How to plant walnut chestnuts?
This question may come to your mind if you have a summer cottage and you love these sprawling trees. Let's try to answer it.
How to plant chestnuts from a walnut or a ready-made seedling?
Amazing spectacular bloom is inevitable when you see this beautiful tree, strewn with pyramidal inflorescences. In spring, the chestnut tree (a tree that is somewhat difficult to plant) is literally showered with them. It is a flowering cascade. But there is more than just an aesthetic reason for making chestnut tree cultivation your goal. The point is also that this plant is healing - its fruits and inflorescences (or rather, infusions and decoctions of them) will help to cope with various diseases. Therefore, let's find out how to plant walnut chestnuts in your country house or under a window. The first way is the easiest.
He is to buy an already grown seedling in the farm. Please note that the chestnut needs a large area of land. After all, the branches of this tree are very sprawling, and the crown is veryvoluminous. At least five meters should be left around the trunk for each chestnut you plant. This tree needs sunlight. Therefore, choose a place where it will not be lacking. However, the seedling will also tolerate light shade, provided that all other conditions for proper cultivation are met. Definitely not suitable for dark areas.
Before you plant a seedling, you need to dig a cubic hole with a side of at least half a meter. Mix the substrate with humus and half a kilogram of dolomite flour. Do not deepen the root neck so that after the soil settles, the planting hole remains on a slight hill. Water the plant generously after planting.
Install supports to hold the fragile seedling - they should be near it until its roots are strong. This will help to withstand sharp gusts of wind and protect the young chestnut from damage. If you want to complicate your task and grow a tree from fruits, then before planting, which we described above, two more steps should be carried out. Before planting chestnuts from a nut, you need to treat the seeds in a special way. And also to withstand young shoots in milder climatic conditions (for example, in a greenhouse).
Walnut chestnut. Preparing
The first step is to soak the seeds in a highly humid and cold environment, commonly referred to as "stratification". It will take two to five months. To do this, you do not need to extract chestnut seeds from the soil into which they fell, having fallen from the mothertree. Leave them in the ground (marking the location with sticks so as not to lose if they sink into a soft substrate). You can sprinkle with a small amount of any natural debris (fallen leaves, wood shavings). In the spring, the sprouts that appear are dug up and transplanted into a pot. The probability that the seeds will germinate is about 50%. After a young chestnut has grown in a pot or bucket, it should be placed in a permanent place.
