Indoor plants have a hard time of it in a well-heated living room and office. It's a good thing that there are exotic gems, such as the birch fig with its multifaceted species. Anyone who has become acquainted with its advantages once wants more copies. You can safely leave your wallet in the pocket, because it's so easy to multiply your Benjamini.
The propagation of the Ficus Benjamini works best via cuttings
Cut Benjamini cuttings and root them - Here's how
Spring is the best time to propagate a Ficus benjamina using cuttings. This choice of date gives the offshoots enough time to root until the tricky winter time. How to proceed professionally:
- Cut shoot tips with a length of 15 cm
- Start the scissors under a pair of leaves or leaf nodes
- Tear off the lower half of the leaves
- Cultivation pots (16.68€) fill with peat sand or coconut fiber substrate and moisten
- Put 2 or 3 cuttings in each
Put a plastic bag over each pot. Wooden sticks act as spacers so that there are no points of contact between plastic and offshoots. At the warm, partially shaded window seat, spray the cuttings and substrate regularly without waterlogging. The sprouting of fresh leaves signals that the hood can be removed.
Once the cuttings have rooted through their pot, they are repotted in potting soil enriched with perlite,(37.51€) sand or lava granules.(13.99€) You encourage bushy, compact growth by placing the cuttings of a birch fig after repotting sharpen. To do this, cut back the shoot tips by about a third.
Green-leaved varieties root in a glass of water
The offshoots of a green-leaved birch fig are so robust that they take root in a glass of water. Place the half-defoliated cuttings in a vessel with boiled water on the partially shaded, warm window sill. Add a bit of charcoal, which will stop rot from forming. When roots are about 3 cm long, pot your offspring in a mix of standard soil and lava granules.
tips
To cut cuttings, please carry the birch fig outside. Thanks to this care, living and working spaces are spared from contamination from the sticky, toxic milky juice. Afterwards, rinse the plant off briefly with soft water and let it dry before it takes up its place in the house again.