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- To multiply privet over cuttings
- Propagate privet over cuttings
- The best time to cut cuttings
- Prepare cuttings properly
- Privet-offshoot stuck in pots or in the field
- Continue to cultivate cuttings of the privet
- When can you transplant cuttings?
- Propagation of privet by sticks
- Tips
Cuttings are best harvested during pruning in spring
To multiply privet over cuttings
Privet enjoys great popularity as a robust hedge plant because it also copes well with the urban climate. To multiply the shrub via cuttings is quite easy and succeed even beginners without problems. So you draw cuttings of the Ligusters themselves.
Propagate privet over cuttings
The simplest way to grow a privet is to cut cuttings. Young shoots that you can use for fall in abundance in spring and summer.
Other ways to draw privet plants themselves, are sticks and Absenker.
The best time to cut cuttings
In the spring, you usually cut back a privet. Then there are a lot of cuttings that you can use as cuttings.
The shoots should be as long as possible 20 cm and not allowed to be lignified down.
Prepare cuttings properly
Use clean and very sharp cutters. Unclean tools can transmit diseases. Blunt cutting causes the skins of the ligament shoot to break, providing a way for mushroom spores to penetrate the offshoot.
Privet-offshoot stuck in pots or in the field
Cuttings from the privet can be put into prepared pots. To do this, use some deeper planters that will fill you with a mixture of garden soil and mature compost. A drain hole must be present so that no waterlogging can form.
You may also put the cuttings directly to the desired place in the garden. The soil must be permeable to water and should first be improved with compost and horn shavings.
Insert the cuttings into the substrate about 5 cm deep and press the soil firmly so that the cuttings grow straight.
Continue to cultivate cuttings of the privet
At the latest after plugging you shorten the shoots by about one to two thirds. Only then can the offshoots branch well from the beginning.
Water regularly, but avoid waterlogging.
If the cuttings are in the field, you should spread out a mulch blanket all around. This prevents the soil from drying out and protects the privet offspring from the first frosts in winter.
When can you transplant cuttings?
The fact that the cutting root has formed, you recognize that he has got new leaves and side shoots. You may now take the offshoots out of the pot and transplant them to the desired location.
The rooting is usually very fast, so you can implement the seedlings often in the fall.
Propagation of privet by sticks
Sticks fall on a strong pruning. They are already lignified down and just have to put in the ground at the designated place and be poured well.
Tips
In the wild, a privet shrub can reach a height of up to five meters. In the garden, it is rarely raised as a hedge.