Geraniums are popular balcony plants. Buying new plants every year can be expensive. Therefore our tip: multiply geraniums in 6 steps.
Geraniums can be found in almost every apartment and on almost every balcony or terrace. There are different types and different colors. And even scented geraniums are commercially available. Geraniums are flowers that should be stored in a cool, dark place in winter and cut back in spring. They come back again and again and delight with lush flowers. Anyone who wants to can geraniums propagate themselves
without having to buy them.
Propagating geraniums - this is how it works
- Simply cut off a shoot tip about 5 centimeters long that must not have any flowers.
- Remove the lower leaves from this shoot tip, leaving only the top two to three.
- Now these tips come in potting soil. Make sure that the tip is only inserted into the soil so far that the leaves are not covered, otherwise they can rot.
- Keep the cuttings warm and water them properly.
- After six weeks, roots have formed.
- They can then be transplanted into independent and larger pots next spring.