A sunflower isn't enough? Then take action and fulfill your wish by multiplying the sun rose! You can use several methods to do this. They are spoiled for choice
How can sunflowers be successfully propagated?
Sunflowers can be propagated by division, cuttings, sowing and planting. Division is the easiest method, while sowing requires attention to cold germination. Provide sufficient frost protection with brushwood or straw.
Division – the simplest option
Dividing the perennial is considered the simplest propagation method:
- in spring or autumn
- Dig up sunflowers over a large area
- removing coarse lumps of earth, if necessary using a water jet
- Cut the roots into several pieces
- each section should have shoots and buds
- Plant and water sections
- how to care for adult plants
Let the cuttings root in a pot or glass
Cuttings are best cut in summer. Then it is warm enough so that the cuttings can still root well. The cuttings can be rooted in a glass of water or in a pot with soil.
This is how you proceed if you decide to take potted cuttings:
- Cut 5 to 6 cm long side shoots
- Cuttings should be semi-woody and have at least 3 pairs of leaves
- remove bottom pair of leaves
- Place 3 cm deep in pots with potting soil (€6.00 on Amazon)
- keep moist
Sowing: Be careful, because the seeds are cold germinators
Sowing the fine seeds is also not difficult. You should particularly note that the seeds are cold germinators. Sowing seeds in the living room is therefore not worth it. It is better to pre-culture on the balcony or terrace and then continue to culture in a cooler room such as the bedroom.
How to do it:
- Harvesting seeds in autumn
- drying
- sow from March
- Fill bowls with sowing soil
- Sow seeds and cover them very thinly with soil
- press and moisten
- place in a cool place between 5 and 10 °C (e.g. balcony)
- as soon as cotyledons are visible, place warmer (15 °C)
- plant from June
The lowering method
Lastly, you can propagate the sun roses using planters. To do this you need a he althy mother plant. Choose a beautiful shoot and pull it to the ground. There it is covered with earth and fixed with a stone. The shoot tip should look out of the ground. Keep moist and separate when the shoot is rooted!
Tip
The freshly propagated specimens have poor winter hardiness. Therefore, you should definitely protect them with brushwood or straw in the first winter.
