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- To multiply butterfly lilac - It's that easy
- Cutting and preparing cuttings - How to do it right
- Pot and care for cuttings - this is how the roots sprout
- Tips
The butterfly lilac can be multiplied well over cuttings
To multiply butterfly lilac - It's that easy
Where hosts of delicate butterflies swarm lavish flower candles, a butterfly shrub adorns the summer garden. The popular ornamental tree is not only beautiful to look at and easy to maintain, but at the same time easy to multiply. This tutorial explains in a practical way how to draw summer lilacs from an offshoot.
Early article Next article How to properly plant a butterfly lilacCutting and preparing cuttings - How to do it right
Since the propagation by cuttings is so promising, it is practiced by the garden layman to the master gardener. The time window for this method is open in the midst of flowering, when life pulsates in the butterfly bush to the shoot tips. Ideally, a day between early July and mid-August, so that the cuttings can take advantage of the summer weather for a rapid rooting. That is how it goes:
If you pull young plants out of an offshoot, the investment in a rooting powder is unnecessary. The butterfly shrub has a vital growth force, which makes such tools superfluous.
Pot and care for cuttings - this is how the roots sprout
A growth box with a transparent lid is perfectly suited to stimulate the growth of the offshoots. Alternatively, you can use 9er or 10er plastic pots that have multiple bottom openings as drainage. As a substrate, we recommend lean pikierde, which you enrich one-third with sand. Coconut fiber substrate, perlite, or a mix of peat and sand are also a good choice for pulling off branches. Proceed as follows:
In the growing box, the task of the lid is to create a moist, warm microclimate. In pots, this succeeds by putting a plastic bag over. Two long matches prevent contact between the hood and the offshoot, which could lead to rot. Until the cuttings drift through, the care is limited to regular watering and airing. Fertilizer is not administered at this stage.
With the growth of the first leaflets, the cover can be removed. If the cuttings have developed a stable root system, they are planted in the bed or a bucket.
Tips
The sowing of seeds of a butterfly lilac gives us unexpected results that are not always worth seeing. Among the many-faceted varieties, there is, of course, an outstanding candidate with the alternate-leaved summer lilac (Buddleja alternifolia), whose seedlings thrive in a pure variety and therefore have the same beautiful attributes of the mother plant.