With a little patience, you can propagate mulberry trees yourself. There are two different ways of doing this: sowing seeds and taking cuttings. Which method you choose is up to you and depends entirely on your preferences.
You can propagate mulberry trees by seed or by cuttings. In any case, however, you will have to be patient. Propagation through grafting is also possible, but less suitable for hobby gardeners. It is therefore not explained in detail here.
Propagation by seed
For sowing, you can get seeds from specialist shops or use your own fruit. Since mulberry trees are dark germs, they need to be covered with soil. You need a nutrient-poor substrate without peat with about a quarter of sand. If you always keep the seeds well moist, you will discover the first germs after two to four weeks.
Propagation with cuttings
Propagation with cuttings is usually quicker and easier than by seed. You can take the cuttings from your own mulberry tree or cut them on a walk, maybe from a white mulberry on an avenue in Brandenburg. The cutting should be at least 10 to 15 cm long, better 20 cm and made of green wood. Remove all leaves except the top pair of leaves.
You can now leave the cuttings in a glass of water until the first roots form or plant them in the ground immediately. Use normal garden soil or potting soil mixed with sand. By the way, adding peat is not doing your mulberry tree any favors, it doesn't like it at all!
What you should pay particular attention to:
- It is essential to avoid waterlogging of your young mulberry trees. What the big trees don't tolerate well damages the young plants all the more.
- Use cuttings that are about 20 cm long and as fresh as possible for your first cultivation attempts.
- The wood of the cuttings must still be really green and not old wood
- The potting soil should be slightly sandy, in any case without peat.
tips and tricks
Propagating mulberry trees requires a lot of patience on the one hand, and a lot of care on the other to keep your tender plants from rotting.