Pampas grass is a very easy-care ornamental grass that can also be planted in the garden as a privacy screen. If you need several pampas grasses, just multiply them yourself. Propagation is done either by seed or by dividing the rootstock.
Propagating pampas grass from seeds is possible, but a gamble
Grow pampas grass from seed
For sowing, it is better to use seeds that you bought in specialized stores. With self-collected seeds, it is a gamble which properties the young ornamental grasses will have. The fronds may later have a completely different color.
Also, you don't know if homegrown seeds will produce male or female plants. Male pampas grass develops few or no flower fronds and is therefore not as decorative. In the trade almost exclusively seeds for female pampas grass are offered.
- Prepare the seed tray with potting soil or coconut fibers
- Sow seeds thinly
- press lightly and moisten
- do not cover with substrate
- protect with foil or lid
- set up warm
- avoid direct sun
- prick out and plant out later
The best time for sowing is summer. However, the small plants are not hardy until winter, so you have to overwinter them in small pots. Only after the ice saints in the following spring can you put the propagated pampas grass plants in the garden or in a bucket.
Propagate pampas grass by division
The easiest way to propagate a pampas grass is by dividing the root ball. Not only is this guaranteed, you also have the assurance that the new plants will have exactly the same characteristics as the mother plant.
Dig up all or part of the eyrie. Prick it in half with the spade or break off smaller pieces. In order to propagate pampas grass from the root pieces, these must have at least two eyes. The pieces should be about the size of a man's fist.
Plant the pampas grass roots about ten centimeters deep in the soil at the desired location.
tips
If the clump of pampas grass has become too sprawling, it makes sense to divide it in spring to rejuvenate it. Rotten root parts are removed at the same time. The healthy root pieces are ideal for propagation.