Cedar - Majesty and the Beauty of Northern Forests. Pine nuts are widely used in many cuisines in world, medicinal and cosmetics. To grow a cedar from a nut, it will take a lot of time and patience, but the grown tree with a striking will return everything with a wonderful harvest. So, to grow cedar, for starters, collect seeds, that is, nuts.
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Cedar seeds can be bought in the form of ready-made stratified seeds, or buy nuts in the store, or collect cones in the forest and get nuts from them. All these ways are good. Store nuts are recommended to carefully choose and buy in winter. It is necessary that they are fresh, large and not processed. If the shell glitters, then their boards or caliille, such seeds are not suitable for landing. The shell of good nuts should be slightly whiten and not brilliant, the shine is obtained from the molten resin when encoding. Take these same signs and when choosing cedar cones.
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Bought nuts need to be prepared for landing. To begin, they should be soaked in warm water about a day, changing it three or four times and rub nuts in water, as if flushing with them a resin. Wet seeds need to be decomposed on banks, about 300 g of nuts on a liter jar. Close the capacitance with a lid and make air holes. Banks put in a dark place with a temperature of about 0 degrees Celsius.
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After 2-3 months, seedlings can be grown from seeds, or wait for spring and plant them directly to the landing site. Solding cedars better than rows, retreating 20 cm. It is recommended to choose well-lit places with loose ground. Pour into the grooves to pour water, sow nuts and, slightly tritting, fall asleep the ground by 3-5 cm.
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The first sprouts should appear two weeks after sowing. It is not necessary to water the cedar at this stage, after the appearance of germs, it is rare, usually the spring rains are enough. Earth around a seedling. Cover the stones, or land around the grass, such as clover or videos. It will delay moisture in the soil and will not miss the weeds. When the sprout stretches down a bit, it still remains to hang nuts himself, it is impossible to remove it in any case, the sprouting receives nutrients from it.
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After the appearance of germs, it is necessary to loosen the land around, neatly, not a rigging tree and regularly remove weeds.
Get ready to wait. The first ten years cedar requires constant care and attention, but after this time he will thank you for many more years.
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