To grow up cedar, it is necessary to take seeds - pine nuts. It is the best of all to select high-quality and qualitative seeds which have been checked for viability. If you have decided to seed the nuts acquired in shop it is necessary to know that their viability very low.
For crops of pine nuts it is worth choosing spring – from April to May. It is necessary in advance (in three months) to carry out prorashchivaniye of nuts. If to sow not germinated seeds, they will ascend only for the next year if do not die. It is possible to sow nuts even in the fall, without pretreatment. However it is necessary to choose the period before the frosts that they were eaten by rodents. After landing of seeds they need to be covered with leaves, having protected from frosts.
The most reliable landing spring landing with preliminary prorashchivaniye of seeds considers. The procedure consists in the following: at first it is necessary to kill all bacteria, having processed nuts weak solution of manganese (to lower seeds in solution for two hours). This procedure will protect future saplings from various diseases.
After that pine nuts soak in hot water about three days. Water should be changed every day. Then seeds carefully mix with peat or the first-class bank sand. At the same time peat and sand need to be moistened previously. Now the received mix of nuts with sand or peat needs to be placed in box from tree layer from 10 to 20 centimeters. To provide good drainage, it is necessary to make small openings in sidewalls and day of wooden box, and under box to put small bar. It will allow to provide air permeability. As a rule, recommend each two weeks the received mix to mix and carry out well watering to initial state. Prorashchivaniye of pine nuts needs to see off at temperature from +4 to – 60C in cellar or the fridge. Temperature reduction is allowed, but it is no more, than for two or three days. If the prorashchivaniye has been carried out correctly, to approach of the period of disembarkation in soil many pine nuts will already sprout. After your seeds of cedar seem outside, they need to be landed to the open ground. It is possible to grow up cedar on not too dry sandy or humidified loamy soils. Seeds it is necessary to land two or three centimeters in depth. Sapling surely it is necessary to close layer of sawdust and fragmented peat. In such a way you will be able to keep moisture in the soil, to slow down overgrowing by weeds and at the same time exclude consolidation of soil after rains and watering.