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- Multiply Boxwood - How to succeed
- Increase boxwood by division
- Vegetative propagation via cuttings
- Propagation by head cuttings
- Propagation by cracklings
- Tips
Propagation over cuttings is easy and promising
Multiply Boxwood - How to succeed
Buchs can be found in almost every garden - sometimes as imaginatively trimmed solitaire, but more often as bedding or hedge. However, since you need between six and eight plants per meter for a book hedge, such a venture quickly becomes expensive - and all the more so, the bigger the plants are. However, if you have a healthy mother plant, the need can be covered by own propagation. Cheaper it is not!
Increase boxwood by division
Some boxwood varieties, such as the popular edging book 'suffruticosa', can be better propagated by division. Naturally, this works only for older and thus larger specimens, which are already ten or more years old and have a correspondingly grown rootstock. The best time to divide the rootstock is late summer (September) or spring, preferably before budding. And this is how you proceed:
Each plant part should have about two to three shoots. It is best to first plant the individual segments in a pot with a calcareous plant substrate and then place the young plant at its new location only when a vigorous root system has already developed. You can also put them directly outside in a partially shaded to shady place, but then the default rate is higher.
Vegetative propagation via cuttings
Also very uncomplicated is the propagation by offspring or cuttings, which you can make in the months between June and August.
Propagation by head cuttings
The so-called head cuttings are the shoot tips of the boxwood, which you cut off for multiplication with a length between 15 and 20 centimeters. Then pluck the leaves in the lower third of the cuttings and put the cut end into a rooting powder. Then plant the small offshoots in individual plant pots, pour them thoroughly and keep the moisture level high, for example through a plastic cover. However, if you want to provide the boxwood offspring in this way, you need patience: it takes about 18 to 24 months for the small cuttings to become young boxwood plants.
Propagation by cracklings
The propagation by means of cracking works much faster:
The following spring, the crackling was to develop the first tender shoots.
Tips
The seed substrate should be germ-free before planting. For this, fill the substrate on a baking sheet, sprinkle it with a little water and heat it at 150 ° C for 30 minutes in the oven.