Propagation of geranium by cuttings

Geranium is one of the most popular indoor plants, although there was a time when it was considered a sign of philistinism. The plant is not only beautiful and blooms almost all year round, it scares away aphids from neighbors on the windowsill. Like any perennial, geranium propagates by seeds and vegetatively. Seed propagation allows you to get a more compact and blooming bush, but this is a very troublesome business. Therefore, most of the lovers of indoor flowers from time immemorial have been propagating geraniums by cuttings.

Make sure the plant is well watered and free of pests before pruning. You can root cuttings at any time, but better in spring. The optimum air temperature for rooting is 18-20 degrees. For reproduction, a stalk with two or three nodes of leaves from a lateral or apical shoot is chosen. It is better to make a cut oblique. The resulting cutting can simply be placed in an opaque container with water, wait for the roots to appear and then plant it in a container with earth.

Propagation of geraniums by cuttings can be carried out without rooting in water, but by placing them in a loose substrate with the addition of mesk and vermiculite. In this case, the cutting needs to be dried for 10 hours to avoid decay. Then plant it to a depth of 5-7 centimeters and compact the soil around it well so that the cutting stands straight and does not fall. Then spray it for three to four weeks and water it abundantly. In spring and summer cuttings, roots appear in a couple of weeks, at other times it will take a little more time, but failure is almost impossible anyway.