To create a smart hedge in a garden plot of a country house, you can use a tuya that is completely unpretentious and well growing in our area, and is resistant to diseases and air pollution. This plant, which came to us once from East Asia, has long won the hearts of gardeners and landscape designers, because from it with the help of pruning it is possible to create magnificent sculptural compositions.
To obtain a large number of seedlings and create incredible living sculptures or fences, you can sow thai seeds. But this process takes a very long time and between sowing and getting a young plant can take about 6 years. To speed this up, use the reproduction of thuja with cuttings, which are carried out in the spring - preferably in April. This time of year is the best suited for cutting cuttings of all kinds of plants.
Cutting cuttings
In order to obtain strong plants, the most healthy shoots are selected. They can be young or semi-mature. An important moment in cuttings is the presence on the cut branch of a kind of "heel", which is the old wood necessary for good rooting of a young plant.
In order to obtain a heel with a heel, the twig is torn off from the trunk by a sharp movement in the opposite direction to the growth. If you can not do this, then you can cut the cuttings with a sharp knife.
After all the cuttings are ready to clean them for 2-3 cm from the needles and placed in a container of water for 2 hours, dipping while only a bare leg. After this, the cut can be processed by Kornevin or a similar tool and proceed to planting.
Strongly deepen the cutting should not be enough, it will be enough to lower it into the ground for a couple of centimeters and densely compact the soil around it. In this place there should be no needles, since it can corrupt and spoil the entire plant.
Reproduction of thuja in spring - soil
For the rooting of young cuttings a loose and nutritious land will be required. It is best to use a mixture in equal proportions of sand, peat and humus. To build up the root system use wooden boxes, similar to those in which sow the seeds of vegetables. As the plant grows, each individual is transplanted into a separate tub, and if there is a good shelter for the winter and open ground, but this is done not earlier than a year later.
Care of young plantations
To replant thai shoots in spring at home, it was necessary to remember that for a good growth plants need a rather high humidity - about 70%. Get and maintain it at the right level without special cover will not succeed, and therefore you should build a mini-boy or a greenhouse made of transparent film or glass.
Immediately after the seedlings are planted in the treated (spilled by potassium permanganate) soil, they are carefully sprayed from the spray gun. Now this should be done as a shelter, and move the boxes to the place where scattered sunlight will fall on them, because it is very necessary for plants to develop successfully. But avoid direct rays of the midday sun - it will be harmful to young seedlings.
Tuya loves a damp earth - but do not pour it. It is best to give the necessary humidity to soil and air
After wintering in a cool room, boxes with plants are carried to a warm verandah and begin to slightly aerate, constantly increasing the time when the seedlings are open. After about a month of such hardening procedures, shelter can be removed, and in August planted already strengthened plants in the open ground.
After thuya is in the bosom of nature, she will need regular watering no less than in a greenhouse. Before the onset of frost, plants are bundled with lapnik, sawdust and other natural material, which will be able to winter without hibernation to young thujas in the open ground.