Thuja seeds

Thuja seeds: briefly about this representative of herbaceous crops

Thuja is a wonderful coniferous shrub, which is actively used by specialists working in the field of landscape design for the manufacture of unusual compositions. And, of course, gardeners successfully cultivate it in the room, because it is customary to think that this representative of herbaceous crops brings many years of life and fills its owner with energy and strength. For planting shrubs in your summer cottage, backyard, suburban area, it is possible to buy a ready-made seedling. However, planting a thuja with the help of planting material is also not excluded, which means that further we will talk about planting instructions, which will require thuja seeds.

Thuja seeds: selection of a variety of this representative of herbaceous crops for planting

Most of the varieties of this representative of herbaceous crops are suitable for cultivation using planting material. The following are the varieties that can be cultivated at home:

- "phylliformis".

Unlike other varieties of this representative of herbaceous plants, this one has soft needles of two colors, with easily bending branches. In appearance, it is often compared to a juniper.

- "woodward".

Thuja is small in size, crown in the form of a ball, dull green color.

- "tributary".

This variety was obtained by breeding specialists from Denmark. Fell in love due to its dark greenish color of needles, it is not solid and glossy.

- "ericoides".

The crown has the shape of a ball, the branches in appearance resemble elongated threads. In the autumn season, it acquires a yellowish color.

- "smaragd".

The tree has a crown in the form of a regular cone with bright, greenish needles.

- "vipcord".

An unusual variety with branches similar in appearance to laces. It grows slowly.

- "zebrina".

Against the background of greenish needles, yellow lines are present, and this is how the name came about. It usually grows up to two hundred and fifty centimeters during ten years of its existence.

- "kornik".

This variety grows faster, faster than other varieties. The needles are greenish with less bright ends.

The above varieties respond well to cultivation at home.

Thuja seeds: how to prepare the planting material for this representative of herbaceous crops?

At the end of the summer season, it is necessary to make a decision on the preparation of planting material. Opened cones are obtained from old shrubs, seeds are taken out and laid out in an even layer to dry in a damp room. If the planting material from the bumps is problematic to be removed, which means that you are in a hurry, and the bumps are not ripe.

It is not recommended to keep planting material for too long, it loses its germination capacity. It is recommended to plant just received planting material in order to obtain powerful, strengthened seedlings. After ninety days, the germination of the planting material will noticeably decrease.

Immediately before planting planting material, it is required to harden them, or to subject them to stratification. It is moved for a certain period of time to the refrigerating chamber, where they are hardened.

However, most summer residents prefer planting planting material in the autumn season, for its natural hardening, or stratification. These seedlings sprout faster, they will actively grow, most often there are no difficulties with them. They grow quite calmly in winter in cold weather.

Thuja seeds: planting using planting material and agricultural technology for seedlings

A couple of methods are known for planting planting material. Let's take a look at them all.

Method number one

For planting this representative of herbaceous crops, containers made of wood are used. They need to be filled with nutritious soil. To do this, mix the turf with peat, pour sand there. The soil must be leveled and tamped a little.

With a space of six centimeters from each other, uniform beds are made. Planting material is carefully placed in them. Then the planting material is covered with a small layer of soil, no more than one centimeter. The top layer is slightly tamped and moistened. Only use a spray bottle to prevent the planting material from washing out of the soil. If the planting material has crawled out onto the top layer of the soil, it is necessary to cover it with earth.

It is recommended to move the container with planting seeds to open ground. The optimal area would be partially shaded, for example, under a tree. Direct rays of the sun can have a negative effect on the shoots of thuja.

It is necessary to cover the seedlings with a thick film, but not with a cloth, if there are pets in the country, suburban, personal plot.

After the snow melts, it is necessary to track that the protective material does not touch the first layer of soil.

When the earth heats up to plus fifteen degrees, this will come about fourteen to twenty-one days later, the first shoots should hatch. They will not look like an ordinary thuja. Their needles do not look like scales for some time. Novice summer residents may think that a small tree has grown from the planting material. However, you don't need to get upset right away. After a few weeks, the formation of branches will begin, on which the scales will be located.

It is necessary to arrange fertilization of a young tree, introducing complex fertilizing every fourteen days. It is possible to use ready-made preparations, for example, "Agricola", "Solvent". They have all the necessary components.

Seedlings grow up to eight centimeters in the first twelve months. It is possible not to touch them in the container for another winter season, but only if the container is deepened and the crops are not too overgrown. If the tree saplings are too elongated, then they should be planted in special rows already in the second year of growth.

The school must be located in a partially shaded area. First you need to cook it. In the soil dug up on the bayonet of a shovel, nitroammofosku, wood ash and humus. Humus is useful in greater quantities - one bucket goes to one square meter of soil. Ash is required in three hundred grams, nitroammophoska is required in forty grams.

Planting tree seedlings is carried out according to the scheme of thirty centimeters by thirty centimeters. It is not recommended to deeply deepen the seedlings, otherwise they will shave out. The root collar must be located on the top layer of the earth.

Method number two

The planting material chosen for planting must be placed and stored in the cold. To do this, after selection, they are moved into containers with wet sand or sawdust. Then it is put in the refrigerator for sixty or ninety days. The bottom-most part will do. Check the container once a week to ventilate and check for mold.

In the third winter month, the planting material is planted in any container.To do this, a drainage layer of three centimeters is placed on the bottom, and then sprinkled with soil, not reaching two centimeters to the surface. It is possible to use purchased soil for conifers. Then a couple of millimeters of sand is poured out, tamped.

For the disinfection of the soil, a solution of potassium permanganate is used, a preparation of a bright color at room temperature is made from it. The preparation is used to moisten the soil, after it has been absorbed, the planting material is planted. It must be placed in a space approximately equal to a centimeter from each other, in the form of a checkerboard.

The planting material is sprinkled on the top layer, tamped extremely lightly to the moistened soil. The planting material is sprayed with a liquid from a spray bottle, a thick glass is placed on the top layer. The use of dense film is possible.

In order for the planting material to germinate, a site is needed where the temperature indicator does not reach less than twenty degrees. After pecking the seedlings, the container is moved to a cold room. It must have enough light. It is necessary to check the seedlings every day to exclude unhealthy herbaceous plants. Also, crops require daily intake of fresh air and watering of the soil from a spray bottle.

Forty-five days later, when the seedlings grow up, it is necessary to remove the thick glass or thick film. However, constant spraying of seedlings must not be stopped. Transplanting in separate containers in the first twelve months is not satisfactory; it is recommended to add a small amount of soil to the containers. In the spring season of the second year of the herbaceous existence, it is necessary to transplant in separate containers, choosing small containers or pots. We advise you to place particles of "Ava" dressing in all containers. It has a lightning effect, it is possible not to arrange additional fertilization until the autumn season. In the summer season, containers with grassy are moved to fresh air. Seedlings must be moistened in sufficient quantity. The soil in the containers must not dry out. For the second winter season, the herbaceous plant cannot be tolerated in the fresh air; it is necessary to move it to a room or a greenhouse.

In the spring season, seedlings need to be planted in large containers, taking them out of small ones along with the soil. In the last spring month, the transplanted seedlings are moved to the windowsill or vegetable garden. In the autumn season, the herbaceous plant is ready to change its place to a permanent one.

Method number three

- Varieties of this representative of herbaceous crops, which easily grow in frosts, are getting used to under the snow layer. The seeds are moved into cloth bags, they are buried in the snow layer thirty centimeters deep.

- In the spring season, planting material is dug out, taken out of fabric bags, and then planted in the ground to a depth of approximately half one centimeter, a space of ten centimeters is made between the beds. The rows are covered with coniferous sawdust, producing moisture, not strong, but constant.

- After the emergence of the planting material, it is covered from direct sunlight. Ordinary paper sheets will do. In a temporary period without rain, the rows must be moistened. The production of a layer of mulch on the rows can be done using needles, sawdust.

- If you plant the planting material of this representative of herbaceous crops according to this method, planting on a permanent cultivation site is possible when the plant reaches five years old.

As you could see, the procedure for cultivating this herbaceous planting material is an extremely difficult procedure, please be prepared. One then will sprout a large number of seedlings.