Live tree for the holiday. Tips true gardeners

Soon the New Year, and many people want to put at home a live Christmas tree, not artificial. But a felled tree, too, it is a pity, because as a true gardeners destroy the healthy and especially the young tree is not in their rules. A week later, the tree simply thrown in the trash.

Live spruce container and not only

If possible, buy a live spruce container, and put houses along it. Instead, you can buy a Christmas tree thuja, pine, yew, juniper.

After the holiday, the plant can be taken out on the veranda, or allowed to stand in the house until spring. Upon the occurrence of heat to land in their area, and the next year you shall put it, too, only this time it will be on the street.

For the purchase of fir go to the garden center, but do not trust street vendors, since many of them digging up trees in the forest and quickly instilled with a damaged root in the ground. Survival in these trees is reduced to zero.

When you purchase a tree in the garden center pay attention to the shape, size, how you like it. Color should be eating rich-green plant on the form should look healthy. If allowed sellers, then remove the tree from the container (spruce easy to get). Inspect the root system, the presence of light roots makes it clear that the plant is alive, it will be a long time to please their future owners with proper care.

It is better to buy a dwarf or slow-growing varieties of spruce.

If you bought a mini Christmas tree in the supermarket, it is advisable to transplant it immediately, in a capacious container as often in the coconut substrate is used as a primer. The plant is necessary to cross from one container to another. You can buy ready-made soil mix in the store.

When using as a New Year fir tree, you can not just put them in a warm room. Get it to a place where the air temperature is not lower than 0 degrees and not more than + 10 degrees. Suitable insulated garage, shed.

During holiday time, you can add spruce in the house, but for a long time to leave the premises is not desirable, as the tree will think that spring has come, will sap flow. As the party is over, remove again in a cool place. Just not the cold. acclimatization process takes a few days. Do not allow the drying of the soil in the container, as well as spruce will be in the house, spray it with the green part, because the spruce evaporate a lot of moisture.

If you decide to leave a fir at all the New Year holidays in the house, make it the cold is not recommended, even if placed in a warm place until spring.

Do not place near Spruce stoves, fireplace. She should not be hot. Use LED lamps that do not heat up.

Alternatively, if you can not buy a live spruce container, just place an artificial Christmas tree.

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