How to grow a walnut on the windowsill

Personally, I use the following technology. After the green walnuts ripe and began to crumble to the ground (in our climatic conditions it is usually in the middle or at the end of September), selects the largest of them. Particular attention is drawn to the selection of walnut shells. It should not have any visible defects, stains and damage. Next stack nuts on a bed, sprinkled a small amount of crop residues (you can just bury them in the ground at a shallow depth, about 5-7 cm). This is done in order to walnuts are no birds, rodents, or proteins.

Now we can only wait for the first frost. Usually at this time of year is a lot of rain, so crop residues are always wet. If established, dry and sunny weather, rain and not, necessarily need extra watering. So our nuts are stratification.
By the time the first frost walnuts, as a rule, all split. Now the nuts are very vulnerable. Walnut kernel oreha- this delicacy for all kinds of insects, worms and rodents. If the nuts are left lying in the ground until spring, then they can become a tasty morsel for the above "guests". The probability of bark in the spring is only single copies, if not an opportunity lost.

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Therefore, it is necessary to dig up the nuts, collect and immediately to land. Walnut planted in plastic cups of beer volume of 0.5 liters. At the bottom of the glass puncture hole to drain excess moisture. Seating capacity fill moist garden soil. In the ground to a depth of 5 cm laid our "strong" nut. Moreover, it is necessary to put a nut sideways so that part was chopped top and bottom. Sprinkle on top of the ground plant material and watered. Further capacity with walnuts put in the basement, cellar or balcony for storage.

Walnut on the windowsill

At the end of the month of January should get our cups with storage, abundantly watered and put them on the window sill. After about 15-20 days the seedlings appear. And in a month already seedling reaches a height of 10 cm. Now walnuts to be transplanted into a large bowl. For these purposes, I use the container made of liter, half-liter or plastic bottles. Bottles sliced height of 15-20 cm, pierce holes in the bottom to drain excess moisture. Transplanted nuts put back on the windowsill and take care of them. Care is timely watering and feeding. Seedlings grow and develop well in moderate soil moisture.
In mid-April, when the daytime temperature reaches + 15..18ºC, walnut seedlings exhibiting gazebo. Here are the nuts gradually hardened before planting in open ground. Belarus - the second half of May, when the threat of spring frosts return pass. By this time our seedlings grow up to 20-25 cm. When transplanting in the open ground continue to grow and develop strongly. Characteristically, if not walnuts in autumn dig up and leave to develop in vivo, in the second half of May, the nuts are just beginning to germinate and grow in the autumn height only 10-20 cm.

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