Glaucoma spruce Konika, planting and care

Conifers have always had incredible popularity among gardeners. Especially love these trees landscape designers. With the help of coniferous trees can recreate the incredible design projects for garden decoration, area. conifers popularity has reached such heights that it is now trying every possible way to grow them even at home. Typically, these trees appear in the house during Christmas and New Year. The holiday season shops are filled with an abundance of living pine trees in pots that can be grown at home. It is much more pleasant to inhale the invigorating scent of pine needles for a year at home. In this article we will talk about the incredibly beautiful and fashionable for home cultivation of trees - spruce Konika glaucoma. You'll learn what it takes to grow a tree at home, and how to care for it in the open field.

Welcome Kink: Description and Characteristics

A spruce spruce is one of the most spectacular ornamental plants that can decorate not only your garden, but also an apartment or a house. How did this tree appear? Scientists brought a wide variety of miniature firings. But some hybrids created the nature itself through mutations. A spruce spruce is one of them. This is a kind of natural, natural hybrid of Eli Siza. The glaucie conic has the following distinctive features:

• very slow growth. In the first 10 years of life, the fir has an annual increase of 3-4 cm, then the increase slows down. At the age of 60, it can achieve its maximum height of 4 meters and diameter 2 meters. But this is possible only in the conditions of growth in the open soil;
• wood-long-liver. On average, it grows up to 300-500 years;
• on an industrial scale, ate is grown in Denmark, Poland, Holland;
• the crown shape at the glaucie kink is very beautiful and correct. The cone-shaped miniature tree always attracts his eyes. In addition, the conic needles are very fluffy and thick, which gives additional charm;
• the bumps although they can grow in the glaucie kink, but it is possible to see them very rarely. If they are, they can achieve a size of 6 cm;
• the needles of the spikes of glasses do not rsion, fluffy. In the first years of life, it looks brighter and juicy, and then fastens;
• a spruce spruce is a winter-hardy plant that requires minimal shelter for the winter;
• the spruce of the kink does not need a special forming trimming, which will form such a beautiful form of the crown. It is attracted by many lovers of coniferous trees on a plot or at home. In the first years of the life of Krone is not so thick, because The tree sends all his height growth forces. But gradually begins to form a cone-shaped form, which becomes all thicker and thicker;
• a spruce sprinkler prefers solar places for growth, but too bright lighting, especially early spring, may not like a miniature beauty;
• wood glaucie kink loves moist soil. In the season of long lack of rains and heat, the tree requires watering.

Wood glaucie kink - indoor plant or not?

Of course, it would be nice to have a beautiful coniferous tree at home for a whole year, and not only in the season of New Year's holidays. The spruce spruce is the perfect version of this plant. Beautiful appearance, strict and correct cone-shaped form, pleasant to the touch of a needle - all this belongs to the main advantages of this decorative plant. But is it easy to grow a spruce glaucie at home? Is it a houseplant? Unfortunately, the spruce spruce is a little adapted to the climatic conditions of the modern urban apartment. Most often, spruce is only a temporary guest at home. If you bought a spruce of the horse in the store to the new year to decorate the apartment, then 2-3 weeks you will calmly enjoy the dwarf tree. But then, in most cases, the death of this plant comes. You can enter the hard struggle for the life of this coniferous trees in your home. But this struggle will not be easy. Most often advised to withstand for ate the most comfortable conditions until spring, and then transplant in open ground. So, a spruce spider spruce is not a room plant, but for a certain period of time can grow at home. The exception will be the case when you can provide ate the necessary temperature conditions throughout the year.

Wood glaucie conic. Home care

Wood glaucie conic. Choosing a place in the house

In order to ensure the ate of the glaucy of conic, the most comfortable stay in your home, you need to carefully approach the issue of choosing a place for a pot with fir. Store the following recommendations:

• a permanent place for ate of a horse must be the coldest place in your apartment;
• the optimal temperature for the growth and development of the spruce of the rose of the conic at home is 3-5 degrees of heat;
• you can place your spruce glaucing in a pot on a glazed balcony. If there is no place at all with a suitable temperature, you can think about the placement of the pot even between the window frames, if the space between them allows;
• the higher the temperature at home, the faster the "death" of the plant will be shifting. For the period of holidays, the plant can be made to the house with the temperature habitual for you, but for a short time;
• if you have determined that the optimal place for the spruce glaucan of the conic in your home will be a balcony, then check the plant in the winter. If your balcony freezes, the temperature becomes extremely low, then take care of the insulation of the pot. The fact is that the crown of a miniature fir is not afraid of frost, but here is the root system can drench. To prevent this, simply wrap the pot with a woolen cloth, for example.

Wood glaucie conic. Optimum humidity at home

Another important factor in good growth and development ate of the glaucy of the conic at home is humidity of the air. Try to recreate around ate the optimal microclimate, guided by the following recommendations:

• eugene glaucie the conic does not tolerate dry air. Your main task is to create around the ate zone with high humidity;
• a good helper in the organization of a comfortable place of growth for ate glaucier can be an air humidifier at home. It can be directed directly to the plant;
• if you do not have a moisturizer, then simply spread around the miniature beauty with water tanks. Water evaporating ones will create comfortable humidity. At the same time, it is possible to spray the crown of spruce from the spray;
• any sources of heat are pretty "dried" air. Finding a spruce of the glaucid conic near the heating batteries, heaters are simply unacceptable. If the only cold place in your apartment is the windowsill of the northern window, under which there is a central heating battery, then lift the pot over the windowsill with any ways. It can be a specially made stand, an overwhelmed pallet, an inverted pan, a small rack, etc.

Wood glaucie conic. Organization of watering at home

A spruce spruce is a moisture-loving plant, but the following rules should be followed in the organization of watering at home:

• winter period is a kind of hibernation period. At home, you need to try to recreate it as if the spruce grew in the open soil. An earthlock should not be reheated, but also watering should be practically removed;
• to ensure the spruce of the rustle of the conic period of rest of the wet earthen kom cover on top of a sheet of paper. So, you will not give moisture too quickly evaporate, but also do not close air access to the soil;
• cannot be used for watering or spraying cold water from under the tap. You should always have a container in which water room temperature will be defended. It is such water and should be used for watering.

Wood glaucie conic. Organization of proper lighting at home

The creation of an optimal lighting mode for the spruce glaucan is also a pledge of full growth and development at home. Try to create the following conditions:

• a spruce spruce is a light-insulated plant. Choose a windowsill where the sun shines in the 2nd half of the day;
• bright and intense rays can negatively affect the plant. A spruce spruce prefers scattered light. Too long stay on the sun can leave burns on a beautiful needle tree;
• that spruce spruce caught a beautiful and smooth crown from all sides, do not forget to constantly rotate the plant with different sides to the Sun;
• to create the right scattered light for ate, you can use a simple, but very effective method. It is enough to simply stick a sheet of white paper on the glass, which is more in the size of the spruce itself. Especially necessary such shelter will be during the first spring rays that may be delicious.

How to choose a spruce glauckie in a pot

If you decide to buy a spruce of the kink in the store, then you should know some signs for which you can define a healthy plant. Of course, it is only necessary if you are going to continue to save life ate at home or leave for a transplant to open ground.

1. Bright decorated miniature spruce glasses of conic always attract a look and fascinate with their fabulous views. But buying such a tree is not entirely correct if you want a coniferous beauty to stay at your home for a long time. The fact is that a rich decor in the form of glitter, artificial snow can score pores of the needles. Such a tree will not live long.
2. When buying a tree in the store, be sure to inspect its trunk. He should not stick, be in a slightly moving condition. If you find it, then most likely it means that the fir has been recently transplanted.
3. It is also not necessary to give preference and the ears of the glaucy of the conic in highly miniature pots. Tree though dwarf, but has a powerful root system, which should be enough space. At least, focus on the ratio of the crown itself and the pot. The pot should not be less. If it is still smaller, then the likelihood that the tree is simply cut into part of the roots, increases.
4. You can also check the earth com. Lightly removing the top layer of the Earth, you must see many roots that literally soak all the space in the pot. This will be an indicator that spruce has long been growing in this pot.
5. The abundance of new shoots among the winter should also scare away from the purchase of such a spruce glaucie. At this time, the tree should be alone, and not release fresh shoots. This means that it was deliberately "woke up." Such a fir will also not live too long.
6. A good spruce spruce rose must have a potted peel viewed through the holes at the bottom. This means that before the sale of the plant did not cut the root system. Usually they do for a "disposable" plant, which will stand 14-16 days and perish.

If you still have been confused, and you have acquired a quick-dying spruce of the glaucy of the conic, then you can try to save the position. Choose the strongest escape, carefully tear it with your hands, keeping the "heel". Put the escape into the tank with water and wait for the appearance of the roots.

Transplant ARI glaucie conic at home

After you purchased a fir in the store or nursery, it may be necessary to transplant. "Store" plants are sold in transportation pots and in a special substrate. Normally grow and develop a plant cannot in such conditions. The spruce of the kink is very sensitive about the transplant. Try to take into account the following tips in transplantation:

• if your apartment did not find a cold room for the glaucy of the conic, the transplant can be made in winter. At least this period is a hibernation period for ate, and anxiously disturbing under other circumstances is simply undesirable. You will come in handy a larger pot and a nutritional soil that you can purchase in the store. Very carefully remove spruce from the pot together with an earthy room. Somehow "brazling" and move comes no need! Move your bed to a new pot and pour on the sides of the ground. In this state, the fir will be able to live to spring transplant to open ground;
• if in your apartment or house there was a place with a suitable cold and wet climate for ate of the glaucy of conic, then you do not need to disturb with its transplantation. In the "shopping" pot and the substrate, she calmly rains its hour of transplant to open soil in spring;
• another reason for the full-fledged transplant was ate glaucing the conic to a new soil in the winter period of hibernation is the "I woken up" the state of ate. Often ate specifically will be before selling, in order to look more attractive in the store. Learn this tree is very easy. At the tips of his shoots, there are a lot of new bright-salad young shoots. The plant let all their strength on growth, and the roots are very exhausted. Such a tree without transplant is also considered "disposable". You need a new pot, ready-made soil for coniferous plants. Roots ate need to be completely cleaned from the earthen coma and make a full-fledged transplant. Pay attention to the quality of the roots. Perhaps among you detect the downloaded to be removed.

Be prepared for the fact that the plant after the transplant can turn or even reset the pieces. This is a normal tree reaction that suffered such "stress".

Spruce spruce in the open ground. Landing and care

Choose a place for ate of the glaucy of the conic in the open soil

Grow fir glaucca conic in open ground is not too troublesome lesson. Especially compared to attempts to preserve the life of this coniferous beauty at home. When choosing a place to transplant a spruce glaucid conic, take into account the recommendations:

• a landing place should be sunny, but not on the sun. The light should be scattered. The ideal place will be the place next door to tall coniferous trees, high shrubs, near the fence, veranda, porch, etc.;
• spruce prefers loamy wet soils with good breathability;
• stagnation of water in the roots of ate can result in the death of the plant. Place a good layer of drainage on the bottom of the landing pit.

Transplant ate of the glaucie conic from pot to open soil

The ate transplanting technology differs depending on which time you have chosen for this:

• if you make a transshipment of a spruce in spring or summer, then you must first remove the plant from the pot, and then release it roots from the ground. Of course, it is necessary to do it as careful as possible. The soil in the landing jam should be poured with a slide, root ate to straighten and arrange down on top of this hill. It is necessary in order for the root to be injected in the maximum straightened and natural state;
• if you make a transplant ate of the glaucy of conic in the fall, then fully released the roots from the earthen coma. So, the plant will not have time to acclimatize to a new place before the onset of cold weather;
• in order to make it easier to release the roots from the Earth Koma, lower it into the water of room temperature for 1-2 hours;
• immediately after the transplant, you need to pour the upper layer of soil peat;
• do not choose to transplant the spruce glaucie the conic to open soil solar time. Fir is sensitive to direct sunlight. Especially immediately after the transplantation. The optimal option will be rainy and cloudy weather. The young Christmas tree in the open ground is covered by the sun in a kind of awning of fabric, for example.

Caring for firing glaucid conic in open soil

Behind the fir of the glaucie conic care in the open soil does not represent a special difficulty:

• watch out for soil moisture. Spray twigs during drought period and often water. To prevent dehydration of the dwarf ate because of their forgetfulness, it is better to install a special sprayer in hot weather, which will be 5-6 times to spray the tree;
• create shelters for fir and spring. Too active sun at this time can burn tender cheese, and it will be fell. On the top of the crown you can put on a burlap that will protect the plant. If the twigs were still injured from the sun and remained naked, then do not despair, they can be restored. In the middle of spring, start spraying these twigs every day from the hose, the kidneys will break, and a new needle will grow;
• feed fir. Firing ate glaucing conic started some time after a transplant to give her time to acclimatize. In the spring you can start processing the plant with various growth stimulants for coniferous plants to awaken the kidney. Also before the middle of the summer, you can make feeding various fertilizers for coniferous trees, which will improve the composition of the soil. Feed preferably 1 time in 2 weeks.

Wood glaucie conic. Dangerous diseases and pests

In order not to miss the beginning of the disease of your ate of the glaucid conic, regularly examine the plants. The most common diseases always have bright signs for which the disease can be identified. Among such ailments, coniferous plants are distinguished:

1. Rust. This disease is caused by a special fungus. It can be noticed after attentive consuming of the needles. Between them you can see the growths of rusty or orange. Affected twigs can remain naked. Treatment: Glocladin, Vectra.
2. tracheomecosis. A very dangerous disease for ate, which leads to his complete death and cannot be treated. The sick fir is digging and burned, and the soil is treated with special means for disinfection. The first "symptom" of this fungal illness is red needles. But the disease amazes not at all, but the root system. The roots simply stop feeding the whole plant.
3. Schute snowy. It is also a very dangerous fungal disease that can lead to a complete loss of the plant, if not to start it to be treated at an early stage. If you saw that the needle acquires black, and then began to appear white colors, then immediately proceed to treatment.

The danger to the ate of the glauing of the conic can represent not only fungal diseases, but also insect pests. Among them are the most dangerous, the buildings and firing flashers are considered.

Wood glaucie conic. Photo

As you can see, the glaucy of the cater in the pot is rather troublesome. It is much easier to grow this forest beauty in the open soil, where it grows in natural conditions.