How to plant a Christmas tree on the site: preparation of a seedling and planting rules

The fir tree has been called the New Year tree, the Christmas symbol since ancient times. This fragrant evergreen tree attracts with its slenderness, fluffy branches covered with dense needles. A Christmas tree can serve as a decoration for a house and a personal plot.

Content:

• Description and structural features of the Christmas tree
• Coniferous tree propagation methods
• Preparation of seedlings, terms and rules of planting
• Tree care

Description and structural features of the Christmas tree

Spruce is a prominent representative of the pine family, reaching a height of 35-40 meters. Its branches in relation to the trunk are either horizontally or inclined downward. With good lighting of the lower row of branches, it persists for a long time, reaching almost to the ground. A young Christmas tree has a smooth, dark brown bark, but closer to old age it becomes rough, covered with scales, with a grayish bloom. The short spruce needles are characterized by rigidity, they stay on the branches for seven years.

Oblong, up to 15 centimeters long, cones ripen in October, but the trees scatter seeds from mid-winter to April.

Thanks to the presence of the wing seeds spruce easily scattered around. A Christmas tree is valued for its wood, light, shiny, with a pinkish tint. Due to the superficial growth of roots, the tree is often turned upside down by strong winds. The life cycle of a Christmas tree reaches more than two hundred years. The coniferous tree is loved to be used in landscape design and creation. hedges along railways and highways.

Coniferous tree propagation methods

Features of cuttings:

• By cuttings it is best to practice in the last month of spring, although autumn is suitable for this.
• Cuttings are prepared from a tree over four years old, cutting off branches no more than 10-15 centimeters long.
• In order for the branches to take root well, they are soaked in a solution of growth regulators, which include succinic acid.
• In order for the cuttings to take root, they are planted in containers, filling them with a substrate of humus, garden soil, sand, taken in equal proportions.
• The branches are buried by 5 centimeters, holding them obliquely.
• Covering the planted cuttings with foil, place the containers with cuttings in a cool place with sufficient lighting.
• Spruce branches take root for a long time - up to four months.

BUT seeds plants are sown in the off-season at a depth multiple of their thickness four times. Top of the landing fall asleep sawdust... From sown in spring, sprouts appear after half a month, and in autumn - with the onset of warm spring days.

Biologists have bred more than a hundred decorative forms of the common Christmas tree, which serve as an excellent decoration for garden plots. And they select varieties of coniferous trees, depending on where it will grow, in what climate.

Preparation of seedlings, terms and rules of planting

Two years after breedingwhen the tree seedlings get stronger, they are planted in a permanent place.

They begin planting either in early autumn or in mid-spring.

A place for young plants is chosen away from other trees, choosing an area where the soil is sandy or loamy. When planting several trees, the distance between them should be from two to three meters.

The requirements for spruce seedlings are as follows:

• It is better for the roots of a young tree to be not very long, otherwise they will be damaged when landing... The root ball of earth on the roots of the plant must be preserved.
• Herringbone height for transplants its permanent place can be equal to one and a half meters, no more.
• The trunk of the seedling should have strength, and the crown should be splendid, bright green needles.

Correct planting of young spruce trees:

• Having dug a hole intended for planting a Christmas tree, drainage is poured there, which includes sand and crushed stone.
• Then deciduous and soddy soil is poured, adding a little sand and peat to the mixture. For better development of a coniferous tree, add nitroammophoska or another mineral fertilizer.
• When planting plants, make sure that the root collar is at ground level.
• Having covered the roots of the seedling with earth, make a hole around it, sprinkle it with humus or peat and water it.
• Finish planting by loosening the soil around the tree.

Compliance with the requirements for planting a Christmas tree is necessary in order for a coniferous tree to grow healthy and resistant with a dense crown.

Tree care

A Christmas tree is an unpretentious tree. The rules for caring for her include:

• Water the tree in dry and hot summer once a week abundantly, up to one bucket of water for each plant. And in order to avoid yellowing of her needles sprayed from a watering can.
• Loosening of the soil is done carefully and shallowly due to the fact that the roots of the tree are close to the surface.
• Don't worry about the tree growing slowly, especially in the first two years. This is quite natural.
• The plant does not like it when the earth is compacted around it, and can die from the proximity of groundwater.
• Before the beginning of the winter period, young plantings must be mulched with a layer of sawdust; in decorative species, it is better to protect the needles from the cold and bright sunlight with kraft paper or spruce branches.
• Mature trees do not need to be covered: they are not afraid of frost.
• With the growth of spruce plantings, it is necessary to remove old, dried branches.

More information can be found in the video.