Learn the art and how to cut the most common plants. You will be surprised at your success and save money by making your cuttings yourself. All our advice to make your cuttings a success like a pro.

What is cuttings?

The cuttings are a simple, fast and efficient way to propagate plants inexpensively and above all to reproduce identically. Fruit of your work, it will have just asked you for a little time, very little material and the precise respect of a few rules.

Cutting is easy and profitable

You will quickly get interesting plants : six months for pelargoniums or fuchsias, one year for climbers and about two years for shrubs. You can ” reproduce plants that are not commercially available, in particular by using offcuts from a hedge or a badly placed branch to remove »Explains jardinage.eu.

Obviously, it appears more interesting to multiply plants that you do not yet have, but be careful, you cannot take without authorization in botanical gardens, or in parks and public gardens.

You will certainly find gardeners around you who will be happy to exchange a few cuttings, even interested if you take care of multiplying a very coveted plant.

To cut well, do your accounts

You will need peat, sand, a few pots or crates, a good knife and a little hormones, i.e. a budget of around 20/30 € to produce several hundred cuttings.

For a 10 m long hedge, you need to plant about 15 thuja, an expense of 80/100 € while in two years you can produce plants of the same size.

Another example, in the case of a planter, you need at least four pelargoniums, or about 10/15 € per window. The same ones obtained by you only need a sufficiently bright frost shelter.

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The BA-BA of success

Gather the material : You must have a good sharp knife, pots, boxes and also labels to correctly identify the plants you cut.

Choose the substrate : It is light, filtering, of neutral or slightly acidic pH in order to be suitable for all plants. Air and water must circulate freely therein without ever running out and without asphyxiation or drought. Finally, it should contain few nutrients so as not to “burn” the young shoots and to promote the development of roots in search of food. Take a mixture of equal parts of peat and sand with sometimes a little so-called heather soil.

Avoid drying out : Take your cuttings preferably in the morning or in cloudy and cool weather when the plants are still full of sap, prepare them quickly without delay. Water as soon as the cuttings are planted in the cutting medium. They must suffer as little as possible and above all not wither.

Read also : Multiply indoor plants: seedlings, cuttings, layering

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