Gardeners are steadily growing interest in healthy blue berry, which ripens before strawberries, is easy to care for and is not afraid of winter frost and spring frosts.
Edible honeysuckle, having settled in the garden, remains there forever. It easily adapts, the range of its growth - from the slopes of the Caucasus to snowy Siberia and the Far East. He likes raw slopes, peat bogs, grows well along swamps. Dryness is also tolerated, but the taste of the berries from this becomes worse.
How to propagate honeysuckle
Edible sweet and sour berries can be propagated both by seeds and vegetatively. Seed breeding is rarely used - mainly for breeding new varieties, as young shoots develop very slowly and enter fruiting for a long time. Varietal qualities are transmitted only during vegetative propagation: by dividing the bush, layering, lignified and green cuttings.
Propagation by layering
The easiest and most reliable way to propagate edible honeysuckle, if there is already a bush on the site, is layering. From one adult uterine plant, you can get more than ten seedlings, and without much difficulty. As soon as the snow has melted, grooves must be made in the radial direction from the bush, and then carefully put into them strong, well-ripened shoots. Then they are sprinkled and pinned to the ground. Pinch their ends and tie them vertically to wooden pegs. Care consists of timely watering, top dressing and weed removal. Side shoots form at the shoots during the summer, and by autumn they are ready for transplanting to a permanent place.
How to propagate honeysuckle cuttings
Honeysuckle seedlings develop very slowly: annuals barely grow to 10 cm, and three-year-olds hardly reach a half meter by the end of the growing season. The bush grows to normal height only by 6-8 years. Nurseries do not have time to meet the growing demand, so it makes sense to do the breeding yourself.
How to propagate edible honeysuckle with green cuttings:
- Prepare the ground in advance and take care of the film shelter.
- Use fresh cuttings.
The time for breeding is the end of May - mid-June. The site is selected sunny, without shading, the land for planting should be loose, fertile.
Material can be purchased at the nursery, or borrowed from neighbors. To do this, shoots are taken from fruiting bushes, 10 cm long with two internodes. The lower leaves are removed, the upper ones are shortened. The cuttings must not be allowed to dry out; after cutting, they must be placed in a plastic bag. Before planting, the ends can be treated with a root stimulant. Cuttings during planting are densely squeezed with soil and watered abundantly. Then close the film frame. If there are few plants, they can be covered with glass or plastic caps. Watering should be frequent - no less than two days later. Three weeks later, the kidneys begin to grow. From this moment, the plants begin to air, and after a few days the shelter is removed.
Plants are planted in a permanent place in the fall. Spring transplantation is undesirable, since the honeysuckle buds begin to grow very early.
Seedling method
Germination of honeysuckle seeds lasts up to 3 years, and some gardeners are trying to grow seedlings. Those who are interested in how to propagate edible honeysuckle seeds should know that the seed needs stratification. Otherwise, there will be no seedlings.
Sowing is carried out in March - in pots. Before this, the seeds are soaked for a day in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Shoots appear after 2 weeks. They grow very slowly, so it is important to keep the land clean from weeds.
Decorative honeysuckle
Honeysuckle fragrant honeysuckle is also a fairly common plant in our gardens. A delicate aroma, spectacular elliptical leaves, flowers of an original form and bright berries allow her to maintain her decorativeness throughout the season. How to propagate honeysuckle honeysuckle so that this deciduous liana, growing, serves as a wonderful decoration of walls and arbors?
The methods are the same: layering, seeds and cuttings. Cuttings are taken in winter, spring or summer. Green cuttings are cut in July, and planted similarly to edible varieties. Pretreatment with stimulants increases the rooting percentage.
The plant is photophilous and demanding on moisture and soil composition. Young shoots freeze, for the winter it is advisable to mulch peat.