Many gardeners are interested in what you can do if dry arborvitae. How to help a tree prompt experienced gardeners. To save Tui healthy and beautiful must be properly take care of it, to process and protect against diseases and pests.
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Reasons for drying arborvitae
several reasons for drying the plants can be distinguished:
- The effects of weather: cold, heat, sunlight.
- Insufficient irrigation. Thuja should be watered 1-2 times a week.
- Excess chemical fertilizing. Fertilize necessary in accordance with the instructions.
- Fungal diseases.
- Pests.
- Also yellow Thuja can start, if the trees are planted too often, and their foliage interfere with each other.
What if dries Thuja?
If this tree began to wither in his rehabilitation measures may take a long time - up to 2 years. You need to start work immediately.
The first step is to clean the fifth of dried pine needles using secateurs. Do not expect that it shall fade itself, this does not happen. You need to carefully examine all the tree, carefully bending the branches to check if they are alive or dried. top of the tree need to be shortened to 15 cm.
After cutting a trunk have to pour a thick layer of peat and a little mix it with earth. Peat should be acidic with a pH level of approximately 3-4. With him it is recommended to make fertilizer for top dressing of conifers.
With the coming of spring to start spraying arborvitae drugs that stimulate the growth and protection, according to the instructions and fertilize it with dung. Absolutely can not use fresh manure, because it will ruin the whole tree.
In the hot season of outdoor plants it is recommended to cover the film to protect it from the sun. With proper care arborvitae is partially restored by the end of summer, the needles begin to turn green and actively growing. If the tree starts to dry immediately after planting, most likely, it is not suitable place, and it will be enough to transplant.
Advice
The use of simple measures will help avoid drying Tui:
- Thuja plant recommended in the penumbra, since she does not like direct sunlight.
- Watering thuja should be 1 time per week, 2 times - in hot weather. This should be done in the morning or in the evening. Spraying is performed 1 time per week.
- Fertilizing. It is recommended to spend 1 per year, for the first time - when landing. Before winter, it is impossible to feed the plants, so that young immature shoots did not die in the snow.
- Mulching is designed to protect from the fifth heat, freezing and drying. The ground near the trunk need shelter spruce branches and sawdust.
- Loosening helps myc well grow and develop. Loosen the need to carefully, because the roots are shallow.
- Coniferous plants live in symbiosis with bacteria and fungi, so for a comfortable growth and development of arborvitae can sprinkle its roots from the ground under the pine trees.
- Timely pruning. Each year after the winter is necessary to remove the dry parts of the tree.
A problem such as yellowing and drying needles, does not occur if the tree to ensure proper care. We must not forget that the natural yellowing of the plant can appear during the change of the old needles. It occurs in late fall every few years.
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