Growing cedar at home

Implement growing cedar at home not as difficult as it seems. Select a ripe, fresh pine cone from this year's harvest, without mold, and remove the nuts from there; they should smell pleasant. To germinate nuts you need long-term stratification. Place them in autumn in boxes with holes to allow air to flow in. You can put dry grass or foliage at the bottom of the box, then place nuts, and again grass or foliage on top. Such a box is closed so as to protect the nuts from mice and left straight in the snow outside until spring. If this is not possible, use cellar or refrigerator.

In the spring we take out these nuts and plant them in a bowl with sandy loam soil. It should be embedded to a depth of about 1 cm and kept in a bright place at a temperature of about 20 degrees. The first shoots will appear in 20-30 days. Protect them from direct sunlight, but make sure they get enough light. The first years of cedar grows very slowly. Seedlings can be planted in separate pots only in the third year. The soil in the pots must be constantly moist, and the plant must be shaded. Everyone, of course, knows that cedar is by no means a small tree, so if you continue to plan to grow cedar at home, you will have to make it from bonsai.

If the plant is later transplanted into the garden, then from the age of one it must be accustomed to fresh air, taken out into the garden in the summer, but not left there. Replant into soil cedar is recommended at the age of three; later they take root less well.In the garden, the plant will also need shade and constant moisture for the first time. But excess moisture is just as destructive for young cedar, as is its lack. The soil around the cedar cannot be loosened and fertilized, but it is necessary mulch.