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- Oleander - Cut or hang follicles?
- Oleander forms pod-like fruit stalks
- Cut oleander fruits or hang them?
- Collect seeds and sow
- Tips
The seeds of the follicles can be used for propagation
Oleander - Cut or hang follicles?
Usually, the oleander can be easily propagated through cuttings, you can even use accumulating clippings from the annual pruning. However, there is also the possibility of Oleander on self-collected seeds to multiply, because the bush forms in appropriate weather in this country seed-containing follicles. However, you need much more patience for this type of plant propagation than for the cuttings.
Oleander forms pod-like fruit stalks
The flowers of the oleander are hermaphrodite, d. H. both male and female and thus able to fertilize themselves. As a rule, the pollination is done by animals. If you do not cut off the withered inflorescences, but leave them, you can hope for follicles - assuming warm and sunny weather. The elongated, about 10 or even more inches long pods are initially green, but turn brown to maturity. The seeds are ripe as soon as the fruits burst open on their own and release the screen-reinforced seeds.
Cut oleander fruits or hang them?
The formation of fruits and seeds costs the plant a great deal of strength, which in turn can neither be used for growth nor for the formation of new flowers. In addition, the fruits in our latitudes will not ripen in any case, as it is much too cool in the fall. However, you can encourage maturation by providing the oleander with potash fertilizer between the middle and the end of August - which also benefits the shoots, which also grow faster. Whether you leave the follicles so now or rather cut off is entirely up to you: put more emphasis on flowers, remove the fruiting approaches. On the other hand, if you want to try the seed multiplication, leave the follicles and hope for their maturity.
Collect seeds and sow
The seeds from the ripe, burst fruit can be collected and sowed immediately on nutrient-poor growing substrate. However, in order to break the germ inhibition, you should soak the granules in lukewarm water for at least one day. Since the oleander is a Mediterranean plant, stratification is not necessary. However, the oleander belongs to the light germinators, d. H. You do not need to cover the seeds with soil. However, keep them evenly moist and ensure high humidity and constant heat, for example in a room greenhouse. Most germination occurs after about four weeks.
Tips
Attention! Like all parts of the oleander, the follicles are also very poisonous!