How to replant a spruce on a plot in the fall. How to transplant a Christmas tree from the forest to a plot. What to do with live spruce after the New Year

Spruces enliven a garden or estate all year round thanks to the non-falling needles. Prices for these plants in nurseries and garden centers are consistently high. Wild spruce trees that grow in the forest will help decorate the area. In this article you can learn how to properly transplant a spruce tree from the forest to your site.

Before running into the forest with a shovel, a gardener needs to acquire a little knowledge about the characteristics of wild spruce trees:

Slow growth in the first five years of life. In the forest, plants grow from seeds sown with big trees. The age of a spruce tree with a height of 50 cm is 3-4 years.

In a couple of years, such a small Christmas tree will begin to rapidly increase its green mass and will surpass mature spruce, which is still recovering from the stress caused by the change in environment.

Annual growth after 5 years of life at good care is 50 cm.

You should not plant large trees for other reasons:

Difficulty with transportation
Survival rate within a year
Labor intensity when digging

Height in adulthood is up to 50 meters. This fact must be taken into account when planning plantings. It will be excruciatingly painful in a few years to cut down a beauty that is too close to the wires or is disturbing a neighbor.

Time flies quickly and those 10-15 years that seemed like an endless future have already arrived, and the tree has grown as nature should have it.

Aggressiveness of the plant. This feature of wild spruce is not self-seeding and filling the territory. Nature and harsh conditions have made spruce trees hardy plants.

The acidity of the soil around the spruce increases due to large quantity pine needles that fall around the tree every year. With such conditions, coupled with the shade that the spruce provides, few plants survive.

Lifespan up to one hundred years or more. This feature of spruce trees requires careful planning of the planting site.

Familiarization with the characteristics of the plant will help the gardener correctly use spruce trees to decorate the site.

Role in the garden

Spruce is used in the garden:

As a tapeworm. It can be planted in the far corner of the garden and placed next to a bench to enjoy the pine aroma.

The Christmas tree also looks beautiful on the lawn.

Attention, super FLIGHT!

Spruce trees are frost-resistant, evergreen trees. They don't demand special conditions. They grow well in polluted air. They love light and sun rays, so they grow well with birch trees.

Spruce trees grow up to forty meters in height. The roots grow fifteen to twenty meters, so it is not worth planting them next to the house and in small areas.

Spruce trees grow slowly, so for planting, you can take older trees. good time for planting adult pines, this is the beginning of winter, when the temperature at night does not exceed minus eight, twelve degrees, and for small trees early spring is suitable. In severe frosts, spruce roots may freeze. Also, spruce is planted at the end of winter, when the ground has not yet thawed. The main thing is that the ground is a little frozen. When you dig up a pine tree in winter, the soil adheres well to the roots and protects them from damage.

Preparing the soil

For transplantation, choose a healthy spruce without damage. Along the perimeter of the crown, in the spring they dig a trench one meter deep and 20-30 centimeters wide. Trimming the roots with a shovel. Various fertilizers and humus are poured into the pit. They fill the soil and water it. Watering needs to be repeated a couple of times over the summer, especially during drought. By autumn, many small roots grow in the trench.

The planting hole is dug in the fall and put into the basement so that it remains soft. They stock up on sand and litter from under spruce trees, and dry fallen leaves. The depth of the hole should be one meter, and the diameter should not be greater than the diameter of the crown, approximately one meter.

Instructions

To plant a small spruce, wait early, at this time the pines take root much better.
Choose a place to replant the spruce. It is necessary that it is not very sunny, 10-15 meters from the house.
Choose a spruce in the forest; it should be no higher than a meter so that it will take root better.
Dig a hole in the early stages so that the roots have free space.
For the spruce to take root well, wait for suitable weather. Let there be no extreme heat and no cold. WITH moist air, possible in light rain.
Carefully dig up the spruce to tie the roots, lay it on its side.
Bring the tree to the planting site.
Prepare the pit. As we have already said, pour fertilizer and humus into the hole. You can also add sawdust from pine needles or sand. If your soil is acidic, you can limit yourself to only sand. Place a couple more stones on the bottom to make the tree more stable.
When you replant a spruce tree that is more than a meter tall, make sure that the sun falls on it evenly.
Lower the spruce into the hole without removing the bag in which the roots are wrapped. This is done so as not to damage the small roots.
Cover the roots with soil, tamping down carefully. The roots should not be too deep in the ground, 5-10 centimeters at a higher level.
Water the tree well so that the soil does not dry out.

Planting spruce

A tall spruce is dug up with a special uprooter, with its help the roots are held to the ground, and the crown does not deteriorate.

The tree is not very tall, you can dig it yourself. Dig a trench around the tree and cut off the roots. The depth to which the roots of the tree should go is 60 centimeters. The roots need to be watered so that they are not covered. big ice, this is necessary for large pine trees. If you transport the spruce, this will help keep the roots from drying out. Then you need to plant the roots of the spruce in a bag and tie it, after which you can transport it.

Before planting, the hole is sprinkled with leaves and sand. The seedling is planted so that its roots are five or seven centimeters above the ground. When the ground settles, the pine tree will fall into place. The empty part between the walls of the pit and the roots is filled with earth and pressed down. You also need to nail sticks near the hole and tie the spruce so that the wind does not blow it away.

Transplantation is best tolerated not large spruces. September, October, or early spring, when the growing season has not yet begun, are suitable for them. If you are digging up a tree for replanting yourself, dig around the crown with a shovel and cut off the roots. Remember that the smaller the spruce, the higher its roots grow.

Trees that are sold in plastic container. Or together with the earth, wrapped in a little bag. When you buy them, pay attention to the condition of the plant and the size of the roots.

A SPRUCE IN A POT IS COZY AND ORIGINAL, ECO-FRIENDLY AND FASHIONABLE, RATIONAL AND AESTHETIC. IT'S NICE TO KNOW THAT ON HOLIDAYS, YOUR HOUSE IS DECORATED WITH A LIVING TREE AND NOT A CUT-DOWN TREE. ANOTHER UNDOUBTED ADVANTAGE THAT PRODUCT SELLERS TALK ABOUT IS THE POSSIBILITY TO PLANT IT IN THE GARDEN OR KEEP IT ON THE BALCONY. BUT HERE IS THE DIFFICULTY STARTING

It turns out that not every plant sold under the guise of a “New Year’s tree” is capable of growing in a garden, much less on a balcony in a limited amount of soil and without snow cover. We still have to work out how to preserve it before planting it in the garden.

Before you go shopping, you should decide how you want to use the plant after the holiday. The answer to this question will help determine not only the type of conifer, but also its size, crown habitus and the size of the pot in which the plant is planted.

If you are going to plant a plant in the garden after the holiday, you should study the issue of winter hardiness of the selected species and variety (shape), find out the size of an adult plant (whether it is a large tree about 20 m tall or a dwarf not exceeding 1 m) and its preferences regarding location, so that roughly know where and with which neighbors you can place a purchase.

Thus, among coniferous species there are no shade-loving species, but spruce, fir and thuja can tolerate slight shading, and forms with colored needles are more light-loving. Pine is more drought-resistant compared to thuja, spruce and fir. All of them require well-drained soil of medium texture (loam), since they cannot tolerate stagnant water.

It should be noted that Canadian spruce and western thuja can turn brown (burn) in late winter - early spring. Resistant to middle lane Russian spruce, E. prickly, E. Canadian, Scots pine, p. cedar, village Weymouth, balsam fir, whitebark fir, monochrome fir, subalpine fir, Korean fir and western thuja.

But from the acquisition of the so-called “Danish fir” (Nordmann fir, or Caucasian fir), black pine, p. small-flowered ‘Negishi’, p. Geldreich’s ‘Compact Gem’ and ‘Malinki’ are best avoided. They are not suitable for our climate.

If your balcony is insulated and the temperature on it does not drop below -5... -7 °C, you can buy ordinary conifers that are resistant to the middle zone. If the temperature on the balcony and outside does not differ much, pay attention to more winter-hardy species and forms (Scots pine 'Watereri', 'Nana', 'Compressa', 'Beuvronensis'), since on the balcony even when covered with kraft paper and non-woven material, the conditions are harsher than in open ground.

The entire range of conifers offered for the role of New Year's tree can be conditionally divided according to two decorative characteristics: the shape of the crown and the color of the needles.

The pyramidal shape of the crown is characteristic of most fir trees (including Korean fir varieties 'Silberlocke' and 'Samling'), common spruce 'Columnaris', e. prickly ‘Iseli Fastigiate’, e. Serbian, e. Canadian 'Conica', thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd' and 'Brabant', Scots pine Fastigiata, and species plant, With. European cedar and s. Korean.

Blue needles are characteristic of prickly spruce varieties 'Hoopsii', 'Glauca', 'Fat Albert', Scots pine ‘Glauca’, p. cedar dwarf 'Glauca', With. Veymutova 'Amerland'.

If you grow a tree on the balcony, pay attention to the slow-growing forms of Canadian spruce ‘Nana’, ‘Conica’, ‘Echiniformis’, i.e. ordinary ‘Nidiformis’ and ‘Little Gem’, e. Serbian ‘Nana’, western thuja 'Tiny Tim'.

The thuja occidentalis has a conical or ovoid shape of the crown. ‘Yellow Ribbon’, ‘Smaragd Witbonf’, ‘Wagneri’, ‘Woodwardii’.

In order to avoid making an unfortunate mistake when purchasing and not to purchase a plant that was initially doomed to death, you need to know a few simple rules.

Information about spruce is welcome

See if there are labels on the plants: this is not only a significant “plus” for the manufacturer and confirmation of the quality of the product, but also brief, succinct information for the buyer about the preferences of a particular crop (light/shade, dry/wet), its growth pattern and winter hardiness. All this is important to know when purchasing a plant for a more or less long term.

Where is the Christmas tree from?

The root system of conifers is very fragile and vulnerable. If the plant was dug out of the ground hastily before the holiday and squeezed into a pot, then it is practically doomed to death. Therefore, you should not make purchases in dubious stores, on roadsides and places of spontaneous trade. If you really intend to keep your new pet, then choose a local nursery that professionally breeds conifers. IN as a last resort you can buy a Christmas tree in a reliable garden center. By the way, conifers in pots stored in winter period outdoors, must be covered with sawdust or snow.

No need to break!

You should definitely refrain from purchasing if the needles are falling off the plant. Signs that the tree is no longer viable are the following: the branches are brittle (in a living plant they are flexible and the roots look lifeless (healthy roots are succulent and have yellow or white tips).

Until you see it for yourself...

If possible, you should carefully remove the tree with roots from the pot, for which the container is first lightly squeezed with your hands and tapped. Ideally, the root system should completely encircle the entire lump. If the soil immediately crumbles and the roots stick out in different directions, then it is better to refrain from purchasing.

Negative factor

Be sure to pay attention to the moisture content of the substrate in the pot. Dry soil not only indicates poor quality of plant care, it is also an extremely negative factor for the tree itself. It has been noticed that coniferous crops whose roots have been overdried die almost one hundred percent.

Health is in the needles

Pay attention to the color of the needles. The presence of brown, brown or yellow shoots should alert you. This is a clear sign of disease or death of the plant. However, green needles

(blue, silver in some forms) is not a 100% guarantee of health. A coniferous plant can remain green all winter, and with the onset spring warmth- quickly crumble.

A large pot for a large Christmas tree!

A knowledgeable buyer will immediately pay attention to the proportionality of the container and the tree. Hardly beautiful lush plant may have been grown in too small a pot. This means that it is very likely that the root system was severely pruned before planting in a new, cramped container, which will have an extremely negative impact on the further viability of the plant.

Christmas tree in a bag

Manufacturers can offer conifers not only in containers, but also with an earthen ball wrapped in burlap. After purchase, such a plant should be removed from the wrapper and planted in a container of a suitable size (preferably 3 - 5 cm in diameter and deeper than the existing lump). It is not advisable to purchase plants with an open root system. Even in regions with cool temperatures, not cold winter, even when dug up in a special area, such conifers take root worse than plants with a closed root system grown in compliance with agricultural techniques.

How to care for a Christmas tree in a pot

Immediately after purchase, you cannot bring the plant into warm room(room), as well as after the holidays - take it outside. Large temperature fluctuations- too much severe stress which can lead to death. If you live in a private house, you should think about whether to dress up the purchased plant in front of the windows of the living room or children's room outside? At the same time, it is not necessary to plant it immediately - you can simply dig the pot deep into the snow.

After all, the plant was purchased specifically for the room; the coniferous plant should be placed on a balcony or terrace for a few days to ensure the smoothest possible temperature transition. During severe frosts, the temperature on the balcony, and especially on the terrace, is negative, so you should cover the pot with an unnecessary blanket or non-woven material. By placing the plant in this way, a weak polyp should be produced.

After 5-7 days (or later if time permits), the plant can be brought into the room. Optimal temperature keeping it indoors is + 16...+19 °C, which, of course, is uncomfortable for humans. Therefore, conifers usually have to put up with the +22… + 24 °C we are used to.

In an apartment or house, conifers need abundant watering and it is advisable high humidity air, for which the container can be placed on a wide platform with expanded clay poured on it. Water needs to be added there systematically. You can also put pieces of ice or snow in the pot - this is not only an additional source of moisture, but also great way cooling the soil and air around the plant. Conifers react to lack of watering by dropping their needles and drying out the branches. Overwatering is also harmful: it causes root rot. Feeding is not needed, as it stimulates the growth of shoots, and our task is not to awaken the plant, but to keep it as safe and sound as possible. Young, weak, immature growth will certainly die when the plant is returned to the terrace or balcony after the holidays.

When placing a spruce tree in a room, you should not choose a place near a heat source (radiator, stove). No matter how romantic the picture of a spruce tree by the fireplace may be, not a trace of the plant’s beauty will remain next to the heat of the fire.

ON A NOTE
After purchasing from a plant, you should wash the needles, since the dust accumulated on them clogs the stomata and disrupts respiration and metabolic processes. You can wash it with a shower, having first wrapped the pot with the substrate in polyethylene so as not to over-moisten the lump.

What to do with live spruce after the New Year?

So, the holiday has died down, you admired the New Year's tree, the children played enough and danced around it...

What does the plant expect now?

As mentioned above, temperature changes are extremely undesirable, especially now, after warm room the plant “woke up”. If the size of the pot and the area of the window sill allows, it is advisable to place the container by the window, where it is a little cooler than in the room itself. This is how you need to maintain the plant before planting it in the garden, providing it with timely watering. If the “spruce” has begun to grow, you can add additional light to it so that the growth is decorative and healthy.

When the plant is too large and the window sill is narrow, you can put it on an insulated balcony. But when negative temperature the tree must be insulated, and not only wrap the container well and put a layer of cardboard or insulation under it, but also throw 1-2 layers nonwoven fabric to the crown. In the future, it is necessary to ensure that the spring sun’s rays do not touch the New Year’s tree, otherwise under cover it may end up as if in a greenhouse: the shoots will begin to grow, and then, with daily drops in temperature, they will freeze.

Besides the harsh winters, coniferous plant Another problem awaits you on the balcony - a small volume of substrate. No matter how low the growth rate of the plant, its roots need to develop, so it is advisable to annually transship the coniferous plant to new container. It should be 3-5 cm wider than the previous one.

After a few years, when the root system reaches a significant size and the container is too large, the plant will have to be planted in the garden. Conifers grown in containers require systematic feeding with complex mineral fertilizer. Feeding is carried out from April-May to the end of July. Starting from August, fertilizers containing nitrogen are eliminated.

If you plan to keep your coniferous plant on the balcony all year round, you should take into account that only a glazed space where the temperature does not drop below - 10 ... - 12 ° C is suitable for this purpose. And in order for the tree to survive harsher cold conditions, you will need to provide careful shelter, especially in the container. After all, coniferous shoots can be tolerated painlessly very coldy, which cannot be said about their root system.

If you do not have the opportunity to even keep a coniferous plant on the balcony, you can take it to the dacha. The pot with the green pet should be placed in a place protected from the wind as much as possible and the tree should be covered with snow to the very top.

Transplanting spruce from a pot into open ground

LONG-WAITED LANDING

Before spring planting of plants in the garden, which is preferably carried out from the end of March to April, you should prepare landing hole. Its diameter should be approximately 20 - 30 cm larger than the diameter of the container. Drainage must be placed at the bottom. The soil mixture for filling the hole should contain turf soil, peat and sand (2:1:1).

When planting a plant, try not to disturb the earthen ball and damage the roots. You can spill or soak a lump of earth in a solution of a growth stimulator - this will help the plant adapt to new conditions and take root better. When planting, the root collar of conifers should neither be raised nor buried, it should be at the level of the soil - if the soil subsides after planting, the plant should be placed on a mound about 5-7 cm high.

If you want to decorate the same coniferous plant in your house for more than one year, then it will be most convenient to transplant it into a container of larger diameter, which you then dig into the garden, and with the onset of winter, remove it from the ground and transport it to your apartment or balcony.

Finally, the second half of May has arrived. And if you notice that the buds on the New Year's tree are swollen, you can be congratulated: attention and care helped the plant stay alive and healthy.

Caring for a New Year's tree in a pot - questions and answers, advice from readers

IN Lately Before the New Year, trade began to offer small live Christmas trees in containers. This makes it possible to save the tree’s life by planting it in the country or in the city near the house. But how to make such a Christmas tree take root? Please advise!

Alexander Danilovich STARIKOV, Moscow region, Zelenograd

Indeed, there is a certain danger that during the New Year and Christmas holidays, living trees located in an unusual environment (living quarters) may not withstand such conditions. However, if you follow certain rules, it is quite possible to keep the Christmas tree alive through all the vicissitudes of the festivities. However, a New Year's tree can be pine, thuja, or juniper.

Choosing a tree

It is worth noting that there are two options sold New Year's trees-grown in containers and dug out of the ground. The former, of course, will be more hardy and, most likely, will survive forced stay indoors well. If the plants were dug up and planted in pots shortly before sale, damage to the root system is quite possible, which casts doubt on their adaptation after transplantation into the pound.

You can determine whether a plant is really grown in a container like this: try to remove it a little (4-5 cm) from the container and carefully examine the roots. They should densely braid the lump, and at the very edge they should have a yellowish color.

In dug up trees, the root system will most likely separate from the earth clod, since it has not had time to “grow into it.” It is best to avoid purchasing such plants.

Health check

While the tree gets from the place of cultivation to the counter, a certain time usually passes. And it could have been in the store itself for a relatively long time. And it is quite possible that the plant did not receive proper care. To find out whether the seedling has received watering, you should knock on the container: the duller the sound, the more dry the soil ball is. You can also stick your index finger into the soil to control the moisture content. Overdried plants should also be discarded; it is quite possible that they are already dead. After all, the needles on conifers do not fall off immediately after the plants die.

But even if the humidity is okay, inspect the plant and touch the needles. Damaged bark, dried twigs, yellowed and dry needles can be alarming. It should be green and elastic.

Rules for green "guests"

Since the home environment is unfavorable for conifers, we must try to keep their stay indoors as short as possible. At least, you shouldn’t keep the plants warm for more than two weeks.

For the same reason, it is best to place green “guests” away from heating radiators and other heat sources, and ventilate the room from time to time. You should also try to increase air humidity using special humidifiers. You can periodically spray water from a spray bottle.

The soil in which the tree grows must be watered daily. At the slightest yellowing of the crown, the plant should first be taken to a cooler room, where it should remain for a day or two, and then outside. The same thing - with gradual adaptation to the cold - must be done when the time comes to plant the plant in open ground. This can be done with a lump of earth in winter - the planting hole must be filled with a mixture of earth and peat. An agronomist answered a reader's question

HOME TREE FOR EVERY NEW YEAR

New Year- a family holiday and kind, and somehow this kindness does not fit in with the fact that from the first of the month until the end of the New Year holidays, the number of used-up spruce trees in the city’s landfills increases like an avalanche. At this time, hundreds of thousands of young trees are destroyed as a tribute to tradition.

An artificial spruce is beautiful, but there is absolutely no romance, so many reluctantly choose living, but already cut down spruce trees.

But there is a way out of the situation - you need to take it and buy it live spruce in a pot and grow at home. All you will need to do is bring the spruce in from the street on New Year’s Eve, decorate it and then take it out into the cold again.

Spruce cannot be kept in the house for a long time, she reacts negatively to dry and hot air, and the soil in the pot dries out very quickly, so you need to be careful and careful.

When choosing a live spruce in a pot, give preference natural trees devoid of unnecessary decorations such as sparkles, artificial snow and the like. This may hide some kind of plant defect.

The most common - this is a transplant of spruce from open ground in a pot a few weeks or even days before the New Year. Alas, such a spruce is akin to a cut one - the likelihood that it will continue to grow in a pot is negligible. Usually, after ten days or even faster, after you bring it into the house, such spruce trees will actively begin to shed needles, and the remaining ones will begin to turn yellow.

In addition to decorated fir trees, you should not take those that are simply dug up with a clod of earth and wrapped in burlap. You can purchase such spruces only if you are going to plant them on your site, but they will no longer grow in a pot.

The best option is to purchase spruce from specialized nurseries with a good reputation and be prepared for a serious price for such a tree. Such a spruce will not only effectively decorate the room, but will also improve the health of the air in the house, fill it with the New Year's aroma and lift your spirits.

After you purchase and bring the spruce home, be sure to place it in the brightest and preferably cool place possible, then humidify the air in the room, water the soil in the pot and spray the needles with water.

If the air in the house is dry, then next to the spruce you need to place a bucket or bowl of water so that it evaporates and maintains air humidity at optimal level at least near a tree.

If funds allow, you can buy an electric humidifier.

But even under these conditions, you need to spray the needles with water from a spray bottle at least once every couple of days and preferably use melt water (snow, ice) and always at room temperature.

You need to water the soil in the pot as it dries, avoiding waterlogging or drying out of the soil, and also use melt water.

As the spruce tree grows at home, its needles may still begin to turn yellow, and this manifests itself gradually from the very tips of the needles - this indicates that there is too little moisture in the soil or air, and its deficiency will urgently need to be eliminated.

When the Christmas tree has already fulfilled its New Year's role, you will need to remove all the decorations from it and place it in the yard or on the balcony, where the temperature will not be higher than +6 degrees. When placing a spruce tree on the balcony, you also need to periodically water the soil in the pot, but when you put it outside, the spruce tree needs to be covered with snow as well as possible so that the roots in the pot do not freeze.

IN spring time spruce must be protected from direct exposure sun rays, otherwise the needles are off sunburn may also begin to turn yellow and fall off.

If you wish, you can transplant the spruce with a lump of earth into the garden, but then keep in mind that it is better not to replant it back into the pot, because the spruce is very afraid of transplantation.

Only LED garlands can be hung on a live spruce, as they do not heat up, but incandescent lamps in the garlands will cause burns to the pine needles and wood.

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Very soon the smell of tangerines will appear in all houses, and bright lights will light up on the streets. The country is preparing for its most beloved holiday. And his most favorite attribute, of course, Christmas tree. The former popularity of artificial beauties is now on the decline. It’s much better to feel the real aroma of pine needles at home. It will be even more interesting to grow the tree yourself, and then transplant it into a pot and put it at home for the holiday. It's complicated? Not at all! Spruce is an unpretentious plant. It does not require special care. And we will tell you in detail about how to transplant a Christmas tree into a pot yourself.

If you live in a private house, most likely you have a small land plot with plantings. Is it possible to grow spruce on it yourself? It is possible, but the following aspects must be taken into account:

the tree has a very developed root system. Soon after planting, its roots may grow throughout the entire territory of the site, which will have a detrimental effect on other green spaces;
If you want the spruce to still grow on the site, you can mechanically slightly reduce its growth level. To do this, you need to make a concrete fence around the tree and dig it into the ground. Thus, the active activity of the root system will be blocked;
The rapid growth of the green beauty can also be reduced by periodically pruning its branches and crown.

If you decide to transplant the tree to a new location, you must follow the recommendations presented below.

Choosing the right time of year for transplantation

When can you “move” your Christmas tree? It is not recommended to postpone this grandiose event for the tree until the New Year. In this case, there is a great risk that our beauty will simply freeze and will not be able to adapt to new conditions.

What time of year is most suitable for changing the “place of residence” of spruce? An important factor influencing the success of replanting is the condition of the soil. The soil should be sufficiently warm and moist. That's why optimal options are autumn and spring periods. It is best if the work is carried out during the rainy season.

Is it possible to “move” a Christmas tree in the summer heat? Experts do not prohibit work at this time of year. But it is worth observing the following nuances:

It is not recommended to dig up a spruce during periods of extreme heat;
the optimal period of time is after lunch, towards evening;
when digging up a forest beauty, you should also dig out a significant lump of earth. This is done in order not to disrupt the integrity of the root system of our tree;
To make rooting in a new place easier, you can purchase a special solution of Kornevin liquid. With him, the process of adaptation to the new “home” will be painless.

What trees can be replanted?

If you decide to change your green beauty’s place of residence, first make sure whether she can be disturbed. Not all trees tolerate the replanting process well. Therefore, before you start work, you need to familiarize yourself with the basic requirements:

if you want the Christmas tree to survive after “moving”, do not start it until it reaches half a meter in height. Such conifers have a fairly high chance of taking root;
It is also necessary to monitor the condition of the spruce root system. Its location is horizontal. If the roots were mechanically damaged during housekeeping work on the site, there is a high probability that the Christmas tree will not be able to adapt to new conditions.

Small tricks of experts

How to replant a Christmas tree without harming it? To do this, you can familiarize yourself with the following recommendations from knowledgeable people.

Root system care. The main thing in the transplantation process is to achieve an almost ideal and undamaged state of the roots. This is quite difficult to do, because... they grow horizontally. To minimize the risk of damage, experts advise following the digging rules:

We note the side of growth. When carrying out work, it is very important to observe the following factor: you can replant the Christmas tree on the same side (shady, sunny) on which it grew before. To determine this, you need to know which side of the trunk the south side is on. After identification, a small notch must be made on the trunk. At a new location, landing should be carried out strictly in the marked direction. That is, if our green beauty previously grew in the shade, we should transplant the tree to the shady side.

Soil requirements

In addition to correctly performing the actions of transporting and digging up the Christmas tree, you should also pay attention to the composition and quality of the soil. Only with comprehensive compliance with all measures can a guaranteed positive result be achieved.

Step-by-step instructions for “moving”

So, how do you replant the green beauty yourself? For this it is worth considering step by step process all work:

preparatory work. Calculation of the radius of the root system. Trimming the branches and top of the Christmas tree;
soil preparation;
preparation of materials and tools necessary for work;
the process of digging up a Christmas tree and freeing the root system;
the tree and roots are carefully wrapped in a fabric bag;
carefully secure the bag to the trunk so that it does not fall off;
prepare a hole for planting. If disembarkation is made on garden plot, the depth of the pit should be at least half a meter;
set the location of the south side. Our Christmas tree should be planted on the south side;
Carefully lower the spruce into the hole. Fabric bag there is no need to remove it, just slightly loosen the tied ends. This way the small roots will not be damaged;
place the fluffy beauty vertically and carefully sprinkle with prepared soil;
Gradually fill the hole with soil, carefully compacting and watering it.

The move of our Christmas tree is complete. Now all that remains is to wait until she finally takes root in her new place and begins to delight you with her appearance.

What's next?

Don’t think that after the tree “moves” to a new place, the work is completed. Now comes the difficult and also very important part - getting used to and adapting. To make them easier, you need daily care for the forest beauty. What needs to be done for this?

Use fertilizers.
Provide abundant watering.
Remove weeds from the site in a timely manner.
Monitor the condition of the soil.
To ensure painless adaptation of the root system, water the soil special solution"Kornevin".
After planting, use Aquadon solution for additional watering.
Monitor the condition of the tree. If the slightest signs of wilting appear, try to add nutrients to the soil and replace the soil with a more familiar one.

Replanting spruce is enough difficult task. However, if you follow all the recommendations and rules, it will be completely painless.

Probably every owner dreams of planting a blue spruce on his property, since the natural beauty of this tree can be most clearly emphasized against the background winter snow. Some people prefer to purchase a ready-made seedling for this purpose, but you can easily transplant a spruce from the nearest forest into your dacha. If you do this correctly, the spruce will be successfully planted and will be able to please you for many years.

Replant spruce better in autumn And in early spring because in this way it will be easier for the tree to adapt and take root in new conditions.

If you decide to plant a spruce tree in your dacha, you should choose a suitable place for it in advance. You should not place it too close to existing buildings; they should be at least ten meters away. Choose shaded areas where it would be easier for the tree to take root.Buy the most suitable Christmas tree, no more than a meter high. A young tree is best suited for replanting.You need to dig a hole in the chosen place in your garden. suitable size so that the roots of the Christmas tree are located there quite freely.

If you decide to take a spruce from the forest or with an open root, carefully dig up your chosen tree so as not to damage its root system, and then lay it on its side. Place a cotton cloth the size of a scarf under the roots and tie the ends in pairs so that the root system is in a bag and is reliably protected from damage that may occur during transportation. You should preserve as much as possible the lump of earth with which you dug up the seedling, since symbiont fungi live in it, thanks to which the tree is able to absorb all the necessary minerals and nutrients from the soil.

The hole dug the day before should be pre-prepared by pouring sand, sawdust, pine needles and acidic acids onto the bottom. mineral fertilizers. If the soil already has sufficient acidity, then limit yourself to sand and needles. For drainage, add some granite pebbles or broken bricks. Be sure to bring some soil with you former place, on which the Christmas tree grew.To transplant a spruce tree that is more than a meter high, you will need a previously tied piece of fabric.Before planting, you do not need to remove or untie the fabric to protect small roots from damage. Raise the tree slightly and carefully cover the root system with soil, and then carefully compact it. The root collar, located where the trunk begins to turn into roots, should remain approximately 5-10 centimeters above ground level.

Next, all you have to do is water the tree and make sure that the soil around it does not dry out. It will be enough to water the Christmas tree a couple of times during the week, right up to the root, until the surface of the earth stops absorbing water.