Requirements for your own birch
Birch trees are considered uncomplicated and resilient, because the pioneer plants are not so easily deterred from reproduction and growth, even in poor conditions. By means of wind pollination, they distribute their seeds in the area. As a result, you will usually find small offshoots near fully grown birches that you can easily dig up and move.
also read
- Draw privet offshoots yourself - that's how it works!
- Pulling offshoots from the ivy - this is how you gain new plants
- Pull the cuttings from the poinsettia
Otherwise, simply pull the cuttings out of a branch, as explained in the next step. First of all, however, it is important to create the optimal conditions for the plant. Because birch trees are designed entirely for reproduction by seed, cuttings only willingly develop roots under the best conditions. This includes two aspects in particular:
- Sunnier Penumbra, but no direct sun due to risk of burns
- keep moist but avoid getting wet
Propagate birch from cuttings - step by step
- Choose a suitable shoot as an offshoot. A suitable cutting should be as follows:
- Firmly lignified in the lower area
- also provided with several "eyes" at the bottom
- strong green in the upper part
- Cut a strong offshoot of at least 10 to 20 centimeters at the tip of the shoot. The so-called shoot tip is the area of the branch from which the new shoot grows, i.e. the fork between the branch and the new shoot.
- Loosely strip the leaves from the lower part of your filing.
- Use scissors to cut away particularly large leaves from the upper area.
- You should also remove any possible flower roots, because they rob the offshoot unnecessarily of strength. Just snap it off.
- Place the cutting carefully and very straight in a small pot of soil.
- Place the plant in partial shade and keep it moist. However, avoid getting wet.
- As soon as the offshoot grows upwards, hidden roots also form.
- When the roots start to protrude from the pot, the moment has come for them Planting birch.