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A birch or a small grove of birches are a decorative adornment for every garden. If you plan enough space in the area and have the right site conditions available, you can multiply birches in an uncomplicated way with a simple offshoot and plant your own tree. Here you can find out step by step how to do it.

A cutting should be woody below and green above

Requirements for your own birch

Birch trees are considered to be uncomplicated and resilient, because the pioneer plants cannot easily be prevented from multiplying and growing, even under poor conditions. They disperse their seeds throughout the environment by wind pollination. As a result, you will usually find small offshoots near mature birches that you can easily dig up and move.

Otherwise simply pull the offshoot from a branch as explained in the next step. First of all, however, it is important to create the optimal conditions for the little plant. Since birches are designed entirely for reproduction by seed, cuttings will only develop roots willingly under the best site conditions. This includes two aspects in particular:

  • Sunny penumbra, but no direct sun because of the risk of burns
  • keep moist but avoid getting wet

Multiply birch from offshoots - step by step

  1. Choose a suitable shoot as an offshoot. A suitable cutting should be as follows:
  2. firmly wooded in the lower area
  3. also provided with several “eyes” at the bottom
  4. strong green in the upper part
  5. Cut off 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.
  6. Loosely strip off the leaves from the lower part of your offshoot.
  7. Use scissors to cut away particularly large leaves from the upper area.
  8. You should also remove any blossoming approaches, as these unnecessarily rob the offshoot of its strength. Just clip.
  9. Place the cutting carefully and very straight in a small pot with soil.
  10. Place the plantlet in partial shade and keep it moist. However, avoid getting wet.
  11. As soon as the offshoot grows upwards, hidden roots also form.
  12. When the roots start sticking out on the pot, it's the right moment to plant the birch.

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