How to propagate honeysuckle: tips and tricks

Honeysuckle is not only a beautiful garden shrub, especially during its flowering period, but also a very useful plant. In its fruits contains a whole range of useful components: vitamins B and C, iron, pectins, rubidium and antioxidants. From these miraculous and delicious berries you can cook compote or jam, but the most beneficial are the beneficial properties of the fruits when they are frozen. That's why this plant is so popular among gardeners. However, many do not know how to propagate honeysuckle in their own area. And you can do it in several ways.

Basic conditions for planting

The height of honeysuckle bushes reaches two meters, and the diameter of their crowns is up to one and a half meters. Honeysuckle loves light, organic soils. This plant does not tolerate swamping and does not bear fruit in the shade. Before its planting, the site must be thoroughly digged and the rhizome weeds carefully removed. Fertilizers should be applied to the soil: 4 kg of manure and 3 kg of peat per 1 square meter. Plant honeysuckle in the second half of September or in the spring. Shrubs should be located at a distance of one and a half meters from each other. The pit should be 60x60x50 cm in size. The planted shrubs must be watered and mulched with humus, sawdust or peat. In the future, the process of mulching should be repeated periodically, because Honeysuckle garden has a superficial root system. Young bushes do sanitary pruning, and old - rejuvenate the branches, cutting them to a strong growth. The vegetation begins at the beginning of April, the flowering starts in early May, and by the end of May the first berries already appear. Autumn warming often causes a second flowering. Honeysuckle is characterized by winter hardiness, and its flowers can withstand temperatures of -3 ° C.

How to propagate honeysuckle with horizontal layers?

In the beginning of spring, even before the buds wake, the old branches are removed on the uterine bushes. Then under the soil loosen the soil. Some of the young branches are gently tilted to the ground and hooked. After germination of 6-8-centimeter shoots from the kidneys, they are hilled by 4 cm with moist, loose ground. After about a couple of weeks, the process of hilling is repeated, bringing the height of the layer of land to an average of 10 cm. When reapplying the layering, it is necessary to feed mineral fertilizers or slurry. Excavation is performed next spring.

How to propagate honeysuckle with green cuttings?

Cuttings are rooted in containers with sand-peat substrate (ratio 1: 2). The best time to plant cuttings is June. Cuttings are made from overgrown shoots. They are cut into 2-3 internodes up to 10 cm long. Under the kidneys, the lower cut is made, and the upper one is receding 1.5 cm upwards from the node. The bottom leaves are removed, and the upper pair is left. Boxes with cuttings are placed in a well-insulated greenhouse. Cuttings should be systematically sprayed, not allowing them to be waterlogged. At the end of autumn, the boxes are moved to the basement or insulated.

How to propagate honeysuckle seeds?

Seeds are sown in pikirovochnuyu container, preferably in spring, in a substrate of equal parts of peat, sand and sod land. Seeds are covered with sifted humus or washed sand, the layer of which should not exceed 0.5 cm. The container is covered with glass, and then the seeds are propagated in a greenhouse or room. Diving of the seedlings is performed after the appearance of the leaves. In the open ground young plants are planted in the spring.