Would you like to grow a privet hedge or beautify your garden and tub with a shrub that is very easy to cut? Simply grow offshoots of the privet yourself. It's easy and you often have a new plant after a year.

Making offshoots from privet is very easy

Pull offshoots from the privet

Growing offshoots from a privet is very easy. All you need is a healthy mother plant. Cut cuttings or sticks from it. Since privet has to be cut frequently, especially in the early years, there will be no shortage of material.

There are three options to choose from as methods for obtaining nucs:

  • cut cuttings
  • Use sticks
  • Lower privet shoots

The best time to grow offshoots from the privet

If you want to grow privet from cuttings, use the early spring. Sticks are best used in late summer. Propagation via cuttings is possible at any time except in winter. Spring or autumn are best.

Grow privet from cuttings

You can grow cuttings in seed pots, but you can also plant them directly outdoors. You need young shoots about 20 cm long. Remove the bottom leaves and trim the top. Stick the shoot into the ground and tap the substrate well.

Water the cuttings regularly, but avoid waterlogging. Roots should have formed by fall.

Sticks as offshoots

For this you need small branches of the privet, which are already lignified below. They accrue, for example, when you put a privet on stick. Simply stick the sticks into the ground at the desired location and tread down the soil. Now all you have to do is water regularly and the cuttings will root within a few months.

Pull privet out of sinkers

  • select drive
  • score lightly in the middle
  • bend to the ground
  • cover with earth
  • If necessary, fix with stones or tent pegs
  • water regularly

Only the scratched part of the sinker is covered with earth. The tip of the shoot must still stick out of the ground.

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In principle, you can also obtain offshoots from the seeds that ripen in the slightly poisonous berries. However, this takes time and is not nearly as successful as propagation via cuttings or sticks.

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