This is how cultivation succeeds (sleeping tree)

Growing the sleeping tree from seeds

The sleeping tree can be grown from seeds. However, it takes a long time to grow. In the first year the sleeping tree blooms neither. To do this, he must first be several years old and tall enough.

Of course, you can also buy the seeds for silk acacias from specialist gardeners.

How to get seeds for the silk tree

If your sleeping tree is already blooming, you can harvest seeds yourself for growing new trees. Fruiting bodies up to 15 centimeters long develop from the flowers, in which the seeds mature.

Once the seeds are brown, pick them up and leave them to sowing dry well.

Warning: The fruiting bodies and seeds of the silk acacia are poisonous. Keep them out of the reach of children.

Sow the silk acacia and continue to care for it

• Let the seeds soak for a day
• Growing pots(€ 9.70 at Amazon *) prepare
• Lay out seeds and cover only lightly with soil
• keep soil moistured
• Cover with a plastic hood
• Growing pots set up bright and very warm
• Later transplant the sleeping tree into pots

The temperatures at the location of the plant pots must be very high. It is ideal for germination when it is at least 25 degrees.

To prevent the seeds from drying out, cover the pots with cling film. Ventilate them regularly so that nothing goes moldy.

Plant out the sleeping tree

As soon as the young silk trees have reached a height of 15 to 20 centimeters, repot them in pots with normal potting soil.

Keep the substrate evenly moist, but in no case too wet.

Maintain a newly grown silk acacia in the bucket for the first few years, as it will not hardy is. After several years you can also take them outdoors plant outif you provide them with good protection from frost initially before winter.