The multi-colored lupins sown with seeds, after several seasons, "sprinkle" their seeds, from which the plants grow only in blue tones. To preserve the color you like, lupins are propagated vegetatively.
Lupins are usually propagated by seeds or cuttings. But, when sowing the collected seeds, the color of the flowers is almost not transmitted. Therefore, in order to preserve the qualities of the lupine color you like, green cuttings are used.
The most beautiful and favorite plants should be prepared for propagation by cuttings in the fall. Since the lupine bushes in the spring are renewed from the replacing buds located on the root collar, in the fall a nutritious earthy mixture is poured under the roots of the plants.
In spring, basal rosettes grow from such buds located on the root collar. They are carefully cut off from the "mother" and rooted in a moist, not heavy soil, slightly shading from the scorching sun. The cuttings take root quickly.
If you do not allow the inflorescence to bloom and cut it off, then lateral shoots will develop on the stem and in the axils of the leaves. They can be used as summer cuttings. At the end of summer, lupins again grow small root rosettes of leaves, which can serve as cuttings for new plants. Therefore, lupins can be propagated both in spring and summer. Rooted spring cuttings can please with their flowering in the first year, already in the fall.
It is difficult to propagate adult lupins by dividing the bush. They are difficult to divide, and the transplanted plants do not take root well.
