Can I multiply Weigelias myself?

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• Can I multiply Weigelias myself?
• The sowing of weigelias
• Weigelias multiply by cuttings
• Cultivating young plants
• The essentials in brief:
• Tips

Weigelias are best multiplied by cuttings

Can I multiply Weigelias myself?

Once you have a weigela, you often want more of these lush flowering and easy-care shrubs. If it should not be different varieties or colors, then you can easily pull the new Weigelien itself.

The sowing of weigelias

Weigelias can be propagated by sowing, even if it takes some time to get flowering shrubs. The cultivation is recommended under glass, so in a cold frame or in the greenhouse, alternatively in the house.

Weigelias multiply by cuttings

The propagation by cuttings is less time consuming and usually quite successful. During the growing season (between the first sprouting in spring and the fall of foliage in autumn), cut about 15 to 20 centimeters long, slightly woody but not flowering shoots, ideally in midsummer. Remove both the soft woody shoot tips and the lower leaves.

Insert the trimmed shoots into lean garden soil, a mixture of peat and sand or potting soil, it should look out a maximum of two pairs of leaves. Press the substrate well and pour the cuttings. In a warm and sheltered place in the semi-shade, keep the substrate evenly moist. This can be done outside in the garden in the summer, later better in a temperate room.

Cultivating young plants

Pour the cuttings and later the young plants regularly, but without jamming wetness, otherwise the delicate roots rot. However, you are not allowed to fertilize the plants. The first winter, the young Weigelien should spend well-tempered at about + 10 ° C to + 15 ° C, later they are hardy.

In the spring you are allowed to implement your Weigelien in the garden, they should now have strong roots and some new shoots. With the transplanting around May, in a rough area and / or with somewhat weaker plants you can wait for the icy saints. Then put the young willow trees in a sunny spot.

The essentials in brief:

Tips

The easiest way to propagate with the help of cuttings. So you get a genetically identical shrub of the mother plant.