The best time to cut cuttings
If you have a Christmas star To grow from cuttings, you need a healthy plant at home maintain.
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Propagation is not always problem-free even under the best of conditions. Many cuttings don't take root even if you've done everything right. Cut Therefore you always have a few more cuttings than you actually need.
The best time to harvest cuttings is spring. The plant should already have withered.
Prepare the cutting properly
Cut cuttings about eight to ten centimeters long. Put the interfaces in hot water for a short time or hold them over a candle or lighter. This closes the incision and no more toxic milky juice can escape.
Remove any lower sheets. If the top leaves are very large, cut them in half with scissors. Then there is less risk of the cuttings drying out.
Give Rooting powder to the lower side. This increases the likelihood that the cutting will sprout roots later.
Plant cuttings and continue to care for them
Prepare pots Potting soil before. It shouldn't be too firm and it should be able to store water well. Make sure that the pots have a sufficiently large drain hole so that no waterlogging can build up.
Insert the cuttings about three centimeters into the Substrate and press the earth firmly.
Make them
- warm (from 20 degrees)
- bright
- not too sunny
- protected from drafts
Repot the poinsettia cuttings
It may take time for the cuttings to take root. You can tell that the reproduction has worked by the fact that new leaves are forming.
After rooting, pot the cuttings of your poinsettia into larger pots and care for them like adult plants.
Tips
Inexpensive poinsettias bought in the supermarket are usually not suitable for propagating them. Offshoots grown from such plants are common sickly and come in very quickly.
