How to properly grow a spruce at home?

Spruce belongs to the pine family. It grows in Asia, America and Europe. It is not so easy to grow a Christmas tree at home, as it needs careful care. The most common types that are grown at home in a pot are common and silver spruce. In addition to these varieties, you can still grow araucaria (indoor spruce). Araucaria can be grown at home in a pot all year round if the tree is properly cared for.

Content rules

Lighting

In order to grow a Christmas tree at home in a pot, you need to properly care for it. The tree loves bright lighting. It is necessary to grow young specimens in a bright and warm place, while the pot of spruce should be protected from the rays of the sun. Otherwise, it may negatively affect the further growing of the tree.

Temperature

In the cold season, ate needs coolness. In this season, the temperature regime should range from +6 to +10 ° С. The forest beauty can quite easily tolerate freezing temperatures, only it is required to monitor the soil clod so that it does not freeze.

With the arrival of warm days, it is recommended to take the spruce out to the balcony, and shade it from the scorching sun.

Watering mode

To grow a Christmas tree in a pot, you need to provide it with proper care. Watering is the main component in growing a forest beauty. The tree should be watered abundantly from March to September.

The soil is not allowed to be excessively wet or too dry. In winter, the frequency of watering is reduced to 1 time in 20 days if the temperature in the room is +6 - + 10 ° С. At a temperature of 0 degrees, the tree is moistened once a month. Professionals advise to spray the tree from time to time, especially during cold weather.

Top dressing

Spruce does not need regular feeding. In the summer, the spruce is fertilized only about three times with universal dressings.

Earth substrate

If you want to grow a spruce tree from seeds, then an acidic soil is needed for this. You can purchase an earthen mixture for conifers or prepare it yourself at home. It is required to take universal soil and soil from a coniferous forest in the same proportions, and mix it all.

Transfer

The spruce tolerates the transplant rather painfully. It is recommended not to disturb the earthen ball and to prevent the roots from exposing. You need to replant the tree 2 times a year, around May.

Reproduction

To grow a tree at home in a seed pot, you need to take the seeds from the cones, which are harvested from mid-autumn to the end of winter. At home, seeds are sown no deeper than half a centimeter. During the rooting period of seedlings, the container should be placed in a well-ventilated room.

Saplings that are one year old grow from 15 to 25 centimeters, it all depends on the type and conditions.

Most common problems

In order to grow a Christmas tree at home in a pot, you should adhere to competent care, otherwise there may be problems with growing.

1. The needles turn yellow and crumble.This usually happens with improper care (sunburn, low or high temperatures, improper watering regime.) Affected branches cannot be restored. You can only make changes to the conditions of detention and use drugs that increase the immunity of plants. Funds are purchased in special stores.
2. The needles wrinkled. This indicates that the earth is not completely oxidized. Add soil from under conifers to the top layer of soil. The roots of the tree should not be exposed, and the ground level should not be changed.

If you adhere to all the listed tips on how to properly grow a Christmas tree at home in a pot, then you can get a beautiful and lush spruce without much difficulty.

• Type: conifers
• Flowering Period: May, June
• Height: 30-35m
• Green color
• Perennial
• Hibernates
• Shady
• Drought resistant

Green spaces on a suburban area are both clean air, and natural decor, and an excellent functional tool for building landscape design. Coniferous forest inhabitants take root perfectly in any climatic zone of Russia, among which are slender Christmas trees with lush, dense needles. It's no secret that the aroma of resin is good for both people and plants, so everyone who cares about their health must plant spruce. Let's take a closer look at how to grow a fir tree and use it to decorate a garden plot.

Spruce in landscape design

First, we suggest you watch the video - perhaps you will find answers to your questions in it:

To begin with, all kinds of spruce varieties are an excellent material for forming the style of a suburban area, which is why, when choosing planting material, you should pay attention to coniferous varieties.

Thanks to the dense, beautiful crown, the shape of which can be adjusted depending on the goals, tall and low spruces are successfully used to compose compositions such as:

• rockeries;
• hedges;
• topiary;
• single and group landings.

The combination of low conifers with neatly formed crowns, stone and decor made from natural materials is suitable for decorating the territory both in a regular and natural style, because rockeries with spruce as a key element are very popular.

Rockeries are also good because they require small investments with the maximum aesthetic effect: almost all plants can be grown with your own hands, and stones can be found right on the territory of the dacha, brought from the river bank or from a quarry

A live spruce hedge is a great fencing element that can be planted around the perimeter or between two different functional areas. Tall, densely planted trees will completely replace the fence, and miniature ornamental plants will decorate the area and create a natural natural atmosphere.

In this case, low, but planted trees close to each other bear a decorative rather than functional load - they separate the rockery zone from the rest of the territory

Having a small Christmas tree in the country, you can practice the art of topiary - create a geometric figure, spiral or other simple three-dimensional object from a lush spruce crown. This is where one of the properties of conifers comes in handy - slow growth (3-5 cm per year).

It is better to start comprehending the basics of topiary with the least complex shapes - a cube, pyramid or a ball, and then move on to more complex configurations, for example, spirals

Against the background of brick and wooden buildings and fences, groups of rarely planted fir trees of various heights look beautiful, and a single tall Christmas tree can become the center of a recreation area or an excellent background partner for a gazebo (benches, garden decor).

Many people specially planted a fir tree to celebrate the New Year and Christmas in nature.A holiday held outdoors is more interesting and more fun than a banal family feast, and the process of decorating a tree with garlands and toys is a real magical ritual that children will remember for a lifetime.

Methods for acquiring or breeding spruce

If you have chosen spruce as one of the plants to decorate your plot and even decided on a variety, you need to think about where you will get it. The easiest way is to buy a ready-made seedling in the nursery, but many do not look for easy ways and try to grow trees on their own, from seeds or twigs. There are also those who consider the most hardy and strong specimens taken in the natural environment, that is, dug in the forest.

Consider the nuances of each of the methods and take a closer look at the features of spruce breeding.

Buying a seedling in a nursery

If you already have a ready-made design project, and only a few conifers are missing for its implementation, you can quickly buy seedlings in the nursery. This is also true if you need some rare, exotic variety that is difficult or long to grow on your own.

Coniferous seedlings, like other plants, are sold in pots of various sizes, depending on the size of the plant. When planting a Christmas tree in the ground, you should completely preserve a lump of "native soil", so the tree will take root better and faster.

When choosing a spruce in a nursery, consult a specialist on the main growing factors that relate to the size of an adult tree, its winter hardiness and endurance, lighting conditions, watering regime, etc.

When buying a seedling, pay attention to its viability, which is easy to determine by the following signs:

• fresh, shiny, not partially crumbling needles;
• delicate growth shoots at the tips of the branches;
• natural, not deformed shape of the branches and trunk;
• the needles are not affected by a rusty or whitish coating;
• when pressed lightly, the branches bend rather than break.

Too small a pot indicates that the spruce was dug up specifically for sale and its root system was violated.

Growing trees from seeds

If you have plenty of time to do your gardening work, you can start growing different varieties of spruce from seed. The best species are those that grow in your area. The ripening time of cones depends on the climate, but it is recommended to harvest in late autumn for reproduction.

The buds are stored in a cool dry place, protected from wind and direct sunlight. Approximately 2.5-3 months before sowing, seeds are removed (they are also called nuts) and stratified to increase germination

To prepare the seedlings, the seeds are kept in clean water for a day, after soaking them for half an hour in a weak (0.5%) solution of manganese. Then they are immersed in containers filled with wet sand and stored until sowing in the cold - snow or refrigerator.

Sowing is carried out in mid-April, and it is better to use a greenhouse with sawdust for this. Sandy loam soil is covered with a thin layer (1.5-2 cm) of sawdust, seeds are placed on it, sprinkled on top with the same layer of coniferous sawdust - they create conditions that are close to natural, but more comfortable for growth

If you decide to plant seeds in open ground, you will need to arrange additional protection. It can be a frame made of twigs, which protects from a harsh wind, and a layer of cotton fabric.

In August, a kind of protection is removed, and instead of it, a shelter is made from a thick layer of dry leaves. Crates are sometimes used instead of open ground, but the growing conditions remain the same.

After 2, less often after 3 years, the seedlings are planted in the ground with an interval of 40-50 cm.Before planting, too long or damaged roots must be removed, and the remaining ones must be placed in a humus solution for a short time.

A special care regimen will be required: moderately moist soil (in the heat - additional watering) and 3-time summer dressing.A mullein or 0.1% hydroponic solution diluted with water is suitable as fertilizer.

The growth of seedlings lasts another 3-4 years. All this time they need to be loosened, fertilized, watered about 1 time per week. Mandatory feeding is carried out in the spring, before the beginning of the swelling of the kidneys. A Mineral Nutrient Blend works well:

• manure - 450-500 g;
• potassium nitrate - 10-15 g;
• superphosphate - 25-30 g.

Everything is thoroughly mixed, distributed into the soil around the seedlings, carefully dug in to a shallow depth (8-10 cm) and watered so that the fertilizer is absorbed into the soil.

After 6-7 years, you will receive Christmas trees ready for planting in a permanent place. They, as usual, are planted in early spring, keeping a root ball of earth.

How to grow a Christmas tree from a branch (cutting)

For propagation of decorative species, cuttings are used. Twigs cut in early spring (in April) can take root in the same year, later ones only the next year. Many people prefer August cuttings, when the shoots finish growing and begin to lignify, but there is also a winter method that is successfully used for all conifers, including spruce trees.

We bring to your attention a master class on winter spruce cuttings, which consists in home rooting of seedlings with the possibility of further spring planting in the ground. Use a pair of garden shears or pruning shears to cut as many side branches as needed. From the end of the cut, a "heel" should remain - a piece of last year's wood. The big "heel" will have to be cut off so that there is no decay of the wood.

We carefully cut the needles from the lower part, close to the "heel" with a knife, as they are not needed and will interfere with the development of future roots

Many species of conifers do well without additional stimulants, but the spruce is capricious in this regard and requires, especially in winter, a special attitude towards itself.

We place the processed branches in a vessel half-filled with Epin's solution (4-6 drops per 200 ml of water), and keep for 12-14 hours

The material for storing cuttings will be sphagnum moss, which perfectly absorbs moisture.

While the cuttings are gaining strength in Epin's solution, we prepare a protective "shirt" for them - soak dry sphagnum in clean water

We take the film and lay it out with a long ribbon on the table. We distribute sphagnum soaked in moisture along the ribbon - it will play the role of a substrate for growing spruce cuttings.

We lay out the cuttings on the prepared base in the following order: first, dip each branch in a stimulating powder (for example, "Kornevin"), then place the lower part on a ribbon with moss

We fold the film in half so that the roots are pressed against the sphagnum and wrapped in a film, and the tops of the cuttings are free.

We roll the film with distributed cuttings neatly into a roll so that it turns out to be dense enough, but not cramped for the development of roots

It turned out a kind of bunch - in this form, coniferous cuttings will be stored until spring planting in the ground. To prevent the film from unrolling, it must be tied with twine or pulled together with an elastic band.

The storage space for cuttings should be light and cool - a pantry or a veranda. If in the country house there are wooden windows with double frames, the cuttings can be placed between the glass or hung from the side, sheltered from direct sunlight.

Winter cuttings are good because small roots already appear by the spring planting period.

Rooted twigs in April can be planted in the garden - not in a permanent place, but in a pot or growing box. A well-lit, ventilated greenhouse is ideal.

In two years, the seedlings will finally take root and get stronger, then it will be possible to plant them in open ground, in a permanent place of growth.

Transplanting a forest tree

The spruce trek into the forest will end happily if you remember a few simple rules:

• dig up the tree in autumn or spring when the soil is soft and moist enough;
• if you transplant a spruce in the summer, try to keep a root ball of earth;
• for a transplant, an instance of no higher than 1 m is suitable, maximum - 1.5 m; the larger the tree, the longer its roots and the higher the likelihood that you will damage them;
• more lush and strong Christmas trees grow along the edges of the forest, in the suburbs, away from dense thickets.

It is important to dig up the fir tree correctly. Dig a circle around the trunk with a diameter about the circle formed by the lowest branches. The depth of the groove is about half a meter. Lift the tree out of the soil carefully, trying to keep the soil at its roots. Lay it on a piece of thick cloth, wrap it and secure the resulting bundle to the wheelbarrow. Grab a couple of buckets of "native" soil so that the tree takes root faster in new conditions.

Do not forget about one important nuance - before digging, be sure to mark the cardinal points, north and south on the branches in order to plant a tree, focusing on them

How to plant a fir tree correctly?

Trees dug in the forest and purchased seedlings have general planting rules. There are two periods when the spruce takes root better - the beginning of spring and late autumn (before the onset of cold weather). Some varieties, for example, blue spruce, are preferable to plant in the spring, therefore, before deciding to plant a spruce, check the specifics of planting the variety you have purchased.

Choose an area most suitable for growing coniferous trees - sunlit or slightly shaded. Take care of drainage in advance, because spruces growing in wetlands do not develop well and lose needles. The ideal place for planting is a sunny patch with low-lying groundwater and fertile, humus-rich soil.

Low decorative fir trees feel great inside flower arrangements and rocky gardens, on well-lit alpine slides and in rockeries

The order of planting ate is as follows:

• We dig a hole 50-60 cm deep, 60 cm in diameter on the surface and 30-35 cm in the lower part.
• We arrange drainage from a 20 cm layer of a mixture of sand and crushed stone (or gravel).
• Prepare a soil mixture from the excavated soil, sand, peat and humus (in equal parts). Add 100-150 g of nitroammophoska to it.
• Partially fill the hole with soil mixture, moisten.
• Place the root ball of the seedling in the hole.
• We fill up the free places with the remaining soil, level it.

We carry out peat mulching around the root collar, which is located at the level of the soil surface. Additional application of peat will warm the roots and retain moisture.

Wood or peat mulching is also attractive from an aesthetic point of view, and adding elements such as oak bark to the topsoil prevents weeds

In addition to planting, caring for the spruce is also important, so we will consider the rules for pruning, watering and protecting against diseases.

Features of caring for conifers

Watering the spruce is necessary depending on the growing season, age and size, but in any case, the soil around the tree should always be slightly moistened. This can be checked by squeezing a clod of earth in your hand. If it crumbles, watering time has come. Watering should be done carefully, distributing water around the entire root ball. The average water consumption for a 2-meter tree is 10 liters once a week.

Small seedlings require a special regime - several times a day in small portions, since the roots are close to the surface and dry out quickly. In addition to watering, do not forget about spraying, after which the spruce will sparkle in the sun with clean shiny needles.

If you do not permanently live in the country, choose drought-resistant species for planting, for example, blue spruce. In a hot period, it is enough to water it once every one and a half to two weeks.

Although spruce is classified as a slow-growing tree, it needs pruning from time to time.Preventive pruning is carried out once a year, in early spring, until new shoots begin to grow. It is also called sanitary, since it is mainly diseased or dry twigs that are removed. Light thinning benefits the whole tree - the sun's rays penetrate deep into the dense crown.

Decorative pruning, on the other hand, is carried out in the middle of summer, after the end of the growth of new shoots. Sometimes the top is cut if the tree needs to grow in width rather than height. The work is carried out with a sharp tool, and the saw cut is treated with a special solution - potassium permanganate and garden pitch.

Hand and bar saws are used to remove thick dry branches, garden pruners are used for smaller branches, and special garden shears are used for decorative haircuts.

Often, Christmas trees and other conifers are at risk of disease. The most common are fungal infections, leading to crown shedding and even death. It is necessary to deal with them using various methods.

To begin with, you should remove the damaged needles and diseased branches, then saturate the soil with Kornevin and treat the tree with Immunocytophyte, Amulet, Zircon or any other drug that increases immunity. Some diseases, such as root sponge or variegated rot, cannot be treated, so the tree must be cut down, the stump must be uprooted, and the surrounding soil must be carefully treated with fungicides.

Signs of schutte disease are the appearance of red spots on the branches, yellowed and crumbling needles. Schütte is treated with Skor, Strobi, Falcon, Quadris, starting from May until the end of summer

And at the end - a few tips from a professional on the selection and cultivation of various decorative varieties.

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Spruce is the most beautiful and capricious tree that you can try to grow at home. After all, she requires special care. In natural conditions, the coniferous beauty is resistant to frost and does not tolerate the warm air of home conditions at all.

In order not to buy a barbarously felled tree on New Year's Eve, you can grow it yourself. It is known that under natural conditions a tree can live for 200 years. Spruce grown at home after three years should still be transplanted into open ground. But until that time comes, you can enjoy your personal coniferous masterpiece.

In order for a tree to grow, it is necessary:

1. Landing
2. Watering and feeding
3. Temperature regime
4. Correct care
5. Lighting

As a rule, many people dream of growing a spruce on their own, but before starting this difficult business, you need to be confident in your abilities. Painstaking work and proper care will provide you with two or three years of observing the growth of the forest beauty.

There are three ways to grow a coniferous beauty at home:

• seeds
• cuttings
• saplings

Breeding spruce from seed

Under natural conditions, seeds fall out of the fruit of the tree, cones, which fall to the ground in autumn. Then all winter they are under a layer of snow and only by the end of February, at the beginning of May, they begin to germinate.

At home, you can speed up this process, due to the fact that there is no snow at home, the seeds are sown in a container, at a distance of 5 - 6 cm. The sand should be wet, but the water should not stagnate, otherwise the seeds may rot. This container is placed in the refrigerator on the door or in a box for vegetables. It can be kept for a month, but best of all until the onset of spring.

When the daylight becomes longer and will last until about 17 hours, the container with seeds must be taken out and placed on the windowsill by the battery. This will bring the crops closer to natural conditions. During this period, the seeds need abundant watering, since in nature the snow begins to melt and the soil is rather wet. Those who germinate seeds for the first time need to be patient, because after 12 - 16 days there will be shoots on the window.

Young shoots should be watered so that the ground is moist. During this period, you can enter watering with fertilizers. In natural conditions, the fertilizer is the humus of needles and cones.

As soon as the young seedlings get stronger, they must be transplanted into separate pots.It is best to dig up the land in a coniferous forest, if there is no such in the vicinity, a soil substrate is acquired for growing coniferous plants.

As soon as the young shoots began to grow together, put them on the window and make sure that there is enough lighting. It is necessary to darken only when the direct rays of the sun hit the plants. They can cause burns in young growth.

Direct sunlight deforms branches and can lead to plant death

As soon as the cold weather has passed, and a stable heat comes, as a rule, in May, small spruces can be taken out into the open air: a balcony, terrace or loggia. At the first frost, bring the trees into the house, and in winter, make sure that the plant is in a bright room with a maximum temperature of 15 degrees.

Breeding spruce cuttings

Before planting cuttings, you need to prepare a nutritious soil. The stalk is best cut from a tree that is 6 to 9 years old. It is necessary to take a one-year-old twig from above. Clean the tip of the needles, put it in a weak growth stimulator for 5-10 minutes and then transplant it into the soil at an angle of 30 degrees. Cover the planting immediately with foil. Cuttings are planted only in spring or autumn. Watering the seedlings should be carried out as the soil dries up. We must not forget about fertilizers.

Trees grown from cuttings take root much faster, but at home they will not last long, and after that they will have to say goodbye to homemade spruce, since for its normal existence it is necessary to plant it on the site.

Planting coniferous seedlings

Saplings are purchased from shops or greenhouses. It is best to buy them during the spring or fall time. You will not have any worries about growing, the finished tree will delight for two to three years.

“After purchasing the seedlings, they need to be transplanted into another pot, while making sure that the roots of the plant are not exposed and that the clod of earth is intact. It is necessary to transplant to the same depth as before. "

Watering and feeding

Spruce is a capricious tree, so care for it must be correct, and especially watering. The earth ball must be constantly moist. Waterlogging or dryness can lead to the death of the plant. It is necessary to water the plant with the addition of mineral fertilizer from May to September. Fertilize twice a month. When the dormant period from November to March comes, completely cancel the fertilization.

In the winter period of rest, there should be special care for the spruce, if it is at home, it is imperative to spray on the needles from a fine spray, if there are heating devices in the room.

Watering is reduced to 2 times a month, if the regime is observed from 5 to 15 degrees. If the spruce is in a cool room, in which the temperature is about 0 degrees, watering once a month will be enough.

Temperature for normal growth of spruce

"Spruce loves coolness and does not tolerate warm air in winter"

In summer, the temperature can be different, a young tree will endure everything, but if there is stagnation of air, it will start to hurt. In summer, the room where the spruce grows must be ventilated.

In winter, it is necessary to give the coniferous plant a rest period, otherwise it will be depleted and quickly die. The optimum temperature for keeping in winter is 5-15 degrees. Although a tree can calmly tolerate a drop in the thermometer to zero and below, the main thing is to make sure that the earthen lump does not freeze.

Correct care

By observing all the necessary requirements for keeping spruce at home, you can enjoy the smell of pine needles. But those who like the forest beauty can grow it every year, and when the tree reaches maturity, plant it in open ground. This is necessary since the spruce root has a wedge-shaped shape for the first 15 years, and only then it dries up, leaving behind lateral branches. The deeper the root goes into the ground, the longer the spruce will grow. Unfortunately, at home, we are not able to provide sufficient depth for the root.

Do not be sad, because new shoots are sprouting on the window, and the three-year-old beauties will decorate the backyard, and will become a wonderful memory to your heirs.

Lighting

Spruce is a light-loving plant, but young seedlings do not tolerate direct sunlight on the needles. But mature trees love the sun and are drawn to it. In winter, young trees must also be provided with lighting, since if it is not enough, the tree will die. During the dormant period, the spruce undergoes photosynthesis processes, but at a slower pace.

If you care for the spruce with love, then the spruce will answer you with its love and beauty.

Spruce belongs to the pine family. It grows in Asia, America and Europe. It is not so easy to grow a Christmas tree at home, as it needs careful care. The most common types that are grown at home in a pot are common and silver spruce. In addition to these varieties, you can still grow araucaria (indoor spruce). Araucaria can be grown at home in a pot all year round if the tree is properly cared for.

Content rules

Lighting

In order to grow a Christmas tree at home in a pot, you need to properly care for it. The tree loves bright lighting. It is necessary to grow young specimens in a bright and warm place, while the pot of spruce should be protected from the rays of the sun. Otherwise, it may negatively affect the further growing of the tree.

Temperature

In the cold season, ate needs coolness. In this season, the temperature regime should range from +6 to +10 ° С. The forest beauty can quite easily tolerate freezing temperatures, only it is required to monitor the soil lump so that it does not freeze.

With the arrival of warm days, it is recommended to take the spruce out to the balcony, and shade it from the scorching sun.

Watering mode

To grow a Christmas tree in a pot, you need to provide it with proper care. Watering is the main component in the cultivation of a forest beauty. The tree should be watered abundantly from March to September.

The soil is not allowed to be excessively wet or too dry. In winter, the frequency of watering is reduced to 1 time in 20 days if the temperature in the room is +6 - + 10 ° С. At a temperature of 0 degrees, the tree is moistened once a month. Professionals advise to spray the tree from time to time, especially during cold weather.

Top dressing

Spruce does not need regular feeding. In the summer, the spruce is fertilized only about three times with universal dressings.

Earth substrate

If you want to grow a spruce from seeds, then an acidic soil is needed for this. You can purchase an earthen mixture for conifers or prepare it yourself at home. It is required to take universal soil and soil from a coniferous forest in the same proportions, and mix all this.

Transfer

The spruce tolerates the transplant rather painfully. It is recommended not to break the earthen ball and prevent the roots from exposing. You need to replant the tree 2 times a year, around May.

Reproduction

To grow a Christmas tree at home in a seed pot, you need to take seeds from cones, which are harvested from mid-autumn to the end of winter. At home, seeds are sown no deeper than half a centimeter. During the rooting period of seedlings, the container should be placed in a well-ventilated room.

Saplings that are one year old grow from 15 to 25 centimeters, it all depends on the type and conditions.

The most common problems

In order to grow a Christmas tree at home in a pot, you should adhere to competent care, otherwise there may be problems with growing.

1. The needles turn yellow and crumble. This usually happens with improper care (sunburn, low or high temperatures, improper watering regime.) Affected branches cannot be restored. You can only make changes to the conditions of detention and use drugs that increase the immunity of plants. Funds are purchased in special stores.
2. The needles wrinkled. This indicates that the earth is not completely oxidized. Add soil from under conifers to the top layer of soil. The roots of the tree should not be exposed, and the ground level should not be changed.

If you adhere to all the listed tips on how to properly grow a Christmas tree at home in a pot, then you can get a beautiful and lush spruce without much difficulty.

On the eve of the New Year, the question of the Christmas tree as the main symbol of the holiday is becoming more acute. Opponents of the plastic tree in the apartment understand that a spruce felled in the forest is not an option, because it costs a lot, but it will begin to crumble pretty soon. The most logical decision seems to be to grow and decorate a plant in a pot for the holiday - minimum costs, no cleaning, and not a single Christmas tree will suffer due to traditions.

Can you grow your own spruce?

As a New Year's, in principle, any plant can become, at least from a distance resembling a coniferous, for example, cypress or boxwood. For those who are not looking for easy ways and strive to achieve perfection in everything, it's time to study the question of how to grow a Christmas tree at home, because this is more than real!

The biggest difficulty in growing a Christmas tree at home is the limited ability of a city apartment to provide a so-called dormant period for the spruce. If you pay attention to the life cycle of an ordinary forest tree, it is not difficult to notice that during the year the temperature regime that it has to endure varies from +30 heat in the summer to frost - 30 in the winter months. Fir-trees easily tolerate such temperature changes throughout the year, moreover, these conifers are perfectly adapted to them, and violation of the temperature regime only leads to diseases of the firs.

That is why it is better to start growing a Christmas tree in an apartment if there is a loggia or other cold and cool place. You should also be prepared that in two or three years the tree will have to be transplanted into the natural conditions of the forest, because in nature spruce trees reach a height of several tens of meters, and for a tree of such dimensions, of course, neither a pot of earth, nor even the largest size is enough rooms.

On average, spruce lives for about 300 years, but sometimes its age can be up to 600 years. The oldest Christmas tree on Earth is now almost a thousand years old, and it grows in Sweden. "Old Tikko" - this is the name of the tree - lives and lives in Fulufjellet National Park and is revered as the oldest arboreal organism on the planet.

How to grow a spruce

You can grow a Christmas tree at home in several simple and affordable ways for everyone.

• From a seed.

By growing your own tree from a seed, you are guaranteed not to break the law (after all, in some regions of the country it is forbidden to dig trees in the forest) and get a Christmas tree, almost from birth adapted to a new place of residence in your house.

What you need to do to grow a tree from scratch:

• Collect some mature buds of the desired type of spruce that have opened in natural conditions.

In autumn, around October, you need to go to the nearest park or forest and look for open cones with seeds in them under the trees. If you bring a closed cone home, it will also open, but the seeds in it may not be fully ripe.

Fir-trees belong to gymnosperms and they arose much earlier than angiosperms (flowering) plants. Due to their characteristics, gymnosperms often displace other plants from the growing territory. The most striking example of such a neighborhood is Christmas trees and birches. At first, small spruces, loving moisture and shade, grow under the crowns of birches, then they grow taller than them, later they shade deciduous trees and acidify the soil, thereby finally destroying trees of other species.

• Plant the seeds in a pot and put it in a cool place (preferably a refrigerator) for a couple of months.

Generally trees grow and adapt to absolutely any land from swamps to rocky soil, from sand to clay, but best of all, the spruce, of course, will grow on fertile black soil. It will also be important to add a little soil to the pot from under the spruce, under which you found a cone with seeds.

• After two months, when the seeds are ready to germinate, you should put the pot on a windowsill, on which it is not very hot and not too dark.

By the spring, your Christmas tree will be about 5 cm in size, and after two or three years it will reach a height of half a meter and will ask to be transplanted into the garden.

• From a seedling.

If you do not have the opportunity, desire or time to grow a Christmas tree from a seed, then you can immediately purchase a spruce seedling. It will certainly be a plant in a pot with a closed root system at the age of just two or three years, that is, ready for transplanting into open ground.

In recent years, it has become popular to acquire a spruce seedling just before the New Year in order to celebrate cheerfully, smelling the needles of a real live Christmas tree, and in the spring to transplant it into a park or forest.

Among the ancient peoples, the spruce was considered a sacred tree, they worshiped it, looked after and decorated it in every possible way. Having become Christians, the Europeans, nevertheless, preserved a number of pagan traditions, including decorating the Christmas tree, only now at Christmas. And Peter I, wanting that his state fully comply with European canons, introduced this tradition on the territory of Russia.

By choosing this way to celebrate the New Year, indeed, you can kill at least two birds with one stone: do not harm the environment, condoning the felling of trees for the sake of traditions, and contribute to the normalization of the ecological situation by planting a new tree in the spring.

In order for the seedling to take root and feel good in the open field, you need to study the features of its existence until the moment it is in your hands. That is, it is better to select a tree for which you already have suitable conditions. In other words, if, for example, you want to have a Christmas tree in your yard, then the seedling should be chosen according to the conditions of your yard, and not hope that a two or three year old tree will be able to adapt to the changed conditions... This is extremely unlikely, and most likely, if the light and heat conditions and the nature of the soil are too different, the Christmas tree will begin to hurt and may even die.

If the conditions for the "birth" of the tree and those in which you transplant it almost completely coincide, then all that remains is to immerse the tree in the hole exactly to the depth at which it was in the pot, and water in the event of a dry summer (about 10 liters of water in week during extreme heat).

• From a twig.

Another popular way, due to its effectiveness, to grow a Christmas tree yourself - from a twig or a cutting, as professional gardeners call it.

A twig about 20 cm long must be cut in spring or autumn from the top of a beautiful and healthy spruce, which is at least 5 years old, slightly cleaned of needles at the base and planted in the ground - in a pot at home or in a greenhouse on the street. In order for the cutting to be guaranteed to take root, you can soak its end for half an hour in a weak solution of potassium permanganate, and only then plant it in the ground. After planting, it is better to cover the stalk with a film and maintain the soil temperature at 21-26 degrees Celsius, and keep the air temperature at least 4-7 degrees. The first days before the roots appear, you need to water the newly-made seedlings several times a day, and then reduce the amount of water as they take root and take root in the soil. It is important to remember that Christmas trees do not like heat and direct sunlight, but they also cannot stand complete darkness.

How to transplant a spruce from the forest

If you have a house on your own land, and you want to start admiring an adult Christmas tree as soon as possible and lead round dances around it for the New Year, you can transplant the tree directly from the forest... The most important thing here is not to damage the root system of a sufficiently mature tree and, when planting, mix the soil from your site with the one from which the tree was taken.

It is best to replant the tree in the fall or spring, giving it abundant watering and protecting it at first and, if necessary, from the scorching rays of the sun and other extreme weather events that can adversely affect an already stressed tree.

In general, conifers do not like frequent changes of their place of residence, so you should not rely on the idea that a Christmas tree can be kept in an apartment for a while, then planted in open ground, and do this several times with the same tree. Sooner or later, you will have to part with your favorite in favor of more natural conditions for her.

But there is also an option when not an ordinary forest Christmas tree grows at home, but a specially bred species. You can watch the video below about growing such specimens.

How to grow a spruce at home (video)

• Type: conifers
• Flowering Period: May, June
• Height: 30-35m
• Green color
• Perennial
• Hibernates
• Shady
• Drought resistant

Green spaces on a suburban area are both clean air, and natural decor, and an excellent functional tool for building landscape design. Coniferous forest inhabitants take root perfectly in any climatic zone of Russia, among which are slender Christmas trees with lush, dense needles. It's no secret that the aroma of resin is good for both people and plants, so everyone who cares about their health must plant spruce. Let's take a closer look at how to grow a fir tree and use it to decorate a garden plot.

• Spruce in landscape design
• Methods for acquiring or breeding spruce
• Buying a seedling in a nursery
• Growing trees from seeds
• How to grow a Christmas tree from a branch (cutting)
• Transplanting a forest tree
• How to plant a fir tree correctly?
• Features of caring for conifers

Spruce in landscape design

First, we suggest you watch the video - perhaps you will find answers to your questions in it:

To begin with, all kinds of spruce varieties are an excellent material for forming the style of a suburban area, which is why, when choosing planting material, you should pay attention to coniferous varieties.

Thanks to the dense, beautiful crown, the shape of which can be adjusted depending on the goals, tall and low spruces are successfully used to compose compositions such as:

• rockeries;
• hedges;
• topiary;
• single and group landings.

The combination of low conifers with neatly formed crowns, stone and decor made from natural materials is suitable for decorating the territory both in a regular and natural style, because rockeries with spruce as a key element are very popular.

Rockeries are also good because they require small investments with the maximum aesthetic effect: almost all plants can be grown with your own hands, and stones can be found right on the territory of the dacha, brought from the river bank or from a quarry

The spruce hedge is an excellent enclosure that can be planted around the perimeter or between two different functional areas. Tall, densely planted trees will completely replace the fence, and miniature ornamental plants will decorate the area and create a natural natural atmosphere.

In this case, low, but planted trees close to each other bear a decorative rather than functional load - they separate the rockery zone from the rest of the territory

Having a small Christmas tree in the country, you can practice the art of topiary - create a geometric figure, spiral or other simple three-dimensional object from a lush spruce crown. Here one of the properties of conifers will come in handy - slow growth (3-5 cm per year).

It is better to start comprehending the basics of topiary with the least complex shapes - a cube, pyramid or a ball, and then move on to more complex configurations, for example, spirals

Against the background of brick and wooden buildings and fences, groups of rarely planted fir trees of various heights look beautiful, and a single tall Christmas tree can become the center of a recreation area or an excellent background partner for a gazebo (benches, garden decor).

Many people specially planted a fir tree to celebrate the New Year and Christmas in nature. A holiday held outdoors is more interesting and more fun than a banal family feast, and the process of decorating a tree with garlands and toys is a real magical ritual that children will remember for a lifetime.

Methods for acquiring or breeding spruce

If you have chosen spruce as one of the plants to decorate your plot and even decided on a variety, you need to think about where you will get it. The easiest way is to buy a ready-made seedling in the nursery, but many do not look for easy ways and try to grow trees on their own, from seeds or twigs. There are those who consider the most hardy and strong specimens taken in the natural environment, that is, dug in the forest.

Consider the nuances of each of the methods and take a closer look at the features of spruce breeding.

Buying a seedling in a nursery

If you already have a ready-made design project, and only a few conifers are missing for its implementation, you can quickly buy seedlings in the nursery. This is also true if you need some rare, exotic variety that is difficult or long to grow on your own.

Coniferous seedlings, like other plants, are sold in pots of various sizes, depending on the size of the plant. When planting a Christmas tree in the ground, you should completely preserve a lump of "native soil", so the tree will take root better and faster.

When choosing a spruce in a nursery, consult a specialist on the main growing factors that relate to the size of an adult tree, its winter hardiness and endurance, lighting conditions, watering regime, etc.

When buying a seedling, pay attention to its viability, which is easy to determine by the following signs:

• fresh, shiny, not partially crumbling needles;
• delicate growth shoots at the tips of the branches;
• natural, not deformed shape of the branches and trunk;
• the needles are not affected by a rusty or whitish coating;
• when pressed lightly, the branches bend rather than break.

Too small a pot indicates that the spruce was dug up specifically for sale and its root system was violated.

Growing trees from seeds

If you have plenty of time to do your gardening work, you can start growing different varieties of spruce from seed. The best species are those that grow in your area. The ripening time of cones depends on the climate, but it is recommended to harvest in late autumn for reproduction.

The buds are stored in a cool dry place, protected from wind and direct sunlight. Approximately 2.5-3 months before sowing, seeds are taken out (also called nuts) and stratified to increase germination

To prepare the seedlings, the seeds are kept in clean water for a day, after soaking them for half an hour in a weak (0.5%) solution of manganese. Then they are immersed in containers filled with wet sand and stored until sowing in the cold - snow or refrigerator.

Sowing is carried out in mid-April, and it is better to use a greenhouse with sawdust for this. Sandy loam soil is covered with a thin layer (1.5-2 cm) of sawdust, seeds are placed on it, sprinkled on top with the same layer of coniferous sawdust - they create conditions that are close to natural, but more comfortable for growth

If you decide to plant seeds in open ground, you will need to arrange additional protection. It can be a frame made of twigs, which protects from a harsh wind, and a layer of cotton fabric.

In August, a kind of protection is removed, and instead of it, a shelter is made from a thick layer of dry leaves. Crates are sometimes used instead of open ground, but the growing conditions remain the same.

After 2, less often after 3 years, the seedlings are planted in the ground with an interval of 40-50 cm.Before planting, too long or damaged roots must be removed, and the remaining ones must be placed in a humus solution for a short time.

A special care regimen will be required: moderately moist soil (in the heat - additional watering) and 3-time summer dressing. A mullein or 0.1% hydroponic solution diluted with water is suitable as fertilizer.

The growth of seedlings lasts another 3-4 years. All this time they need to be loosened, fertilized, watered about 1 time per week. Mandatory feeding is carried out in the spring, before the beginning of the swelling of the kidneys. A Mineral Nutrient Blend works well:

• manure - 450-500 g;
• potassium nitrate - 10-15 g;
• superphosphate - 25-30 g.

Everything is thoroughly mixed, distributed into the soil around the seedlings, carefully dug in to a shallow depth (8-10 cm) and watered so that the fertilizer is absorbed into the soil.

After 6-7 years, you will receive Christmas trees ready for planting in a permanent place. They, as usual, are planted in early spring, keeping a root ball of earth.

How to grow a Christmas tree from a branch (cutting)

For propagation of decorative species, cuttings are used. Twigs cut in early spring (in April) can take root in the same year, later ones only the next year. Many people prefer August cuttings, when the shoots finish growing and begin to lignify, but there is also a winter method that is successfully used for all conifers, including spruce trees.

We bring to your attention a master class on winter spruce cuttings, which consists in home rooting of seedlings with the possibility of further spring planting in the ground. Use a pair of garden shears or pruning shears to cut as many side branches as needed. From the end of the cut, a "heel" should remain - a piece of last year's wood. The big "heel" will have to be cut off so that there is no decay of the wood.

We carefully cut the needles from the lower part, close to the "heel" with a knife, as they are not needed and will interfere with the development of future roots

Many species of conifers do well without additional stimulants, but the spruce is capricious in this regard and requires, especially in winter, a special attitude towards itself.

We place the processed branches in a vessel half-filled with Epin's solution (4-6 drops per 200 ml of water), and keep for 12-14 hours

The material for storing cuttings will be sphagnum moss, which perfectly absorbs moisture.

While the cuttings are gaining strength in Epin's solution, we prepare a protective "shirt" for them - soak dry sphagnum in clean water

We take the film and lay it out with a long ribbon on the table. We distribute sphagnum soaked in moisture along the ribbon - it will play the role of a substrate for growing spruce cuttings.

We lay out the cuttings on the prepared base in the following order: first, dip each branch in a stimulating powder (for example, "Kornevin"), then place the lower part on a ribbon with moss

We fold the film in half so that the roots are pressed against the sphagnum and wrapped in a film, and the tops of the cuttings are free.

We roll the film with distributed cuttings neatly into a roll so that it turns out to be dense enough, but not cramped for the development of roots

It turned out a kind of bunch - in this form, coniferous cuttings will be stored until spring planting in the ground. To prevent the film from unrolling, it must be tied with twine or pulled together with an elastic band.

The storage space for cuttings should be light and cool - a pantry or a veranda. If in the country there are wooden windows with double frames, the cuttings can be placed between the glass or hung from the side, sheltering from direct sunlight.

Winter cuttings are good because small roots already appear by the period of spring planting.

Rooted twigs in April can be planted in the garden - not in a permanent place, but in a pot or growing box. A well-lit, ventilated greenhouse is ideal.

In two years, the seedlings will finally take root and get stronger, then it will be possible to plant them in open ground, in a permanent place of growth.

Transplanting a forest tree

The spruce trek into the forest will end happily if you remember a few simple rules:

• dig up the tree in autumn or spring when the soil is soft and moist enough;
• if you transplant a spruce in the summer, try to keep a root ball of earth;
• an instance of no higher than 1 m is suitable for transplanting, a maximum of 1.5 m; the larger the tree, the longer its roots and the higher the likelihood that you will damage them;
• more lush and strong Christmas trees grow along the edges of the forest, on the outskirts, away from dense thickets.

It is important to dig up the fir tree correctly. Dig a circle around the trunk with a diameter about the circle formed by the lowest branches. The depth of the groove is about half a meter. Lift the tree out of the soil carefully, trying to keep the soil at its roots. Place it on a piece of thick cloth, wrap it and secure the resulting bundle to the wheelbarrow. Grab a couple of buckets of "native" soil so that the tree takes root faster in new conditions.

Do not forget about one important nuance - before digging, be sure to mark the cardinal points, north and south on the branches in order to plant a tree, focusing on them

How to plant a fir tree correctly?

Trees dug in the forest and purchased seedlings have general planting rules. There are two periods when the spruce takes root better - the beginning of spring and late autumn (before the onset of cold weather). Some varieties, for example, blue spruce, are preferable to plant in the spring, therefore, before deciding to plant a spruce, check the specifics of planting the variety you have purchased.

Choose an area most suitable for growing coniferous trees - sunlit or slightly shaded. Take care of drainage in advance, because spruces growing in wetlands do not develop well and lose needles. The ideal place for planting is a sunny patch with low-lying groundwater and fertile, humus-rich soil.

Low decorative fir trees feel great inside flower arrangements and rocky gardens, on well-lit alpine slides and in rockeries

The order of planting ate is as follows:

• We dig a hole 50-60 cm deep, 60 cm in diameter on the surface and 30-35 cm in the lower part.
• We arrange drainage from a 20-cm layer of a mixture of sand and crushed stone (or gravel).
• Prepare a soil mixture from the excavated soil, sand, peat and humus (in equal parts). Add 100-150 g of nitroammophoska to it.
• Partially fill the hole with soil mixture, moisten.
• Place the root ball of the seedling in the hole.
• We fill up the free places with the remaining soil, level it.

We carry out peat mulching around the root collar, which is located at the level of the soil surface. Additional application of peat will warm the roots and retain moisture.

Wood or peat mulching is also attractive from an aesthetic point of view, and adding elements such as oak bark to the topsoil prevents weeds

In addition to planting, caring for the spruce is also important, so we will consider the rules for pruning, watering and protecting against diseases.

Features of caring for conifers

Watering the spruce is necessary depending on the growing season, age and size, but in any case, the soil around the tree should always be slightly moistened. This can be checked by squeezing a clod of earth in your hand. If it crumbles, watering time has come. Watering should be done carefully, distributing water around the entire root ball. The average water consumption for a 2-meter tree is 10 liters once a week.

Small seedlings require a special regime - several times a day in small portions, since the roots are close to the surface and dry out quickly. In addition to watering, do not forget about spraying, after which the spruce will sparkle in the sun with clean shiny needles.

If you do not permanently live in the country, choose drought-resistant species for planting, for example, blue spruce. In a hot period, it is enough to water it once every one and a half to two weeks.

Although spruce is classified as a slow-growing tree, it needs pruning from time to time. Preventive pruning is carried out once a year, in early spring, until new shoots begin to grow. It is also called sanitary, since it is mainly diseased or dry twigs that are removed. Light thinning benefits the whole tree - the sun's rays penetrate deep into the dense crown.

Decorative pruning, on the other hand, is carried out in the middle of summer, after the end of the growth of new shoots. Sometimes the top is cut if the tree needs to grow in width rather than height. The work is carried out with a sharp tool, and the cuts are treated with a special solution - potassium permanganate and garden pitch.

Hand and bar saws are used to remove thick dry branches, garden pruners are used for smaller branches, and special garden shears are used for decorative haircuts.

Often, Christmas trees and other conifers are at risk of disease. The most common are fungal infections, leading to crown shedding and even death. It is necessary to deal with them using various methods.

To begin with, you should remove the damaged needles and diseased branches, then saturate the soil with Kornevin and treat the tree with Immunocytophyte, Amulet, Zircon or any other drug that increases immunity. Some diseases, such as root sponge or variegated rot, cannot be treated, so the tree must be cut down, the stump must be uprooted, and the surrounding soil must be carefully treated with fungicides.

Signs of schütte disease are the appearance of red spots on the branches, yellowed and crumbling needles. Schütte is treated with Skor, Strobi, Falcon, Quadris, starting from May until the end of summer

And at the end - a few tips from a professional on the selection and cultivation of various decorative varieties.

Spruce is a coniferous plant that acts as a classic decoration of the territory. The blue spruce is one of the endangered species, therefore it is listed in the Red Book. This factor affects the cost of pine needles seedlings. But why spend money on buying young trees if you can grow them yourself? We will try to understand together how to grow a spruce from seeds, because in addition to saving finances, the gardener gets a healthy plant adapted to the environment.

Owners of country estates massively purchase cuttings of blue spruce for further cultivation, even despite the high cost. This is because not everyone has an idea of ​​how to grow a spruce from seeds, but you will know for sure.

Features of blue needles

The main difference between conifers of this species is the color of the needles. When growing spruce at home from seeds, it is possible to obtain a tree with 30% of thorns, painted in noble blue, the rest acquire a classic green hue. Therefore, many are interested in the question: "How to grow a spruce from seeds at home and get a high-quality seedling?"

How to get a quality seedling when grown at home?

There are three ways to reproduce spruce trees:

• vaccination;
• by cuttings;
• growing from seeds.

Cutting method: features

This is the easiest way to grow a new coniferous tree. Planting material is rooted in a greenhouse, since open ground has a negative effect on still immature conifers. So, planting a spruce begins with the selection of cuttings. Winter cuttings work best and produce results up to 4 times faster. The most favorable period for rooting is considered the moment of swelling of the kidneys.The main thing when breeding spruce is not to forget about maintaining the temperature regime and the required level of moisture.

Blue spruce, grown in this way, reaches 1 meter in height after 5 years. At this point, the tree can be replanted to a permanent place of growth.

Growing needles from seeds

How to grow spruce from seeds? This process is painstaking and lengthy, and the result depends on the selection of the material and how high-quality it was.

Seed collection

To grow any plant with your own hands, you need selected planting material, which is better not to buy, but to get it yourself. For growing spruce seedlings, seeds obtained from the fruits of a coniferous plant - cones are used. The collection of cones is carried out in mid-February. This is the perfect time to harvest complete spruce seeds. The cones are placed in a cloth bag and placed next to a heater or fireplace, which facilitates quick opening and free access to the grains. After a few weeks, you should be able to reach the seeds without damaging them. After the cones open, the spruce seeds in the bag are rubbed together to cleanse the lionfish. Rinsing under running water will get rid of the greasy film formed due to the release of essential oils. At the final stage of preparation, the planting material is well dried.

To ensure complete protection of seeds from bacteria, they are washed with a weak solution of potassium permanganate, after which they are wiped with a cloth. The prepared seeds are placed in a glass jar, which, tightly closed, is placed in the refrigerator. The conditions in the freezer are as close to natural as possible (in the cold season), where the seeds are kept until mid-March.

How to grow a spruce from seeds yourself? It is very important to get good planting material, which, however, can be purchased on the market if necessary. The main thing is to know a good manufacturer.

Preparing the soil

In order for the blue spruce from seeds to grow healthy at home, it is recommended to prepare the site before sowing the specimens.

Important! Do not sow blue spruce seeds in places where you grow vegetables - they do not take root in the beds and die quickly.

The optimal growing medium is lawn soil mixed with soil taken from under a coniferous tree. Growing in greenhouses involves two planting techniques:

• directly into the ground;
• into an additional container.

When planting seeds in pots, do not forget to prepare a peat mixture with the addition of limestone flour and ammophos in a ratio of 6: 0.035: 0.020 kg. The mixture is scattered into containers in which the spruce is planted. The pots themselves are buried deep into the earthen embankment in the greenhouse.

Important! Choosing the first method of planting, an additional top layer is poured over the soil layer - from sawdust and peat.

We plant seeds

First, determine the most favorable date for planting the spruce. The seedling will feel comfortable in nature if the ambient temperature is around + 19 ° C (+ -1-2 ° C).

Important! After changing the temperature regime (i.e. after the refrigerator), they can only be stored for 50 hours.

Before landing, the planting material is treated with a foundationol solution: 20 g per 10 liters of water.

Spruce is planted in well-moistened soil. If the spruce is grown in greenhouse conditions, then the containers are deepened into the ground by 1.5 cm, and a film is pulled from above. If on the open ground, first they tamp the earth in the hole, after which they put the seeds, covering them on top with a peat mixture and a thin layer of sawdust (about 1 cm).

Important! The distance between individual seeds should be at least 3.5-6 cm.

Seed germination

The first shoots can be observed in 10-14 days. If spruce seedlings are placed close to each other, there is a need to thin them out.Of the entire row of plants, only the strongest specimens are left, keeping the distance between them up to 7.5 cm.

When immature seedlings move to the active growth phase, it is necessary to maintain optimal conditions for growing needles, which are as follows:

• cancel watering and put into practice light spraying of seedlings with water - 2 times a day;
• maintain the temperature regime: the minimum temperature is + 13 ° C, the maximum is + 15 ° C.

Important! Remember that night frosts and direct sunlight during the day have a detrimental effect on immature young needles.

A month later, the seedling of a young blue spruce reaches a height of 3-4 cm. Experts note that indirect diffused sunlight has a good effect on the growth rates of specimens. Since small needles are not resistant to diseases affecting plants, namely to root rot, there is a need for special protection: first, fungicide will be required, after - treatment with an insecticide solution.

Plant transplant

You already know how to grow spruce seedlings from seeds, but it is impossible to do this qualitatively without transplanting annual plants. The procedure is carried out in early spring. After the seedlings reach the required level, it is important to plant the specimens you bred so as not to lose the plants.

Before transplanting, pits are prepared, which are tamped and sprinkled with a layer of earthen mixture from under a coniferous plant.

How to carry out a transplant correctly?

Small Christmas trees are dug out of the ground, separating the interwoven roots of individual specimens. It is necessary to carry out this work quickly, but carefully so as not to damage the root system and not let it dry out.

Blue spruce, grown from seeds at home, requires special care. These are often standard rules.

Interesting! By the third year of growth, less than half of the seedlings survive.

Three years after the sowing of the seeds, the plants are re-transplanted. This is done to provide sufficient space for the roots of the spruce. During this period, the Christmas trees are planted at a distance of 1 m from each other.

Are you wondering how much spruce grows from seed? And we have an answer to this question. After 5 years, you will have a full-fledged spruce, exceeding 1 meter in height.

Such a bluish-green beauty will become a real decoration of the garden or will successfully complement the landscape composition. It is quite difficult to grow plants with your own hands, but due to the entertaining process and in case of a positive result, when it turns out that the efforts were not in vain, you will certainly be proud of your herringbone tree.