can anyone help me take lilac cuttings?
bizzarbazzar
17 years ago
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georgez5il
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Can/Should I Cut Flowers From My Lilac Bush?
Comments (11)No, like flowering bulbs, cutting the flowers makes for better flowers next year, because you prevent plant energy spent on growing seeds. I cut off all the flower clusters when they fade on my very young bushes, so they use energy on growing, not seeds. Lilac bushes SHOULD be cut, they are FOR being enjoyed where you want them in vases or being given away. Church flowers, nursing home friends, spread the flowers around! I get so many good memories of things, when I sniff smelly lilacs!! For your lovely bush in the long run, some judicious pruning is helpful to it. I try to keep the sucker sprouts reduced to a couple new ones instead of many, each year. A little renewal coming along if I want to take out an old stem. New stems often bloom very well. I look at the bush to see if old trunks are still producing flowers in quantity. Sometimes they get so tall, you can't enjoy the flowers, so taking out an old trunk makes the flowers more available, VISIBLE to people on the ground. Sounds mean, but pruning your bush is actually good for it, and the flowering you want in the future. Pruning is one of the hardest things I had to learn, but the great results after have made me a believer. Prune as soon as the flowers are done, won't bother next years flowers at all. I am trying some stem braiding, which I saw on some old bushes. Just braided up some sucker stems, tied near the top with string. Will take some time, years, but fun to try for visual interest on the bushes someday. Smashing or cross cutting the woody stems, does help the flowers drink better, so they last longer. Mine are just opening now, smells GREAT outside....See MoreLilacs Won't Bloom - Help Me!
Comments (15)Lilacs should be pruned of crossed over branches and old growth in danger of becoming diseased. Your lilac will not bloom on the pruned section the next year. Lilacs also need to be limed if your soil is acidic. Lilacs need the same conditions as a well manicured lawn and that is why you see so many growing in the middle of a lawn. Some lilacs bloom twice once in the spring and smaller blooms in the fall. Lilacs should also have the dead blossom carefully removed and I am sure you can find information on how to do this on the web. It must be done properly. This causes the lilac to have twice as many blooms set the next year. I have five in my yard and all bloom every year....See Morecan anyone take some cuttings of there surinam cherries
Comments (1)You mean the regular american cherries (like bing)??? Those are not related to the Suriname cherry as far as I know. The word cherry is very confusing. See this link for the surinam cherry. I have eaten those in the past and you really have to "grow" into the taste. To me they have a medicinal aftertaste. http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/surinam_cherry.html...See MorePlease help me decide - should I take cuttings?
Comments (7)If you should take cuttings from them or not would all depend on what is wrong with them, why they "don't seem to be doing that well"? If it is a disease problem then cuttings are a waste of time. If it is a nutrient problem then the cuttings will have the same problems unless you ID and fix it. Is it lack of sun, lack of water, what are the symptoms? Otherwise I agree with the advice above - trench in the entire plant leaving just the growing tip exposed and hope for the best recovery and production. Dave...See MoreDrakens
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