22.05.2024

How to fertilize and propagate geranium: the tricks to make it grow lush

By Lesia

Do you want to propagate geranium in your home at no cost? That is how! It may seem difficult, but just follow a few simple steps to start from a small plant and then fill the entire house with color. You’ll need some materials that are easy to find and you can see the rest of the process in our video!

Do you have geraniums at home but would you like to care for them in a more natural and effective way to literally fill your balcony? That is how! Maybe until today you thought that the only solution would be to buy a new seedling and, however, from the one you already have at home, you can have many more! The infallible and totally natural tricks to fertilize and multiply them at no cost!
Fertilizer do it yourself

Ingredients:

  • 3 drops of castor oil
  • 1/2 tablespoon hydrogen peroxide
  • 1l of water

Preparation:

  1. We dilute all the ingredients together and then use the mixture obtained directly on the soil to fertilize. Our geraniums will immediately become more lush!

And to spread it?

Materials:

  • Coal
  • Geranium cutting
  • Glass to recycle
  • rope wire
  • universal floor
  • Perlite
  • Old jam jar

Preparation:

  1. Here’s the trick to free propagation of your geraniums! We start by taking a cut and with the help of well-disinfected scissors we are going to remove the leaves from the cut, leaving only the last ones at the top.
  2. Now we prepare a bowl that crumbles the activated carbon and submerges the live part of the cut. This will help as a rooting hormone for the plant. Now let’s prepare the jar. Let’s take an old jam jar and fill it half with water. Then we took a paper cup to recycle and drilled a hole in the bottom.
  3. At this point we pass a thread of rope inside so that it is knotted well and stops so that the longest part is outside the glass. Now we are going to fill it with a mixture of soil and perlite. Only at the end can we insert the cut into the glass, and then the glass into the jar so that the string touches the water.
  4. We wait a few weeks and our cutting will have rooted, it will only be 20 days before we can bury it in its new pot!