How to Clone Blueberry Plants

The blueberry plant belongs to the genus Vaccinium, which also includes cranberries, huckleberries and azaleas. The blueberry is an easy-care bush, requiring sunshine, fast-draining and acidic soil. New blueberry bushes don't produce fruit until their third season and aren't fully estalished until their sixth, according to the Ohio State University Extension. If you've enjoyed the berries from a certain bush, it is easy to clone it with vegetative cuttings taken in the spring.

Pruning shears
Peat moss
Perlite
Planting pot
Rooting hormone
Heat mat

Instructions

- 1
  Cut a 6-inch piece of stem from the blueberry plant. Cut from a branch that is growing straight up, and make the cutting 1/2 inch below a leaf. Immediately wrap it in a moist paper towel and place in a plastic bag. Keep the cutting moist and cool.
- 2
  Combine moist peat moss and perlite, in equal parts, in a small container. Mix it well as you pour water over it. Poke a hole in the soil for the cutting, using a wooden chopstick or pencil.
- 3
  Remove the cutting from the bag and take off the leaves, leaving two at the top of the cutting.
- 4
  Pour 1 tsp. of rooting hormone into a small cup or bowl. Dip the bottom of the cutting into the hormone, which should cover the bottom 1 inch of the cutting. Place the blueberry cutting into the hole in the planting medium, burying at least two leaf nodes.
- 5
  Place the pot on the heat mat, set to 70 degrees Fahrenheit, in a sunny area. Water the cutting once a week to keep the soil moist.
- 6
  Apply a 15-30-4 fertilizer when the cutting has rooted. Dilute the fertilizer to half the strength recommended on the package.

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