All about how to plant a geranium sprout without roots at home

Geranium is a well-known plant that is known and bred by almost all growers without problems. Or at least have the experience of breeding this unpretentious flower.

He loves rare, but plentiful watering, he is not afraid of open air. Geranium is more associated with our grandmothers, but no one forbids it to breed those who are much younger. How to plant a geranium sprout, including without roots, read on. Also watch a useful and interesting video on the topic.

Briefly about the plant

This flower first appeared in South Africa.. In Europe, he first appeared in the early 18th century.

It can be of two types: grassy and shrubby. But at the same time, for both species, there are one rules for care.

You can learn about how to breed geranium not only at home, but also at the cottage in the open ground, from our article.

Landing Features

When to plant or transplant this flower? You should be guided by two criteria:

1. The appearance of the plant: if the flower grows very slowly, but proper care is taken, then this most likely means that the time has come to plant it in another larger pot.
2. Earth inside the pot: if after the watering has been done, the earth dries up quickly enough, this means that the roots of the flower have grown and it’s time to change the pot to a larger one.

There is still a universal way that will help determine if the time has come for a transplant or not. You need to get the plant out of the pot, carefully inspect the lump of earth. If the roots literally penetrate the earth through and there are a lot of them, then it's time to transplant the plant.

Watch the geranium transplant video:

General tips

• Ideally, geraniums are best transplanted in spring. It is necessary to prepare in advance a larger pot, into which the flower will "move".
• It is not necessary to transplant the geranium into a new pot, but it must be decontaminated. Also, for a geranium transplant, you need a watering can with water and fresh soil.
• Transplanting geraniums during flowering is not desirable, but you can. If possible, it is best to avoid this.
• To get geraniums from an old pot, it must first be watered. And then you need to hold the pot with one hand, and gently pull the flower with the other. In extreme cases, there is an option to use a knife. With it, you need to very carefully separate the earth from the walls of the pot.

It’s not so difficult to take care of geraniums, you just need to know that this flower loves:

1. Sunlight (but a light shadow is also not terrible for him), he tolerates being on the southern and eastern windows especially well.
2. Warm weather (but nothing will happen to the flower even with small autumn frosts).
3. Watering: infrequent, but plentiful.
4. The pot should have good drainage.
5. Interestingly, the soil should be moderately fertile, even sparse. In other cases, there will be few flowers, but a lot of greenery.
6. In order for the geranium to continue to bloom, it is important to remove those inflorescences that have already faded.
7. It is important to regularly feed the soil, you need to start fertilizing in the spring, and continue every 2 weeks until the fall.

What you need to know before propagating a flower?

How to propagate? There are several ways to propagate geraniums.. But the best - with the help of cuttings or processes.

Why is this method better? One of the advantages - with this choice you can see which geranium of this method - it is clear that it will grow in the future. That is, the growth of the plant, what color will the leaves be. When is it better to take shoots? You can all year round, best in July - August and in February-March.

When do I need to take a shoot of geranium flowers to plant? Before taking the shoot, you need to follow a number of simple rules:

1. The uterine plant needs to choose a well-developed specimen of the flower so that rooting takes place, you need to cut off the apical shoot, which has a well-developed growth point. The length of the handle should be about 7 cm. On such a handle there should be about 4 leaves. The two bottom ones must be ripped off.
2. Then you need to put the handle in water so that the roots form. It usually takes 2-3 weeks.
3. Is it possible to plant a stalk without roots in the ground? Oddly enough, yes. But under special conditions. Many of the gardeners, having kept the shoots in the shade for about a day, and having previously dipped in crushed coal, you need to plant them in a light mixture at a temperature of + 20 ... + 22 ° С. It takes about a month to wait for rooting in this way.
4. It is important to tighten the soil around the seedling well and always in a plentiful manner.
5. It is important that the shoot is provided with good lighting at room temperature.
6. How to find out that cuttings have taken root? If they have formed new leaves, this means that their horse system is developed and there is no need to wait any longer. You can transplant the plant into a permanent pot.

Find out more about how to transplant geranium into another pot and grow from cuttings, here.

What conditions must be observed?

In order for the geranium to give the cuttings, It is necessary for 2-3 weeks before the planned emergence of shoots to completely stop watering. But this is not the same as completely leaving the flower without food. Geranium needs to be additionally fed with a solution of wood ash. Then you need to remove it into a dark room.

How to plant in a pot of earth?

How to plant? First you need to properly prepare for this. To do this, follow the instructions below:

1. Sharpen the knife as sharply as possible.
2. Carry out a thorough disinfection with medical alcohol.
3. Cut the stalk as carefully as possible. Be sure to top with 3 to 4 leaves. But by no means with buds! Otherwise, on such shoots the roots will not grow for a very long time.
4. Put the resulting raw materials in the shade for a while. Which one? When a new film appears in place of the cut.
5. Sprinkle the slice with “Kornevin”, you can use coal dust instead.

Watch the video about propagation of geranium cuttings without roots:

Further care

It is necessary to specially prepare the cups - to make holes in them for water drainage. In addition, thanks to the holes to the roots, air penetrates, which is also very good.

Next, follow the instructions below:

1. Add a little vermiculite to the slightly wet, moist soil.
2. Fill each cup with soil
3. In the event that the land was cultivated with boiling water, you must of course wait until it cools. Fortunately, this does not take much time. Only a few minutes.
4. Place the processes that were previously freed from the lower leaves, and deepen them by a few centimeters.
5. Glass the glasses on a pallet (to make it convenient to move them), and place for some time in a dark place,
6. After 5 days, you need to transfer the glasses to the window. Preferably NOT from the south side.

What to do if on some plants yellow, flaccid leaves appear? You can put them under the banks. That is, create for them something like mini-greenhouses. Due to the special microclimate, plants will recover in a couple of days.

Output

It is an easy-care, healthy flower. Therefore, it is worth all lovers of indoor plants to get it at home. Now you know how to grow such a flower at home in a pot.

Watch the video: How to Propagate Geraniums from Cuttings (May 2024).