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- Everything worth knowing about cutting from the blue pillow
- Stimulate a second flowering
- Prevent self-sowing
- Cut back before the onset of winter
- Avoid spoiling the plant
- Win cuttings to multiply
- Harvest capsule fruits for sowing
- Tips
Through a pruning blue cushions can be stimulated to a second flower
Everything worth knowing about cutting from the blue pillow
With an average growth height of 10 to 15 cm, the blue cushion is considered to be small. In the care it does not need much and still should not be waived on the cutting ...
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When the first flower is over, the old flowers are cut away. For this you can use a standard pruning shears. The meaning behind it is that a second bloom flor is stimulated in the year. As a rule, this cut is appropriate towards the end of May.
Prevent self-sowing
Furthermore, a cut can be made to prevent the formation of the fruit with their seeds. Check regularly if flowers have already withered and fruits have already formed. The way to do that is when you want to avoid self-seeding of the plant.
Cut back before the onset of winter
If you have not cut off the flowers in May, you should still cut back during the summer and at the latest by September. This prepares the blue cushion for the approaching winter. Cut the shoots back by half!
Avoid spoiling the plant
Although the blue cushion grows easily without pruning. But in order to be able to serve greening and visual appreciation of rockeries, dry stone walls and co for a long time, the cushion-forming and ground-covering blue cushion should be regularly cut back and lighted:
Win cuttings to multiply
On top of that, a cut in the course of propagation may be necessary. Shoots for cuttings are easy to win. You should cut them off from the blue pillow in late summer. Put it in a damp soil to plant it and do not plant it until next spring!
Harvest capsule fruits for sowing
Last but not least, you can cut the blue cushion to harvest its capsule fruits with the seeds. The pods are spherical to ovate and mature after flowering in the summer. Cut them off before opening. Otherwise, the seeds will fall out quickly.
Tips
The second flower florid becomes luscious if you fertilize and water the plant immediately after the cut.