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- Increase Bloodcurrants: That's how it's done!
- The propagation through cuttings
- How to cut cuttings for propagation
- Lower blood currant
- Cut shoot or set
- Tips & Tricks
Increase Bloodcurrants: That's how it's done!
Bloodcurrants are quite easy to multiply.Either cut cuttings or lower a shoot. Through these forms of propagation you get plants with the same characteristics and flower colors as the mother plant.
The propagation through cuttings
How to cut cuttings for propagation
Summer cuttings are cut in July or August. Winter cuttings cut on a frost free day in winter. Choose a year-old shoot that is healthy and stands well in the juice.
Cut it directly under a bud from the shrub. Divide it into several pieces of about ten centimeters in length, which you provide below with a sloping and top with a straight cut. Make sure that there is at least one eye on each piece.
The cuttings are placed with the lower end in the potting soil, so that the eye is covered. Then press the soil and carefully pour the cuttings with the sprayer of the watering can.
Lower blood currant
Like all berry bushes, you can simply multiply the blood currant by lowering it. Bend a healthy shoot on the ground in late summer.
Fix it with earth or small stones. Also suitable for fixing tent pegs or wire loops. Cover the branch with soil. But make sure that the shoot tip remains free. Spray the surface with water.
In the spring, small offshoots have formed, which you can easily separate and plant to the desired location.
Cut shoot or set
An old gardener trick recommends using a razor blade to scratch the sunken shoot before covering it with soil at intervals of about ten centimeters. Alternatively, you can wrap it with copper wire.
At the scratched or hardened place the sap accumulates. This stimulates the shoot for rooting.
Tips & Tricks
If you multiply your currant by cuttings, be careful not to damage the small bits. Drill a hole in the ground with a thin pin before setting. Then do not hurt the cutting while planting.