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- How can you increase the hazelnut?
- Propagation over cuttings: uncomplicated, not time-consuming
- Propagation over sinker: recommended in case of lack of space
- Propagation over seeds: for the patient
- Tips & Tricks
How can you increase the hazelnut?
Once taken to the hazelnut, it is natural to propagate it. This is not difficult, but requires some background information. With these hints the multiplication certainly succeeds!
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In fall, when cutting the hazelnut fall branches, which can then be used for cuttings propagation. Suitable are strong branches that have a length between 10 and 20 cm.
How to proceed:
Propagation over sinker: recommended in case of lack of space
This method works as follows:
Propagation over seeds: for the patient
After the nuts have been harvested, they can be used to propagate. Patience is required. In addition, sowing is not always successful. Therefore, you should plant several nuts and hope for your luck.
Plant the nuts in pots on the balcony in autumn or directly in the field. They must be exposed to a cold spell in order to germinate. Next spring, the first shoots appear.
With this method, you usually get a hazelnut shrub that is not identical to the genetic material of the mother plant. For identical plants you should resort to the refining. Another disadvantage of this propagation method: it can take a lot longer to harvest fruits than for cuttings or subsidence.
Tips & Tricks
You want to give nature free rein? Then leave a few nuts on the ground. Often the hazelnut is increased by the assistance of animals such as crows and squirrels, which they hide.