It works with these methods

Propagation by subsidence

Beat it Timber cuttings for magnolias almost never roots, but those Propagation by subsidence Provided you have the patience required to do so, usually shows good results. However, this method only works if the magnolia has not shot up too much and you can pull a selected shoot to the ground. Otherwise, you should resort to mossing. Since it takes about eight to ten months for the sinker to form roots itself and therefore can be separated from the mother plant, is an early start at the latest in April inevitable. And this is how you propagate your magnolia via sinkers:

• Choose one that is still as green as possible (i.e. H. not yet or only slightly woody) shoots.
• Defoliate this and remove the flowers.
• Dig a pit about six inches deep just below the shoot.
• Score the shoot with a knife in about two to three places.
• Treat these areas with a rooting hormone.
• Pull the sinker into the pit and cover the scratched areas with earth.
• The end of the sinker, on the other hand, looks out of the pit.
• Weigh down the planting site with a stone.
• Water the planting area and keep it permanently moist.

Lowering is not necessarily a quick way of propagating, but the plants that are grown are vigorous and already used to the soil in which they are supposed to mature.

Propagate magnolia over mosses

The magnolia is particularly easy to reproduce using so-called mossing. There are various techniques, the following of which has proven particularly effective:

• Choose a biennial shoot that has no branches.
• Cut this about two-thirds at an angle.
• Use a sharp and clean knife for this.
• Now clamp a piece of plastic in the gap so that it stays open.
• Wrap a thick layer of sphagnum moss (a peat moss) around the crevice.
• Wrap the moss with a wire or something similar. ä.
• Keep the area moist continuously.

After a few months, roots will have formed in the gap, so that you can separate the sinker from the mother plant and first plant it in a pot. The young magnolia should not be planted outdoors until the following spring.