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- Sow lupins
- This is how you sow lupins properly
- Sowing in pots
- Sow lupins yourself or share perennials?
- Pull new lupins out of cuttings
- Tips & Tricks
Sow lupins
The sowing of lupines is very easy and always works. It does not matter if you collect seeds from plants that are already awake in the garden or buy seeds from gardeners. Soon you can enjoy the magnificent sea of flowers.
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When sowing lupins, you can not go wrong. It works best if you put the seeds directly in place in early spring. If you have missed the sowing date, you can still sow the perennial lupines at the end of August.
Keep a distance of at least 50 centimeters between the plants, because lupine shrubs like to spread out a bit.
Lupins are dark germs. Either pull rows two to three centimeters deep or push the seed just as deep into the ground. Keep the seed well moist. Once the plants have reached a height of about 20 centimeters, you only have to water if the soil is too dry.
Sowing in pots
If you are not sure yet where to plant your new lupins, you may prefer them in a pot.
Fill the pots with soil that should not be too nutritious. Sow three seeds per pot each. Keep the seed well moist, but avoid waterlogging. Place the pots in a warm, sunny place until the seed germinates.
Once the plants have accumulated, snap off the two weaker seedlings. After four weeks, you can plant the lupins at the desired location in the garden.
Sow lupins yourself or share perennials?
Lupines can not only be propagated by sowing. Older perennials can also be shared if the plants have become too big.
The advantage of sowing lupines is that they are guaranteed to receive pure variety breeding. In a Staudenteilung that is not always guaranteed.
Pull new lupins out of cuttings
New perennials can also be obtained by cutting propagation. For this purpose so-called basal cuttings are cut.
These cuttings appear in the spring in the middle of the mother plant. They are cut as soon as they have reached ten centimeters in height.
Subsequently, the cuttings come in a cultivation vessel with Anzuchterde. There they form roots within six weeks and are then placed in individual pots. They come to the garden in autumn. Make sure that you do not kink or damage the very long roots when transplanting.
Tips & Tricks
Lupins tend to sow themselves out. If you do not want to keep lupines everywhere in the garden, you should cut off the sprouted panicles in time. Caution: The seeds are poisonous and should be disposed of safely or stored.