Apple seedlings: features of choice

When planting an apple orchard, planting material is important. It is from him in the first 7 years will depend on the fruiting and growth of apple trees. Therefore, apple seedlings should be purchased in garden centers and nurseries. It is there that you can obtain the necessary information and make a choice of seedlings for a particular locality of seedlings that have a closed or open root system.

For example, apple trees, intended for the Moscow area, will give the best harvest and will well accrue in this area. Trees with an open root system have a higher survival rate, but they also cost more. This type of plant can be planted at any time of the year, beginning in mid-April and ending with the end of October.

Buying apple seedlings with a closed root system, you should see if the sprout was planted in a container just before the sale or it grew there. In the first case, it makes no sense to talk about a good survival. It is not necessary to purchase material for planting in the markets, because there may, for example, instead of summer, sell winter varieties of trees, instead of a column-shaped species a tall plant, or in general can slip some ash trees.

Knowing where to buy apple seedlings, you should pay attention to their kidneys and roots. They should not be dried up. It is best to buy plants in nurseries that are well known, and, accordingly, and reputation. In such establishments, the saplings are usually excavated in the presence of the buyer. With them leaves are removed, and the roots should be dipped into the chattle, after which a label is hung on the seedling, on which the apple-tree variety is indicated .

When choosing trees that have an open root system, you must carefully examine them. A good seedling should not have leaves, dried up bark, mechanical damage. It should be without any influx, have healthy large roots, good root lobe and neck. Endings of plants should be elastic and fresh. If the normal root is scraped with a fingernail, then white wood can be seen.

It is most preferable to purchase annual apple seedlings. They will have a better survival rate. Since the one-year planets do not yet have lateral branches, after the planting they need to cut off the tip. This is done at a distance of half a meter from the ground, the seedling should have about five developed kidneys. This procedure allows to stimulate the formation of the crown in the plant.

Most often on sale you can find seedlings, which are already two or three years old. Such a plant should be attached to a bar, it should have about five branch branches and a conductor. Such apple seedlings, when properly planted, also become well established.

When transporting the roots of the plant, it is necessary to wrap it with a damp cloth, covering it with cellophane. To prevent breakage of branches, they should be carefully pulled up to the trunk with a twine and fastened.

If apple seedlings are required to be kept for a long time, they must be prikopat under the slope in the grooves of half a meter depth. In the spring, after digging up the plant, it can be planted.