How to grow and propagate cherries at home?

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Cherry is a tasty and healthy berry. Having one bush in the garden, the gardener eventually has a desire to increase the quantity. In order not to buy new seedlings, it can be propagated and grown.

Cherry propagates in several ways, not only by planting in the ground, but also at home:

1. Cuttings
2. Inoculation
3. Underwire
4. Overgrown
5. Layering

Using cuttings when planted in summer or autumn

To propagate cherries by cutting is not difficult. If you follow some of the terms and conditions, you can achieve good results.and get some new cherry bushes without buying it.

In the summer, cut the cuttings from the cherry. Cuttings need to be harvested in the morning or evening. They should be hardened and reddened. The upper cut is over the kidney, and the lower cut passes under the kidney with a distance of 1 cm. Cuttings are 30 cm. All undeveloped leaves should be removed. Cut the cuttings into the water.

Prepare a place for rooting cuttings. For the process to go best, you need:

1. Dig a plot for landing.
2. Make the beds.
3. On the beds dig a groove.
4. Pour drainage to the bottom (coarse sand, pebbles are suitable for drainage).
5. Put a fertile layer of soil on the drainage layer (mix earth with humus, add superphosphate, wood ash and nitrogen fertilizers).
6. To water.

Now proceed to the landing of prepared cuttings of cherry. It should be planted with a distance of 8-10 cm. At a depth of 3 cm. Place the handle vertically.This is best done in the evening.

At the first time of landing it is recommended to water, and from time to time to air. After two weeks, the seedlings will have roots. Two weeks later, the cuttings rooted completely. Continue caring for young bushes until next spring. Care is weeding, loosening and watering.

Cherry cuttings can be propagated not only by planting in the country in the ground, but also at home. To do this, take a tank of sufficient depth. Fill them with loose soil. Plant the prepared cuttings in the tank. Cover planting film or other capacity, but transparent. To hold a film until the shank completely takes roots. Note that landing is necessary to air.

Graft

Many gardeners use for breeding cherries method of grafting or budding. It is used in the case to get varietal cherries.

In order for the budding to be successful, wild seedlings are taken or the rootstock is grown from seed independently. Age of bushes should be 2 years. Graft bushes in the springtime. Shoots for vaccination cut in the northern regions in late autumn. In the southern areas, just before grafting. The best period for budding is the period from June 20 to July 15.

Cut branches from young trees. The segments should be at least 35 cm. The segments should be put in warm water. With segments cut with a sharp knife to cut eyes with buds. Vaccination is carried out better according to the method of improved budding, that is, in the butt with the tongue.

Budding works are carried out in cloudy weather. At the end of the crescent, check for survival and loosen the bandage.. In the winter, in order to protect the place of ejection from freezing, it is necessary to roll up to the place of inoculation.

In early spring, grafted rootstocks pruned. Leave spike. On it is tied up escape from a sprouting bud. Tie a process at the very beginning of growth, then after half a month. In early July, the thorn is trimmed completely. During the summer season, they continue to care for the grafted seedlings:

1. Loosen the ground around the bushes.
2. Weed weeds.
3. Regularly watered.
4. Fertilizers are applied.

Good results are obtained by grafting cherries on the sweet cherry. So obtained excellent varieties Sasha, Kuban, Miracle Cherry, Hope, Poppy, South, Dessert Morozova.

Propagation by stones (seeds)

Some varieties of cherries can be grown from seed. They will also bear fruit, as well as parent varieties. Some grown seedlings, can serve as a stock, for grafting other varieties. How to grow a cherry from the stone?

For crops choose ripe berries. The bones are cleaned of pulp and washed in water. After the seeds are dried. Bones planted in the ground at the end of September. Therefore, in order to preserve the planting time, place the seeds in wet sand and place in a cool place.

For planting seeds, prepare the beds in advance. Dig the soil. Remove weeds. Add fertilizer. Now proceed to sowing. The bones are placed in the ground at a depth of 3-4 cm.Top with a peat layer of 5 cm.

If the bones of the cherry are sown in spring, they must undergo stratification. This period is 200 days. For stratification, place the seeds in the sand. Moisten and place in the cellar at a temperature of + 5-6 degrees. If the cellar is not available, dig a trench 60-80 cm deep. Place seeds on the bottom and cover it with peat. Ready bones are determined by cracking or breaking along the seam.

Sow such seeds in early spring to a depth of 5-6 cm. Bones are seated with a distance between 3-5 cm and 30 cm row spacing.

Landing fall asleep with a layer of humus or peat. Further care is watering, loosening and weeding.

During the growth of the bush, remove the side branches that grow on the lower shoots. These branches are removed so that they do not interfere with budding later on.

With the onset of autumn, seedlings gently dig. If possible, try not to damage the root system.A few days before digging, scour the leaves with seedlings.

Sort the seedlings into categories:

• First category - root neck with a diameter of 7-9 mm.
• Second category - root neck thickness 5-7 mm.
• Third category or marriage - include seedlings with a root collar thickness of less than 5 mm.

Seedlings prune roots. Leave 10-12 cm. To survive until spring, you need to prikopat in a trench. Set should be in an inclined position. With the onset of spring to plant seedlings in a permanent place.

Reproduction overgrowth of the root system

Cultivation of cherries is considered one of the easiest ways. In this way, gardeners from the Urals and Siberia are most often used. Trees grown in this way have the ability to recover faster after freezing.. These plants have a higher winter hardiness.

To avoid overgrowth of unnecessary bushes, for breeding by shoots, varietal or root-bearing shrubs are taken. In such cherries from the shoots will grow plants similar to the parent.

The disadvantage of growing cherries from overgrowths is that they come into fruition later grafted. Weediness between shoots. But despite all the shortcomings, this method is simple in reproduction and it is possible to get excellent, winter-hardy plants.

Choose a shrub that has fewer sprouts. Among her, choose a developed and strong, which is 1-2 years. Older plants are not worth taking, because they feed at the expense of the mother bush and as a result, a weak root system. It is also not suitable growth, which is located closer than 1 m.

Cut off the root that comes from the mother bush. Leave the shrub in place until it has its own powerful root system. The above-ground part should be shortened by about part. During the growing season, fertilize a couple of times. Requires regular watering. The following year, plants with a strong root system are transplanted to a permanent place., and the rest, weaker grow.

With the help of layering

The layering is the rooted aboveground part of the plant.. Reproduction by layering is simple and accessible to any gardener, even a beginner. There are two ways. First way - It is vertical layering. Second - horizontal.

First way

To propagate cherries in such a way need to trim the aboveground part of the bush. This procedure is done when the bush is at rest.

After the shoots begin to grow, they begin to spud. On these shoots in the soil will grow roots. Spud need several times until the height of the mound reaches 15-20 cm. A year later, separate the ingrained layers from the mother bush and transplant to a permanent place.

Second way

For reproduction in horizontal layers, take a branch and gently bend it to the ground. That she did not take its original position, it should be attached to the ground with a fork-shaped stud. Place the pinching site to cover with soil and water abundantly.. Further care is watering, feeding and weeding.

From the above it is clear that to multiply cherries is very simple and affordable for every gardener. Moreover, there are several breeding methods and one of them can choose one that is easier to work with.