The best time for acquisition and disembarkation in soil of saplings of fruit-trees is the first half of fall when trees already finish growth and pass into condition of leaf fall. During this period it is possible to plant successfully the majority of saplings, even bought with open roots, without soil lump.
Where to buy saplings of fruit-trees
It is desirable to buy saplings from the checked sellers who with guarantee will not palm off on you instead of high-quality plant dichok or cheap widespread grade. If you have not got acquaintances in these circles yet, then the most reliable way will be trip to nursery and the choice of saplings directly there. Most of all probability to buy "pig in a poke" - in the market where the seller risks nothing in case of deception at all, you see it for the first and for the last time.
What saplings to choose
The sold saplings can be with opening root system, with lump of the earth or grown up in container with which they also are on sale. The first two types buy and land in soil in the fall or in the early spring, and saplings in containers can be replaced during the whole warm season.
Upon purchase it is necessary to examine attentively all sapling, to find the place of inoculation (if it is not, then before you, obviously, dichok), to make sure that bark not the obgryzena mice and has no spots demonstrating fungal defeat. Give preference when choosing sapling to plant with the created krone and several multidirectional side branches. Do not choose too extended plant, give preference to stockier, with the powerful bottom part and the developed root system having set of small backs.
If the plant is offered with earth lump, try to pull slightly it and to make sure that it keeps on roots strong. Some unfair sellers powder not sold saplings with open roots the earth, humidify it and form lump, but in this case the earth is easily showered from roots. Similar deception can be also upon purchase of sapling in container.
Transportation and planting of saplings of fruit-trees
If it is impossible to plant sapling in soil at once, wrap its roots in damp rag, and from above – polyethylene film which will save them from drying. So it is possible to store it within one-two days, but previously it is necessary to tear off from it all remained leaves not to allow excessive evaporation of moisture.
In transit saplings it is impossible to put them from above at all on car trunk as the counter flow of wind can damage their branches, and the root system will be surely overdried.
Planting plant in soil, do not forget to humidify previously roots, having dipped them in bucket with the earth divorced to semi-fluid state. The hole for disembarkation has to be slightly deeper than root length. It is more convenient to cover with earth together: one person holds sapling for trunk so that roots are in the straightened state, and another accurately powders them with soil to root neck. It is desirable to water and zamulchirovat hole compost, the crushed bark or straw.