Preparing planting materials
Procuring seeds
Feeding any spruce, not only blue, begins with the harvesting of seeds. At the end of the age, look carefully in advance for a suitable blue spruce, the color and appearance of which you like more. Check if the tree formed bumps. If they eat - wait for the November cold snap and in the first decade of the month you will probably pick up more cones from the selected plant. The more seeds you have, the higher the ability to bring up the blue unit.
Tokmo 30-40% of young Christmas trees, which germinate through the 1st tree, will own such a coloring, like their"ancestor". Others can exist blue-green, and then quite green, like ordinary spruce. This is a matter of seed reproduction, which is much less inherited from the mother plant than being cuttings. Seeds of blue fir have a translucent impeller, which helps them to fly apart, but it can be planted at home by cleaning their hands It is permissible to dial in February, if late in the autumn. However, it is necessary to land here at the end of June. And this variation is just for the sake of the terrain with a cold summer. In the heat seeds are burned through temperatures.
The hardest thing is to climb the tree, because the bumps grow in the highest part of the crown. Tear just tight, all the closed knobs. Of course, it is possible to look for trees near the trees, but finding an undisclosed unit is quite difficult.
Less than 30 percent of the blue seedlings will grow out of the germinated seed house, therefore you can select the finest ones only within a year
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Method #2 - in plastic containers
Germs are allowed to germinate at home. For this, you need to prepare wide plastic containers with lids (from shop salads, cookies, etc.) or planting pots. Single plastic containers for food cost cheap, but in their comfortally germinate fir seeds, because the container is tightly closed with a lid
The order of work is as follows:
Fill the tanks for 2-3 volumes of soil: 3 parts of dry sand + 1 part of peat.
Sprinkle the earth carefully .
Sprinkle seeds over moistened earth.
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The cover is closed and if the legion - pot cover film and put the containers in a warm room, do not get much the direct rays of the sun.
Consistent measure soil drying is carried out spraying. <
If the sprouts are visible and visible, the containers are slightly opened so that the plants are normally ventilated.
In summer, the pots are taken out for a new atmosphere, near the smallness of huge trees, and for winter they return to a place with a temperature of 10-15 degrees.
Plant the young plant in the spring, in May , if the bottom warms up. The sprouted sprouts of blue spruce are afraid of excessive moisture, because it seems to lead to different fungal infections and ruins the complete planting matter
Method #3 - in a roll-up
Very unusual, but a comfortable method of germinating seeds is considered to be a landing in a cigarette. This variation is not bad for those summer residents, which have huge window sills, so there is nowhere to store containers with seedlings.
A haircut is a long tape consisting of several layers (like rolls). External discharge - soft substrate from under the laminate or other materials (length - unlimited, width - 10-15 cm).
2nd digit - toilet papyrus or napkins.
The third is a green earth.
The essence of technology in a book that for the sake of seeds is preparing a landing pad from the components listed above:
roll out a substrate cut with long strips for the table;
toilet paper is placed on top of it, filling the entire area of the substrate;
the paper is wetted with water from the spray gun so that it is impregnated with moisture,/li>For the edge of the paper, the seeds of spruce are spread out through 2 cm for no reason, so that the lionfish are little protruded from the border of the roll, and the seeds lie for moist paper (the seeds must adhere to the wet base);
a lush soil;
neatly rolled into a roll tape, tightening the band, not to askrutilsya;
put a roll of cardboard vertically to a saucer, seeds up;
cover with a film, creating a greenhouse effect, and put in a warm, non-sunny room.
Then the seeds are peeled off the seed, and are nursed from the seedlings, sometimes wetting the apogee of the cigarette.
Christmas trees sit before the next spring. Visual technology can be seen for video:
Like to drop the spruce from the cuttings?
Prof. gardeners prefer to divide decorative coniferous plants by the method of propagation by cuttings, in order to completely preserve varietal characteristics. Blue spruce is also allowed to cut. This is done in the spring, first of May, if an active sap movement begins in the tree. For propagation of blue spruce, young side shoots are selected, which are placed for horizontal lignified branches. Their cautious tear against the growth of the shoot
The rules of harvesting the branches
For propagation, they use twigs from trees, whose age is 4 before 10 years. Such trees have the largest gain of cuttings. In order to prepare the planting material, it is necessary to find branches with lateral shoots and carefully tear off 2-3 cuttings of length 6-10 cm.
Decrease needlessly, so that at the end of each cut, keep a"heel"- a thickening, a trail of an older tree species. It prevents the release of resin, which can clog the lower cells of the seedling and block access to moisture inside the herringbone. That's why conifers do not cut a knife, i.e. not cut, but tear. Thickening for the end of the spruce cuttings, called the heel, accelerates the action of the root formation, because through it, moisture enters freely into the seedling.
Matter is prepared on a threatening day or early in the afternoon. Broken twigs at once packed in polyethylene, so that they do not dry up, and on the same day planted.
If pre-planting cuttings hold for 2 hours in the rooting catalyst, the herringbone will build roots after 1.5 months. Without stimulants, this action will stretch for 3 months and more.
Cuttings at Home Criteria
Without the above, the methods of planting blue spruce seeds are suitable for cuttings. Therefore, we will stop for other fascinating options. One hundred percent blue paint is preserved exclusively in the spruce trees, grown by the method of propagation, hence it is better to look for a suitable tree in the town and tear off the required number of legs from it
Then 2 options - germination in the refrigerator or in a roll-up.
Let's start with the refrigerator. If you managed to pick up ornamental fogs accidentally, and to land in the land is not the end - use the cunning of the most experienced gardener. It is necessary to lower the cuttings for an hour in water without leaving, and then put them in wet dust, deepening for 2 cm. Dust is covered in the plastic part, and there are also twigs. Part of the knot - and the refrigerator. You need a temperature of +3 degrees. And forget about them for 2 weeks. Next - an ordinary landing in the greenhouse. To be such a planting technique, roots will appear by the end of the second month. To be germinated in the refrigerator, do not cut the cuttings with catalysts, because the level of survival will decrease.
Being cuttings in a self-rolling view is the same as that of being a seed multiplication: substrate + napkins + earth. Tokmo pay homage, which is the share of the Christmas tree, which is quite sick for toilet paper, must be cleaned through the needles, and the protrusion between the plants - 5 cm.