How Do You Grow Big-Leaf Maple Trees From Cuttings?
You have a stunning big-leaf maple tree in your yard and you yearn to have even more for your children and several future generations to enjoy. I am going to show you how to take cuttings off of that stunning tree so that you can “clone” it into a tree that will have the same characteristics as the one you have now. If you are a bit of an entrepreneur, you’ll take LOTS of cuttings and pot them; maple trees are very popular because of their beautiful colors in autumn before that last leaf falls and you go to work taking cuttings. Take a long look at that beautiful big-leaf maple tree in your yard and visualize hundreds of them growing in pots…and you haven’t bought the first seed. Plant a maple tree from seed and it may turn out okay, but plant a maple tree from a cutting and it is genetically identical to the tree from which the cuttings were taken. If your tree is healthy and providing lots of shade and lots of huge leaves to be raked up when they fall, you might just have yourself
