Good afternoon, my reader. Rooting cuttings is an easy and inexpensive way to propagate plants. But it often happens that not all shoots take root. For the professional development of the method, several main secrets are used, and the result depends on them.
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Many plants are propagated by cuttings, more often these are fruit trees and shrubs, ornamental crops.
A healthy branch is cut into several parts at an angle of 45 ° with the expectation that 4-6 buds will remain on each. The workpieces are immediately placed in a substrate of equal shares of earth, sand and humus. The looseness of the soil is important, since constant access of oxygen is needed for the formation of roots. If it is not enough, add vermiculite.
From this moment on, the humidity is monitored daily. The cuttings are covered with glass jars to create a greenhouse effect.
Lateral root shoots develop more quickly when the shoots are kept in water or nutrient solution. The success of the procedure will ensure compliance with the following subtleties:
- The container is chosen opaque. Lack of lighting will provoke roots to form faster.
- Water is used only warm and boiled to exclude harmful impurities and bacteria.
- Adequate fluid level reaches 2-3 kidneys. Water or solution is not changed, but added as it evaporates.
- 3-4 cuttings are placed in 1 jar, no more. In cramped conditions, they are prone to decay, develop worse.
- For cutting, branches are chosen that grow closer to the ground, not long. The upper bud is cut off because it will grow in height to the detriment of new shoots from the sinuses.
- Adventitious roots are more actively formed on cuttings from lateral branches.
- The younger the mother plant, the more viable the cuttings from it. The material is harvested from trees and bushes 3-5 years old.
- Shoots are cut before bud break, when the plant is still asleep. In the dark, they take root faster. If time has already been lost, then the cuttings are put to germinate on a lighted windowsill.
Growth stimulants always give a positive effect, significantly speed up the process and increase the survival rate. Well proven:
- "Epin";
- "Zircon";
- Kornevin;
- Etamon;
- "Will root";
- "Kornerost";
- "Ribav-extra";
- "Heteroauxin".
Potassium, sodium humate and vermicompost also activate adventitious root formation. Cuttings are kept in the solution prepared according to the instructions for 2 days. Then they are transferred into water with aspirin (1 tablet per 200 g). The acid has a stimulating and bactericidal effect. Another disinfection option is a pale solution of potassium permanganate; shoots are treated in it for no longer than 3-4 hours. Sometimes gardeners are limited to crushed activated carbon, which is dissolved in water for rooting. It has a long-lasting antiseptic effect and will prevent the cut from rotting.
Do you know the secrets of rooting any cuttings?
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