Propagation of cherry plum with seeds, cuttings, layering at home

Plum, which came to Europe from Asia, where it is hot and dry, quickly adapted to new conditions. Varieties and hybrids created by breeders delight with high yields of fragrant fruits in a climate with cool and rainy summers and frosty winters. When fruits appear during the propagation of cherry plum with seeds, many summer residents are interested. Up to 15 buckets of fruits rich in organic acids, vitamins, sugars will ripen on one adult tree.

Cherry plum propagation methods

In order for a guest from Asia to please with high yields, at least 2 plants are planted on the site, but they should not be of the same variety, otherwise the trees will not be pollinated, they will not be able to set fruits. For reproduction use:

bones;
cuttings;
young growth.

Culture is bred by grafting onto another tree by budding. It happens that one plant blooms profusely and forms an ovary, but self-fertile varieties are more common, only cherry plum is needed for their pollination, neither plum, nor peach, nor apricot are at all suitable.

Bone or seeds

Not every summer resident knows how to propagate trees using cuttings, experience and knowledge are needed to perform budding. In addition, when choosing a method for breeding cherry plum, you must consider:

climate conditions;
soil type;
plot size;
mother tree state.

Does not require investment of additional funds, special efforts to grow a crop from a stone.You need to choose it from the largest ripened and even overripe fruits. The seed must be carefully pulled out of the pulp, washed and dried. Bones can be planted in containers in autumn, and in spring it is better to place them directly in the ground, and in order for sprouts to appear faster, cherry plum seeds need to be germinated.

When planting in boxes, the interval between the stones should not be less than 50 mm, between the rows should be left 20 cm. The seed must be watered, sprinkled with sawdust or peat on top with a layer of 20 mm.

If a tree of cherry plum seeds is grown immediately on the site, it is worth protecting the planting from pests, and insulating it with mulch for the winter, covering it with snow.

In the spring, when the seeds sprout, the earth must be carefully loosened. You can move the seedlings to another place next year, when they have time to take root, but the tree will not bear fruit soon.

Growth

For cherry plum breeding, a method that does not raise questions even for novice gardeners is suitable. In the spring, when the buds have not yet opened, a shoot 15 cm long is cut off from an adult plant and placed in the ground in a permanent place. The wound on the tree is covered with garden pitch.

For breeding cherry plum, you can chop off the root on the mother crop in the fall on one side by 15 or 20 cm and fill it with earth. A year later, the resulting layers are planted in a new place and the root is again shortened on the tree, but the stump is made on the other side, and after a while shoots appear.

Shanks

Plum is planted when the plant is at rest. In northern latitudes, it takes root better in spring; in the southern regions, a tree is placed in open ground in autumn along with leaves. To propagate cherry plum:

Before the start of sap flow, you need to choose strong branches with a diameter of at least a centimeter.
Prepare from them cuttings 15-20 cm long.
Cut shoots should be placed in the sand poured into the box.
The container must be placed in the basement.

When the air temperature rises, the cuttings are planted in a greenhouse, in a greenhouse or in an open area and covered with polyethylene for a month or a half. The shoot is watered every other day, after 4 weeks they are fed with fertilizers. If cherry plum grows indoors, the tree is hardened before being placed in the garden.

When grafting a crop, unlike growing from seeds, varietal properties are preserved. To accelerate the formation of roots, stimulants are used in the form of "Heteroauxin" or indolyl-butyric acid.

Vaccinations

To breed fruit trees, experienced gardeners use the budding method. The process of reproduction begins during sap flow. Plants are grafted by the bark, in the cut, in the split, in the butt. When using the simplest option:

The strongest and he althiest branch is cut from a young tree. The rest of the shoots that move away from the trunk are removed.
The stalk harvested in autumn is cut at an angle of 30°, shortened to 4 cm and split on it.
On the tree in one place, the bark is removed, connected to the shoot so that the layer of the rootstock and the cutting coincide.

The cuts are covered with garden pitch, wrapped with electrical tape or polyethylene. In order for the branches to take root to the cherry plum, they are hooked to the plant with splits.

Which way to choose

When propagating a tree with seeds, which is within the power of a novice summer resident, the culture loses varietal characteristics. Any method of budding requires skill and knowledge.

Almost all seedlings take root if the cherry plum is propagated by cuttings that have become woody. Branches are cut when the leaves begin to fall.Sawn shoots are treated with a stimulant and planted in the ground. Annual growths up to 8 mm in diameter take root without problems. The side branches are divided into cuttings no longer than 25 cm.

Most often, summer residents prefer the propagation of cherry plum by green cuttings. Which way to grow trees to choose depends on the climate, and on the condition of the plant, and on the experience of the gardener, and even on the fertility of the land on the site.

Rules for breeding cherry plums

Choosing the propagation method of an unpretentious tree, novice summer residents often look for the simplest and most affordable option, but forget about the features of a particular cherry plum hybrid. Most fruit crop varieties require at least 2 pollinators. One domestic tree will not be pleased with fruit if it is self-fertile.

Some varieties do not grow from the seed, others do not propagate by shoots, but there is also such cherry plum, which is bred in any of the ways, and it gives a higher yield. When choosing a hybrid for breeding, you need to take an interest in varietal characteristics, so as not to ask later why the fruits on the mother tree are larger than the cherry plum grown from its seeds.