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Wild copper beeches can be propagated using beechnuts

Grow copper beech from seeds or cuttings

You propagate a copper beech with seeds or cuttings. To do this, you need a free-growing tree from which you can obtain beechnuts or cuttings.

Garden trees are usually not suitable. They are often grafted. The fruits are not germinable. In addition, the copper beech produces fewer fruits if it is cut annually.

Perhaps you will find a copper beech in the forest that grows unhindered there. Gather the fruit or take cuttings.

How to sow beechnuts

The fruits of the copper beech each contain two to four beechnuts. Remove them and put them in the fridge for six to eight weeks. The seeds inhibit germination, which must be overcome by stratification, i.e. a cold phase.

Place the seeds in small pots with loose garden soil and cover them. It is better to grow the seeds indoors, otherwise mice and birds will eat them.

The first leaves will appear by next spring. Do not water the young copper beeches too much. It is best to plant them in the designated spot in the garden in autumn.

Propagation of copper beech by cuttings

  • Cut cuttings in spring
  • remove lower leaves
  • plant in pots with garden soil
  • keep slightly moist
  • Plant in the garden after sprouting

For cuttings, choose eight to twelve centimeter long shoots that are two years old. They shouldn't be completely lignified, but they shouldn't be completely green either.

Remove the lower leaves before planting the cuttings in pots filled with garden soil. Put the pots on the terrace and protect them from snails.

As soon as the cutting bears several new leaves, it is tended to in the garden.

tips

For some years, no fruit at all ripens on a copper beech, while in other years there are countless beechnuts. These years are called mast years by garden experts. They ensure that the beech can reproduce in the wild.

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