If a summer resident wants to gather more berries, it can propagate high yielding currant bush. This option is good because it does not have to buy seedlings.
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Methods for producing seedlings
In order to get a good planting material, the following methods are used:
- Use green cuttings;
- slips;
- woody cuttings.
Before you do the multiplication currant, need to look at the condition of the mother's bush. Be sure to inspect the leaves. On currants healthy kidney will not be swollen, infected bud mite. Gardeners should alert deformed flowers and leaves.
hardwood cuttings
If you decide to propagate currants woody cuttings choose annual shoots. Suitable those that develop on the two-year or four-year branches.
It is best to take root shoots, which are cut in autumn. They are cut in the second half of September. If their right to land, they have time to take root, in the winter they do not die.
Gardeners should cut matured shoots; they are divided into cuttings. It is necessary to look to each have at least 5 kidneys, however the optimum length should be about 20 cm. The uppermost part of the annual escape to take it is not necessary, it is not matured.
It is best to plant propagation material immediately after cutting. It is unacceptable to dry it, however, if necessary, it is placed in water or wrapped in a damp cloth.
To currant quickly caught on, prepare a bed under it. Cuttings are planted in such a way that between the rows was 60 cm, and in a series - 15 cm. In the land of their digged angle of 45º. 2 kidneys should be above the surface, and one of them - located on the ground level. The remaining kidney must be underground.
You need to look around to stalk were no voids, so the ground is compacted. It necessarily watered and mulch with peat.
hardwood cuttings
For breeding gardeners often use hardwood cuttings, they are harvested in the fall. To do this, the shoots are cut at ground level so that the bush is not formed on the stumps. Of the mature part of the cuttings are cut by 15-18 cm. Their associate in bundles and stored all winter in the basement and covered with snow or wet sand.
If the early spring, they are placed in the refrigerator and moistened periodically. When the soil is thawed at 20 cm, they are planted in the mud. With the right care for the autumn will grow a small seedling that can be planted to a permanent place.
reproduction by layering
This method consists in the fact that choosing a few new shoots. With the bush 1 may be diverted to 6 pieces. The soil is dug up, and fertilize it well watered. After that, the selected branch bends to the ground, fix and covered with damp earth. Every 3 weeks it spiked again, making sure that the soil is moist.
In the autumn rooted seedling already be separated from the main bush. His or is deposited, and then doraschivat or leaves for another 1 year, and at the end of the second already transplanted to a permanent place.
Gardeners should be aware that white and red currant root worse. It is easiest to propagate by layering. So you can get planting material much faster.
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