How to Propagate Bleeding Hearts from Stem Cuttings
There are some plants that grow so easily from stem cuttings that from a single parent plant you can propagate an almost unlimited number of clones.
Along with impatiens, I find bleeding hearts (Lamprocapnos spp. formerly Dicentra spp.) to be some of the easiest garden plants to start via cuttings.
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And unlike starting from seed, the plants propagated with this method will be genetic replicas of the parent.
If you need a refresher about how to grow bleeding hearts, visit our guide. Or, if you’d like to learn how to propagate bleeding hearts using methods other than stem cuttings our guide has you covered.
Just because it’s easy to start your plants from stem cuttings, that doesn’t mean you don’t need some knowledge to do it right. This guide will give you the information you need.
Here are the topics we’ll go over:
When to Take Cuttings
You can take stem cuttings anytime, however for best results you should start this project in early spring before any flower buds have developed.
If you miss the early spring window of opportunity, those taken in summer can be just as successful, but as summer wanes into fall and the plant starts to die back, there’s a good chance the cuttings won’t survive.
Tools Needed
You don’t need much to take a cutting from a bleeding heart plant.
A pair of clean pruners or sharp scissors, a clean four- or six-inch container for each stem section you wish to root, a soil-free potting medium, and some rooting hormone, though the latter is optional.
Rooting hormone encourages a plant to develop roots more quickly, which is helpful.
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