Chokeberry (aronia) - fruit shrub or tree family of pink. It is cultivated as a medicinal, food and ornamental plant. The birthplace of chokeberry is considered to be North America.
- Propagation of chokeberry
- Lignified cuttings
- Green cuttings
- Seed reproduction chokeberry Aronia
- Grafting of chokeberry
- Breeding rowan black choke
- The reproduction of chokeberry Aronia layering
- Breeding rowan black chokeberry root
Propagation of chokeberry
Culture is propagated by seeds and vegetatively; in any method, the mountain ash retains the characteristics of the mother plant and the varietal characteristics. Most often, in the cultivation of black chokeberry, reproduction is used by seed and green cuttings, these methods are considered the most effective.
Lignified cuttings
For reproduction of chokeberry chokeberry woody cuttings take last year's shoots from an adult bush. The shoots are cut in the second decade of September, so that the plant can take root before the frost.
The cut in the upper part is made at an angle, and in the lower straight. Cutting size - up to 20 cm, each should have up to six buds. The cuttings are planted into the ground at an angle, leaving only a couple of buds on the surface. The distance between plantings is up to 12 cm. Around the planted cutting after irrigation, the soil is mulched. 
Green cuttings
For successful cultivation of green cuttings, it is important to know how to cut the cuttings and provide the conditions for rooting. The cuttings will be planted in a cold frame; prepare the ground for planting: a mixture of garden soil with compost and wood ash.
The cuttings are cut from the young branches of the plant up to 15 cm long. In the lower part, leaves are removed, in the upper two or three leaves are shortened by a third. On the bark of the lower part of the cutting, several cuts are made, in the upper one under the bud.
Before planting chokeberry, the lower part of the stem is dipped into the root formation stimulator for eight hours, then planted at an angle into the greenhouse.The distance between the plants is at least 4 cm. After planting, the soil should be sprinkled over, covered with a greenhouse.
The optimum temperature for rooting is 20 ° C, if it is much higher, open and air it. The soil should be constantly moistened. After ten days, cuttings can be planted in open ground.
Rowan transfer to a permanent place is held next autumn. Caring for cuttings involves constant watering, loosening the soil and weeding with the removal of weeds, seedlings can spud.
Seed reproduction chokeberry Aronia
To obtain seeds, rub the rowan berries through a sieve, dip it in water to separate the pulp, and rinse.
Calcify the sand and mix the seeds with it, put them in the fridge on the bottom shelf for three months. Sand should be wet at all times.
In late April, you can conduct sowing. In the selected area make grooves up to 8 cm deep, sow the seeds, cover with soil. Mulch the bed with humus.
The grown seedlings of chokeberry Aronia from seeds can be transplanted next autumn.Up to this point, provide them with regular watering, manure dressing and loosening.
When sprouts have two or three leaves, thin them, leaving strong ones, the distance between them should be up to 3 cm. After the appearance of five leaves, thin out again, leaving 6 cm between seedlings. Thaw up to 10 cm next spring between shoots.
Grafting of chokeberry
The vaccination procedure is carried out in the spring. When breeding chokeberry inoculated as a stock, a rowan sapling is used.
The sprout of the rootstock is cut at a distance of 12 cm from the surface of the soil; a deep incision is made at the cut point, cleaving for scion. The scion's escape is cut off in wedge shape under splitting. After the graft has coincided with the rootstock, the vaccination site should be treated with garden pitch and wrapped with film.
For chokeberry when growing graft need a greenhouse effect: use a plastic bag, securing it under the site of vaccination. After thirty days, remove the package. 
Breeding rowan black choke
The root system of mountain ash is superficial and grows rapidly, occupying the area under the crown. In the spring, while there is no active development, the plant is dug out and divided into parts, removing old shoots. Each delenka should have young strong roots and several young branches. Cut the cut areas with charcoal.
How to plant and grow mountain ash by dividing the bush? At the bottom of the landing hole, add humus and superphosphate. Dip a seedling in a hole, sprinkle with soil, lightly tamp and pour. Leave a distance of two meters between the seedlings. Take care of a young seedling as an adult bush.
The reproduction of chokeberry Aronia layering
Aronia is replicated by horizontal layers in spring. Under the selected shrub digging the soil to a depth of half of the spade. Last year's strong shoots with young growths are laid in a dug groove.
So that the branch does not rise, it is fastened with staples, pinch the top of the branch. For layering care, as for the adult bush: watered and weed away from weeds.This is the easiest way to grow rowan from a branch.
After the young shoots 12 cm long grow from the buds, they are covered with humus. After some time, when the shoot will grow by another 12 cm, they are sprinkled again. Replant to a permanent place, separated from the plant donor, it is better next spring. 
Breeding rowan black chokeberry root
Another breeding method is the overgrown root shoots of mountain ash. The root system of chokeberry annually produces new root processes.
When grown in nutrient soil and timely feeding, their number increases. Root offsprings are cut from the bush of the parent with the edge of a spade, cut, leaving several buds, and transplanted to a prepared place.
Chokeberry is healthy and tasty. Jam and jams, marmalade and marshmallow, fragrant drinks are made from it. Rowan helps in the treatment of many unpleasant diseases. If you set out to grow black chokeberry on your site and do not know how to propagate and grow it, use the tips of this article. 
