How is propagation of wisteria by cuttings carried out in early spring or late winter? Choosing a place and rules for leaving

Wisteria, which has a cascade of long flowering inflorescences and a delicate pleasant aroma, always makes a good impression.

This plant is able to mask old buildings and pillars. It will easily transform arbors, arches, gates, balconies.

It is not surprising that most gardeners tend to breed wisteria in their area.

Next, we will tell you how to propagate wisteria using cuttings, as well as how to properly care after that.

Advantages and disadvantages of the method

Propagation of wisteria by cuttings (including in spring) is the simplest method of plant cultivation. It has the following advantages:

• availability of planting material - the stalk can be cut from the mother's bush or purchased in the nursery;
• preservation of decorative qualities - the stalk retains 95% of the biological and genetic characteristics of the mother bush.

But we must not forget about the disadvantages of this method:

1. Genetic features. By purchasing ready-made cuttings in the nursery, the buyer can not always clearly see the mother bush. Acquaintance with the characteristics of the plant occurs already during the development of wisteria.
2. Infection of cuttings. If planting material is purchased by hand, then the risk of buying an infected seedling is high.
3. Unreliability of the method. When grafting, only 50% of plants take root.

What to do before boarding?

Cuttings are harvested in late autumn, using the vine remaining after pruning the plant. They are planted in the ground in early spring (late March - mid April), always under a plastic bottle.

Choosing a place with suitable soil

To plant wisteria, you need to choose a sunny place, in which there are no drafts. Liana prefers light soil, enriched with nutrients.

To provide the plant with comfortable conditions, it is necessary to adhere to the following recommendations:

1. Landing in the open ground. When digging the ground before planting the cuttings, a little peat, leaf humus and complex fertilizer are added to the soil. The soil is thoroughly mixed. About growing wisteria in open ground more information here.
2. Planting in a pot. If you plan to develop the cuttings at home, then you need to prepare the substrate yourself. To do this, clay-soddy soil (3 parts) is mixed with sand (1 hour), humus (1 hour), leafy soil (1 hour). Wisteria at home can also be grown from seeds. Read how to do it here.

Vine selection

Planting material is most often selected from long vines obtained during pruning. Small branches of vines are cut from such branches. Cuttings must comply with the following requirements:

• the vine is already lignified, but it still remains a green whip and does not have tree bark;
• the length of the handle is 5-8 cm;
• a cut piece of vine has 2-3 well-developed buds.

The cuttings prepared in the fall must be placed in a moistened substrate (1 part land + 1 part sand) and transfer to a cool place (+ 3 ° C). In such conditions, wisteria successfully wintered.

Vine preparation

In early spring, the cuttings are freed from the substrate and prepared for planting. The preparation process includes the following steps:

1. All leaves on the bottom of the vine are removed. It is from these points that the roots will begin to develop in the future.
2. The end of the handle is cut so that the lower point of root growth is at a height of 1 cm from the edge.
3. All leaves or buds remaining on the handle need to be removed so that they do not pull nutrients from the plant during the healing of wisteria.
4. To accelerate the formation of the root system, you can lower the lower ends of the cuttings in special solutions of synthetic auxins. For wisteria fit:
   • indolylbutyric acid (per 1 liter of water - 25-50 mg of the drug);
   • heteroauxin (per 1 liter of water - 100-150 mg of the substance).
   In this solution, the cuttings are kept for 12-24 hours. After that, rinse with clean water and immediately plant.

How to plant?

Algorithm for planting cuttings:

1. For wisteria choose boxes equipped with a good water drainage system. The plant absolutely does not like excessive waterlogging.
2. A drainage layer is poured at the bottom of the box, approximately 3-5 cm. It will prevent stagnation of water in the soil.
3. Ready soil mixture is poured onto the drainage.
4. Top soil is sprinkled with a layer of sand of approximately 1 cm.
5. The substrate is moderately moisturized.
6. With a stick, make a hole in the soil with a depth of 4-5 cm.
7. In this hole lower the cuttings.
8. Around the seedlings compress the soil.
9. From above, the wisteria sprout is covered with a glass or plastic jar. This design will create a greenhouse effect for the plant and retain the necessary moisture.
10. The next stalk can be planted at a distance of 10 cm.

After 4-6 weeks, the wisteria will begin to germinate. At this time, you can begin the hardening of the plant, daily removing the jar for 15-20 minutes. Gradually, the period of such aeration is increased.

Care Rules

In order for the cuttings to take root, it is necessary to provide the wisteria with appropriate conditions. Beauty liana feels comfortable after landing, if such moments are taken into account:

1. The choice of place. A box with cuttings is transferred to partial shade. Initially (over 1-1.5 months), wisteria must be protected from direct sunlight.
2. Air humidity. To accelerate the formation of roots, it is recommended to provide the plant with conditions of high humidity.
3. Soil moisture. Cuttings are watered regularly, 1-2 times a day. It is important to prevent the soil from drying out. But at the same time you should not fill the vine.

   After the emergence of young shoots, watering is reduced to 1 time per day, and then to 1 time in 2-3 days.

What to do to make the liana take root?

The development of wisteria from cuttings depends on many factors. What if you can’t root the vine? To ensure that the plant is guaranteed to take root, gardeners recommend taking into account several nuances:

1. During autumn pruning, planting material must be selected correctly.
2. Only the stalk that has adequately wintered will sprout successfully.
3. Do not ignore the preliminary soaking of the plant in synthetic auxins.
4. After planting, the plant needs to provide diffused light, high humidity and sufficient moisture.
5. If there are doubts about the sufficiency or excess of light, then to save the situation it is enough to move the box to another place.
6. If the room is low humidity, it is recommended to put the box in a tray with pebbles, flooded with water.

Wisteria is an unpretentious plant. If she create the right conditions and take care of the nutritional value of the soil, then the liana will not cause any trouble to its owners. Now you know how to grow wisteria from a stalk.

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