How to Propagate Birch Trees through Cuttings (Rooting Birch Trees)

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Here is the basic procedure I use to root birch trees from cuttings. I used a river birch tree (Betula nigra) for taking the cuttings. The cuttings were from new growth this year. It's important to select cuttings that are at the right stage of development.
For more information on propagating birch trees from cuttings read this post I made about it several years ago.
Propagate Birch Trees Through Cuttings:
growingthehomegarden.com/2009...
For resources I use for plant propagation use this link:

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@strikebreed7697 Жыл бұрын

Please post an updated video on these cuttings. I'd like to see how they're doing a year later.

@chickadeeacres3864 Ай бұрын

Oh! I never thought of taking birch cuttings. I found previous year seed pods hanging from a birch tree in spring and started the seeds. It was amazing! I had a forest of 40-50 seedlings in the palm of my hand. That was 3 years ago, and now I have a bunch of young forests started. I love birch 😍.

@ashunderwood88 7 ай бұрын

This is pure gold. ❤ Wonderful instructional video.

@myrnamagliulo Жыл бұрын

How did these cuttings turn out?

@detroitredneckdetroitredne6674 2 жыл бұрын

Great video brother I am a new subscriber and I can't wait to watch all of your videos

@Growingthehomegarden 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for subscribing! I hope you enjoy the channel!

@neilcooper8379 3 жыл бұрын

Sir, Thank you (from a complete amateur) for your very helpful and very timely video. I am in Lincolnshire, England and have a single betula pendula purpurea in my garden (a beautiful purple / copper leafed 'hanging' birch). I have attempted to propagate it, to no success. I will very carefully follow your instructions and keep my fingers crossed. Neil Cooper

@Growingthehomegarden 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Let me know how your cuttings do.

@sailorbrit7643 2 жыл бұрын

Any updates on roots from these cuttings? Would like to hear how long it too for roots if any formed. Thank you!

@marissajosephs1162 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Dave! I recently took winter hardwood cuttings of my wedding birch tree that my parents had to remove due to it’s giant root system ruining their house/pipes. I really want my cuttings to succeed and have 2 out of 7 branches sprouting leaves! They’ve been in water since I cut them (about 4 weeks ago) would now be a good time to plant them in sand to get their roots growing? Any help would be MUCH appreciated! Thank you for your video!

@ihopeugrow 3 жыл бұрын

The long clusters of birch flowers, I think is called catkins, is eaten as a vegetable in the Philippines which is natively called alukon. I was looking for seeds to grow thank goodness I didn’t find any because I don’t have the space for a huge birch tree in my small suburb backyard. Looking forward to more of your videos! - Zee, N. Cali zone10a

@Growingthehomegarden 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting! They are called catkins but I didn't know they were eaten as a vegetable.

@slappy1965 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video Dave. Very helpful. What type of growth would you expect out of those cuttings in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd years? If we're in Zone 5, would leave the cuttings outside during the first winter?

@Growingthehomegarden 2 жыл бұрын

Birch trees are fast growers so I would expect a few feet each year. Probably have a 6ft tree by the end of the second season.

@karinathelecturer 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video and explanation! Here, in a village school in the south of Russia, we have started a tree nursery in the open ground - growing oaks, chestnut and wallnut trees from germinated seeds. We would like to have a bed of birch trees but their seeds are so tiny and the sprouts so thin and gentle, and vulnarable for heavy rains? that we started considering rooting birch twigs. So we need your kind advice: do you think there's a good chance of rooting birch twigs by your method if we stick the twigs right now -in September - in the open bed just like you did with that pot, then mulch it with straw and cover with plastic sheet for winter? We live in the Krasnodar region of Russia - in the South - so the winter temperature would be -10 maximum. Looking forward to your reply!

@Growingthehomegarden 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool to start a school nursery! I would recommend birch cuttings early in summer. They may have overwibtering trouble if they aren't established enough. If you can start seeds in pots they will grow very easily.

@GoneCarnivore Жыл бұрын

I have had this work but air layering might be more successful.

@wenwilloughby8197 2 жыл бұрын

At 1:38 isn't that an 'included bark junction' on that birch tree? The only reason I ask ((or know about it at all) is last week the tree guy came to tend our trees, and spotted this exact feature in my young silver birch (where two young trunks formed a sharp V with a deep seam or crack in the middle) and he said with time, age, and weight, one of those trunks would split from the tree and fall, and possibly kill the whole tree when it did so. I had to let him cut one of them away to save the tree for future. Will yours be okay?

@mateuszliziniewicz7578 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, what was the result? how many have you managed to root?

@jacknanuq6119 Ай бұрын

2 years later, How are they doing?

@briansmith9698 2 жыл бұрын

Growing The Home Garden do a update on River Birch? Can you do a video of cloning White Birch and Aspen?

@Growingthehomegarden 2 жыл бұрын

White birch should be doable the same way. I don't have any aspen to use for cuttings so unfortunately right now I can't do much with it. These birch cuttings didn't do great but I did get about 7 trees grown from seeds the birch trees produced this year.

@ToofAst4Fun 2 жыл бұрын

@@Growingthehomegarden so did any of your cuttings survive from this method? I'm trying this method in a semi enclosed terrarium from a cutleaf weeping birch. What time of year did you collect the seeds from your birch trees that did take off? Thank you for the update from the video. Hoping I have better luck