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- To multiply fruit trees - These methods exist
- Cultivation from seeds
- Unsex propagation
- hardwood cuttings
- cuttings
- Tips
Seed cultivation is a variant of propagation
To multiply fruit trees - These methods exist
Usually fruit trees are propagated by refinement, so that the desired variety sprouts from the rice. However, there are also other methods that are also fundamental to a finish - for example, to grow a suitable pad.
Cultivation from seeds
Most fruit trees can not be cultivated from seeds, as they are often self-infertile, especially apple and pear trees, and therefore require a second, pase variety for fertilization. After pollination by the wind or by insects and subsequent fertilization, a fruit grows up with germinable seeds. However, these contain the genetic material of both parent plants and are therefore not uniform. Plants obtained by sowing these seeds are therefore not true to the species. They are called wildlings or seedlings. Even self-pollinating fruits like most peaches and plums are not propagated by sowing because they are not sure to be true to variety.
Seedlings also have other disadvantages:
Unsex propagation
The asexual reproduction of parts of plants is called "vegetative propagation". If a further variety is used as rhizome for asexual reproduction, ie refined, this is called by experts as "xenovegetative propagation". The plants produced by asexual multiplication are those which are identical to the mother plant.
hardwood cuttings
The propagation by Steckhölzer is made in the period of dormancy, approximately between November and February. You cut about pencil-strong, one-year-old Reiser, which must have a length of 15 to 25 centimeters. In addition, you should mark at the wood where is above and where below. If the plywood is put upside down, it does not grow - because then the roots would have to form in the crown. The sticks are stored as cold and dark as possible in a slightly moist substrate until they are plugged in. The sticking itself takes place in spring, either directly into the prepared field or in planters under glass.
cuttings
Cuttings are plugged immediately as opposed to socket sticks. The best time for this type of propagation is the late spring and early summer. Then cut from the plants to be propagated freshly expelled, but already firmer shoots with a length of about 10 to 15 centimeters. Remove the lower leaves and insert the shoots into unfertilized soil. It is important that the substrate is always kept slightly moist.
Tips
Another form of propagation is the Abmoosen, in which within a short time quite large plants can be pulled. This method is mainly used in bonsai cultivation.