Now on sale fir-trees in pots meet - it is good alternative to the New Year's beauty who is cut down in the forest on once. It is possible to decorate with such live tree the house before New Year's holidays, and it will please you 2-3 more years. Then some owners replace plant in garden, however it can not endure this stress. Try to plant independently fir-tree in pot and to plant it in garden. Then it will be simpler to it to adapt to the site, than store fir-tree.
It is required to you
- Seeds were eaten
- Glass jar
- Fridge
- Pot
- Soil for landing and humus
- Potassium permanganate
- Sand
- Water and ice
Instruction
1. You go to the nearest forest area where landings of fir-trees are carried out. Consult with plant breeders and buy healthy shank of fir-tree. If you have no such opportunity, go to the forest behind cones in the middle of November. It is considered that the best sowing material for fir-trees are the cones which have fallen to just dropped out snow. It is possible to take them also from uterine tree in February.
2. Dry cones and winnow sunflower seeds ashkeys. Now they need to be put in sterile ware and to store in the fridge at optimum temperature of 15 degrees. Start crops of fir-tree seeds at the end of May.
3. Wet sunflower seeds in potassium permanganate solution (1%) and sustain day. Some amateur gardeners keep sowing material of coniferous trees for 2 days in water with ice (so far they will not bulk up), and then - in damp sand.
4. Prepare soil and capacious pot for fir-tree. It is recommended to use friable sandstone, or loam. Mix this earth with another, in advance dug out in the forest (from under healthy fir-tree). Add humus. Now superficially put sunflower seeds, having powdered with 1.5-centimeter soil layer. That the strongest have survived, it is necessary to plant many seeds.
5. Take out pot with future fir-tree in the garden and its prikopayta there. You do not bring to the house till spring (if sunflower seeds sprout), or wait a year more - sometimes they do not "wake up" at once. If you have no allotment, it is possible to plant fir-tree in pot on loggia. Your task is to watch that the soil did not freeze through.