Propagating cuttings is that easy
As part of the annual Cut back, you automatically hold a number of shoots in your hand with what you need for the cuttings. A perfect specimen is 25-30 centimeters long, one year old, and perfectly healthy. An offshoot is cut off 3-5 millimeters below a bud with a sharp, disinfected knife. It continues in these steps:
- Growing pots(€ 16.68 at Amazon *) fill with poor substrate, such as peat sand or standard soil
- Defoliate the cuttings in the lower area
- Halve the leaves of the upper half
- Plant so deep that 3-4 eyes are above the ground
- Pour and place on the partially shaded window seat
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While you keep the substrate slightly moist, the rooting progresses quickly. By next autumn, each cutting has developed into a vigorous young plant to be in the bed planted to become
Very easy propagation with sinkers
In the course of the summer there is the opportunity to breed a gooseberry bush with sinks. Annual shoots of the outer woody area come into question. A suitable branch is pulled to the ground. Where it touches the ground, make a small furrow to dig the sinker in here. How to proceed:
- defoliate the branch where it touches the earth
- Slightly scratch the bark with a razor
- dig in the shoot so that the tip protrudes from the ground
- The lowering element is fixed with stones or tent pegs
- tie the tip of the shoot vertically to a small wooden stick
While the mother plant continues to supply the sinker with nutrients, a new root system will develop from the wound tissue by next spring. If you feel a clear resistance when pulling, the young plant will be cut off from the mother plant and dug up. Now simply plant in the new location and maintain like an adult gooseberry.
Tips & Tricks
An ingenious gooseberry cultivation conquers the balcony and terrace. The columnar gooseberry thrives excellently in large tubs. Thanks to a height of 180 centimeters, to harvest The sugar-sweet fruits while standing comfortably. The slim gooseberry is available in many delicious varieties sorts to discover.
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