Coniferous trees are known not only to their longevity and beauty, but also benefit to human health. Fitoncides are volatiles that highlights the needles. They strengthen immunity, distinguish diseases and help to stay in a tone. Cedar is considered one of the most valuable and useful varieties of coniferous trees. It gives strong wood, lush shady crown and edible nuts. If you live far from the cedar forest, we will tell you how to grow cedar at home and create your own dendropark in the backyard.
Useful properties of cedar
Cedar pine is very valuable in many senses, but for human health, it is of particular importance. If cedar nuts are present in the diet, you will never have a lack of vitamin A and E. The composition contains vitamins of group B, so useful for women, especially during pregnancy.
Cedar seeds improve cardiovascular activities, favorably affect the nervous system and the childbearing function. Not so long ago, doctors proved that the use of cedar nuts contributes to improving blood composition, prevents anemia and tuberculosis.
Not only the nucleus themselves, but also the shell - they make alcohol tinctures from cold, throat pain, cold and bronchitis.
The cedar resin is called the Livita, because it has unique embarrassing properties. The indigenous inhabitants of Siberia and the Urals know that if you adorn the purulent wound, abrasion, cut or burn with a savory, then the skin will heal several times faster. In the time of the Second World War, this resin was actively used to treat wounded in hospitals.
An interesting fact: small funny birds called Klezti live in cedar forests. They have a very unusual curved form of beak, which is ideal for pulling nuts from spruce cones. Klest all life is powered by resistent cedar nuts, and as a result, the concentration of resin in its caller does not allow tissues to decompose after death. So, walking on cedar more often, you can stumble upon a small innovated bird.
The cedar needle contains a high concentration of vitamin C, so it can be brewed with tea and add to compote. In addition, there is calcium, phosphorus, manganese, iron and copper in it, so that the needle is also the most valuable source of benefit.
Wood has a powerful bactericidal effect. In a house built from cedar logs, people practically do not become a common cold or flu, and mole will never be headed in cabinets from cedar. In general, all the tree has antimicrobial properties. It is scientifically confirmed that the air in the depth of the cedarry is practically sterile.
Growing from seeds
Growing a cedar - the task is not so complicated, so even an inexperienced gardener easily cope with it. As you know, cedar multiplies by a seed way - those are the most delicious nuts from the cones. Therefore, first, it is necessary to get high-quality nuts from which strong and healthy trees will grow.
Cedar seeds can be ordered in the store on the Internet or collect independently. In stores you will be offered already stratified seeds, but you can do the cheaper option - buy raw nuts on the market and stratify them yourself.
Buying seeds
If you are going to buy cedar seeds on the market, it is better to do this at the beginning of winter, when nuts are completely ripe. At the beginning and middle of autumn, cedar nuts contain too few nutrients, and shoots from them are rare and weak.
Before buying, paint a pair of nuts to try their taste - if the pulp is juicy and with a pronounced taste, then the goods caught high quality. Small grains with a weak taste is better not to buy, because, most likely, they did not diverge. If the nuts are too solid and poorly dictated, then they are too old and also do not suit the cultivation of cedar pine.
Make sure that you are not trying to sell kanenic nuts, otherwise you will never wait for the entrances. As the calcined grains are distinguished by dark brown and characteristic roasted nucleolus. But slightly calcined seeds are not so easy. Of these, sprouts even appear, but such trees will never grow strong and full. Why do they calcinate them? If the cedar bump is briefly dry at high temperatures, seeds from it themselves are easily poured, and the harvesting process is accelerated several times.
Raw nuts to distinguish very simply - on the shell there are remains of unspylled resin, they look not so clean and neatly, as calcined, but by weight such seeds are much heavier treated.
Purchase of cones
You can not break your head with seeds and buy a whole bump immediately - there are certainly no calcined nuts! But here there are nuances. So, the bumps are much more expensive, and the nuts in them may be unrude. To begin with, it is better to buy one bump and check the seeds for suitability.
If you saw on the counter a beautiful brown shiny bump, do not hurry to buy it! Such attractive cedar bumps are completely not suitable for growing trees, as they passed heat treatment - they were dipped in boiling water, and then dried with hot air. As a result of the resin melted, it became more transparent and turned into a seductive lacquer.
Look for consistent cones of gray-brown with sticking needles and small forest sorrow - precisely from such cones and grow the most healthy cedars!
Stratification of seeds
We have already mentioned above that there are already stratified seeds in stores, but you can spend this procedure yourself.
How is the stratification of cedar nuts:
- Soak seeds in warm water 25-30C for 4-6 days.
- Change the water every 2 days.
- Stir the seeds with thoroughly washed fine river sand or crushed peat.
- Leave at room temperature, stirring and moisturizing the mixture from time to time.
- After 50-60 days, the seeds will turn around, and sprouts will appear. Then they should be taken to the cold and stored until sowing in almost zero temperature (approximately 1-3C).
There is another, simpler seed stratification method. About this and how to plant cedar is detailed in the video material below:
Landing in sad
In the spring, stratified seeds planted in an open ground. Sowing is held when the weather is already steady-warm - in late April or early May. On a square meter of the square can be placed up to 300 grams of grains.
The main problem of young cedar sprouts - birds and pests. As soon as the earth appears juicy green stalks, animals are happy to eat them after a long winter diet. Therefore, shoots need to be covered with a dense light polyethylene film. It can be removed only after the shell is completely separated from the strengthened shoots.
When the sprouts are growing a little and become similar to the foot bent in his knee, they should be digging and sorted by magnitude. Then they cut roots and plant the same depth, tieting to the peg. For each sprout, it is necessary to take a plot of at least 20x10 cm.
The next transplant will be carried out only for the second year, and after 2-3 years you will get excellent planting material with strong and developed roots. Then the small trees can already be transferred to any place where they will decorate a landscape for many years. Planting a cedar is pretty simple and almost always a successful event. The main thing is to put the seeds properly and provide proper care in the first few months of life.
Growing from sapling
How to grow cedar from the nuts is more clear, but you can avoid a long preparatory process and plant a ready-made seedman immediately. Where can I get a suitable planting material?
It is clear that the cedar trees are sold in almost all major horticultural stores, but here you can save. Try to go to the nearest forestry and ask to dig a few cedar seedlings. We remind you that cedar is considered a very valuable breed, and if you dig up a young tree without demand, you may be fined.
WARNING: In no case should not dig seedlings on the gari, from under the forest canopy and in the dendroparks. Similar actions are regarded as poaching.
Carefully digs the cedar, fall into the soil on the same day. Try not to damage and do not cut the roots. If on the same day it is not possible to plant a tree, slightly mix it and moisten the ground with water.
The most common mistake is damage to the rod roots or their sneak.
The second in "popularity" Error - Single Cedar Locks. Since coniferous trees are pollinated by wind, then at least one opposite sex tree should be near, so that the maritime appeared and fruit appeared. Otherwise, the tree will not be fruitful or will give minor inedible cones with undeveloped nuts.
Cedro care
Try to immediately determine the seeding seats immediately, then not to transplant the trees and not subject them to risk. The place should be quite bright, soil - with an admixture of sand. Sold down the cedars followed by groups of 4-6 trees in 5-8 meters from each other. In the intervals, fruit shrubs, berries and small deciduous trees will be perfectly. An excellent solution will sow under the pinema lupin - this plant is a natural fertilizer and will be favorable to influence the growth and development of young pines for several years.
Watering is made around the perimeter of the crown of the tree. Do not forget to add mineral and organic fertilizers from time to time. Grow cedar from seeds is much easier than it seems, but the benefit of this venture in the future will receive not only you, but your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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