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- Magnifying candle flower by cuttings or breeding tubers
- Two methods for the propagation of candlestick flowers
- Cutting cuttings
- Drawing a candlestick flower out of breeding tubers
- A good location for chandelier flowers
- Tips
The candlestick can be best propagated over cuttings
Magnifying candle flower by cuttings or breeding tubers
The candlestick flower (Ceropegia woodii) is one of the easiest to care for indoor plants and therefore ideal for beginners. The plant also offered under the name Rosenwein belongs to the succulents and can be very easily self-propagate. How to grow new candlestick flowers.
Two methods for the propagation of candlestick flowers
Chandelier flowers form small brood tubers on their long shoots, in which seeds ripen - even if you keep the plant exclusively in the room. You can easily reproduce them with these seeds, just have a little patience.
It is even easier to pull candelabra flowers out of cuttings.
Cutting cuttings
Cuttings from the Chandelier Flower can be cut during the entire growth period. The spring is particularly favorable.
As potting soil, prepare normal garden soil that you mix with some sand. Let the cut ends dry for a day or two before inserting the shoots into the substrate.
Cuttings grown in water glass plant in pots when the roots are about one to two centimeters long. Be careful, as the fine rootlets break quickly.
Drawing a candlestick flower out of breeding tubers
The light brown tubers form during the growing season, often directly after flowering. Take it off gently.
Press the brood tubers into prepared pots with potting soil. Keep the soil moderately moist so that the seed does not rot. It takes several weeks for the seeds to germinate and the first tender roots and shoots to develop.
Once the plantlets have developed at least two pairs of leaves, you can transplant them into individual pots. Then you continue to cultivate the chandelier flowers like adult plants.
A good location for chandelier flowers
Chandelier flowers like a very bright location. Direct sun or partial shade they usually tolerate well. In the strong midday sun, however, there is a risk that the leaves burn.
Tips
There is no evidence that the lamprey flower is poisonous. For safety's sake, you should place the plant safely in front of children and pets. Occasionally, Leuchterblume lose a few leaves and dried inflorescences, which should not be swallowed.