The virgin vine (Parthenocissus), also known as "wild vine", is an extremely vigorous and long-lived climber that can easily grow up to 12 meters high and four meters (or more) wide in good conditions. If you provide neighbors, friends and relatives with offshoots or have areas free for greening yourself, you can multiply Virginia creeper with the help of cuttings or sinkers.
Wild wine offshoots are very sensitive
Cuttings or sinkers? Advantages and disadvantages
Both cuttings and layering propagation are a vegetative form of reproduction, where you are essentially making clones of each parent plant. For this reason, only healthy and fast-growing young vines should be considered for propagation, since any negative properties - such as susceptibility to diseases or growth problems - are also transferred to the offshoots. Otherwise, both forms of propagation offer various advantages and disadvantages.
Cuttings should overwinter frost-free
Cuttings, for example, are immediately cut down from the mother plant and root much faster than sinkers. On the other hand, they are also more sensitive, perish more quickly and also have to hibernate frost-free in a warm but bright place with a maximum of 12 degrees Celsius. They also require more care than sinkers because they need to be watered regularly.
Lowerers are only separated from the mother plant at a late stage
Lowering plants, on the other hand, remain connected to the mother plant and are taken care of by it until they have developed enough roots for independent growth - although this can easily take up to a year. On the other hand, sinkers are less sensitive, do not have to hibernate frost-free (but should receive winter protection in the form of brushwood) and also require less care.
Multiply maiden vine over sinkers
And this is how you increase your wild wine with the help of reducers:
- Bend a suitable shoot down to the ground.
- Remove the leaves in the middle
- as well as any existing inflorescences and infructescences.
- Cut the shoot diagonally in the middle,
- but without cutting it.
- Dig a shallow hollow below the shoot
- and plant it there with the cut part down.
- Fix the shoot with a bent wire or a stone.
- Keep the spot slightly damp.
tips
In the first two winters, the young plants should be covered with brushwood and/or leaves, at least in the root area, to protect them from the cold. Older specimens are significantly less sensitive to frost and other adverse weather conditions.