Black-eyed Susans are excellent for planting as a summer privacy screen. To propagate the pretty climbing plants, you can either grow the Black-eyed Susan from seeds or cut top cuttings. This is how propagation works via cuttings.

Healthy, green shoots are best suited as cuttings of black-eyed Susanne

The best time for cutting cuttings

Cut cuttings either from August or from January to March if you have overwintered the black-eyed Susan indoors.

It is cheaper to cut the cuttings in spring because the light conditions are better than in autumn.

You will also need to overwinter cuttings cut in late summer indoors, which is often a space issue.

cut cuttings

Using a sharp, clean knife, cut individual shoots from the plant.

Select only shoots that are long enough and mature, but still green. Woody branches are not suitable for propagation by cuttings.

How to grow Black-eyed Susans from cuttings

  • cut cuttings
  • Remove lower leaves
  • Put in permeable potting soil
  • keep moist
  • Set up warm and bright
  • Put on foil or cover

Remove any lower leaves. They would rot in the ground. At least three pairs of leaves must remain on the cutting.

Use clean potting soil. To loosen them up, mix in some sand.

The soil must be kept evenly moist, but never wet. A foil or glass cover prevents drying out.

Transplant into the pot

Once the cuttings have developed roots, plant two to three cuttings in one pot, depending on the pot size. You will know that the cuttings have developed roots when new leaves form.

Stick a small stick into the pot, this will make it easier to transplant into a bucket or garden soil later.

Place on the balcony or plant in the garden

Since the black-eyed Susanne does not tolerate frost, you may only bring the plants you have grown yourself onto the balcony or plant them in the garden after the ice saints.

tips and tricks

Black-eyed Susans are non-venomous vines that twine counterclockwise up trellises. On the balcony, they can also be kept very well as traffic light plants. The shoots with the flowers then hang down decoratively.

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