How to get rid of cherry overgrowth on a plot in the garden forever with your own hands

Today, almost every household plot can be found planting cherries. When growing a fruit tree, gardeners are faced with the problem of the formation of numerous shoots, which causes inconvenience for gardening and takes strength and nutrients from the fruit-bearing plant. To solve the problem, it is enough to know about the features of their formation and how to get rid of cherry growth.

Description of the overgrowth

The shoot is a young shoot that forms on the adventitious or lateral roots of the cherry. The problem of growing territories with overgrown outgrowths is not only aesthetic in nature, but carries practical harm.If you do not fight with the appearance of shoots, then it is able to displace not only the parent tree, but also other types of fruit crops.

The peculiarity of the growth of young shoots is that the young shoot provides food for itself at the expense of the parent tree, thereby making it weaker. A significant amount of shoots negatively affects the growth, fruiting of cherries and, in the absence of timely measures, can cause the death of the tree.

Most varieties of cherries are prone to the formation of young shoots. On a grafted tree, such shoots have no value, since it is impossible to grow a full-fledged tree from them, and a wild game will grow out of them.

From Robin, Molodezhnaya and Rastorguevskaya cherries, you should not expect the growth of a full-fledged fruit-bearing plant.

Own-root varieties are able to form cherry shoots, with which plantings can be propagated. These include varieties:

• Vladimirskaya;
• Shubinka;
• Krasnopakhapskaya.

There are a limited number of fruit tree species that do not have the ability to form new shoots. A significant part of them is grafted on the seed rootstock of the Vladimir cherry or Shubinka. Varieties that do not produce cherry shoots include bush plants:

• Love;
• Chocolate Girl;
• Crimson.

In connection with such features, when buying a tree, you should check with the sellers the features of a particular variety and purchase seedlings only in specialized nurseries.

Causes of shoots

Excessive undergrowth is often the first sign of he alth problems in cherries. With a large formation of new shoots, the tree strives to continue its life span as quickly as possible.There can be many reasons for this situation, but all of them are associated with a violation of the rules for planting or caring for a plant.

The main ones include:

• the tree is not deep enough, and the root system is excessively exposed, in this case it is enough to add soil;
• during the spring period or when re-grafting, too many branches were cut, in this case the balance between the root and the aerial parts is disturbed, and the roots use excess nutrition to form young branches;
• the trunk or branches of a cherry have been mechanically damaged, resulting in wounds or cracks;
• physiological incompatibility between rootstock and scion;
• damage to wood caused by exposure to cold or heat.

By eliminating the main causes of growth, you can reduce the ability of a tree to form them. At the same time, young shoots must be removed correctly, otherwise the situation can be aggravated, and they will begin to form at an even faster rate.

Low temperatures can cause root damage. In extreme heat, cracking of the soil occurs, and the roots can also suffer. Overgrowth often appears on the affected area. To exclude such a situation in winter, a tree shelter is formed. In hot weather, cherry roots are protected by hay, which allows moisture to be retained in the ground for a longer period.

In some cases, young shoots do not grow on the ground, but form below the grafting area. An alien branch may even begin to bear fruit, but in terms of its characteristics and appearance it will differ from the parent. Such shoots are removed, and if they grow in significantly, they are pruned in the spring and re-grafted with another variety.

Positive features overgrown

After infecting cherries with coccomycosis, gardeners often have to buy new seedlings to replace them. New varietal plants are not always bought in specialized nurseries, so the purchase from random unverified sellers leads to the planting of low-hardy, low-yielding, self-infertile cherry species, with low quality fruit characteristics.

The cost of unique varieties of cherries can be quite expensive, so not everyone can afford to get a unique look. The formation of shoots in varietal types of cherries allows you to propagate the plant, while not requiring financial costs from the gardener. At the same time, there are no restrictions on the territory for increasing plantings, and planting and caring for a young seedling from such specimens will be standard.

Ways to fight

Today there are two main methods of dealing with cherry growth. The first involves mechanical action and is often used by Russian gardeners. The second is associated with the use of chemicals from the group of herbicides. Both options for removing the undergrowth have both supporters and opponents.

Mechanical method

Many gardeners, in an attempt to get rid of cherry growth, make the mistake of digging up young shoots.With such actions, a replacement program is launched, which is characteristic of all coppice trees. In place of the dug out shoot, 3 or 4 new ones grow, as a result, after a couple of years, the shoot literally fills the territory.

As a result, despite numerous efforts and time spent, gardeners end up with a garden plot overgrown with cherry undergrowth, while numerous new cherry shoots adversely affect the growth and fruiting of not only the parent tree, but also other fruit crops.

If necessary, remove the shoots using a pruner to cut out part of the shoot, cutting off its main part and leaving a plot of 20 cm from ground level. The formation of roots and new shoots will stop. At the same time, the cherry will redirect its forces in full to fruiting, and the tree will cease to multiply by shoots.

Use of herbicides

You can get rid of shoots with the help of preparations from the herbicide group, but a significant part of gardeners advises against this option. At first glance, it is possible to remove shoots with the help of chemistry simply and quickly, it is enough to spray, and the young cherry shoots die. In this case, one should take into account the fact that the shoot and the parent tree are inextricably linked, therefore, through common juices, there is a risk of getting and infecting it.

To combat the growth of cherries, herbicides of general action are used. Such drugs are capable of destroying all plants, so their use requires special preparation and strict adherence to the rules of use.

The following types of herbicides are often used:

• "Tornado" is a highly concentrated agent capable of destroying lignified growth;
• "Roundup" - designed to destroy grassy weeds, able to eliminate non-lignified shoots;
• "Hurricane" is a strong herbicide, the effectiveness of which increases when used in dry weather.

You can remove the shoots with drugs on the stumps. The agent is diluted according to the instructions, for most of them the recommended dilution ratio with water is 1 to 3. Before use, several small holes are drilled in the stump with their own hands, into which the mixture is poured. Polyethylene is placed on top, which will avoid the problem of spraying the drug during rain. In this state, the stump is left depending on the size for 2 or 3 weeks. After that, the sequence of actions for herbicide treatment is repeated. As a result of such actions, the stump will decompose more quickly, so it will be easier to uproot it.

Some gardeners, when buying an old site with perennial plantings, resort to the method of completely digging up the territory to form new plantations in the future.This method is cardinal, but rather expensive and often impossible due to the peculiarities of the organization of personal plots and nearby structures.

Prevention

Measures to prevent overgrowth should be considered before planting cherries, which will make gardening easier in the future. The fruit tree forms shoots only on the processes of the bark system located no deeper than 40 cm. In this regard, it is enough to dig a growth limiter into the ground so that in the future the problem of the formation of shoots does not bother. Often used as a barrier:

• slate;
• plastic sheets;
• mixture of cut grass, branches, straw;
• sawdust.

To form a barrier, the material is dug in in a circle to a depth of 50 cm at a distance of 1-1.5 m from the cherry.Even if individual shoots manage to grow through the barrier, the scale of the disaster will therefore be much less. Mulch made from vegetable raw materials, which is placed around the tree with a layer of 20 cm, will help reduce the formation of cherry overgrowth. Overgrowth can also sprout from the seeds of fallen cherry fruits. To prevent this possibility, it is necessary to harvest the crop in a timely manner, and in case the berries fall, they should be picked in a timely manner.

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