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- Successfully multiplying Japanese azalea
- Japanese azalea multiply by cuttings
- Propagation by sinkers
- Tips
The Japanese azalea is easy to propagate over cuttings
Successfully multiplying Japanese azalea
Of some plants you can not have enough: The Japanese azalea - a slightly smaller relatives of the rhododendron - is one of them. This perfect for the shady garden flower shrubs can be in early summer very easily over cuttings or sinkers multiply. If you are lucky, you can harvest seed pods in autumn and use the seeds in them for sowing.
Japanese azalea multiply by cuttings
Also in the Japanese Azalea cuttings are cut in early summer, d. H. ideally between the end of May and the end of June. Do not use soft, green shoots: these are still too immature to rooted independently and would simply rot. Instead, cut half-ripe branches with a length of about 15 to 20 centimeters, which should not bear flowers. Continue as described:
Propagation by sinkers
Also promising is the method of reproducing the Japanese azalea via sinkers. However, you need a bit of patience for this method, it is a bit more tedious than the cuttings method. In contrast to this, the shoots to be rooted are not separated from the mother plant here. And this is how you proceed:
Once the rooting has taken place, you can separate the sinker from the mother plant.
Tips
Unless you remove the inflorescences, the azalea with a little luck forms seed pods. The seeds can be used for sowing. Sow them immediately or store them in a cool, dry place to be used in the spring. Azaleas are light germs, so you should not cover the seeds with soil.