Cutting the cuttings: when, with what and how?
If you shorten your Schefflera or cut it vigorously cut back, you get shoots that you can use for propagating cuttings. It is important that these are healthy.
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- Schefflera: Obtain and develop offshoots
- Velvet hydrangea - Propagation succeeds via cuttings and by division
- The Schefflera can be propagated with these methods!
You can use different parts of the Schefflera as cuttings. So you can cut leaf cuttings, head cuttings or trunk cuttings. The best time to cut the cuttings is in the spring between January and March or in late summer.
Trunk cuttings are cut with a Secateurs. Head cuttings and leaf cuttings can be cut with a knife. Make sure that the cuttings are 10 to 20 cm long! The leaf cuttings should keep their long stem - this is used for rooting.
Water or stick the cuttings
So it goes on:
- remove the lower leaves from head and stem cuttings
- Leave 3 to 4 sheets
- either a glass of water or pots with Potting soil prepare
- Place cuttings in the glass or 3 to 5 cm deep in the pots
- for the glass variant: add charcoal ash (prevents rot)
- with the pot variant: pour on and keep moist for the next time
Time to root
Now it's time to wait! Depending on the ambient temperature (ideally 20 ° C) and the light conditions, it can take between 4 and 12 weeks for the cuttings to be rooted. If the rooting is successful, you will see the white root threads in the glass. With the pot cuttings you can recognize the rooting by new shoots / leaves.
Repot and care for cuttings
After the cuttings are rooted, they are potted / repotted. Repot the cuttings that you have grown in pots when they have gained 3 to 5 cm of new growth. When the young plants have grown 10 cm high, they can be fertilized for the first time. From now on it matters that to water not to be neglected.
Tips
The cultivation of the cuttings of the ray aralia in a pot is preferable to cultivation in glass, as this does not damage the fine roots when they are planted in soil.