The propagation of plants from your own garden is not only popular and successful with experienced gardeners. As a hobby gardener, you can also clone your shrubs, so to speak, using cuttings or cuttings.
How can I propagate shrubs myself?
Shrubs can be propagated by cuttings, cuttings or sowing. Lowering plants are the simplest method and provide identical young plants to the mother plant. Cuttings require rooting powder and good timing, while sowing varies with purchased or home-collected seeds.
Can I propagate all the bushes myself?
Many shrubs can be propagated quite easily, while others require a little patience or sensitivity. However, it is always worth trying at least once. However, you do not always get bushes with the desired characteristics from self-collected seeds. However, you can get specimens that are identical to the mother plant through cuttings or cuttings.
Propagation by cuttings
Cuttings can be taken from most shrubs. Late spring and the summer months, around May to August, are ideal for propagating cuttings. If you use very young, still soft shoots, they can easily rot. If, on the other hand, they are hard and already woody, it may take a long time for roots to form.
You may want to cut cuttings several times a few days apart or take shoots with different degrees of woodiness. You can stimulate root formation with rooting powder (€8.00 on Amazon). This is often useful, especially with hard shoots.
Propagation by lowering plants
The easiest way to propagate is by planting plants. Here you just have to divert a flexible shoot onto the ground, pile it with soil and possibly weigh it down with a stone. The future young plant will continue to be supplied by the mother plant. After rooting, it can be separated from it.
Propagation by sowing
If you want to propagate shrubs by sowing, you can buy the seeds or collect them from your plants yourself. However, since the seeds contain characteristics from both parent plants, the appearance cannot always be predicted. Purchased seeds are usually carefully bred and tested. Sown according to the package instructions and you will get the bushes you want.
The most important things in brief:
- Simplest way of propagation: lowering plant
- Young plants identical to the mother plant: through cuttings and planters
- Stimulate rooting: with rooting powder
- Avoid waterlogging, it causes cuttings to rot
- water carefully
Tip
It makes sense to keep a close eye on the bushes from which you want to take cuttings for some time so that you don't miss the right time.
