Tip Layering
Tip layering takes advantage of some plants' capacity to strike roots wherever a stem tip touches the ground, and is particularly useful for propagating new soft-fruit bushes such as raspberries and blackberries.
Method
- The technique is relatively simple; in summer, a young, vigorous shoot tip is buried in a 10 cm (4 in) hole, pegged into place and left until late autumn.
- The tip grows downward first, then bends sharply and grows upward, with roots forming at the bend.
- The stem can then be cut close to the new rooted plant to separate it from the parent plant.
- It may be dug up at this point and potted on, or it may be left to establish in situ until the following spring before being transplanted.