Rowan - exceptionally beautiful plant, besides decorative at all times of the year. In the summer, it is a colorful bloom of delicate pastel-colored flowers with a light pleasant aroma; in the autumn - incredible shades of foliage: from hot yellow to purple-red; in winter, gorgeous scarlet clusters of bead berries.
If you are going to propagate a useful and beautiful culture on your plot, from this article you will learn how to grow rowan from seeds, from a branch, with a root growth. Detailed recommendations of the article will help you decide on the most convenient method for you to propagate a plant.
Planting Rowan Red Seed
Rowan ordinary fairly easy to grow from seed. From fully ripe fruit, squeeze out the seeds, rinse and dry. Seeds are stored in wet sand in a cool place.
In the spring, in the grooves with a uniform layer they are sown to a depth of 8 cm, covered with clean sand with a layer and a half centimeters. Up to 250 seeds are sown per square meter. After sowing, the soil is leveled and watered through a fine sieve.
When a pair of leaves appear at the seedlings, they are thinned, leaving a distance of three centimeters. The next thinning is carried out in the presence of five leaves, leaving six centimeters between shoots. The next spring leaves the strongest seedlings with a distance of at least 10 cm from each other.
Care of rowan seedlings when grown with seeds consists in moistening the soil, loosening and weeding from weeds. Spring is fertilized with liquid organic: 5 kg slurry per square meter. The newly grown young seedlings are transplanted to a permanent place in the fall of the second year.
Important! To get a bountiful harvest, it is recommended to plant several different varieties.
Rowan propagation by red grafting
The rowan ordinary when propagated by grafting is most suitable splitting method. In January, cuttings of the current year are cut, they are knitted into bunches and instilled vertically in the soil or sand to a depth of 15 cm.
In early spring, an annual seedling is selected for the stock, dug and cleaned of soil clods. In the upper part of the root do split in 3 cm depth. A strong stalk with developed buds is selected, a double wedge-shaped slice is made in the lower part of the shoot so that it coincides with the size of the cleft. The upper part of the cutting is cut at an oblique angle above the upper bud.
The graft is placed in a cleft, the junction is wrapped with a film, the top of the graft is treated with a garden pitch. Ready grafted seedlings are planted in a greenhouse so that the junction is on the ground surface. Sand and peat are used as soil in equal parts. The seedling should not dry out, it is necessary to moisten the soil and the air. After successful splicing, the seedling is planted on a permanent place in the open ground, cutting off the sprouts on the stock.
Rowan rowaning
For the cultivation of mountain ash is well suited propagation method by cuttings - green and lignified. Preference is given to green cuttings, since plants one year old already have a strong root system.
Did you know? In times of paganism, mountain ash was the subject of a magical cult among many tribes: the Celts, Slavs, Scandinavians. She was considered a talisman from evil spirits, witchcraft; honored as the patroness of the warriors. Magical runes were made of mountain ash.
Green cuttings
Cuttings harvested in the first days of summer. To cutting rowan brought a positive result, you need to know how to cut the cuttings. The length of the cutting is from 10 to 15 cm; the shoots must have developed buds and several leaves; the cut is made at an angle.
Before planting, the lower part of the shoot is left in the root formation stimulator for six hours.
During this time, a greenhouse is prepared: a dredged river sand is poured with a layer of up to 10 cm to a dug up and cleaned layer of soil.
At the end of the summer, the seedlings are transplanted to another growing area. Care of seedlings implies watering by spraying, airing the greenhouse at too high a temperature.
Before planting rowan saplings on a permanent place cuttings harden, leaving the greenhouse open. First, the film is removed for a couple of hours, gradually increasing the time and eventually left open for the night.
As soon as the seedlings take root, the greenhouse support is removed and the first feeding with nitrogen mineral compounds (30 g of ammonium nitrate per 8 liters of water) is carried out. The soil around the seedlings is cleaned from weeds and loosened. The following autumn, rowan bushes are transplanted to a permanent place.
Attention! Rowan grows very quickly and is actively developing, therefore, fertilizing and trimming procedures are carried out in a short time.
Woody cuttings
For reproduction of red rowan woody cuttings take strong annual shoots from two or four-year branches.
They are cut in the second decade of September. Cuttings cut a length of 15-20 cm, each should be about five buds.
Landing is carried out on the same day. In a clean dug up soil planted at a distance of 15 cm between the cuttings, between the rows - up to 70 cm. Planting is made obliquely, leaving two buds from above, one above the ground. The cuttings are watered, crush the soil, squeezing voids and mulch with peat. For successful rooting and further transplantation, the soil is constantly moistened and loosened.
Important! If for any reason the planting is carried out in the spring, then before it the cuttings are stored in the moistened sand in the cellar.
Breeding rowan vulgaris layers
For reproduction of mountain ash with layers in a previously prepared groove, a strong one-year shoots are bent. Carry out the procedure in the spring with well-heated soil. The area under the cuttings dug up and cleaned from weeds.
The shoot is placed in the groove and pressed with wire clips. The top of the shoot pinch. When the first shoots of 10 centimeters in length, they fall asleep to half the humus. The procedure is repeated when the shoots reach another 15 cm. The following spring, the layers are separated from the mother bush and transplanted to a permanent place.
Rowan propagation by red root suckers
Every year around the trunk grows a lot of root rowan sprouts. Sprouts with success use for reproduction in the spring. To do this, they are cut off and transplanted into a separate hole immediately to a permanent place.
The pit for the seedling should be in depth and width up to 80 cm. The distance between plantings is up to six meters. The pit is filled with the prepared mixture: compost, nutritious soil in equal parts, for a pinch of wood ash and superphosphate, two shovels of rotted manure. After planting it is plentifully watered, the central trunk is cut off by a third, the side shoots are cut the next spring.
Interesting! Slavs covered the foliage of mountain ash newlyweds shoes, considering it a talisman for a happy family life. Rods and spindles were made of rowan wood, and cloth was painted with juice of berries.
