Hi!
I’m a bit late with geraniums’ propagation. But with nasty weather and some health problems it wasn’t possible to propagate geraniums sooner. This should be done at the end of september, or when the temperatures are not extreemly hot anymore. It takes a bit of preparation since you have to drink yoghurt and keep the yoghurt cups over the year if you don’t want to buy extra containers for propagation.

Why propagate geraniums when you can just buy them?

Last year I found this amazing pink geranium and I just had to buy one. It was the EXACT color that we wanted. Even my hubby agreed with buying it. Especially since I told him I only need one plant and can populate the garden with it in couple of years by propagating the one plant that I bought.

So with promissing my hubby that I will only buy this one plant, I made sure it grows this summer so I have some shoots for propagation. Propagating geraniums is not something that is hard to do. And we don’t use any special containers, only yoghurt cups that we rinse and keep after drinking yoghurt.

Needed

Geranium to propagate
knife
planting soil
yoghurt plastic cups
rooting hormone (optional)

Procedure

1. Drill the hole in the bottom of the yoghurt cup
2. Fill the cup with potting soil
3. Cut the branch under forth node from the top
4. Remove any seed cases or flowers
5. Remove bottom leaves so you have only 4 leaves on top
6. Plant it in the soil so that bottom 2 nodes are below the soil (if you have some rooting hormone then dip the bottom most node in rooting hormone)
7. Put the cups on a tray or put the cup with the pant in another yoghurt cup that doesn’t have it’s bottom pierced
8. Water and put them indoors, in light place without full sun

Now all you have to do is water them weekly and wait for next year’s nice weather to start so you can plant them outside 🙂

See, no problems at all. 🙂