Black-eyed Susans are ideal for planting as a summer privacy screen. To propagate the pretty climbing plants, you can either grow the black-eyed Susan from seeds or cut top cuttings. This is how propagation works via cuttings.
How do I take Black-eyed Susan cuttings?
To take black-eyed Susan cuttings, choose long, mature, green shoots in spring. Remove the lower leaves and place the cuttings in permeable potting soil. Keep them moist, warm and bright until they develop roots and are ready to transplant.
The best time for cutting cuttings
Cut cuttings either from August or from January to March if you have overwintered the black-eyed Susan indoors.
It is cheaper to cut the cuttings in spring as the lighting conditions are better than in autumn.
You also have to overwinter cuttings cut in late summer indoors, which is often a question of space.
Cut cuttings
Using a sharp, clean knife, cut individual shoots from the plant.
Select only those shoots that are long enough and mature, but still green. Woody branches are not suitable for propagation from cuttings.
How to Grow Black-Eyed Susans from Cuttings
- Cut cuttings
- Remove lower leaves
- Place in permeable potting soil
- Keep moist
- Set up warm and bright
- Put on foil or cover
Remove all bottom leaves. They would rot in the ground. At least three pairs of leaves must remain on the cutting.
Use clean potting soil (€6.00 on Amazon). To loosen them up, mix in some sand.
The soil must be kept evenly moist, but definitely not wet. A cover made of foil or glass prevents it from drying out.
Transplanting into the pot
Once the cuttings have developed roots, plant two to three cuttings in a pot, depending on the size of the pot. You can tell that the cuttings have developed roots when new leaves form.
Put a small stick in the pot, this will make it easier to transplant into a pot or garden soil later.
Place on the balcony or plant in the garden
Since the Black-Eyed Susanne cannot tolerate frost, you may only bring the plants you have grown yourself onto the balcony or plant them in the garden after the Ice Saints.
Tips & Tricks
Black-eyed Susans are non-poisonous climbing plants that wind up trellises in a counterclockwise direction. They can also be kept very well as hanging plants on the balcony. The shoots with the flowers then hang decoratively.