Cut cuttings
If you would like to grow your own finger pieces, cut off leaf cuttings or shoot tips. These should be around four to six inches long. It is best to cut a leaf cutting close to the trunk so that the small thickening with which the leaf attaches to the trunk remains on the cutting.
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Make sure that you only use healthy leaves and / or shoot tips as cuttings; only healthy plants can grow from them. The best time for cultivation is spring, just before your finger aralia wants to sprout again.
Caring for cuttings properly
For the rooting, place the freshly cut cuttings in a glass with low-lime water. A light or clear glass seems to be more suitable than a dark one, which lets no or hardly any light through. Now make the cuttings of the Schefflera elegantissima in a bright and warm place, but not in direct sunlight.
Alternatively, you can put the cuttings in seed granules. This should be kept slightly moist throughout the entire process of rooting, but must not be wet, otherwise the young roots could rot. These cuttings also need a constant temperature of around 19 ° C to 24 ° C. Drafts should be avoided during cultivation.
Supply Only use water with little lime for your cuttings, as they are sensitive to lime and, if there is an excess of lime, they may not form roots well or at all. Rainwater is ideal. If there is no rainwater available, then let tap water stand for a few days. When watering, it should be about room temperature.
The essentials in brief:
- Cut cuttings about 10 to 15 cm long
- Rooting in a glass with low-lime water or in a moist substrate
- do not use dark glass
- light location required
- ideal growing temperature: between 19 ° C and 24 ° C
- after rooting, plant in humus-rich soil
Tips
Use low-lime water to water your cuttings, otherwise they may not take root. Finger aralia are quite sensitive to too much lime.
