It is much easier to buy ready-made plants in a garden center or tree nursery than to laboriously grow them yourself. However, it is much more fun to raise your own "plant baby" right from the start. If you want to propagate the farmer's hydrangea "Endless Summer", take cuttings from mother plants that are as healthy and happy as possible. Otherwise, the cutting plant taken from it will also become ailing.
The hydrangea Endless Summer can be propagated via cuttings and sinkers
Propagation by cuttings
Hydrangeas like the Endless Summer hydrangea are easiest to propagate from cuttings. The best time for the cuttings propagation is the summer months of June and July, but you should select shoots without flower buds or remove any existing ones. There are several methods to root these cuttings.
Rooting in the water glass
For the water glass rooting, proceed as described:
- Fill a glass with water.
- Cover it with clear film.
- Poke holes in this foil, this is where the cuttings will go through.
- Cut off the desired number of shoot tips with a sharp knife.
- Remove all the bottom leaves, leaving only a maximum of two at the top.
- Insert the cuttings through the holes in the water glass.
- The stems should be a few inches in the water.
- After some time, roots form at the interface.
- Once enough roots have formed, you can place the cuttings in pots.
Put the cuttings in the growing substrate
However, it is a bit less complicated to dip the freshly cut cuttings in a rooting powder and put them either individually in pots or in boxes with growing substrate. You can still get very close. Use a stick to drill holes in the slightly moist soil and insert the cuttings with the interface. Then press them down lightly and pour them over. If you increase the humidity by covering the planter with foil or putting a mason jar over the cutting, the young hydrangeas will root faster.
Multiply hydrangeas using sinkers
The hydrangea "Endless Summer" can also be propagated very well and easily using sinkers. To do this, look for suitable, healthy shoots without flower buds and remove all foliage except for two leaves at the top. Now bend the shoot down to the ground and make a slight diagonal cut in the area to be rooted. This spot is placed in a small hollow, fixed and covered with earth. The tip of the shoot remains free. The roots form after about a year, until then the young plant should remain on the mother plant.
tips and tricks
Like almost all hydrangeas, the farmer's hydrangea "Endless Summer" can also be propagated by division.