Harvest or buy seeds for propagation
Do you already have one Silk tree in the garden, you can harvest seeds for propagation yourself. From the blossoms long fruiting bodies with seeds develop. These are dried after ripening until it's time for sowing is. Remember that the seed contains toxins.
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However, a sleeping tree only blooms from a certain age and a height of at least 1.50 meters.
If you cannot harvest your own seeds, you can get them from gardening stores.
Prepare seeds
The seed of the sleeping tree is quite large and thick-skinned. It must be placed in warm water for a day before sowing so that it can pre-soak.
How to sow a sleeping tree
- Let the seeds pre-soak
- Growing pots(€ 9.70 at Amazon *) fill with substrate
- Lay out the seed
- Cover thinly with soil
- Moisten the earth
- cover with a plastic hood
- place warm and bright
The cultivation from seeds is only successful if the ambient temperature is very high. It must be around 25 degrees. The location for the
Growing pots should be nice and bright, but it is better to avoid direct sunlight.Ventilate the cling film once a day to prevent mold from forming.
After sowing, continue to care for warm and light
It can take several weeks or months for the seeds of the silk acacia to germinate. Make sure that the substrate does not dry out during this time.
As soon as the young sleeping tree is about 15 to 20 centimeters high, plant it in a small tub and continue to care for it like an adult plant.
The silk tree is only allowed to go outdoors when it is several years old, as it is not yet at the beginning hardy is.
Tips
The silk acacia grows quite quickly. The tree can grow up to eight meters tall in the open. Would you like to limit growth, cut Put it back a little and also shorten the roots when repotting.