Little promising: Propagation via cuttings or seeds
Anyone who was able to propagate a magnolia with cuttings literally landed a six in the lottery because magnolia cuttings develop very difficult to take root. If you still want to try, we recommend the following procedure:
- Cut a still young, approx. 10 centimeter long shoot from the previous year.
- Score the end to be rooted crosswise with a sharp and clean knife.
- Dip it in a good rooting hormone.
- Plant the cutting in a slightly damp Growing substrate.(€ 12.99 at Amazon *)
- Keep the soil moist, but never wet.
- Make holes in a translucent plastic bag and place it over the nursery pot.
- Put the pot in a light and warm place.
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Now it is important to be patient, because the first roots form - if at all - only after a few weeks. The likelihood of success, however, is very low. Incidentally, magnolias form although sometimes seeds out, but the seed propagation only succeeds with a lot of luck.
Moss or multiply magnolias using a sinker
The most promising is that with magnolias Propagation by subsidence respectively. by mossing, which is actually just a form of lowering. Leave the shoot to be rooted on the mother plant at least until the following year, or even better until the year after next. Then the young magnolia is strong enough to break up. The sinkers get the best after flowering and leaves development when the plant has enough strength again to put its energy into the development of roots. Remember the mother plant to fertilize regularly, for example with ripe compost or a good one Rhododendron fertilizer.
Tips & Tricks
In the case of evergreen magnolias, cuttings or Lowering not taken in early summer, but rather in late summer or early autumn, between around the end of August and mid-September.
