Purchase of ready-made seedlings Blue ate - the pleasure is not cheap. In this regard, most often gardeners are lovers choose natural methods - growing from seeds or stalling. Without special costs, you can raise a fir from seeds. This process is the longest, but fascinating, much more interesting than the growing blue beauty from the cutting.
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To grow fir with your own hands, you will need: bumps of blue spruce, fertile soil (weakly acidic or neutral), flower pots (standard), ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate or ammonium chloride, manganese-oxid potassium, any drainage.
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You need to start with the search for ripe winter cones, from which seeds get. Collect cones in winter, then put in a warm place to dry, soon they will reveal themselves. Trying not to damage, carefully seeds are removed from the discontinued cones. It is necessary to store them in the refrigerator in a container with moistened sand before the onset of spring. Treat with a weak solution of manganese and can be planted.
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It is even better to prepare seeds to landfill in the snow. Snow in a shaded place is well tumped, make a pouch and put a bag with seeds in it. To lay on top of the sawdust or other tight coating so that the snow does not melt too fast. Prepared blue fir seeds retain to sowing. After removing seeds, they are also treated with a weak mortar of manganese at about 10-11 hours to prevent diseases.
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Seed seeds are better in ordinary flower pots, filled with garden earth and mixed with peat or humus, to a depth of about 1.5 cm. After planting the soil, it is good to moisten and follow the humidity all the time before germination. Sprouts, if the preparation is performed correctly, will appear no later than two or three weeks. Spruce plant is frost-resistant, it is necessary to plant seedlings into open soil with such a calculation so that they come after the end of frosts.
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Lime soils are destructive for blue spruce. Before falling down, it must be slightly acidified. This can be done with a small amount of ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate or ammonium chloride. To protect the plant from root rotting in a period of heavy rains, add drainage to the yammer for landing: rubble, pieces of bricks.
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Before boarding, it is necessary to carefully remove seedlings from the pot, divide them so as not to damage the roots, quickly, without over with air. Process the roots of a clay bolt. Sprinkle the strongest plants according to the scheme of 15 × 25 cm in place closed from direct sunlight. Sprouts do not watered abundantly to avoid pumping soil, twice a day spray. Next need patience, caring care and time. After three years, the seedlings should be searched again at a distance of 1-2 m away from each other. You should never land seedlings ate in areas where potatoes or corn grew.
Grow spruce from the seed is difficult, it's art. But if it turns out, the result will be striking. Blue spruce is not only a wonderful beautiful tree, but it is also very useful: it has a beneficial effect on the purification of the air, the nervous system, the respiratory organs.
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