Turn One Petunia Into Ten—Create a Lush Flowerbed for Free With This Simple Method
Stop overpaying: the simple hack that could save you thousands of rubles, starting today.
Want a balcony or garden dripping with petunias without paying petunia money for every single plant? Same. A single trailing (ampel) petunia runs about 100–150 rubles. Multiply that by 10–20 and the math gets rude. The fix: take one great-looking plant and clone it. It is simple, fast, and the new plants keep every trait you loved in the original.
What you need
- A healthy, already grown mother petunia
- Substrate: peat mixed with perlite (perlite holds moisture so the mix dries slower)
- Small cups, about 100 ml, with drainage holes
- A plastic box (a produce crate or fruit/veggie container works)
- Plastic film
- A rooting stimulant, for example "Kornevin"
Set up your rooting zone
Line the bottom of the plastic box with film to help keep the humidity up. Fill the cups with your peat-perlite mix, press it lightly so it settles, and moisten it evenly.
Take and prep the cuttings
From the mother plant, snip cuttings 5–7 cm long. Any buds on those shoots? Remove them so all the energy goes into roots, not flowers. On each cutting, strip the lower leaves and keep the top leaves intact.
Rooting the cuttings
Dip the fresh lower cut into "Kornevin" (or another rooting stimulant). Slide the cutting into the damp substrate so the leaves you kept sit above the surface. Top up the mix around the stem and water again to settle it in place.
Make a mini greenhouse
Set the cups inside the lined box and cover the top with plastic film. That little tent traps the high humidity roots love. Move the box to a shaded spot with no direct sun—think a greenhouse corner or just an indoor space out of harsh light.
Lift the film daily for a quick airing. That routine keeps mold and fungal trouble away. If the mix starts to dry, moisten it; if the leaves look thirsty, give the cuttings a light mist.
Timeline and transplanting
Roots show up in about 10–14 days. Start increasing the venting time so the plants adjust; after a couple of days of longer vents, remove the film entirely. Once the root system wraps the entire soil plug in the cup, you are clear to transplant to a permanent home—pots, hanging baskets, or open ground.
End result: roughly ten new plants from one standout petunia, all true to type, and a lot of rubles saved for literally anything more fun than buying duplicates.