We grow walnuts at home

Walnut is a durable plant. There are trees that are over 300 years old. The plant loves light and moisture, so it grows best on drained soils with moderate moisture, in which there is a small constant groundwater level. The root system of a walnut is very powerful and penetrates deep into the soil.

Climate

There are many frost-resistant varieties of walnuts, so cultivation is carried out even in the northern latitudes of Russia and Siberia. There are known cases of successful cultivation in the Moscow region and even the Urals. One of the most popular varieties is Ideal. Hybrids of walnut with gray or Manchu walnut can be considered as an alternative.

Of course, in warm regions, the choice of varieties is much wider.

For the cultivation of walnuts in northern latitudes, see the following video.

The ways

There are several ways to propagate walnut trees:

• Seeds.
• Saplings.

Choosing a landing site

When choosing a place for planting a nut, keep in mind that the tree will be spreading and tall. It is important that in the future it does not interfere with either buildings or other trees.

In general, planting a nut next to any structure is undesirable, because this plant has a fairly strong root system. When it grows, it will damage the foundation.

Shrubs should be planted next to walnut seedlings. In the first years of growth, the tree will not interfere with their fruiting. And after 6-9 years, when the nut becomes quite large, the bushes are easily removed.

Seed Selection

Seed propagation is the main method of planting a nut. Nut seed germination is one year. For sowing, large fruits are selected, which have a tasty kernel and a thin shell.

You need to collect the nuts that have just fallen from the tree, or even better - knock them down yourself. Only ripe and undamaged nuts are selected for seeds.

Their shells should be free of visible damage, stains and other defects. It is not recommended to plant store-bought nuts as their freshness is unknown.

Cleaning

Nuts may not be peeled from the outer layer (pericarp), but peeled fruits germinate much faster. Peel the nuts carefully so that only the outer shell comes off and the inner one remains intact.

Manipulations are recommended to be performed in household rubber gloves, since dark marks are difficult to wash off of the pericarp juice on the hands.

Peeled nuts should be lowered into a bucket filled with water. For planting, select drowned fruits, since they have a whole kernel, therefore, such nuts are more likely to give good sprouts.

Drying

After cleaning from the outer green shell, the fruits are laid out in one layer to dry in the sun, and then (after 1-2 days) they are removed to dry in the shade.It is not recommended to dry fruits that will be used for planting in the future near heating devices. If you are going to plant walnut fruits in the fall, you do not need to dry them at all, but sow them immediately in the chosen place. Such seeds will sprout next year in May.

Planting in Autumn

A nut seedling develops a taproot, which sprouts to a great depth. And therefore, the fruits should be sown immediately in a permanent place, since the transplantation can injure this root.

The depth and diameter of the holes for walnut seeds should be up to one meter. This depth is required to provide the future tree with a supply of nutrients. Seeds are planted in holes to a depth of 15-20 centimeters. The soil selected from the pits is mixed with humus and returned back.

Nuts are laid on the bottom with a seam upwards, and not with a point, otherwise the tree will begin to bear fruit later.

Three to four fruits are placed in each hole, placing them at a distance of 20-25 centimeters from each other (fruits are planted in a triangle or square). The pit is filled up with the formation of a mound in the middle, and then the soil is compacted. Among the seedlings that have grown, the strongest is chosen. Seedlings grown from seeds should be properly pruned. It is necessary to water young walnut trees from May to July twice a month, per 1 m2, four buckets of water. Watering is delayed in rainy weather and stops in August.

In the spring

Seeds that will be planted in May need to be stored in a cool place, and stratification is performed about 3-4 months before planting. It provides for laying nuts at + 4 + 7 degrees in wet sand. Before putting nuts in the sand, you can keep them for a short time in a glass container filled with water (water temperature is room temperature).

In open ground, seeds are planted in May. Planting depth is within 7-9 centimeters. The first shoots appear in about ten days. By autumn, their height is approximately 10-15 centimeters. First, the seedlings grow upward, and then their trunks begin to thicken. If you water them abundantly in the summer, then the plants can grow taller, but in this case they overwinter worse.

How to germinate a walnut at home

You can grow walnut seedlings at home in 500 ml plastic cups. The bottom of the glasses is pierced so that excess moisture is removed. The containers are filled with garden soil, and the nuts are placed to a depth of 5 centimeters. Having covered them with earth from above, watering is carried out and the glasses are sent to the balcony or to the basement. By the beginning of February, they are transferred to the house, watered abundantly and displayed on the windowsill.

Seedlings in such glasses appear 2-3 weeks after returning to the house. When the plants reach 10 centimeters in height (usually within a month), they are transplanted into larger containers, for example, into cut 1.5-2 liter bottles. By sending these containers back to the windowsill, the plants are watered in a timely manner, since they require moderately moist soil.

In April, when the daytime temperature rises to +15 degrees, the plants can be transferred to a glazed balcony for hardening before planting in the soil at the end of May. At this time, there is no longer any risk of frost, and the seedlings reach a height of 20-25 centimeters. At the same time, we note that nuts planted in the ground in autumn only begin to germinate in May, and they reach 10-20 centimeters in height only by autumn.

Propagation by seedlings

With this cultivation, seedlings are transplanted to a permanent place at 2 years of age in the spring. When digging up, you need to be as careful as possible, trying not to damage the roots on the sides. The central root, which by this age has already grown to a depth of more than a meter, is cut off with a pruner or knife at a depth of forty centimeters. The remaining wound is covered with clay.

The seedlings are planted in compacted soil to such a depth that the root collars rise above the soil level by three to four centimeters.The roots of the seedlings need to be well spread in order to return them to their previous position (before digging out). There is an opinion that a brick or flat stone should be installed under the center of the root of the seedling so that the roots of the future nut are powerful, but it is wrong. Having installed the seedlings, the pits are covered with soil, after which the soil is compacted, watered and mulched, and excess branches are removed from the tree.

Graft

When growing a walnut, you always want to get a tree whose fruit performance will be good. However, most often, when propagated by seeds, seedlings do not retain the properties inherent in the parent variety, so new plants are usually grafted. Harvesting cuttings for grafting is carried out from young walnuts, which are already bearing fruit. Since grafting is a very laborious task that requires some knowledge, it is sometimes easier to acquire an already grafted seedling. Fruiting of a grafted tree begins at the age of 8-10, but if the crown is formed correctly and the care of the plant is good, then the first fruits appear already at the age of 4-5 years.

We advise you to watch the following video, which shows in detail how to properly graft a walnut.

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Seed propagation of a nut is one of the most popular ways in which it is important to pick up a good fruit. How to grow a walnut so that the tree gives a good harvest, we will figure it out further.

Seed propagation of nuts is one of the most popular and proven methods.

Germinating seeds

How to choose and how to germinate a walnut:

1. Collecting nuts is carried out as they fall from the tree, you can knock them down.
2. For sowing, the gardener selects large fruits with a thin shell and excellent taste. They take whole nuts, which are free of defects and cracks. Make sure there are no spots or dots on the shell.
3. Do not use store fruits, as they may be old and unsuitable for growing.
4. The pericarp is removed for faster germination. Peel the fruit gently without touching the inner rind.
5. For convenience, rubber gloves are used.
6. The peeled fruits are placed in a container with water. Those that have gone to the bottom are suitable for landing.
7. After cleaning, the fruits are dried in the sun and put in the shade. Do not use heating technology to dry seeds.

Landing

If you do not know how to plant a walnut from a seed, follow the advice of experts. Planting seeds in open ground is done in autumn or spring.

Planting a nut in the fall is carried out on a regular territory, since during transplantation there is a risk of damaging the roots and ruining the plant. The diameter of the hole is about 1 m. The seeds must be deepened by 20 cm and sprinkled with soil mixed with humus.

Planting rules will help to grow a walnut tree that bears excellent fruit:

1. Stratification should be carried out 3 months before disembarkation. Prepare wet sand and place the nuts in it at a temperature not exceeding 7 ° C. After a week and a half, you can see a growing seedling.
2. Select the strongest seed from the germinated.
3. It is important to place the seeds with the seam facing up. The hole holds approximately three fruits, which should be placed at a distance of 25 cm from each other. The main feature of laying out the seeds is the observance of geometric shapes: three nuts are laid out in a triangle, and four in a square.
4. Fill in the hole and tamp the formed mound.

Planting capacity

How to properly plant a walnut in a container:

1. A deep pot with drainage is suitable for planting. The first container should have a diameter and depth of 30 cm. This will allow the tree's root system to fit freely.
2. Each time you transplant, you need to pick up a new pot, the diameter of which will be 8 cm larger than the previous one.
3. The container should be placed in a room that is well lit by the sun. There should be no drafts and wind.
4. When the flowers form, give the plant shelter from adverse influences from the outside.
5. You can install the pot in a greenhouse environment. The tree does not like too dense soil, the soil should be slightly alkaline, very nutritious and loose.

Growing at home

You can plant and grow a tree at home, but this process is laborious.

How to grow a nut from a fruit: The fruit should be grown in large pots, as this will save the crop from severe frosts.

Large containers will provide the plant with the necessary useful components that it extracts from the soil. The walnut grown in this way is of medium size. You should not expect a rich harvest from him. Small in size and fruit of the tree. The taste of nuts is directly related to the care of the plant.

Care

Once you've learned how to grow a walnut from a seed, you need to take care of it. The worst enemy of the walnut is waterlogged or too dry soil. When there is too much moisture, the roots begin to rot and gradually die off.

Insufficient moisture threatens to stop the development of ovaries. On hot days, the amount of water should be increased. You may need to wrap the pot with a damp cloth to cool the roots.

In order to protect the plant from freezing, you need to bring it indoors or cover it with burlap. By a similar method, the culture is preserved from birds. If you are engaged in growing walnuts at home, then you should mulch the soil with peat in the spring, you can use manure, moss. Walnut rarely gets sick, but if spots appear on its foliage, then you need to treat it with a special liquid.

Fertilizers are left during the growing season when the crop needs additional feeding.

Walnut needs additional feeding during the growing season

The transplant is carried out in the fall. To do this, the tree is taken out of the pot and one tenth of the root system is cut off. The aboveground area also needs pruning. A transplant is needed in order for the nut to reach its final size. A tree that has taken root in a tub can be shaped into any shape.

Do not forget the first years of the plant's life to carry out the formation of the crown along with the removal of some of the flowers. This will prevent abundant fruiting. In summer, thin, weak shoots should be removed.

A tree planted correctly will grow healthy and bear fruit. Now you know how to plant a walnut from the fruit.

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Walnut is a thermophilic durable tree with a very powerful and developed root system, which bears useful fruits. The nut is rich in amino acids and vegetable fats, which have a beneficial effect on many human organ systems. A handful of peeled nuts a day will improve brain activity, digestive system, strengthen the heart muscle, and enrich it with essential vitamins and minerals. Walnut is quite easy to plant at home on the site. In this article, you will learn how to select seeds, germinate for planting, and when to plant in the ground. More detailed instructions are clearly shown in the video.

How to select seed

At home, the most common method of planting by seeds. The seed sprouts within a year if good material is selected. For planting, it is better to select seeds from a tree with large nuts, a variety with a thin shell. Seed should be taken as soon as the nuts begin to crumble. Suitable for sowing undamaged kernels, nuts without visible shell defects, fresh. If you buy nuts for sowing from a store, the chances of germination are very low, since it is not known when they were harvested. You can grow a walnut as an ornamental indoor plant. In this case, the variety does not play a special role.

Attention! If you plan to plant a seedling outdoors, make sure that the selected variety is acclimatized and can withstand frost before germinating the seeds.

Sowing preparation and basic rules

After carefully selecting the nuts for planting, they need to be prepared. For this, the kernels are laid out in one layer in a box-type container and covered with wet sand. The box must be removed to a cool dark place, you can put it in the refrigerator. The storage temperature does not exceed 0-5 ° C. It takes about 4 months to keep the seeds in this mode. In this case, every 3-4 weeks you need to moisten the sand and ventilate the container. After this period, the nuts will ripen as seeds, ready for planting in the ground.

Take fresh nuts for germination

If you collect and prepare seeds in a timely manner, the most favorable time for planting will come - mid-spring, the second half of April. For the future seedling, you need to choose a spacious pot, you can make a specially wooden tub. Sufficient depth for the pot up to 30 cm. This space should be enough for the proper development of the root system.

Advice. If there is very little space at home, you can plant seeds in plastic cups with a volume of 0.5 liters. First you need to make holes at the bottom for air. Drainage can be omitted.

It is better to prepare the land mixture yourself from one part of the turf, part of the peat and the third component - humus. The soil should be of medium acidity and always loose. Dense soil will not allow the rhizome to develop well. So, step by step planting the seed:

1. Fill the pot by a third with drainage.
2. Fill up with soil mixture.
3. Lay the nucleolus to a depth of 7-9 cm, sideways down.
4. Water the soil abundantly.
5. Leave the seed tub or pot in a warm place with adequate lighting. Before the sprout sprouts, you can cover with foil or glass.

The sprouts should appear in about two weeks. Proper care of the plant is now necessary in order for a good fruit-bearing tree to grow.

Walnut sprout

In the case of germinating seeds in a glass, when the sprouts reach 10 cm, the plant must be transplanted into a large container in volume, for example, into a cut bottle. Planted in April, the plants reach a height of about 25 cm by autumn.

Rules for caring for a walnut seedling

If you have been gardening for a long time, then you are not alien to timely watering and caring for plants. In this case, the content of the nut will not cause much trouble. Basic care requirements:

• Lighting. The nut does not like shaded places, it is a sun-loving plant.
• Watering is regular and abundant, but do not allow stagnation of water, in order to avoid root rot. With a lack of moisture, the ovary will not form correctly.
• Fresh air during the warm season. At a constant daytime temperature of + 15 ° C and above, the seedling should be exposed outside, in a sunny place. However, you need to protect the tree from overheating. You can wrap the pot with a wet rag. Make sure there are no drafts and gusty winds.
• Mulching the soil at the base of the tree with peat.
• Top dressing with a complex potassium-containing fertilizer once every two weeks.
• Protection against insect pests, especially in the warm season, when the plant is outdoors most of the time.

If you grow a nut at home as an ornamental plant, then the seedling is moved to a large tub. Every year in the fall, a transplant is needed with pruning of a tenth of the roots. And in order to form a tree, in the summer months it is necessary to remove young shoots, the weakest of them. Remove some of the flowers to prevent over-fruiting.

Young walnut sapling

The walnut tree is resistant to external infections, but with insufficient feeding, watering or the wrong location of the pot, the plant may weaken and develop incorrectly. As a result, it becomes susceptible to various diseases. Of the most famous, especially dangerous diseases are distinguished: bacteriosis, brown spot, root cancer.

The seedling is ready for planting in the ground one year after sowing. Fruiting can be expected in 6-7 years.To speed up this process, it is more convenient to buy ready-made seedlings for planting on the site.

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Can walnuts be grown from walnuts? People who know firsthand walnut farming are surprised to learn that this is actually a simple task. The walnut tree grows easily from the fruit - this procedure is quite affordable at home.

The title photo shows an annual walnut sapling.

What does a walnut tree look like?

This tree is known for its monumentality. Southern varieties grow up to 30 meters tall. The crown is spreading, extensive, capable of occupying 0.3 acres. Considering that other crops do not always grow under it (due to the dense foliage of the walnut tree or the phytoncides released by it), this plant is not suitable for a small summer cottage.

General view of a walnut tree.

How the walnut tree blooms - in the photo below:

Flowers: on the left - male, on the right - female.

Readers ask us what an adult flowering walnut tree looks like, is there a photo? It is much more convenient to watch the flowering of a large tree in the video below:

Photo of walnut leaves.

Photo of fruits.

General information

Walnut is a long-lived tree, some specimens live longer than 300 years. He loves humidity, light, in nature it grows best on soils with a constant, albeit low, groundwater level. The root system is powerful, penetrating deep into the soil. There are modern varieties that are resistant to frost. Although, undoubtedly, the cases of growing in the open field in the Moscow region or in the Urals are still the exception, not the rule.

Variety "Ideal"

This famous variety overturned the standard view of the walnut as a purely southern plant. A relatively short tree (up to 5 m versus 30 meters of classic southern nuts), does not live 400 years, but 50 years, but the fruitful qualities are unique. It blooms twice a season, the fruits are collected in a brush, quite frost-resistant (in the Urals, shelter for young plants will be needed - that's all), bears fruit unusually early - at 2-3 years of age. A short summer in the middle lane is enough for the harvest to ripen qualitatively. Experienced walnut growers say that the Ideal variety has shown itself excellently in the Moscow region, near St. Petersburg, in Vyazma.

Unfortunately, no one shared a photo of an adult tree, it is impossible to find a photo on the network with at least an approximate appearance of this wonderful variety in adult form. However, you can see the tree in the video in the blog "My Garden".

Not "Ideal" alone

Despite the fact that "Ideal" is so good, growing it, for example, in Siberia, is nevertheless fraught with a number of difficulties - the plant will require shelter, attention, dressing, and shaping. Perhaps, citizens who are keen on walnut farming will like other species of the Walnut genus - they are more stable in nature, and, although they will also require efforts to grow, they may turn out to be easier to breed in Siberia or the Urals. These are nuts:

1. Black.
2. Rocky.
3. Siebold (aylantholus).
4. Grey.
5. Manchurian.
6. Cordate.

Growing trees from seeds

That is, from the fruit. Seeds sprout in one year. Choose a quality nut, preferably one that has just fallen from a tree. Better yet, pick a ripe, beautiful fruit and pick it yourself.

Inspect the nut, if there is damage on the shell, it is better not to take it.

Can you grow a walnut from a store nut?

There is a small chance, however, the freshness and germination of these nuts is more than doubtful, it is hardly worth wasting time. Having familiarized yourself with the procedure for preparing seeds for planting, you will understand that nuts on the market could lose their germination at any of these stages (for example, the drying stage).

Do the nuts need to be peeled from the outer fleshy layer (pericarp)?

It is desirable. This will sprout the nuts much faster.Cleaning should be done carefully without damaging the inner shell. The procedure is carried out with gloves, the juice has strong coloring properties, stains can be removed.

After cleaning

Peeled nuts are dipped in a bucket of water, drowned ones are quality nuts that are more likely to sprout, choose them for planting.

The next step is drying. Peeled and calibrated nuts are laid out in the sun in one layer, dried for 1 day, then dried in the shade. Dry only in the fresh air; it is highly not recommended to dry nuts intended for planting near heating devices. You can skip this stage if you plan to plant a nut before winter and get seedlings in May.

What to put in?

Prepared nuts are planted in open ground, as described below, but you can also at home in plastic containers of half a liter. The containers are filled with garden soil, the nuts are planted to a depth of 5 cm. They are watered, then placed in a cool place: a balcony or a basement. At the beginning of February, they are rearranged into a house, in a bright place, after 2-3 weeks young plants appear, after a month they reach a height of 10 cm, now they need a larger container, they should be transplanted into pots or cut plastic bottles with a volume of 1.5-2 liters.

The condition of the soil should be monitored, it should always be moderately moist, in April (or later, at a temperature of about 15 C, the plants begin to gradually accustom them to fresh air, they are taken out to the balcony. They are planted in open ground when the threat of frost has completely passed.

Landing in open ground, choosing a place

The walnut tree is characterized by spreading - this is taken into account when choosing a place. Powerful root system, so it is not planted next to buildings. Fruiting in 6-9 years.

The fruits are planted before winter, it is advisable to plant them immediately in a permanent place, the tree has a powerful central taproot, which means that it does not like transplants. The pit for planting is up to 1 meter both in height and in width, before planting, dig up the soil from the pit with humus. The depth of the planting of nuts is 15-20 cm. At least 3-4 nuts are planted in one pit, so that later you can choose one of the strongest ones.

The nut should be laid upwards with a seam, if put with a tip, it will also germinate, but it will develop more slowly. Nuts planted in open ground germinate a little later than those planted in cups, around May. Although there is also the opposite experience: in the open field, the nuts sprouted faster than after stratification in the refrigerator.

Yes, there is also the option to plant the nuts outdoors in the spring. For this, the prepared nuts are stored in a cool, but not damp place. Somewhere 3-4 months before planting in open ground (approximately in January-February), they need to be stratified: the nuts are buried in moistened sand, placed in the general compartment of the refrigerator (a temperature of 5-7 degrees is needed). Withstand the due date. Planted in May in open ground, seedlings should be expected in ten days.

How walnuts germinate:

Germination of walnut "Ideal".

About fast germination of walnuts - in just 10 days

Video about the method of walnut stratification. from the channel "My Garden". Part 1. Stratification procedure.

Part 2. Shoots in 10 days!

Walnut in the Moscow region

Contrary to all beliefs, walnuts can really grow in the Moscow region. Planting is possible both in autumn and in spring after stratification. True, nuts for planting must be bought from trusted walnut growers who grow nuts in the Middle Lane. As for the seedlings, then, of course, it is necessary to plant only zoned young plants grown from nuts obtained from a tree, which feel comfortable in the conditions of the Moscow region, imported southern trees are too tender. We have already talked about the Ideal variety above - yes, it is it that is perfect for growing in a dacha near Moscow.

Growing walnuts in the Urals

Such attempts have indeed been, and are almost successful. The Ideal variety grows well in the Urals in the open field in summer, giving powerful shoots, but all ground parts freeze out in winter. That does not prevent the trees from resuming attempts to sprout with the arrival of heat. Usually, such plants die, gradually exhausting all their strength to fight inappropriate conditions. The network contains information about the gardener Vera Viktorovna Telnova (Chelyabinsk), who successfully grows walnuts in the Urals and receives a harvest from them. It looks like this:

1. Seedlings of the "Ideal" variety are planted on a plot well sheltered from the winds.
2. The tree is formed low, up to 1.2 m. But spreading, the crown of one plant can occupy 8 square meters.
3. The young seedling was specially planted a little inclined to make it easier to bend it to the ground.
4. For the first three years, the trunk of the seedling for the winter was wrapped in 2-3 layers of covering material, in the future the procedure is simplified, you can simply throw a covering material on the tree, attach something heavy from above (pipes, bricks, boards).
5. To avoid gnawing mice under the shelter, you should lay out mouse baits.
6. Natural snow cover is sufficient.
7. Shelter should be removed late enough - at the beginning of May.
8. The yield of such a tree depends on the quality of the soil, the more fertile the land, the higher the yield. In the summer, high-quality watering will also be required. Such a nut can bear fruit in the 3rd year of life (the Ideal variety, as you know, is early ripening).

About growing in the Middle lane

Material from the video channel "Garden World".

Walnut bonsai

The idea of ​​creating a bonsai from a walnut tree seems like a failure, at least that's what experienced bonsai lovers say about it. However, miracles do happen.

The video below shows this miracle tree in detail.