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- Cheap and convenient: How to grow geraniums from cuttings
- Selection of cuttings and timing
- Cut and plant geranium seedlings
- Do not use soft shoots!
- This is how to properly care for your Geranium scraps
- Geranium scraps overwinter
- Tips
Geraniums are easily multiplied by cuttings
Cheap and convenient: How to grow geraniums from cuttings
Pelargonium - commonly referred to as "geranium" - is available in many different varieties and colors. While red, pink and white geraniums were common until a few years ago, there are now orange, purple and bicolor varieties on the market. All these wonderful plants can be propagated vegetatively - that is sorted - by cuttings without much effort.
Selection of cuttings and timing
If you do not have the opportunity to overwinter adult geraniums in an appropriate manner or simply want to increase their numbers, propagating cuttings is the right strategy. As mother plants are only strong and healthy plants with rich flowering, since the cuttings are de facto their clones and will have the same growth and flowering properties. The optimal time to cut the cuttings is the late summer month of August, but you can still start in early to mid-September.
Cut and plant geranium seedlings
This first step is very simple:
Do not use soft shoots!
Especially with geraniums you should not use any green and still soft shoots for cuttings propagation should be only half-ripe. These can be recognized by the fact that they have already turned brown, but are still flexible. Soft geranium shoots are prone to rot and are therefore unsuitable for propagation.
This is how to properly care for your Geranium scraps
In the next step, it is important to properly care for the Geranienstecklinge, so they grow into healthy and vigorous plants.
Geranium scraps overwinter
In contrast to the older specimens, Geranium scraps should overwinter brightly but cool at 10 to 15 ° C. The young plants are to be watered regularly, fertilization is not necessary. From February, when the geraniums are repotted, you should wake them slowly from hibernation. Gradually increase the temperature, keeping in mind that the more plants they have the brighter the warmer they are. Begin fertilizing gently about six to eight weeks after repotting.
Tips
Before putting the young geraniums out from mid to end of May, you first have to get used to the changes in the weather and the surrounding area by first putting them out by the hour and gradually expanding those times.