Delicious vitamin berry-raspberry is popular with both children and adults. In addition to the inexpressible aroma and sweetness, raspberry and useful properties are remarkable, which makes it simply irreplaceable in the slushy-influenza autumn-winter period. Varieties of raspberries are derived quite a lot, so that everyone can find one that fully satisfies both taste and growing conditions. After this, the gardener will have one task - to master the simple rules of reproduction of raspberries. About how the raspberry propagation occurs in autumn, you can learn from our article.
Reproduction of raspberry cuttings
As a starting material (uterine plants) for raspberry breeding, shrubs aged 4-5 years are suitable. For the preparation of cuttings, only healthy plants that are not susceptible to attack by pests or pathogens can be used. Do not cut cuttings and shrubs that are with patients in the immediate neighborhood, because there is a high probability of spreading the infection throughout the raspberry. Once the uterine plants are identified, you can proceed directly to reproduction. His way will depend directly on the type of raspberries.
Ordinary raspberries can be propagated by green or root cuttings, as well as by root offspring. Green cuttings are used in summer, and root methods are quite available in autumn, and are usually combined with sanitary trimming. The root cuttings harvested during this period are placed for wintering in a damp and cool room, and in spring they are planted either in a greenhouse or immediately at a constant place. Root offspring are separated from the mother plant with an acute knife or shovel, and then transplanted to a new place together with a clod of earth. Reproduction by cuttings of the black-boned (black) and repairing raspberries has its own specifics, which we will talk about below.
Reproduction by cuttings of black raspberries
Breeding of black-berry or, as it is often called, black raspberries has its own specifics. At the end of summer, the tips of the shoots of such a raspberry begin to tilt to the ground, and at their ends characteristic loops are formed, covered with small leaves. Their appearance signals that raspberries are ready for reproduction. The task of the horticulturist during this period is to help the plant by pulling the tops to the ground and providing them with loose nutrient soil and regular watering. If these conditions are met, then by the end of autumn the tops will take root and become independent bushes. Now it's up to the little one - carefully cut them off from the mother plant and transplant them with a lump of earth to a new place. Depending on how successfully the rooting process has passed, the transplant can be performed in the fall or postponed until the spring.
Propagation of raspberry raspberries by cuttings
Since the repair raspberry has certain peculiarities and gives few shoots, the root cuttings are used for its propagation - lateral branches of the root, suitable for further independent growth and development. They are harvested usually in late autumn, during the sanitary pruning of the raspberries, in order to plant in the early spring. Prior to planting cuttings stored in a cellar or cellar, wrapped in linen fabric and buried in moistened sand. In the spring the planting material is laid in shallow (about 5 cm) trenches flat, abundantly watered and covered with a layer of loose and fertile soil. Above the trench a mini-greenhouse of polyethylene film is built, which is then periodically opened for ventilation and is finally removed only after the appearance of young shoots from the ground.