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Propagating a beautifully grown magnolia is not that easy. The classic propagation of cuttings does not work with the magnolia, since its cuttings have a very difficult time taking root. Growing a young magnolia from seed is also a difficult undertaking. On the one hand because magnolia seeds are difficult to germinate and on the other hand because the trees that grow from them only flower after ten or more years. Probably nobody wants to wait that long. Instead, however, propagation works particularly well using the mossing technique known above all to bonsai friends - a technique not dissimilar to lowering.
Magnolias can be propagated using sinkers, among other things
Propagation via sinkers
Although cuttings hardly ever take root in magnolias, propagation via sinkers usually shows good results, provided you have the patience required for it. However, this method only works if the magnolia hasn't shot up too much yet and you can pull a selected shoot down 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 can therefore be separated from the mother plant, an early start in April at the latest is essential. And this is how you multiply your magnolia with sinkers:
- Choose a shoot that is as green as possible (i.e. not yet woody or only slightly woody).
- Defoliate and remove the flowers.
- Dig a pit about 15 centimeters deep directly below the shoot.
- Score the shoot with a knife in about two to three places.
- Treat these spots with a rooting hormone.
- Pull the sinker into the pit and cover the scored areas with soil.
- The end of the sinker, on the other hand, looks out of the pit.
- Weight down the planting site with a stone.
- Water the planting site and keep it constantly moist.
Soiling is not necessarily a quick way of propagation, but the plants grown are vigorous and already used to the soil they are meant to mature in.
Propagating magnolia over moss
The propagation of the magnolia is particularly easy via the so-called mossing. There are a variety of techniques, with the following being particularly effective:
- Select a biennial shoot with no branches.
- Cut about two thirds of this diagonally.
- Use a sharp and clean knife for this.
- Now clamp a piece of plastic in the gap to keep it open.
- Wrap a thick layer of sphagnum moss (a peat moss) around the gap.
- Wrap the moss with a wire or something similar.
- Keep the area continuously moist.
After a few months, roots will have formed in the gap so that you can separate the planter from the mother plant and plant it in a pot first. The young magnolia should not be planted outside until the following spring.
tips
Whichever method of lowering you choose, always make sure that the area to be rooted is kept nice and moist. Only then will the roots develop.