How to Start North Star Cherry Trees From Cuttings

North Star cherry trees add color to your yard and provide a harvest of fruit for you to enjoy. If you like to landscape and like the thought of growing your own tree, then grow your own seedling. Take a cutting or clipping from a North Star cherry tree you already have or ask for a cutting from a friend and, in a few weeks, you'll have a North Star cherry seedling to plant.

Garden knife
Root-promoting chemical
Peat moss
Clay pot
Plastic spray bottle
Water

Instructions

- 1
  
  Garden scissors are sturdier than household scissors.
  
  Find a healthy shoot on your North Star cherry tree and cut it about 8 to 10 inches from the tip of the shoot. Use your garden scissors to cut the shoot on an angle.
- 2
  Use your garden scissors to peel the bark from two sides of the North Star cherry tree cutting. The cambium, the layer beneath the bark, will be exposed which makes it easier for the roots to break through and grow.
- 3
  Place the cut end of the North Star cherry tree cutting in a root-promoting chemical. Make sure the end is covered thoroughly with the root-promoter.
- 4
  
  A clay pot provides a sturdy place for your cutting to root.
  
  Set your North Star cherry tree cutting into your clay pot, filled with one-third of a pot of peat moss. Place more peat moss around the cutting, up to the top of the pot, and pat it down gently.
- 5
  
  Water every few days.
  
  Mist the cutting with water in a spray bottle. Pour water into the pot with the cutting and peat moss, as well. Water regularly to provide your North Star cherry cutting with a moist soil. Check progress on your tree cutting after two or three weeks.

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