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Hi guys - hope someone out there can help.

I have just discovered a hazelnut tree at the back of the garden. It was covered in dog roses and brambles and hidden behind a couple of elders, but have managed to hack my way to it (its only taken me 18 months to get round to that end of the garden ).

Anyway - where it is makes it quite difficult to get too, but I can see that it has nuts forming, so it looks as though it could be productive. Not being one to waste something that is my garden for free, I'd like to propogate a couple more trees from it.

so....

will hazelnut go from hardwood cuttings, when is the best time to try this - has anyone done this, will it work?

Thanks in anticipation

Monika

I haven't tried this, but my neighbour told me that if you pull a sucker from the old tree and replant it, it should take. I think you need a little bit of root on it.

I'm in a similar situation - a tree in a client's garden and a desire to propagate from it. I'll try in the Autumn.

I haven't ever tried either as I've never needed to, but I wonder whether the straight upright shoots/branches that grow after you've pruned or coppiced it would grow if you cut them into lengths and stuck into the ground or a pot. If they are anything like forsythia or willow they should take no problem!

Looks easy enough ...

http://handbooks.btcv.org.uk/handbooks/ ... ction/3575

You do not get a very high % take on cuttings.

Unless you have a coppiced stump which has had the stump covered with soil to induce root formation on each hazel rod. When rooted they can be cut off the main stump with the new roots, during winter and planted out.

The more favoured way is by layering. Bend a thin hazel rod (5ft long) until part of the rod touches the ground, stake it down securely, and then cover with soil. They will root but can take 2 seasons. Then cut off from main stem and plant out.

My next door neighbour is a coppice man - he accidentally planted a piece of hazel rod and it's taken well. I snipped some bits off (overhanging my path) and have stuck them in the ground - so will see how they go - not seen any nuts on it yet though

Thanks for your help.

I had only found lots of advice based around growing from the nuts themselves, and not much on cuttings.

But the panic is over - I have found a further three trees around the garden, and another large tree in the corner of my horse field, alongside an apple tree!

All trees have nuts on so looking forward to a harvest of hazel nuts this year.

Hi there,I was like a dog with two tails when I discovered a hazelnut tree in our garden and planned all my harvesting and recipes only to watch the squirrels every morning at breakfast eating the unripe nuts and when they should be ready there were none left for me....you know I hear grey squirrel is rather tasty................better luck this year and good luck to you too......

I spent some time watching a red squirrel in my wiggly hazel bush - I hadn't even bothered/remembered to look at it to see if there were any nuts on it (my proper hazels never seem to have any/many) but obviously there must have been. Red squirrels are so cute they are welcome to my hazels as I've got millions of walnuts which I prefer!

I have grown about 400 hedging plants from seeds and cuttings sourced locally. Virtually all the willow cuttings were sucessful but none of the hazel. I also grew ash, crab apple, wild plum, hornbeam, field maple etc from seed.