Many gardeners plant honeysuckle on their plots, as this curly shrub is an excellent ornament of the garden, with its help you can create an excellent hedge. In addition, this decorative plant is easy to take care of - it is frost-resistant and unpretentious. Recently, the reproduction of honeysuckle by green cuttings has become popular. This is the easiest way to acquire a few bushes and form original plantations.
Honeysuckle prefers to grow in well-lit areas, loves weakly acidic soils, requires frequent watering. In spring, shrub flowers can withstand temperatures as low as -6 ° C. It should be noted that the honeysuckle is edible. Reproduction by cuttings allows one to obtain numerous offspring from one acquired bush. The bush not only looks beautiful and adorns the fence, but also gives useful berries, thanks to which you can improve your health.
Reproduction of honeysuckle by green cuttings suggests several methods. First you need to select young shoots and cut them with a pruner. Pruning is best done before flowering or after fruiting. Cuttings with apical buds are best suited, therefore it is recommended to cut off the tips of shoots up to 15 cm long. Some gardeners plant the plants directly in the open ground, but to get the maximum amount of seedlings, it is better to root them in protected soil.
If possible, it is recommended that the honeysuckle of honeysuckle be kept in the stabilizer . Reproduction by cuttings requires preliminary preparation. First you need to make a cherry-tree, for this a box without a bottom is made of boards, and its outer walls are covered with a dark-colored insulation. In such a box pour a bit of small gravel, and then a mixture of earth, peat and sand, from above it is supposed to pour a thick layer of river sand.
From the cuttings should be cut off all the leaves, except the top two. The earth needs watering, making small holes in it with a stick with intervals of about 5 cm in a row and 10 cm between rows. The cuttings are best cut to the topmost leaves. Cover the box with a spunbond, and on top - with a film. To ensure that the soil does not become moldy, a mini-greenhouse should be ventilated regularly. If there is no possibility to constantly observe the plants, you should leave one edge of the film open or make holes in it.
Reproduction of honeysuckle by green cuttings can be greatly simplified. To do this, you need to select any roomy box, fill it with a mixture of earth and sand in a ratio of 4: 1, pour the soil, make holes in it, plant the plants, cover with a film. To prevent honeysuckle from direct sunlight, the box must be placed under a tree. In a week, one corner of the film can be opened slightly, watered better from the atomizer, so as not to blur the earth. Such reproduction of honeysuckle by green cuttings will allow to get seedlings with a well-developed root system by autumn. You can also try the method of reproduction with horizontal layers. To do this, take one-year branches, bend them to the ground, pin them with a wire loop and sprinkle with loose earth. Soon, roots will appear on the shoot, after which it can be transplanted to a new location.