Like any fruit tree, the apricot loves to be cared for and cared for all the time, then it will yield a quality harvest and delight you with its beauty.
Along with all the procedures for caring for the garden, the most responsible and painstaking is vaccination. It requires maximum accuracy, caution and special skills. Such a procedure can not be carried out without certain knowledge. Only for this reason beginners gardening, planting their trees, suffer a fiasco. From the first it is very rare. Over the years, through trial and error, you can learn this. Is it possible to plant apricot in general and if possible, then to which tree? Now we will try to understand.
On what root can I plant a colonized apricot?
Colonized apricot, like any fruit tree, is ideally planted on a rootstock, which is 3-5 years old. Just this is the age when the thickness of the trunk is about 4-10 cm. In the older tree, it is technically more difficult to vaccinate and the survival rate will be very poor.
On a sick or poorly growing tree in general, it is not worth it to plant, except as a practice for training.
What kind of tree can you plant apricot?
Many novice gardeners or just lovers do not rarely question whether it is possible to plant apricot on cherry plum?
Very experienced gardeners plant apricot on many fruit trees, and the likelihood that the cuttings will get accustomed and will later bear fruit is very high.
Consider the variants of grafting on different trees:
- On cherry plum. The most popular way of grafting an apricot. Because cherry plum is the strongest and most fertile stock. On her cuttings take root well, and in the future the fruit has a pleasant taste.
- On the sink. Also quite a frequent way. With a successful engraftment at the site of grafting, there is practically no build-up, which indicates good compatibility. Only it is necessary to take semi-wild varieties.
- To the peach. This vaccination is suitable for the south of the country.
- On the apricot. The best and best option.
Quite often, experienced gardeners practice apricot inoculation on the turn. But it needs to be vaccinated low enough so that no growth is formed.
The sowing on the cherry is rarely practiced. Quite fragile branches complicate this process. A successful outcome is possible if cherry plums or plums were previously grafted onto the cherry.