Coniferous trees fill the house with unusual aroma and give festive mood. But it usually occurs only in anticipation of new year when the fir-tree is already established and dressed up. Not to buy every year the green friend, try to grow up him in house conditions.
Instruction
1. You go to the forest late fall or in the early spring and gather cones. If you do not want to walk in the woods or it is absent just nearby, go to nursery and buy seeds of coniferous breeds of trees.
2. If you were going to follow after all cones, then take also capacity to gather lands. Coniferous trees perfectly grow in soil which has been gathered about adult fir-trees or pines. It is impossible to tell that the tree will not grow also in the purchased earth. Get that which is rich with mineral substances and easy.
3. Wet cones for day in warm water that seeds have a little bulked up. Coniferous trees also so long enough sprout and if not to prepare seeds, then it is possible not to wait for shoots at all.
4. Prepare flowerpot for landing of the green friend: put drainage on bottom and fill soil. Thrust cones superficially to the earth, water and cover landings with cellophane.
5. Seeds will sprout approximately in 2-3 months, maybe a bit later. Do not forget to water the earth regularly. When there is young fir-tree, irrigate it from spray every day, and carry out watering time in 1-2 weeks.
6. If at you has sprouted nothing, do not despair. Dig out absolutely very young fir-tree in the forest and plant it in pot. If she takes root, then very soon you will have small tree.
7. That the coniferous tree did not turn yellow, place flowerpot far away from direct sunshine. You watch also moisture content of the soil, do not fill in plant, otherwise it will die.
8. You make forming of krone not earlier than in 2 years after landing. But be careful, after cutting of branches the tree can begin to hurt.
9. If for some reason you have decided to replace fir-tree to the open ground, then do it in very early spring that she has taken root. On the street the coniferous tree can grow the big sizes, and in house conditions - no more than 1 meter in height.