Cypress is a legendary tree, known since antiquity.
Initially, it grew in California, but over time spread to various countries of the moderately warm zone of the Northern Hemisphere.
In recent years, the growing of cypress at home has become an increasingly common phenomenon. If you want to have this evergreen at home, you need to familiarize yourself with the basic rules of its cultivation.
How to grow a cypress from seed?
How to grow a cypress at home? In order to grow a cypress house, you will need its seeds.
You can purchase them in the store or prepare yourself if you have the opportunity to collect ripe, but not yet opened, cypress cones. They need to be folded in a cardboard box and wait until they unfold.
Landing
The most preferred season for sowing cypress seeds is the second half of spring.
The cypress soil should consist of one part of peat land, one part of sod land, one part of sand, and two parts of leafy land.
Pre-prepared soil should be poured into a pot or container, then moisten and compact it.
First, seeds are poured onto the surface of the earth, and then they are filled with a layer of soil, the thickness of which should be from seven to ten millimeters.
After that, it is necessary to sprinkle the ground in a pot of seeds with water and cover it with a film or glass. The pot should be put in a warm place and wait a couple of weeks until the seedlings appear.
Take shelter often to air the seedlings, and eventually remove it for good. Do not forget to monitor the maintenance of optimum soil moisture, as a lack or excess water can destroy seedlings.
Seating arrangements
When the height of the seedlings reaches five centimeters, they should be transplanted into separate containers, which can be ordinary plastic cups, having a volume of five hundred milliliters.
At the bottom of each cup it is necessary to make holes, the diameter of which should be about five millimeters, and fill the clay at the bottom. So you get drainage.
For seedling seedlings should use the same soil as for planting seeds, but the sand must be taken no longer one, but two parts.
Monthly feed your seedlings with complex fertilizer, and in a year they should be transplanted into pots.
Best of all, cypress will grow in a tall narrow pot, at the bottom of which drainage from expanded clay or broken skulls will be poured.
The first four to five days after transplanting cypresses should be in diffused light, and after this period they can be put on the sunny windowsill. Best of all, if it is the sill of the east or north window. In winter, the cypress can be put on a glazed loggia with good lighting and can be kept at a temperature of between fifteen and seventeen degrees above zero.
You can create the necessary height and shape of your cypress by trimming it. The plant begins to bear fruit on reaching the age of five or six years.
For details on how to care for cypress at home, read here, and from this article you will learn what diseases and pests threaten it and what you need to do to avoid them.
Conclusion
Growing cypress from seeds at home is a very interesting process, the observation of which will bring pleasure to both the child and the adult.
If you follow all the rules of care for cypress, it will long delight you with its fragrant needles.
