You just bought a single plant and planted it as a specimen in the hope that it would produce an endless supply of bright purple berries in its location? But only a few of the berries appeared? Then you should propagate your love pearl bush and plant the grown specimens next to the current solitary ones!
How to propagate a love pearl bush?
To propagate a love pearl bush, you can cut cuttings in autumn and plant them in potting soil or sow the seeds from the berries. Cuttings should root in a cool, bright place, while seeds need a warm location to germinate.
Cut cuttings, pot and grow
The propagation of the beautiful fruit is child's play if you time it right and know how to proceed. Propagation via cuttings or cuttings has proven to be particularly successful. Try this method in the fall!
How to propagate cuttings:
- Cut off 10 cm long, he althy shoots without berries
- remove the bottom leaves
- Pot with potting soil (€6.00 on Amazon) + prepare sand
- Put up to 3 cuttings in the ground
- Cuttings should protrude 1 to 2 cm from the soil
- Moisten the soil and keep it moist
Now place the cuttings in the pot in a bright and cool (but frost-free) place. Make sure the soil does not dry out. In spring you can put the pots out on the balcony, for example. The cuttings should be rooted by summer and can be planted out or repotted.
Sowing seeds from the love pearl bush
There is also the option of growing the beautiful fruit from seeds. In principle, sowing can be done at home all year round. It is important that the seeds can sprout in a warm location and that the young plants receive plenty of light.
You can harvest the berries with the seeds in autumn. Ideally, you should not sow them until spring. This is how it works:
- Soak seeds in water for a day
- Prepare the seed tray or pots with sowing soil
- Sow seeds 1 cm deep
- Keep substrate moist
- Germination time: 14 to 21 days
As soon as the first leaves appear, the plants can be pricked out. Then it's a good time to repot them. Only later should you get into a bucket, if bucket posture is the goal.
Tip
You should keep the poisonous fruits or seeds from the love pearl bush where small children and pets cannot access!
