderwort. The lowest parts of annual shoots with well-developed buds and short interodes are best suited.
Tip
For which plants can propagation still work
Propagation via cuttings also works for other fast-growing flowering trees. Here are some examples of plants where this variant is always successful:
– Forsythia
– Pipebush
– Kolkwitzia
– Common Viburnum
– Butterfly Lilac
– Common Privet
– White Dogwood– Black Elderberry
