How to grow juniper from seed

Cuttings to propagate a juniper easier and faster, ornamental varieties and it is grown, but the ordinary sight of this coniferous plants possible to grow from seed. Juniper is wind pollinated and full of seeds with good germination Matures a bit. Collect the seeds in the second year of the life of the plant when the berries just begin to darken. This happens usually in September. Once the berries start to darken completely, the seeds will go dormant and do not germinate quickly.

Find any area where you plant the juniper. The soil should be fertile and friable. Make in it furrows with a depth of two centimeters and condense their DNA. Visate the seeds in these grooves and cover with humus. All this multiroute bed of peat or sawdust layer of one centimeter. Such procedures will not allow the seeds to dry and will help it to germinate in germination.

You can put pre-seed juniper in boxes with fertile land. In winter, the boxes move to the storage in the open air under the snow. There seeds should stand for approximately 130 days.Spring plant overwintered so seeds on his plot. Shoots wait until the next year.

For crops juniper care same way you take care of the rest of my seedlings. Proplyvaya the weeds with your hands, loosen the earth in the garden and watering the soil with crops was slightly raw.3-4 years before planting in a permanent place, the seedlings of juniper needs to sit in one place. Every fall multiroute the ground with the sprouts humus to it layer had a thickness of four centimeters.

The juniper bears fruit after 5-10 years of life. Pick berries with a piece of cloth spread under a Bush plant. Just shake the juniper and the berries will fall. Dry the harvest in the shade and use in the preparation of kvass, beer, liqueurs, syrup and other foods.