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- Schefflera: All about the propagation through cuttings
- Cutting the cuttings: when, with what and how?
- Water or stick the cuttings
- Duration to rooting
- Repot and care for cuttings
- Tips
Propagation over cuttings is very promising
Schefflera: All about the propagation through cuttings
Multiply houseplants? Anyone who has ever ventured to this experiment, knows that it can be quite difficult to duplicate these mostly tropical plants. But in the Schefflera propagation by cuttings is very easy ...
Cutting the cuttings: when, with what and how?
If you cut your Schefflera or cut it back vigorously, you get shoots that you can use for the cuttings propagation. It is important that these are healthy.
You can use different parts of the Schefflera as cuttings. So you can cut leaf cuttings, head cuttings or trunk cuttings. The best time to cut the cuttings is in spring between January and March or in late summer.
Trunk cuttings are cut with pruning shears. Head cuttings and leaf cuttings can be cut off with a knife. Make sure that the cuttings are 10 to 20 cm long! The leaf cuttings should keep their long stems - this serves rooting.
Water or stick the cuttings
This is how it continues:
Duration to rooting
Now it says: wait! Depending on the ambient temperature (ideally 20 ° C) and the lighting conditions, it may take between 4 and 12 weeks for the cuttings to be rooted. In case of a successful rooting you will see the white root threads in the glass. In the pot cuttings you recognize the rooting on new shoots / leaves.
Repot and care for cuttings
After the cuttings are rooted, they are transplanted / repotted. When they have got a new growth of 3 to 5 cm, transplant the cuttings that you have pulled into pots. If the young plants are 10 cm tall, they can be fertilized for the first time. From now on, it is important not to neglect the casting.
Tips
The pot-growing of the cuttings of the radar artery is preferable to the glass cultivation, since thereby the fine roots are not injured by an insertion in earth.