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Nut cedar at home. Siberian cedar - how to grow a proud tree. In the summer, the tree crumbled and also turned yellow.

Cedar is an evergreen coniferous tree. It represents strength, health, beauty, longevity and purity. Cultivation of cedar is a noble cause, but extremely laborious. Of course, the easiest way is to buy ready-made seedlings, because after planting they will require practically no maintenance, except for regular soil moisture. But it is much better to grow a cedar from a nut - this way you will be next to your tree from the first minutes, and when through long years it will spread its rich crown over the earth, the pleasure will be incomparable with anything.

How to grow a cedar from a nut at home?

1. Nuts purchased at a grocery store or market are not suitable for growing cedar, as they are cooked for consumption by boiling in salted water. Your best bet is to find a flat, pleasant-smelling cedar cone with no signs of mold or staleness.
   
2. Remove the nuts from the cone and rinse warm water. Additionally, you can rub the shell with a toothbrush or sponge - this will wash off the resin, which blocks moisture from accessing the core itself.
   
3. After you have cleaned the nuts of excess resin, you need to stratify, that is, keep them in cold (about 0 ° C) water for three days, changing the water once a day. After this time, you will notice that some of the seeds have risen to the surface of the water, and some have sunk to the bottom. Floating nuts are empty or poor quality, even when proper fit they will not sprout, but sunken seeds can and should be planted in the ground.
   
4. After three days, drain the water and mix the nuts with peat, forest soil or coarse washed sand, then slightly moisten the mixture and place it in wooden box with air holes or a perforated flower pot. After all the manipulations, the container with nuts can be removed in a dark, cool place - now the seeds should lie for several months (from 3 to 6 to simulate a natural winter) at a temperature of about + 4 ° C. Once every couple of weeks, take out the seeds and moisten the soil. Try to guess the time so that the planting of seeds takes place in March-April.
   
5. After a long preparation of seeds, you can finally start planting. The soil is better to use natural forest, but in the absence of such, you can buy special soil for conifers in a flower shop. The volume of the pot should be small, about 200 grams, and the planting depth should be about 2 cm. Seeds can be sprinkled on top with needles or sawdust. Protect the sown seeds from high temperatures and bright sun: it is better to put the pot with the future tree in a shaded place with a temperature of 18-20 ° C. And, of course, the earth should be periodically moistened, at the same time preventing the seeds from “flooding”.
   
6. It is best to plant the maximum number of seeds, because only 10-15% of them will sprout. Depending on the quality of the seeds, the first sprouts will sprout in 2-3 months and will be barely noticeable - up to five years, the cedar grows very slowly, and the growth is up to 6-7 cm. By the third year of life, the sprout can reach 15 cm, and after five to six years, it can be planted in open space.
   
7. Cedar loves well-drained rocky or loamy soils. Therefore, it is advisable to mix the soil at the site of the proposed planting of cedar with sand and gravel.
   

There is another interesting nuance: they say that before planting, you need to hold pine nuts in your mouth for several minutes - this is how the future tree will absorb your energy and information about you, and only then will it truly grow into your grateful cedar. Of course, this moment is very similar to superstition, but in the first years of life, the cedar definitely needs your love and care.

Cedar - quite large evergreen, which not only beautifies and ennobles the landscape, but also significantly improves air quality. Phytoncides produced by Cedar have a beneficial effect on the environment, and in addition, Cedar is a plant that produces a very useful and nutritious product - pine nuts. With the right approach, artificial breeding Cedar leads to a significant increase in its yield - five times or more compared to wild trees. Since it is difficult to buy ready-made seedlings of the Siberian cedar, we will tell you how you can grow a cedar from a nut at home on your own.

Cultivation in the backyard

At first glance, such an unpretentious tree is actually quite difficult to plant and grow on your own. This species of the conifer family is perhaps the most difficult to breed at home. The reason for this is cedar seeds, which are distinguished by deep dormancy. They germinate only after careful preparation, which lasts at least three or even four months.

Cedar trees grow quite slowly - during the first ten years, their growth rarely exceeds one and a half meters. As it develops, growth accelerates and by the end of the third decade, the tree already has a growth of about 9 - 10 meters and is shrouded in thick lush crown about three meters in diameter.

We select and prepare seed material

Before you grow cedar from seeds, first of all, you need to prepare the seed material, and for this you can do the following:

• Select quality seeds - nuts. Here, first of all, the period of their germination is taken into account - about three years, but it is better to plant seeds that are no more than 2 years old. When selecting nuts, be sure to carefully examine them for damage - shell cracks, dents, charm, mold and bad smell clearly talking about marriage. Such seeds are no good - they will not sprout;
• Selected, healthy seeds should be treated with an antifungal compound. To do this, it is enough to prepare a light manganese solution - 0.5% and soak nuts in it for several hours.

Stratification of pine nuts

For three days, the nuts are soaked in settled water, room temperature. Water must be replaced every day with a new one and monitor the condition of the seeds. During this period, healthy seeds gain moisture and settle to the bottom, and unsuitable for planting - empty, remain on the surface. They are removed and thrown away. Then proceed as follows:

• Good seeds are again treated with a solution of potassium permanganate;
• Prepare the nutrient substrate. You can use a mixture of sand and peat in a ratio of 2/1;
• Seeds are added to the finished substrate, moistened to about 50% and mixed until a uniform consistency;
• Removed to a cold place. At home, this is a refrigerator or cellar, and if possible, then outside under the snow cover.

At this stage, it is extremely important that the feeding substrate is constantly moistened. If the seeds are placed under the snow, nothing needs to be done, there will be enough moisture, but if the cultivation is carried out at home, you will have to monitor the humidity yourself and regularly water the seed substrate.

Sowing pine nuts in the ground

Cedar seeds germinate for quite a long time. Even if everything is done correctly, it is not worth waiting for seedlings earlier than six months later, but before planting in open ground you need to give the shoots a little stronger.

Plant prepared seeds in spring. The best time for this is April. During this period, you should carefully monitor temperature regime. Most optimum temperature environment about 20°C, plus or minus a few degrees, no more.

Before sowing, seeds cleaned from the substrate are once again treated with potassium permanganate and slightly dried, then planted in a greenhouse or greenhouse. This will protect crops from sudden temperature changes and birds that are not averse to feasting on Cedar nuts. Among other things, greenhouse conditions provide a higher percentage of germination and an almost twofold increase in growth rate compared to seeds planted in open ground.

Before sowing, you need to prepare the soil. It would be best to make a sand-peat mixture fertilized with superphosphate, potash compounds and charcoal.

Seeds are sown in grooves with minimal gaps between them - 15 centimeters. After about one and a half to two months, the seeds germinate and at this time they need to be provided natural light, but only scattered. Direct sunlight can kill weak sprouts.

Transplanting seedlings in open ground

As the seedlings grow, they take on the shape of a poker. At this moment, they are carefully removed and sorted by growth, transplanted to another place, after slightly cutting the roots. When transplanting, each seedling must be provided with at least 0.2 square meters of free soil.

The next year, they carry out another, the same transplantation of seedlings, and only in the fourth year of life, the Cedar will be strong enough to transplant it to open area personal plot, park or alley.

Sowing seeds directly into the ground

This can be done in spring or late autumn, but the germination of such seeds is very low - it has a chance of no more than 10% of their total number. In addition, it should be borne in mind that birds and rodents can significantly thin out the crop even before the emergence of seedlings. Therefore, ground sowing of Cedar seeds must be covered from above with a layer of leaves or broken bark, at least 5-7 centimeters thick.

Some gardeners, to protect such crops, arrange quite complex structures- they pull the nets on top, and on the sides they install protective fences made of wooden shields. And even such measures do not guarantee the inviolability of crops, especially from rodents, therefore, before open sowing Cedar think carefully whether such a game is worth the candle.

Caring for a young cedar

Seedlings growing in a greenhouse, in a warm season, begin to gradually adapt to open conditions- regularly taken out into the garden if they grow in pots or open a greenhouse.

Be sure to regularly loosen the nutrient substrate and maintain its moisture, and if there are foci of fusarium, which happens often, immediately treat them with a solution of potassium permanganate. If this does not help, it is better to remove diseased seedlings, and plant others in their place.

Pay special attention to watering. It should be regular, but moderate. Seedlings do not tolerate drying out at all and quickly die. If you fill them excessively, nothing good will happen either - root rot will appear and the plant will die.

When can a seedling be planted in a permanent place of growth?

Growing Cedar from seeds is not an easy and rather lengthy business, so if you don’t have patience, it’s better not to take it at all.

The first 2 - 3 years, the plant is spent under the shelter of a greenhouse, then they are gradually accustomed to natural conditions and only in the fourth year, and only on condition that they have developed sufficiently, can small Cedars be transplanted into open ground for wintering.

Throughout this period, you need to timely water, fertilize and protect the plant from frost, cold winds and scorching sun rays. For the winter, it should be thoroughly insulated root system a layer of foliage, bark or dry peat chips, and if the winter is very frosty, you will even have to wrap the tree trunk.

Starting from the fourth year of life, seedlings are not transplanted until they reach 6 - 7 years. This age is considered sufficient for the tree to be fully prepared for the final transplant to a permanent place of growth.

A year before such a transplant, the root system is prepared. For this, around the tree is sharp bayonet shovel cut horizontally growing roots, limiting their length to 50 - 60 centimeters, if measured from the trunk. Such injury before transplantation, Cedar will better endure in its usual place, which is why such a seedling hibernates and is transplanted only in spring.

Young Cedars should grow in partial shade, so if there is no suitable place in the garden, the trees are artificially shaded using special materials, otherwise direct sunlight can cause the plant to burn and become sick. During this period, it is especially important to maintain the necessary soil moisture, so it is good to mulch the soil around the trunk.

When transplanted to a permanent place of growth, the cedar requires enough free space for normal development. If you want to achieve fruiting, the minimum area per tree is about 7 meters in diameter.

Cedar is a beautiful and slender tree, which can be called majestic without exaggeration. The unforgettable aroma of its needles, which many people like, also deserves attention. Therefore, it is natural that many gardeners are interested in how to grow a cedar from a nut at home, especially since it is much more economical than planting from a seedling.

Cedar can be grown from a nut. This is a cost-effective task

Nut selection and preparation for planting

Growing cedar from seeds is not the easiest, but quite realistic task.

The first thing that provides for its solution is a careful selection of nuts:

1. Seeds intended for cultivation should not have an unpleasant odor.
2. Nuts, the surface of which is covered with mold, cannot be considered suitable for planting.
3. To avoid fungal infections, all seeds are treated with a weak solution of potassium permanganate (0.5% potassium permanganate solution is enough). The average duration of the procedure is 2 hours.
4. For planting, nuts collected on the slopes of the Sayan or Altai are best suited.

The most suitable age for pine nuts used for cultivation is no more than three years. Practice shows that germination in such cases is maximum, and therefore young seeds should be a priority. If there are no such nuts, then others will do, whose age does not exceed 8–10 years.

To grow healthy tree, nuts should be carefully selected

Having decided on the seeds, you can proceed to the implementation of the sequence of actions, which is presented below:

1. Soaking selected nuts for 72 hours (water should be changed daily).
2. Mixing seeds with sand and moistening them.
3. Placement of nuts in a cloth bag, which fits into a wooden box with ventilation holes.

The final step at this stage is to place the seed container in the refrigerator. There they should spend about 5 months at a temperature of 3-6 ° C, that is, in conditions close to winter, but not harsh.

In the future, pine nuts should be checked regularly to maintain moisture and prevent mold. If it appeared on some seeds, then you need to get rid of them, and replace the sand with a new one.

Pot and soil requirements

While the seeds are in the refrigerator, you can do another important thing - preparing a place for their future planting. It should not be large: it is quite possible to germinate pine nuts in a pot that holds about 200 g soil mixture, which can be:

• natural forest;
• loamy;
• containing a large amount of humus.

If the gardener cannot spend time looking for suitable soil in which to plant a cedar, then he can always buy ready composition For coniferous plants in a specialized store. The choice of soil should be approached responsibly, because the future of the plant directly depends on its composition.

Cedar needs potassium, and a high nitrogen content is contraindicated for it due to the inhibitory effect on its root system.

Planting and watering rules

The probability of growing cedar at home increases if you plant a nutlet in March or April. There are others useful advice that help to solve this problem accurately:

• the optimal seed planting depth is from 0.5 to 2 cm;
• you can place nuts close enough to each other (10 mm or more);
• top seeds are sprinkled with sawdust or needles;
• in the pot it is necessary to place the maximum possible number of nuts.

The last point is explained by the fact that in most cases only 10-15% of the seeds can germinate, that is, one out of seven or even ten nuts.

Particular attention must be paid to watering. Despite the fact that cedar belongs to moisture-loving plants, it perceives flooding negatively, and therefore it is extremely important to adhere to the following rules:

1. Nuts planted in the ground, it is desirable to spray from a spray bottle. This reduces the leaching of plant-friendly substances that are in top layer soil.
2. Before you start watering, you should determine the degree of soil moisture. To do this, simply stick a match into it: if it turns out to be wet, then it is necessary to wait a little with the implementation of the planned procedure.
3. The recommended frequency of watering seeds after planting is once every 2 days. If moistening is carried out less often, then the cedar grows much more slowly - experiencing great difficulties in reaching the surface and being characterized by a weak development of the root system.

The temperature should be room temperature, i.e., be in the range of 18–22 ° C. It is advisable to exclude the presence of the pot in direct sunlight, it is much better to place it in the shade.

Provided that all the above points are taken into account, the seeds germinate relatively quickly: about a month after planting. True, many gardeners call other terms - up to 90 days, explaining this by the difference in the quality of the selected nuts. Further, the pot can be placed in a brighter place, provided that the exposure to sunlight is moderate.

Further actions

It is worth noting that growing a cedar from a nut is a rather lengthy process, and therefore the appearance of sprouts should not be considered an unconditional success. Cedar in terms of development rate is noticeably inferior to most coniferous and deciduous trees. Observant gardeners have found that cedars grown from seeds at home add only 6-7 cm per year in the first few years.

In the first year, small cedars cannot be planted in open ground in the country or adjoining territory, because they need this time to strengthen and adapt. The latter will pass faster if you take the pot outside in the warm season.

Transplantation of small cedar trees can be carried out for 2-3 years of their life. The procedure is tolerated by them without much difficulty, especially if the gardener takes into account the following points:

1. Plant roots must be handled with care. When transplanting cedar shoots into open ground, bends and fractures of its roots should be avoided.
2. The best transplant option is with a clod of earth from a pot. In this way, the microflora to which the plant is accustomed is preserved, which means that the chances of its successful adaptation in a new place are significantly increased.
3. It is not worth refusing to feed cedar - even if the land in the country house or house adjoining area is fertile enough. For this purpose, nitrogen-potassium-phosphorus fertilizers are optimally suited.
4. It makes sense to place several stones around the trunk of a growing tree. Gradually, their lower surface will be covered with fungal growth, which has a very beneficial effect on the cedar.

Another one useful procedure for the growing cedar - soil mulching. With its help, you can minimize the drying of the soil, stimulate the growth of grass around a young tree, and create an optimal microclimate for cedar. The composition of the mulch is recommended to include pine needles, fallen leaves and cut grass.

Siberian cedar - coniferous decorative tree, which has healing and tasty fruits. Many people are probably wondering how to grow a cedar from a nut. Some gardeners have gone through this experience. All attempts were successful. Their advice on how to properly grow Siberian cedar from a nutlet has helped many beginners. In order to grow a coniferous tree at home, you need to know a lot: the place where the nut is planted, what kind of soil it needs, as well as the conditions of detention. There are two methods of growing cedar at home: using a cedar seedling and using a nut. Grown cedar seedlings are very expensive, so the method of growing with the help of a nut has an advantage.

Given that the cedar is not an ordinary garden plant, growing it from a nut at home will be a time-consuming and troublesome process. Caring for it involves not only regular watering and proper planting.

Preparing seeds for planting

In order to properly grow cedar from a nut at home, you must:

• Select quality planting material. Cedar seeds should be without damage. Any mold and an unpleasant smell that nuts emit indicate an unhealthy state of such planting material. Seed germination persists for 3-4 years. Proper care of them can extend their germination up to 10 years. But still, it is better to use fresher nuts for planting.
• It is very important to process the seeds before planting. This will prevent fungal infection. Nuts are dipped in a 0.5% solution of potassium permanganate (weak Pink colour) for a couple of hours. The process of germination and preparation of Siberian cedar seeds is quite long. Do not expect a miracle - instant growth of young seedlings. It will take 5-8 months to grow a cedar from a nut at home. Only after this will the first shoots appear.

Stratification of cedar seeds

Before planting, seeds are prepared. First, they are soaked in warm water for 3 days. The water needs to be changed every day. Next, you need to mix the planting material with moistened sand. The mixture made is placed in boxes with holes to ensure the supply of oxygen. Also, you can wrap nuts with sand in a rag. Seeds must be kept in a cold place. Usually they are placed in the refrigerator. The temperature of the content of the material for planting should not be higher than 4-5 degrees.

Seeds with sand must be constantly moistened to the state in which they were placed in the refrigerator.

It often happens that mold appears on the nuts. In this case, the sand is replaced, and the infected nuts are removed.

Sowing in the ground

After they germinate, after 5-7 months they are thoroughly washed and sown in pots. Best time for this - the middle of spring. It is recommended to use sandy soil for cedar seeds. Nuts are planted to a depth of 1 cm. Pots with planted seeds should be kept at a temperature of 20-22 degrees. After 1.5 months, the seedlings should germinate. They are put in a well-lit place so that the sun's rays do not fall on them.

If you sow unprepared seeds immediately into the ground in the spring, they will sprout only after a year, and the germination rate is only 10-15%. Sowing on the beds in the fall must be done before the ground freezes, otherwise the nuts will attract rodents with their smell, and they will literally “dig through” all the plantings. When sowing in the ground, the ground should be covered with leaves up to 5 cm thick.

Important! Emerging shoots also need to be protected, first of all, from birds. The fact is that the sprout appears with a nut on top, and until it falls, it attracts the attention of birds that peck it right with the sprout.

Therefore, for at least a month, the crops must be covered with a net, wicker shields, or any light covering material (spunboard).

Care of young trees

IN summer time it is necessary to carry out the adaptation of young plants to the air and the sun. To do this, they are taken out into the garden. After that, they can be gradually planted in light, loose and nutritious soil. Young cedars successfully tolerate the transplant procedure. They can be planted close to each other. The next cedar transplant will be transferred at the age of three. This procedure is recommended to be carried out in the spring. Older plants are transplanted very rarely. Such frequent procedures can lead to drying of the roots. As a result of this, cedars may not take root at all.

If, nevertheless, a transplant is necessary for an adult plant, then first you need to create a root ball. Before transplanting, about a year in advance, an incision with a diameter of 1 m is made around the tree. Only horizontal roots are incised. The deep root system is not affected. Tree replanting is preferred in early spring, since only half of the seedlings take root during the autumn transplant.

Because mature tree grows up to almost 40 m in height, then for its full growth it is necessary to allocate an area of ​​\u200b\u200babout 7 m in diameter.

Only in this case, you can wait for fruiting.

Trees that have reached the age of one year require shade. best place planting young plants will be a shaded area in the depths of the garden. Also, seedlings can be shaded with a covering or other material. As for watering, the cedar - moisture-loving plant, but excessive excess moisture can lead to its death. Therefore, proper care is important here. The grown seedlings also need proper care. First of all, it is necessary to mulch the soil around the plants. trunk circle needs to be mulched. As this, you can use sawdust, fallen needles and foliage.

That's all the secrets on how to grow a cedar from a nut at home. Caring for a cedar at home after planting is not a problem. Trees should only be watered when the soil dries out. Cedar responds positively to top dressing. Nitrogen-potassium-phosphorus fertilizers are best suited for this. Many experienced gardeners stones are laid around the cedar trunk. Over time, fungal growth forms under them, which has a beneficial effect on the growth and development of the tree. In order to learn how to grow a cedar from a nut at home, you can watch the instructional video material.

When can I get the first harvest of pine nuts

Cedar grows quite quickly - annual growths are up to 0.5 m. natural environment, in the taiga, cedars enter their reproductive age no earlier than 40-50 years (due to the lack of sufficient lighting in the first decades of life), and cones with nuts are formed only once every 6-8 years. If the cedar is grown in the garden or near the house and provided with adequate conditions, then you can get the first fruiting in twenty years, moreover, it will bear fruit every 3-4 years. The maximum fruiting occurs at 70-100 years, and from one tree you can get 15-20 kg of nuts, which, under cultivated conditions, are much larger than those of wild-growing species.

Siberian cedar is a symbol of health and strength, a tree of life that you can try to grow at home. Growing a cedar from a nut is not as difficult as it seems. First you need to purchase planting material: it is desirable that it be a solid cone with large scales - the seeds are stored better in it. It is important that it is fresh, a new crop, without mold or foreign smell: such cones are sold in the fall, from the end of September. Fried or dried pine nuts are not suitable for this purpose - the embryo dies when high temperatures. It is better to find a reliable seller in advance. You should not buy cones in places where cedars definitely do not grow.

To extract the seeds, the cone must be scalded with boiling water - then it will open. From the remaining scales, you can prepare a healing tincture or decoction, which are used to treat many diseases.

Seed stratification

When growing cedar at home, the only difficulty may arise: the stratification of seeds, which is necessary for their germination. It happens in several stages.

1. First, the nuts are soaked in hot water for three days, changing it daily. Some of them may float up - these are empty seeds, they can be thrown away immediately.
2. The rest must be treated with a pale pink solution of potassium permanganate and fungicide, dropping nuts into it for several hours.
3. The next step is cold stratification. Nuts must be mixed with clean, moist fine-grained sand (you can pre-calcine it in the oven), sawdust or peat chips in a ratio of 1: 3.
4. The resulting mixture must be placed in a cloth bag and placed in a small wooden box, in which holes are made in advance so that air can enter.
5. A container with nuts is placed on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator (in the vegetable compartment) or placed in the cellar for at least 3 months. The temperature for seed germination should be about +4-6 °C, lowering to -4 °C is allowed for no more than 2-3 days.

Every 15 days, the bag must be ventilated, the mixture should be moistened to its original state, make sure that the nuts do not rot or become moldy (the spoiled ones should be removed and the sand replaced). After a while, they will begin to sprout. best period April-May is considered for sowing. If seeds are sown at this time without treatment, they can germinate after a year.

accelerated stratification

There is more fast way germination of cedar seeds at home, but it is less reliable than stratification in the refrigerator. You will need fresh, clean nuts, which must first be washed in warm water, free from resin, and then keep in cold (not higher than 0 ° C) for about 3 days. It should not heat up, otherwise nothing will work. To prevent this from happening, ice cubes can be periodically added to the container. Seeds that have sunk to the bottom are suitable for planting.

You can plant them in a substrate prepared in advance (sandy, loamy soils or a mixture of peat and sand are best), the temperature of which should not exceed 15 ° C. Nuts are sown to a depth of 2-3 cm, compacting the soil from above - this will help the sprouts get rid of the hard shell. Containers are needed at least 8 cm high and about 300 ml in volume. Crops are mulched with sawdust or peat chips, placed in the most illuminated part of the house, but without access to direct sunlight, and watered regularly. Seedlings need a temperature of about 20–22 ° C.

Another variant of fast stratification can be used.

1. Pine nuts are soaked in warm water for about 8 days. It needs to be changed every 2 days.
2. After that, a sand-peat mixture is made into which the seeds are placed.
3. Crops are kept at home at room temperature, periodically wetting and shaking, for 30 days, until they begin to peck.
4. The seedlings are then refrigerated and stored at around 0°C until planted in the ground or immediately planted in a pot.

Seedling care

Growing cedar at home from seeds is somewhat more difficult than growing it outdoors, as this tree is very demanding on lighting. If there is not enough light, the seedlings are best illuminated with special lamps. It is necessary to prepare for the wintering of seedlings in the first year of life if they stay at home and are not planted in the ground: they will need a temperature of no higher than 10 ° C. Such parameters can be on a glazed balcony or in a barn. If this condition is not met, young plants will die after transplanting into open ground.

One of the main enemies of crops is fungal disease- black leg. For its prevention, regular treatment of plants with a fungicide is needed (once every 2 weeks).

It is better to start immediately accustoming young cedars to open air: as soon as the danger of frost has passed, take them out to the garden or to the balcony. This must be done gradually. Plants from seeds, grown at home, and not in the ground, are very tender and can easily die from hypothermia or, conversely, overheating. The soil on top should be mulched with sawdust, needles or peat chips so that it does not dry out. Watering these plants needs moderate, no frills, otherwise the risk of rotting of the root system will increase, but the soil should not be allowed to dry out. Cedars respond very well to top dressing. For this purpose, special fertilizers can be used for coniferous trees. They need to be applied infrequently: 1 time in spring and 2 times in summer.

Wintering and transplanting seedlings in open ground

Young cedars grow very slowly: in the first year of life, they look like stems about 2-3 cm high with a bunch of short needles at the top. On the second one, they can grow up to 7 cm, and in four years reach 20-30 cm. As they grow, the seedlings will need to be transferred to larger containers, making sure that they are planted at the same depth. Plants can overwinter at home on the balcony or in the garden; it is not necessary to add pots if the temperature is not lower than 10 ° C.

Young cedars should be transplanted into open ground before they reach a height of 1 meter. A landing site should be chosen shaded, with a low level of groundwater. Such seedlings will bear fruit no earlier than in 20 years - for this you need to plant several trees so that they pollinate each other.

Conclusion

Growing cedar at home from seeds is only complicated by the need for stratification and creation desired temperature for wintering seedlings. The latter is necessary to prepare plants for transplanting into open ground. Care of young trees consists in regular watering and top dressing.

In many ways, getting good seedlings depends on the planting material. When choosing, you need to focus on the size of the cone and its scales - the larger they are, the better. Cold stratification for several months gives the best result, as it is close to the natural conditions of seed germination. You can try several ways to grow a tree that will delight not only its owner, but also his grandchildren with beauty.

Cedar is one of the most beautiful representatives of conifers. The duration of his life is 450-500 years, and the cedar pine reaches maturity by 80-85 years. This long-liver pleases not only with sprawling long needles, but also with delicious pine nuts, rich in vitamins, microelements, fats and protein.

Cedar can be grown from a nut

You can meet cedars on summer cottages, and on the territory country houses. Most often they are planted as annual seedlings, but not many people know how to grow cedar from a nut at home.

planting material

Growing a cedar from a nut is not an easy task, because there are no high-quality planting raw materials for sale. Nuts that you can buy in the store are absolutely not suitable for growing cedar at home. Most often they are peeled and fried. Not many decide to germinate seeds on their own, because it is much easier to buy annual seedling and plant it in the ground.

Buying pine nuts from your hands is also not the most good idea. Seeds retain their germination capacity for 1 year, in the second year it decreases by 50%, and after that the seed does not germinate at all.

In addition to the shelf life of nuts, its conditions may also be violated, which negatively affects the planting material.

To grow cedar from seeds at home, you will have to collect pine nuts yourself. This can be done in places where cedar pine grows in late October, November. At this time, the collection of ripe cones begins. You can take fallen seeds or seed cones, but they can be damaged by mold or rodents, and there is a high probability that this will be last year's crop.

It is better to pick a cone directly from the tree, but this is not easy to do because of the height of the cedar pines. Pickers use long sticks with mallets at the ends to knock the cones off the top. These seeds have more high probability germinate.

To collect seeds, it is best to pick a cone from a tree yourself.

Preparing seeds for germination

To plant seeds, you need to extract them from the cone. This is done quite simply. The cone is placed near heating appliances or quickly burned with flames from all sides. Under the influence of temperature, the scales open, releasing the seeds. IN industrial scale use special devices that crush the cone without damaging the pine nuts.

After extracting the seeds, you need to take care of their disinfection. To prevent many fungal diseases, pine nuts are soaked in a solution of potassium permanganate for 2-3 hours before planting.

Planting seeds

An important point in growing cedar from seeds is stratification - the creation of conditions as close to natural as possible. In the forest, pine nuts, falling into the ground in November-December, hibernate under the snow and germinate only in spring. Creating something similar at home is quite simple:

1. After soaking in potassium permanganate, pine nuts are planted in a specially prepared substrate to a depth of 1–2 cm. Too deep planting prevents seed germination.
2. Seeds planted in a container are watered so that the whole earth gets wet, but does not become sour from excess moisture. Otherwise, the nuts will start to rot.
3. 5–7 cm of snow is laid on the surface of the substrate. The container is covered with polyethylene and put on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for 3 months. If weather do not allow you to immediately cover the landing with a snow cover, then this can be done later.
4. Once a month or as the soil dries, the nuts are watered with water at room temperature. It is advisable to use melted snow.

After 3 months of stratification, the container with the cedars planted in it is taken out of the refrigerator and placed on the south window. Most often, the first shoots appear already in the second week.

Cedar sprouts well on the south window

Substrate for planting seeds

The quality and composition of the soil play an important role in growing cedar at home. Seeds should be germinated in a mixture of:

• river sand;
• fine crumbs of gravel;
• peat.

Sand and gravel are calcined before planting. This prevents the development of many diseases, kills mold spores. Sometimes cedar seeds are germinated in a mixture coniferous sawdust And fertile soil. Such a composition is very similar to the soil of a cedar forest, but it dries up quickly enough, so you need to carefully monitor the watering of sprouted nuts.

Before planting nuts, the soil should be calcined

Seedling transplant

When the cedar sprouts have reached 3 cm, they must be planted in separate containers, where they will grow for the first year. The main thing when transplanting is to carefully handle the delicate roots so as not to damage them.

Drainage is laid at the bottom of the pot, you can buy it at the store or use cedar cones. The second option is better, because it brings the growing conditions closer to natural ones. The substrate is made from river sand, fertile soil and coniferous sawdust.

A month after transplanting, you can start hardening the seedlings. First they arrange airing, and after a while they take it out into the street.

You can not leave a young tree under the scorching sun, but the shade does not suit him either. You need to put a pot of cedar in a place with a scattered shadow - under another tree or a canopy.

The first 10 years, the cedar pine grows very slowly, but with good care will rise sharply. It is better to plant a seedling in the ground up to three years. Such a tree is well received and easily tolerates winter.

A three-year-old seedling can already be planted in the ground

young tree care

If it was possible to plant a cedar in the country house and the tree took root, then all the requirements for growing pine were carefully observed. Now you can start caring for the seedling. You need to remember the following recommendations:

1. For full development, forest trees enter into symbiosis with mycelium. This useful neighborhood will help strengthen the cedar grown in the country. To do this, take 5 handfuls of forest litter and pre-crushed hats of ripe forest mushrooms, soak it all in a bucket of warm water. A day later, the cedar is watered with the resulting mixture.
2. It is impossible to loosen the earth around the tree, because the roots are located very close to the surface, there is a possibility of damage.
3. The soil around the seedling is mulched to retain moisture and control weeds. Crushed cedar or other trees are used as mulch. coniferous cones, sawdust, pine nut shells.
4. The plant is watered as the soil dries out, but the cedar reacts painfully to waterlogging and may die. Every year in spring and autumn, you need to make fertilizer for coniferous trees. If you take good care of the cedar for the first 10 years of its life, then it will actively grow and bear fruit well.

Let's work for mother nature and grow the famous Siberian tree on our site! The task is difficult, but doable. Let inspiration not leave us and strength not run out!

If we want to grow cedar from seed...

Buying seedlings for cultivation will cost more, and they may not take root. Therefore, it is better to try to grow cedar from seeds on your own. It is necessary to seriously approach the issue of choosing planting material. Seeds should not have any foreign smell. If the material is moldy in places, it is also not suitable for germination. However, when proper storage seeds may remain viable for several years.

For breeding, select the largest nuts. With them, the following procedures are preliminarily carried out:

• soak;
• disinfection;
• stratification.

To prepare the seeds, they are soaked in warm water for 3 days. And every day the water is replaced with fresh water. Nuts absorb moisture. To prevent seedlings from becoming infected with a fungus, cedar seeds are treated with a 0.5% solution of potassium permanganate for 2 hours.

Choosing nuts for planting

Then the nuts must be mixed with sand. The mixture must be moistened and placed in a bag made of natural fabric. They should be stored in the refrigerator at a temperature of about + 3ºС. This is called seed stratification, that is, processing them with cold. For storage, prepare a wooden box, make holes in it on the sides to ventilate the mixture. Place a bag of seeds in the box. In the cold, the workpiece is kept from autumn to spring.

During this time, it must be checked, moistened when dried. If moldy seeds appear, they must be removed and the sand around them replaced. There is a gradual softening of the shells. And some of them even begin to hatch white roots.

How is the planting of cedar

After the required period, the seeds are removed and washed well. Then the nuts, ready for germination, are planted in pots filled with earth and sand. The sharp end of each seed should be pointing down. The planting depth is 1 cm. In this state, the planting is kept for 1 month in the shade. Seedlings should be grown at room temperature.

After a month, germination begins, and the pots are placed closer to the light, while avoiding direct sunlight on them. Roots appear from the nuts, rushing deep into. A green sprout grows above the roots, in the upper part of which there is still an open shell. It subsides after a few days. At the top of the shoot, a bunch of green needles opens in the form of an umbrella. Usually about 30% of all seeds germinate. This is considered a normal result.

cedar sprout

At the onset of summer, seedlings are taken out to Fresh air. And for the winter it is better to hide it in a greenhouse. There it is necessary to water it and feed it with fertilizer every six months.

As the shoots grow, they have to be transplanted into containers. large sizes. Young seedlings can not be transplanted until 3-4 years. By this time they reach a height of 25-30 cm.

Now they can be planted on open area in loose soil enriched with fertilizer. Doing so better in spring. First, the seedlings are taken out into the air in pots, and after getting used to the new conditions, they can be planted in the ground.

Before planting a cedar in the ground, you need to prepare:

• appropriate place;
• soil;
• seedlings properly taken out of pots.

Trees can be planted in the area where ground water do not rise above 3 m. When planting shoots, it is important to maintain the integrity of all roots and capture them along with the ground.

As a planting soil, peat with earth and sand is used. After the tree is planted, it must be watered so that the density of the soil becomes uniform. From above it is recommended to mulch with sawdust or crushed coniferous needles.

Growing cedar in open ground

There is another way how to grow a cedar from a nut. Without the greenhouse stage, the seeds can be sown immediately in open ground. It will be necessary to produce systematic watering and weeding. You also have to make sure that the crops are not attacked by mice or birds. If seedlings persist, they will grow and develop in the same way as greenhouse ones.

Many gardeners use ready-made special soil for coniferous plantations. It is necessary to add mineral and organic fertilizers to it in the soil.

Cedar in open ground

In a coniferous forest, litter is taken from under the trees and the seats are enriched with it. The litter protects the soil from moisture loss, which is dangerous for coniferous plants. If at least part of the roots dries up, then the whole tree may die.

When planting, a distance of at least 3 m should be left between the cedars. The surrounding neighboring trees should also not interfere with the growing cedars. It is known that cedar trees grown in a spacious area can be enjoyed much earlier than those planted in the shade, next to others. And after 18-20 years, bumps form on them. In some trees, the fruiting age can be delayed up to 40 years.

For 1 year, the sprouts should be in a shaded place in the garden. The ground must be moist. In hot weather, you can periodically spray the needles to give it freshness.

If you have to transplant a plant that has reached a height of 1 m to a new place, this can only be done in the spring. At the same time, it is moved with a large amount of land. Around the tree, it should be about 0.5 m. For adult seedlings from grass, weeds or fallen needles, mulching is done. It must be remembered that excessive moisture is harmful to cedar, just like drought.

Growing requires a lot of patience. Growth is slow. So, plants after 1.5 years have a height of several centimeters. Despite the fact that the cedar grows for a long time, it will delight others with its beauty.

Who doesn't want to have their own evergreen tree grown at home! It is, of course, the famous Siberian cedar. To some, this task may seem difficult, but this is mistaken. With minimal knowledge and funds, you can grow a cedar tree literally on your windowsill. But the question of how best to do this will be answered by this material.

So, it should be noted that we are talking not about the classic cedar from the cedar family, but about its “colleague” - the cedar pine. Despite the visual and other similarities, it is still different types plants. Take at least the notorious nuts: in the classic cedar they are inedible and dangerous to health. But it is used in perfumery and medicine essential oil, not cedar pine oil.

First of all, it is necessary to pay due attention to the selection of seed and planting material.

What seeds to choose and how to process them correctly?

To begin with, you need to take into account that the most suitable material for growing cedar is a cedar cone with the largest possible scales. As a rule, it contains better and more viable seeds. Each bud should be checked for foreign deposits or odors. So, if pronounced moldiness is felt, then such seeds are unlikely to give at least some kind of crop.

It is important to know that cedar cones that are most suitable for planting appear on sale only by autumn. Only at this time of the year they are sure to be fresh.

The seeds are extracted very simply: the cone is doused with boiling water, which makes it open in speed. At the same time, all the “side” material left during the extraction of seeds can also be useful.

Many connoisseurs make healing decoctions and tinctures from the scales that have arisen.

High-quality cedar seeds do not need any specific processing, but their stratification is rather troublesome. It happens through the fulfillment of the following mandatory points:

• for three days, the seeds must be soaked in heated water, while the water must be replaced daily with fresh water;
• empty seeds should be sifted out every day. It is very easy to identify them - they will be on the surface;
• after three days, the prepared seeds are treated with a weak solution of potassium permanganate;
• then, for at least three hours, the seeds are immersed in a fungicide solution;

The above procedures represent hot stratification. But it is also necessary to perform cold processes. So, performing cold stratification, it is necessary to do the following mandatory manipulations:

1. pre-purchased fine sand need to be properly calcined in the oven. Then, after letting it cool down, prepared cedar seeds are added there. Also, sawdust and peat are added to the mixture in a ratio of 1:3;
2. when the mixture becomes homogeneous, it is poured into a "breathing" bag, which, in turn, is placed in a wooden box or box. In such a homemade container should be done ventilation holes otherwise the seeds will die;
3. then the container is placed on the lower tier of the refrigerator, or in the cellar (but not in the freezer!) for three months.

With all this, every two weeks the mixture must be ventilated and moistened, monitoring the condition of the seeds. It is quite normal if some of them rot. Then they need to be removed, and the sand replaced with fresh one.

Sowing is best started in May or April.

Accelerated seed processing

For those who do not have time for a long preparation of seeds for planting, the following method can be proposed. It also involves doing the following:

1. refill every two days hot water seeds. This must be done within 8 days;
2. place the seeds in a sand-peat mix;
3. within a month, the seeds are regularly moistened and kept at home;
4. all this is stored at a temperature not higher and not lower than 0 degrees in the refrigerator. At the same time, the condition of the seeds must also be carefully monitored.

How to carry out a correct landing at home?

The final stage is the transplantation of prepared seedlings. Unfortunately, many fail at this stage. However, given the following helpful tips, can be avoided common mistakes and thus achieve the desired result.

So, seedlings need to be illuminated with special lamps for most of the day at a temperature not exceeding 10 degrees. Failure to comply with this condition threatens the death of recently appeared shoots.

It is also necessary to regularly take out the plants in the cold, so that they form a kind of immunity.

And the last piece of advice: cedar incredibly loves top dressing. It is sold in any specialized store and it will not be difficult to choose it. But you need to apply it not so often - a couple of times in the summer and once in the spring.