- Remove Thuja seeds - yes or no?
- Remove seeds from Thuja Smaragd
- Why does the thuja bear a particularly large number of fruits in some years?
- Grow thuja yourself from seeds?
- Caution: The seed is particularly poisonous!
Some varieties of thuja produce a lot of seed pods every year. Others, on the other hand, flower only a little and therefore bear very few fruits and seeds. Removing the seeds is usually superfluous and hardly feasible with a long Thuja hedge.
The thuja seeds do not need to be removed
Remove Thuja seeds - yes or no?
If there are a lot of fruits and seeds hanging on the Thuja hedge, the question arises as to whether these should be removed. That's easy to answer: It's not necessary to remove it.
If you are bothered by the sight of the brown fruits or dried seeds, you are welcome to snap them off, especially if you do not want to sow them yourself.
Remove seeds from Thuja Smaragd
An exception is the Thuja Smaragd. It belongs to the thujas that rarely form seeds. If this tree of life is not maintained as a hedge but as a single tree, it can be worth removing the seeds.
Then the emerald thuja will have more strength for the formation of new shoots and roots.
Why does the thuja bear a particularly large number of fruits in some years?
In some years the tree of life hedge bears a particularly large number of fruits. This is sometimes - but not always! - an indication that the thujas are not doing particularly well. The tree tries to propagate further by producing more seeds before it dies.
Grow thuja yourself from seeds?
Of course you can grow a tree of life for the hedge yourself from the seeds. However, this form of propagation is very complex and is therefore rarely practiced.
For propagation, harvest the seed in October and preferably sow it immediately in prepared seed trays. The shells are kept outdoors over the fall and winter as Thuja is a cold germ. Many months can pass before germination.
Caution: The seed is particularly poisonous!
The tree of life is poisonous! The poison concentration in the seeds is particularly high. Keep them out of the reach of children.
tips
Many Thuja varieties sow themselves. They open the small cones in October and let the seed fall out. If there are still brown buds on the tree of life in spring, these are actually dried seed heads.