Thui cultivation: planting with seeds and cuttings, care, pruning, disease

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Tui is a magnificent decoration for the garden, landscape design. But most importantly, it is how to plant them correctly in the garden and care for them correctly.

Sowing, planting a toui tree with seeds: how to plant properly, pros and cons of

It is possible to propagate thuja with seeds, but it is not guaranteed that the seedlings will retain the decorativeness of the species. How to properly plant a tui tree?

Here are the tips:

In the spring, the seeds are stratified for two months before sowing or kept in moistened sand until they turn off.
Sow in April-May, having previously kept seeds in a solution of potassium permanganate (potassium permanganate).

Important: First, feed the seedlings using non -circuit introducing trace elements into the soil, and already grown up and stronger, give a root - a solution of complex mineral fertilizers.

Plant the plants to the permanent place of planting along with the lump of the Earth.

The advantages of this propagation method: More hardy seedlings with a high percentage of survival.
Cons of this propagation method: 1)long cultivation to the full condition of the seedling (about 6 years).
2
Seedlings can lose varietal properties.

Cherling: the best way to get toury seedlings, pros and cons of

Cherling: the best way to get Tui tree seedlings

Another way to get seedlings is cuttings. This is the best way to get high -quality seedlings of the Tui tree. This is how to do it correctly:

Cut in July-August from young shoots the apical cuttings length 15-20 cm. You can pick up young twigs manually, always with a “heel”, part of the bark.

Rooting cuttings in water

First, place the cuttings in heels in a vessel with water by about 1.5 cm. Make sure that the leaves do not touch water. Place the cuttings in a well -lit place until the roots are formed.

Rooting cuttings in the soil

The lower part of the cuttings is approximately 3 cm by the rhizome, first removing the needles from it.

Then plant it in a light prepared soil in a partial -retrievable place, at an angle of forty -five degrees.
For an early growing roots, cover the seedlings on top with a jar. With such a shelter, young Tui trees periodically require ventilation and spraying from a spray gun.
In the winter it is recommended to cover, fill up the planting of thuja with sawdust.
Also put on spruce "paws".
In the winter, pour snow on top.

Cuttings in this way will be ready for transplanting at the end of the summer of next year.

Pros of this propagation method: 1) Faster in 2-3 years growing to full seedlings.
2
Complete preservation of varietal properties.
Cons of this method reproduction:The seedlings are less hardy, survival of about 80%.

Is it possible to plant thuja in the fall?

It is worth knowing: Tuya can be planted in the fall. Rainy weather will provide natural watering and the tree will take root better. If you have severe frosts in your region in winter, then it is better to plant a seedling in early autumn (September, early October), and cover it from the cold with a special garden film.

Planting Tui seedlings in a permanent place

These conifers are considered resilient to the shadow, but they grow much better in well -lit places or in partial shade. If you plant a thuja in a shade with a dry place, it will lose its decorative shape, the needles will fade and will not become thick, the plant will release a lot of cones.

It is worth knowing: It is preferable to grow thuja on moistened sandy slightly acidic soils with the introduction of humus from leaves and sod land. In such conditions, plantings quickly increase a lush crown with well -expressed species features.

It is better to plant thuja in the fall into pre -prepared square pits with a side 70 centimeters. It is necessary to do a drainage on heavy inhoral soils from 20 cm. You can apply:

Crushed stone
Keramzit
Blessed brick

The ideal composition of the soil for planting thui is humus, leafy earth, peat and sand.

Tui plant: care

Loosening of watering

Almost all types of thui love sprinkling and constant watering, but they can take out a short drought.
Tui plant care:

Earth sometimes needs to loosen to the depths 6-8 cm.
Since the root system is on the surface, be sure to remember that the soil must be loosened carefully.
Care and mulching of the Earth near the trunk circle will reduce the frequency of watering.
Line plantings, due to their crowding, spend a lot of food. Therefore, the surface of the soil under a hedge in the spring is recommended to mulch a layer of compost.

Top dressing

Planned top dressing with granular fertilizer should begin in the spring. It is useful to make a complex fertilizer in the snow so that with the melted water the plant will absorb it gradually. In the middle of the summer of landing, it is recommended to feed potassium-phosphorus fertilizers.

Important tips

To preserve the brightness of the needles, color forms should be planted in the sun.
The root system of thuja is compact, which allows you to transplant adult plants with a lump of earth.
Large trees after transplanting need good care.
For good preservation of the decorative shape of the crown, thuja in the snow winter is recommended to be tied with twine and shelter from the winter rays of the sun.
The outlines of the thuja are well combined with a dump, bark or cones used as mulch.

All parts of the plant are very poisonous, be careful. Although birds successfully eat seeds of cones of this tree, as well as some animals.

Diseases of the plant: what you need to know?

Most often, thuja is very hardy and not susceptible to diseases in an environment where the plant receives sufficient nutrition and moisture. This is what you need to know due to the disease of the thuja plant:

If the bark exfoliates after wintering, it needs to be cut.
Rinse the naked parts with copper -containing drugs, let it dry. If necessary, repeat the procedure.
Love the wounds with garden var.
Process planting with fufanon (according to the instructions). Helps from garden aphids.

This is enough for the tree to grow well and be beautiful, with a fluffy crown.

Tui trimming

Tui perfectly tolerate formative pruning. Topiraries of them are no worse than other plants used for this for this. It is performed mainly in the spring. But you can do in autumn and in summer, if your region is not too hot. Forming pruning is necessary to make the tree neat and beautiful.

A haircut must be performed with a special garden secateur. During trimming, a natural form is observed - pyramidal for thuja. Remove only those branches that have grown over the outline. Watch a video that tells how to cut a thuja.