Almost completely unknown, but a very interesting way to propagate chokeberry is to plant it on the rowan tree.This treatment is possible because chokeberry is closely related to rowan (more often known as rowan).Both plants grow together well after being combined and successfully grow for many years. A chokeberry multiplied in this way will have an unusual shape.
Instead of typical shrubs branching from the ground itself, we get an interesting trunk with a tall trunk, and only at a certain height the actual aronia bush.After inoculation, we will get a shape that looks more like a tree than a bush.The advantages of this form of chokeberry are the possibility of maintaining and caring for the lawn under the shrub and the ease of harvesting the fruit.This vaccination is quite a simple procedure.
The most appropriate time to graft chokeberry on mountain ash is spring.It is believed that the best time is when the sap has already started working in the plant and the young bark is easily removed from the wood.This usually happens in April. After purchasing the rowan tree, we plant it immediately in the chosen place in the garden.
If the tree is too small, it is worth waiting a year to bring out a taller trunk.We will then be able to inoculate chokeberry quite high, even at a height of over 1.5 meters. It is only up to us how high the trunk will grow new aronia shoots.
The next step is to choose the correct height of the trunk.Usually it is about 1-1.5 meters from the ground. Cut off the entire upper part of the rowan above this height. Cut young twigs from the chokeberry bush.The best ones are slightly smaller than a pencil in diameter, but they can also be thinner.
Plant propagation techniques
Use a sharp grafting knife to cut the thicker end of the scion as obliquely as possible so that the resulting plane is smooth and without jagged edges of the bark. Then it is enough to cut the bark from the top down on the rowan trunk and gently open its edges.Put the prepared scion into the created slit so that the rowan wood and chokeberry twigs stick to each other as much as possible. We can set up more such twigs, especially if we have a thicker trunk.
After a few weeks, when the chokeberry twigs have fused with the trunk, pull off the string. We also cut out all the side branches on the rowan so that only one trunk remains, and the chokeberry above it.These wounds will heal quickly and soon there will be no trace of the cut off shoots.
