Barbaris: reproduction by cuttings in spring and summer

Barbaris is a universal plant used for various purposes. Gardeners appreciate it for small berries with sour taste, serving as a wonderful seasoning in cooking, marinades and pickles, the basis for compotes. Landscape designers choose shrubs as a bright element in decoration, especially in autumn and summer against the backdrop of thick concha or in a single planting.

Barbaris: description and varieties

A fairly large genus includes mainly shrubs, less often trees. Plants are highly resistant to heat, carry even poor soils and grow rapidly, which allows them to be used to create a hedgerow. This is also facilitated by the fact that reproduction of barberry by cuttings in spring or summer passes quickly and in most cases successfully, which allows obtaining new plants in a short time without hassle. Representatives of the genus are low shrubs and trees, deciduous, semi-or evergreen.

The most famous were the following types:

1. Barberry is ordinary. It is a very tall (up to 3 m), abundant branching shrub. Popular in culture and unpretentious in leaving is barberry. Reproduction by cuttings or division of a bush is not difficult. Characteristic high resistance to frost. Several forms with ornamental leaves, including Alba variegata, are derived.
2. Barbaris Tunberga (pictured above). Deciduous shrub up to 2.5 m in height and arcuate branches falling to the ground. It is valued for the high decorative of leaves of bright red and yellow shades, fruits are not used for food. If there is a need to strengthen slopes or ravines, it is the Tunberga barberry that is planted. Reproduction by cuttings is possible, but, as a rule, planting with seeds or seedlings is practiced.
3. Barbaris Ottawa. In our latitudes, shrubs are rare. The height is about 2 meters, the main advantage is the leaves, which in summer have a pink-violet color, reincarnating for the winter in a bright crimson color. Frosty, rapidly growing. It has a variety of varieties (superba, auricoma, silver miles, etc.)

Reproduction of barberry by cuttings

In spring, in summer and in autumn, the shrub can be propagated by means of cuttings. For this, one-year, lignified branches with 4-5 internodes, 15-20 cm in length are used. If you choose early spring for vegetative propagation , then it is best to do this before the kidneys begin to swell. The first time you need to withstand the cuttings in the fridge, and the rooting begins only when the soil warms up.

In the case of autumn propagation, proceed as late as possible, but before the frosty weather. Shoots are cut with a sharp knife and stored in a basement in a container with wet sand. Take care that they do not become moldy. Next, the actions are the same - landing in the ground, as soon as it warms up. To begin with, you can use a small boy, if successful, transplant the young plants to a permanent place.

Barbaris: reproduction with green cuttings

Such material takes root much easier. For propagation by cuttings, use annual growths when the bark becomes elastic on them, but not yet woody. For example, barberry Tunberga reproduction cuttings is excellent and has a high level of survival.

Experts advise to use the middle part from the shoot (diameter about 5 mm). The length of the cut should be from 7 to 10 cm, consider the number of internodes, there should be two or three. Make the upper cut straight, and the bottom at an angle of 45 degrees. It is also recommended to remove the lower pair of leaves from the cuttings, and cut the top ones by half or one third. By this method, barberry propagates by cuttings in summer (at its beginning).

The substrate with sand and peat content in a ratio of 1: 3 is best suited. Plant the cuttings obliquely, leaving one interstice on the surface. For successful rooting, a temperature of 20-25 ° C and a high humidity of 85-90% are required. If you choose hard-to-cut barberry, propagation by cuttings is best done using growth regulators (auxins, IMC, IAA, etc.), as this increases the survival rate. These include the following types: coin, Canadian, whole-edge, etc.

Breeding Multiplication

For these purposes shrubs with the age of 3-5 years are best suited. It is especially good to use specimens with a loose crown and planted with a depth of 10 cm. The shrub is excavated early in the spring, before the sap flow begins. With the help of a pruner barberry are divided into 2 or 3 parts (including the root system). Further, each daughter bush is put on a permanent place. This method is applicable only to those plants in which shoots branch below the soil level.

Reproduction by layers

The method is extremely simple and very effective. In the early spring, once the soil has dried, select an annual shoot on the bush. Next to it, dig a small groove to a depth of about 15-20 cm. Then tilt the branch, gently lay it there and secure it with a metal or wooden stud, fill it with earth. Above the surface of the soil should remain only the tip of the branch. By autumn, the shoot forms its root system, and it can be easily separated from the mother plant. Using this method, you can get any barberry. Reproduction by cuttings does not always give a positive result, but everything is simple and easy.

Growing barberry from seeds

For these purposes, you can use not only purchased material, but also own production. To do this, collect the mature berries of barberry and clean them from the pulp with a sieve, thoroughly rinse and dry in natural conditions. The sowing is best carried out during the winter, it is possible in the box or directly into the ground, the depth of the closure is 1 cm. If breeding is in the spring, stratification is necessary for 2-4 months at a temperature of 2 to 5 ° C above zero. As soon as the seedlings have a couple of real leaves, they need to be weeded out, leaving a distance of at least 3-5 cm. They are taking barberry to a permanent place at the age of two.

If you want, as they say, to catch two birds with one stone, namely to get a harvest of berries and decorate your plot, then safely choose barberry. Reproduction by cuttings, bush or seeds does not cause difficulties, and the shrub itself is unpretentious and very resistant to heat, frost and even high gassing of city air.