How to pull cuttings

Choose half-ripe shoots for propagation from cuttings

If you want to propagate your trumpet tree using cuttings, it is best to choose half-ripe, around ten centimeters long shoots in July / August.

• Hold the cut surface at a slight angle,
• this makes it easier for the still rootless cutting to absorb water.
• Remove all leaves except for the top pair of leaves.
• If the leaves are very large, you can cut them in half.
• This means that less water evaporates from the leaves.
• Immerse the interface in Rooting powder.
• Now plant the prepared cutting in a potty Potting soil.
• Place the plant in a bright, but not directly sunny and warm place,
• for example on a windowsill.
• Keep the substrate slightly damp, but not wet.

Hibernate the cuttings in the house, the still very sensitive plant should be outside the cold season not survive. It is best to keep the young tree in a pot for at least two to three years, as trumpet trees only become winter-proof with increasing age.

Ball trumpet tree only through grafting

However, you should Propagate ball trumpet tree, please note that these varieties can only be obtained by inoculation (i.e. H. Refinement). So you have to oculate a shoot, for example of the popular 'Nana' variety, onto a surface. The common trumpet tree is usually used for this.

Older specimens form sinkers

Older trumpet trees often form sinks that take root by themselves and grow on the ground. It is very easy to pull off cuttings: You only have to cut the (rooted) young plants from the mother plant and continue to treat them like cuttings. However, it makes little sense to let the offshoots take root alone: ​​On the one hand, the young trumpet trees often do not survive a typical German winter, on the other hand, the very large and broad-growing trees should not grow too close to one another and thus lose light and nutrients together compete.