Chokeberry (aronia) - fruit shrub or tree family of pink. It is cultivated as a medicinal, food and ornamental plant. North America is considered the birthplace of black chokeberry.
Propagation of chokeberry
Culture is propagated by seeds and vegetatively; in any method, the mountain ash retains the characteristics of the mother plant and the varietal characteristics. Most often, in the cultivation of chokeberry chokeberry used reproduction seed method and green cuttings, these methods are considered the most effective.
Did you know? Famous winemakers of the early 20th century Smirnov and Shustov made tincture of black chokeberry. According to legend, the production used a variety of Nevezhinskaya rowan, but the name was changed to Nezhin rowan to misinform competitors.
Lignified cuttings
For reproduction of chokeberry chokeberry with woody cuttings last year's shoots are taken from an adult bush. Shoots are cut in the second decade of September, so that the plant can take root before the frost.
The cut in the upper part is made at an angle, and in the lower straight. Cutting size - up to 20 cm, each should have up to six buds. Cuttings are planted in the ground at an angle, leaving only a couple of buds on the surface. The distance between plantings is up to 12 cm. Around the planted cutting after irrigation the soil is mulched. 
Green cuttings
For successful cultivation of green cuttings, it is important to know how to cut cuttings and provide the conditions for rooting. The cuttings will be planted in a cold frame; prepare the ground for planting: a mixture of garden soil with compost and wood ash.
The cuttings are cut from the young branches of the plant up to 15 cm long. In the lower part, leaves are removed, in the upper two or three leaves are shortened by a third. On the bark of the lower part of the cutting, several cuts are made, in the upper one under the bud.
Before planting chokeberry, the lower part of the cutting is dipped into the root formation stimulator for eight hours, then planted at an angle into the greenhouse. The distance between plants is at least 4 cm. After planting, the soil should be sprinkled over, covered with a greenhouse.
The optimum temperature for rooting is 20 ° C, if it is much higher, open and air. The soil should be constantly moistened. After ten days, cuttings can be planted in open ground.
Rowan transfer to a permanent place is held next autumn. Care for cuttings involves constant watering, loosening the soil and weeding with the removal of weeds, seedlings can spud.
Seed reproduction chokeberry Aronia
To obtain seeds, rub the rowan berries through a sieve, dip it in water to separate the pulp, and rinse.
Important! To ensure a high germination rate, rowan seeds need stratification.
Calcify the sand and mix the seeds with it, put them in the fridge on the bottom shelf for three months. The sand must be wet all the time.
In late April, you can conduct sowing. In the selected area make grooves up to 8 cm deep, sow the seeds, cover with soil. Mulch the bed with humus.
The grown seedlings of chokeberry Aronia from seeds can be transplanted next autumn. Up to this point, provide them with regular watering, manure dressing and loosening.
When sprouts have two or three leaves, thin them, leaving strong ones, the distance between them should be up to 3 cm. After the appearance of five leaves, thin out again, leaving 6 cm between seedlings. Thaw up to 10 cm between sprouts next spring.
Grafting of chokeberry
The vaccination procedure is carried out in the spring. When breeding chokeberry inoculated as a stock, a rowan sapling is used.
The sprout of the rootstock is cut at a distance of 12 cm from the surface of the soil, a deep incision is made at the cut point, splitting for a graft. The scion's escape is cut off in wedge shape under splitting. After the graft has coincided with the stock, the vaccination site needs to be treated with garden pitch and wrapped with film.
For chokeberry when growing graft need a greenhouse effect: use a plastic bag, securing it under the site of vaccination. After thirty days, remove the package. 
Attention! The plant after seven years of fruiting needs thinning of the crown. Older trees and shrubs pruned to the level of the soil, stimulating them to grow new shoots.
Breeding rowan black choke
Rowan root system is superficial and expands rapidly, occupying the area under the crown. In the spring, while there is no active development, the plant is dug out and divided into parts, removing old shoots. Each delenka should have young strong roots and several young branches. Cut the cut areas with charcoal.
How to plant and grow mountain ash by dividing the bush? At the bottom of the landing hole, add humus and superphosphate. Dip a seedling in a hole, sprinkle with soil, lightly tamp and pour. Leave a distance of two meters between the seedlings. Take care of a young seedling as an adult bush.
Interesting! Rowan in many nations was considered Vedovsky plant. The ancient tribes of the Celts, Scandinavians and Slavs used the plant in magical rituals and in the manufacture of amulets.
The reproduction of chokeberry aronia layers
Aronia reproduction by horizontal layers is carried out in the spring. Under the selected bush they dig up the ground to the depth of half a spade of shovels. Last year's strong shoots with young growths are laid in a dug groove.
To prevent the branch from rising, it is fastened with staples, the top of the branch is clamped. For layering care, as for the adult bush: watered and weed away from weeds. This is the easiest way to grow rowan from a branch.
After the young shoots 12 cm long grow from the buds, they are covered with humus. After some time, when the shoot will grow another 12 cm, one more time sprinkled. Replant to a permanent place, separated from the plant donor, it is better next spring. 
Breeding rowan black chokeberry suckers
Another method of reproduction - overgrown root shoots of mountain ash. The root system of chokeberry annually produces new root processes.
When grown in nutrient soil and timely feeding, their number increases. Root scions cut from the bush-parent shovel edge, cut, leaving a few buds, and transplanted to a prepared place.
Chokeberry is healthy and tasty. Jam and jams, marmalade and marshmallow, fragrant drinks are made from it. Rowan helps in the treatment of many unpleasant diseases. If you set out to grow black chokeberry on your site and do not know how to propagate and grow it, use the tips of this article. 
