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- Cut off the offshoot of the cherry laurel and use it yourself
- Cut off the offshoot
- Cuttings from tears
- Cut off the offspring from the main shoots
- Insert cuttings
- Tips & Tricks
Cut off the offshoot of the cherry laurel and use it yourself
Cherry laurel can be easily multiplied with home-made offshoots. Even if the offspring takes some time, it is always worthwhile if you need many plants or wish to have offspring from a vigorous and particularly beautiful mother plant. The propagation by cuttings is the most uncomplicated way and succeeds with our tips completely unproblematic.
Cut off the offshoot
As an offshoot, the shoot tips of the laurel cherry are cut. Separate the cuttings two or three leaf axils below the annual shoot. You can recognize the biennial wood by the dark color of the bark.
Cuttings from tears
From the lowest one to two shoots of the branches, you first make leaf breaks. These shoots are simply torn off the wood and separated the attached bark tail with a clean tool. Then follow these steps:
Cut off the offspring from the main shoots
The remaining main shoots yield more offshoots, so no plant material is wasted:
Insert cuttings
If you want to use many offshoots of the laurel cherry, you can fall back on special cuttings boxes from the trade. Alternatively, larger flower pots or planters for cultivation. Since the cherry laurel is sensitive to waterlogging, you must ensure good water flow.
Be sure to place the planter with the cuttings in an absonned position so that the cuttings will not evaporate more water than they can with the newly grown roots. Although cherry laurel offshoots are not very sensitive, you should maintain the seedlings in a sheltered place until next spring.
Tips & Tricks
Alternately, shoot tips with only the bottom leaves removed may be rooted in a glass of water. Once the laurel cherry has formed four to five centimeters long roots, it is transplanted into soil.