Content
- Christmas stars proliferate over cuttings
- The best time to cut cuttings
- Prepare the cutting properly
- Set cuttings and continue to cultivate
- Repotting cuttings of the Christmas star
- Tips
Poinsettias are good for propagating cuttings
Christmas stars proliferate over cuttings
The simplest and, in our latitudes, usually the only way to multiply a poinsettia is by cutting cuttings. What you need to keep in mind when cutting and maintaining offshoots of a poinsettia.
The best time to cut cuttings
If you want to grow a poinsettia out of cuttings, you need to maintain a healthy plant at home.
Even in the best conditions, the propagation does not always go smoothly. Many cuttings do not rooted, even if you did everything right. Therefore, always cut some cuttings more than you actually need.
The best time to harvest cuttings is spring. The plant should already have faded.
Prepare the cutting properly
Cut cuttings about eight to ten centimeters long. Place the interfaces in hot water for a short time or hold over a candle or lighter. This closes the cut and no poisonous milk juice can escape.
Remove all lower leaves. If the upper leaves are very large, halve them with scissors. Then there is less risk that the cuttings dry out.
Add rooting powder to the bottom. This will increase the likelihood that the cuttings will later expel roots.
Set cuttings and continue to cultivate
Prepare pots with potting soil. It should not be too tight and can store water well. Make sure that the pots have enough drainage holes to prevent waterlogging.
Insert the cuttings about three centimeters deep into the substrate and press the ground firmly.
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Repotting cuttings of the Christmas star
It may take some time for the cuttings to form roots. That the multiplication has worked, you recognize that new leaves form.
After rooting, pot the offspring of your poinsettia into larger pots and look after them like adult plants.
Tips
Inexpensive, bought in the supermarket poinsettias are usually not suitable to increase them. Offshoots grown from such plants are often sickly and enter very quickly.