Apricot
If you decide to start breeding stock or just want to experiment with the multiplication of fruit from the seeds, it’s time, many of them found on stratification. Let’s talk about the cultivation of seedlings of apricot seeds
Apricot Kernels are not germinate in the year of sowing, if they overdry or planted without a special pre-processing. One of the most common methods of preparing such seed for sowing – stratification. It lies in the fact that the seeds are placed in a moist environment and it can withstand a certain period, with the required temperature. Dry seeds before stratification should be three days soak in water and change it daily. Seeds are mixed with moist substrate (sand, sawdust, sphagnum). At the 3 volume of the substrate take 1 part seed. All is well stirred and poured into boxes. Closed metal mesh to protect from rodents. Small amounts of seeds with the substrate is placed in foil bags, jars, pots, etc.
Stratification seeds should take place in a cool, damp cellar at a temperature of plus 2 °. The term stratification of apricot kernel 60-70 days. All the while, watching the storage mode. If the seeds are beginning to be afoot, reduce the temperature to minus 1 -2 °. This can be achieved, placing ice around the containers of seeds. Smaller parties seeds stratified in the refrigerator in the ground or in the snow mound. The soil for planting seeds are prepared in advance. This may be an ordinary garden soil. Land purchased the sublime to the crops are not flooded. Earth align and well loosen the top layer of garden forks. Lumps break. Do notch depth of 10 cm and the back of rakes compacted bottom for sowing seeds.
At the bottom of the grooves are laid out the seeds at 5-10 cm apart, between the grooves should be 50-70 cm seeds fall asleep for half the depth of grooves with a mixture of vegetable garden soil with well-rotted humus (1:1). Groove covered with compacted same rake, watering and Rotary. Apricot sown in April. Shoots emerge in May. The quality of seedlings depends on the quality of stratification. When 3.5 leaves when shoots zaguscheny, should be left between seedlings 7-10 cm soil under summer seedlings are kept in a loose, clean and moist. If the apricots are developing poorly, they are fed with chemical fertilizers. Must destroy tlyu on plants. By the fall of half the seedlings usually reaches the standard size, ie, they are ready for grafting next spring. Custom doraschivayut seedlings a year, and then also teach.