Walnut - one of the most popular trees in the country or in the garden. The fact that nuts come in different varieties. And if your tree year from year to year pleases you with large fruits with excellent taste, you are certainly thinking about how to multiply such a valuable specimen. Well, we'll tell you in detail how to plant a nut from the fruit.
How to grow a nut from a fruit?
In order to grow a good seedling, the fruit is picked at the end of September - in the middle of October. In how correctly to plant a nut, it is very important that the large-sized sowing material is ripe: this is indicated by the appearance of cracks in the green outer shell - pericarp.
To plant the walnut in the autumn dig a hole depth and diameter of about 1 m. The soil should be mixed with humus and returned to the pit back. Then, in friable soil, pits with a depth of up to 20 cm, where subsequently 3 to 4 seedlings are placed on the bottom. They are placed at a distance of 25 cm from each other in such a way that a figure of a square or a triangle is formed. Before planting walnuts can be gently freed from the shell. Note that the nuts are laid out with a seam. If you make this point up, the fruit will not germinate at all, or the seedling will appear in a few years.
If you decide to plant a nut in a dacha or an infield in the spring, the seed must first be stratified . For 3 months before planting (in February) the fruits are placed in a box with wet sand in a room with an air temperature of about 7 degrees. Then in mid-May, the nuts, put on the rib, are put in prepared holes to a depth of about 15-17 cm.
How to plant a seedling of a nut correctly?
Cultivated seedlings are recommended to be transferred to a permanent place 2 years after planting the fruit. As to where to plant the walnut, the site under the young tree should be selected carefully. At first,
Before planting a seedling of a nut, in the spring it is necessary to dig a hole with a depth and diameter of up to 1 m. On its bottom is placed near a pail of humus mixed with the ground. The very seedling is excavated very carefully, so as not to damage the roots. The main vertical root is shortened with a secateur to a length of 40 cm and the clay is clogged with clay. The seedling is placed in a pit, straighten his roots and buried in such a way that the root neck is 3 cm above the ground level. Then the nut is covered with earth, pritaptyvayut and watered.