How to Clone Blueberry Bushes
- 1). Cut a shoot off of the mother plant using a sharp knife. If the plant is dormant, choose one with healthy buds less than 1/4 inch in diameter. Softwood cuttings should have healthy leaves and be 5 to 9 inches long.
- 2). Slice 1/2 of an inch of bark off of both sides of the bottom of the stem with a knife. This should be done for hardwood cuttings only.
- 3). Make a mixture consisting of 50 percent sphagnum peat moss and 50 percent coarse-washed concrete sand in the flower pot.
- 4). Push your finger into the potting mixture to make a hole deep enough to cover 60 percent of the cutting.
- 5). Place the cutting into the hole so that 60 percent of the shoot is below the soil line. Fill in around the plant using the potting mixture.
- 6). Water the blueberry shoot with the watering can. Stop when water is running out the drainage holes. Continue to water the young plant once a week.
- 7). Wait one month after the leaves begin to develop to add fertilizer. Follow the directions found on a 15-30-4 fertilizer to fertilize the blueberry plant.
- 8). Plant the blueberry plant in the ground one year after beginning the cloning process.