Birch seedling: How do I find and plant young birch trees?

Birch seedling: How do I find and plant young birch trees?
Birch seedling: How do I find and plant young birch trees?

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If you want a young birch tree, you don't need to buy container goods. Instead, you can grow your young birch tree from a sapling. You can find out where you can find one or how you can alternatively use a cutting for cultivation here.

Birch cuttings
Birch cuttings

How to grow a birch sapling?

To grow a birch sapling, look for small plants near a mature birch tree in the spring or use a birch branch cutting. Plant the seedling or cutting in a pot or directly in the garden soil and keep it moist, but not too wet, in sunny partial shade.

Find seedling in nature

Birches are very efficient in their propagation. They colonize even barren wasteland extremely successfully. The pioneer plants thrive even under difficult conditions. This has an advantage for your project: In spring, you will almost certainly find several small birch plants in the vicinity of a fully grown birch tree. These seedlings are perfect for growing a birch tree in your home garden.

Planting young birch trees from seedling

  1. Carefully dig out the root ball of your desired tree using the spatula (€10.00 on Amazon).
  2. Now you can plant the young birch: in a prepared hole in the garden or in a pot.
  3. Sunny partial shade is best suited as a location.
  4. Keep the seedling moist but not too wet.

Pull cutting from branch

You can also grow a seedling from a cutting and then plant it. Since the birch reproduces exclusively through wind dispersal, i.e. scatters seeds, you have to offer your cutting the best conditions so that it can take root. Proceed as follows:

  1. Separate a strong shoot tip branch from a mature birch tree.
  2. Make sure that it is a specimen that is heavily woody underneath and has several so-called eyes. The branch must look nice and green at the top and should be at least 10 to 20 centimeters long overall.
  3. Now remove all the leaves at the bottom, while in the upper area you cut away particularly large leaves and also remove flower heads so that the plant does not have to supply them with energy unnecessarily.
  4. Now you can plant the cutting very carefully and as straight as possible in a small pot with soil.
  5. Place it in sunny partial shade and ensure that the substrate always remains moist. Avoid moisture and direct sun.
  6. Wait until the first roots appear above the ground. Now your young birch is ready to move to a larger pot or directly into the garden soil.