Walnut from Manchuria. The experience of growing up.

Many gardeners like to grow up dreaming of a walnut, but in most of our regions is impossible. But there are other nuts, such as Manchurian walnut - tree, in every way remarkable. It grows with frightening speed, looks good, is not sick, repel mosquitoes, not afraid of frost and gives although thick - do not break it, but tasty nuts. If the site is small, you can plant a tree somewhere in a corner, close to the road, then it will be pritenyat part of the street, and the neighbors will tell you "thank you".

Users of our portal DrBoomer, Fan Manchurian walnut, grown on the site has three tree, one has a three-story building height and fruits successfully. In Primorye, the nuts grow, it seems, every fence, which is not surprising. But in Mari El, says Dan! LaToo many of these trees, and huge and actively fruiting. A winter there is cold and snowy. Trees that grow on his land, crown diameter of not less than 14 meters.

Most often FORUMHOUSE gardeners grow this plant from seed: firstly, it is interesting, and secondly, this method is considered the most reliable. In the fall of fresh seeds just buried in the ground (pretreated with anything from rodents, such as kerosene), stratified seeds before spring planting. There are several ways of stratification:

• Seeds from autumn stored in the refrigerator. For 10 days before planting is removed from the freezer, placed in warm water. Water daily change during all 10 days.
• Seeds soaked for 2-3 days in cold water, changing the water every day later 2 months stratify them at a temperature of about 7 degrees, not higher.
• Seeds month kept in a room with a temperature of 20-23 degrees, is then placed in the snow.
• In March seeds for a day placed in hot water, then buried in a pot with calcined river sand and stored at room temperature. This is an accelerated method of stratification, seeds of a month should grow.

Sprouted seeds are planted at a depth of 5-6 cm into the prepared seedbed - it should be loose, wet and sprinkled with ash layer. It is best when planting walnut laid on edge. On a bed area of ​​1 square meter can be planted 10 germinated peanuts.

Manchurian walnut - tree of the first magnitude. Due to the record speed of growth in a year seedlings are transplanted to a permanent place. But until the age of three root stem nut is much longer than the land part. This is well shown in the video, filmed by a user FORUMHOUSE AlexeyGorbunov, which is engaged in the cultivation of nut trees, including Manchurian walnut, in the northern regions. You may want to consider the ratio of root and stem of the ground on a video about black walnut and Caria-ovalWith Manchurian walnut about the same story. Such roots are easily damaged during transplantation, it is recommended that before this procedure to trim the root of 30-40 centimeters. As a result, more active growth of lateral roots, which are closer to the soil surface. There is another way: prischipnite root tip, when you planted sprouted nuts, and then in the future you will not have to trim the roots.

Manchurian walnut tree demanding on the soil. Best crop you get in areas with fertile soil and drained, and on heavy clay and cold this tree grows poorly and does not live long. You could even say this: if the Manchurian walnut grows well and gives regular harvest, therefore, on a plot of soil is fertile.

In nature, this plant can be found along the China and the Far East rivers, so it hates drought. The more water it, the better. As well as moisture, this nut loves the light, so the shadow areas is growing, but it is bad, and the sun - just wonderful.

Before planting, the Manchurian nut once and for all give up the idea to form a small neat tree. It will not happen.

Helga (User FORUMHOUSE):

Foliage - relevant, that's one-year-old piece of walnut. Not birch.

Selecting a place that will satisfy all the above conditions to prepare the planting hole: at the bottom of the drainage layer should be. Fill the hole a good fertile soil. Do not forget to water the plant profusely after transplantation.

In the future, the whole care of the tree will be limited to watering, especially during heat and drought. Sapling will be grateful to you for regular hoeing around-trunk circle, his weeding and mulching. In the second half of the summer you can fertilize a tree 10-20 grams of superphosphate. In the winter shelter only young trees in the first two years of life are used peat, burlap, dry leaves. Frost resistance Manchurian walnut will grow every year, and a mature tree will quietly endure the fierce Siberian winter with temperatures down to -45 degrees, -52 degrees, it has survived.

But, unfortunately, the outstanding frost Manchurian walnut coexists with poorly tolerated spring frosts. It should befall one-day spring freeze -1-2 degrees, and all. Tender young shoots and leaves of the tree will die - you will see that they turn black and osyplyutsya. Frosts in late May or even early June, are often the cause of poor or non-existent harvest. The reason for the defeat of frost tree may be too late cropping. But early in the crop tree can not - active sap flow continues until mid-June.

Thunberg (User FORUMHOUSE):

In late September, cut from walnut Manchurian excess branches. So he is "damn little" poor. And in the spring to it with a saw and shears and afraid to approach.

Manchurian walnut - really, really spectacular tree. His owners say the decorative crown, and often a tree planted not only for the harvest, but for beauty. Particularly advantageously, it looks at the background of conifers. But we must remember that the diameter of ten meters from the nut you can not grow any fruit. Apple, for example, is experiencing such stress on this neighborhood, it stops growing. The best thing to do around the tree recreation area, especially since it allocates volatile and repel mosquitoes.

Babulenochka (User FORUMHOUSE):

When the tree grows under it and diameter of the crown is almost no fruit trees are not planted. It grows well under him just something like wild garlic, wild lily, wild flowers. Walnut allocates a lot of iodine, thus depressing the neighboring vegetation. But allocates volatile - it cleans the air. Therefore it is better to plant the roadside.

Manchurian walnut fruits are not smaller than those of walnut, but its core is much smaller, and such thick shell that did not immediately and break it. But the taste of the fruits of these nuts are practically the same, and of Manchurian walnut cook the same excellent jam, both from walnut.

With nuts stay green rind, boil 5-6 times, each time changing the water several times rinsed with cool water and soak for 5-6 hours. Pour nuts in syrup and cook until cooked prepared beforehand. Before you remove from heat, add the vanilla. Ratio: 1 kg of sugar, 0.5 liters of water, 100 nuts, two pinches vanillin.

Let's look at a couple of trees FORUMHOUSE users. Here the trees on the site Andrew Pavlovets six years. The lower branches are cut off.

Saturn-MK He warns against excessive optimism: "Oreshkov want? Autumn leaves collect and lawnmower gouging? ". And said that the first years of walnut behaved decently, was a bush-sized apple tree. Then a few years was good, a beautiful tree with a spreading shadow.

Saturn-MK (User FORUMHOUSE):

And now, folks, something I began to be afraid of. And leaves - dump truck, lawn mower and soon crack these nuts from falling ...

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