Watering, fertilizing, cutting and more

Plant ornamental hops

Commercially available Potting soil is completely sufficient for the ornamental hops. Since the plant does not like waterlogging, put a drainage layer made of old pottery shards or coarse gravel on the bottom of the pot before using the ornamental hops. As the name indoor hops suggests, ornamental hops are not hardy plants.

Then give it a light and warm place by an east or west window. The ornamental hops cannot stand the blazing midday sun. Since he's cats poisonous place it out of their reach.

Water and fertilize indoor hops correctly

The ornamental hops need a moderate amount of water in the summer months, so they should be watered regularly, but not too abundantly. Regular fertilization, about every seven to 14 days, is also recommended. If you use a fertilizer containing phosphate, the hop-like inflorescences glow particularly intensely.

In the winter water the ornamental hops only enough so that the root ball does not dry out.

Repot and cut the ornamental hops

If you repot your ornamental hops in spring, you can do it right away cut back and use part of the pruning as cuttings. The ornamental hops can withstand a strong cut, which means that they grow nicely bushy.

Propagate indoor hops

Ornamental hops can be propagated quite easily with cuttings that you get from the annual pruning. Put the eight to ten centimeter long shoots in a pot with a mixture of peat and sand to root.

Keep the substrate slightly moist and pull a transparent plastic film or bag over the cultivation vessel. If you put several cuttings together in a container and prune them a few times, you will get a pretty bushy plant very quickly.

The essentials in brief:

• easy-care
• Water moderately in summer, little in winter
• Repot and prune in spring
• not hardy