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How to Propagate Ginkgo Trees from Stem Cuttings
27.08.2024 - 18:28 / gardenerspath.com / Kristine Lofgren
How to Propagate Ginkgo Trees from Stem Cuttings
Is there anything quite as striking as a vivid yellow gingko tree in the fall? Or as relaxing as the fan-shaped leaves twirling in the wind?
These living fossils have remained relatively unchanged for over 200 million years and the trees offer elegance and interest in the landscape.
If you have a Ginkgo biloba that you’d love to replicate, whether it’s one growing in a friend’s garden or in your own backyard, propagation by stem cuttings is a simple method.
It’s a pretty straightforward process and the result is a genetic clone of the parent.
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If you aren’t familiar with how to grow and care for ginkgo trees, read our guide.
Here are the topics we’ll cover to help you start new ginkgo trees from cuttings:
Ginkgo trees are dioecious, which means there are separate male and female specimens.
To reproduce in the wild, pollen from a male ginkgo tree needs to pollinate the flowers on the female to produce seeds.
The yellow pollen cones are visited by pollinators or the pollen is carried by the wind to the ovule on the female ginkgo trees.
From there, a fruit forms that is either carried by wildlife or falls to the ground and the seeds inside germinate.
The problem with leaving things up to nature like this is that we can’t control the outcome. Ginkgos started from seed may be either male or female and you won’t know which you are growing until the tree matures.
Most gardeners prefer to grow the male ginkgos because unlike the females, they don’t make quite such a mess. The best way to ensure that you propagate a male plant is via cuttings.
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