How to grow a peach from a stone

For cultivation are suitable bones of ripe, juicy, but not spoiled fruit. It is best to take peaches of varieties for this purpose,typical for your area. "Alien" varieties will either grow poorly, or do not get accustomed at all. It is also good, if you can find out on which tree the fruit has grown - the root or grafted. Preference should be given to the first. Carefully inspect the seeds selected for planting: they must be whole, without defects.

Bones are planted in the open ground in October-November (for the winter). If you try to grow a peach from a stonesummer or spring, the seedlings will not have time to grow stronger, and may not survive the winter. In addition, the bones of early ripening varieties can not germinate at all; for planting it is better to take seeds of medium, middle and late maturing seeds.

Plant bones as soon as possible, not letting them dry, otherwise they will have to be stratified. Sometimes before planting, the bones are prepared, soaking for several days in water (water needs to be changed twice a day). Then the bones are allowed to dry and nail the hammer to extract the seed (do this carefully so as not to damage the tender core). However, such training is not mandatory.

Peaches must be planted in a soft, loose, well-fertilized soil at a distance of at least 3-4 m from adultsfruit trees. The depth of the bones is about 5-8 cm (not deeper), in the row the distance between the planting should be about 10 cm, the distance between the rows is 50 cm. It is better to plant more bones than you want peach trees, because not all of them will ascend , but well, if half. After planting, you must cover the crops with a thick layer of grass.

In the spring, when the shoots rise, they will need abundant daily watering. It is desirable to feed the peach with diluted humus and sprinkle with special preparations for disease prevention.

Over the summer, the peach seedlings will reach a height of about one and a half meters, side branches will begin to appear on it. When the main trunk reaches a height of 70 cm, you can begin to practice crown formation. However, the main pruning is performed next spring, removing diseased and frozen twigs.

Further Peach pruning is carried out annually, in the spring, between the appearance of pinkbuds and flowering. The crown of the tree is formed in the form of a bowl. Each year, it is necessary to leave on any axes of skeletal branches of any order of shoots for fruiting (the distance between shoots is 15-20 cm), the rest should be cut "on the ring" (ie, on the whole branch).

Also next spring, you can transplant a peach. For transplantation, it is necessary to dig a pit in the falldepth of at least a meter on the sunny and protected from the wind places on the site. After planting, pour a peach with two or three buckets of standing water and cover with peat or rotted manure.

Usually a peach begins to bear fruit for the third or fourth year. Please note that there is no guarantee that you will getto grow from a bone an exact copy of the peach you like, most likely, will grow "half-savage." But peaches grown from a bone on their own site are usually more resistant to illnesses and moods of weather, they do not freeze in winter and give more abundant harvests.

As you can see, growing a peach from a stone is quite realistic, the main thing is to observe simple rules, stated above. A little patience - and you can eat peaches grown in your own garden.