How to plant Hawthorn seeds in small potted plants

A mention of hawthorn, presumably many people are familiar with, not only eat a variety of methods, but also high nutritional value, very popular with people's favorite, the most important is to eat the leftover core can be planted into small potted plants, that small potted hawthorn seeds how to plant?

1. Seed collection and treatment

Hawthorn seeds are easy to collect. In autumn, there will be a lot of hawthorns sold in the market. When you buy them back, you only need to keep the leftover seeds, wash them, dry them, wrap them in kraft paper bags, put them out of the window for low temperature preservation after winter, and then plant them in the beginning of spring.

2. Seed germination treatment

Hawthorn seeds need to be germinated because of their hard outer skin. The seeds are soaked in warm water overnight, taken out and exposed to strong light for 2-3 hours, then soaked in warm water and exposed to the sun. Repeat this until the seed coat is broken, or directly crack the seed coat with a small hammer before planting.

3. Selection of pot

Hawthorn trees are not strict with sudden selection, but they like sandy soil. We can prepare sand, garden soil and rotten leaf soil according to the ratio of 2:2:1, choose their favorite flower apparatus, and then plant them in the flower soil. The planting should not be too deep, covering the seeds by 2 cm. Then put them in a warm and humid place, and keep the pot soil moist. Generally, they can germinate in about a week. When they grow 4 leaves, they can be transplanted to new flower pots. It is advisable to plant 1-2 trees in each pot.

4, light temperature control

Hawthorn trees like the environment with sufficient light, can be placed on the balcony facing south, if the light is not particularly strong, then do not need to shade treatment; Hawthorn trees will appear dormant after winter, leaves will fall, at this time as long as keep above 0 degrees can safely winter.

5. Water and fertilizer supply

Hawthorn trees do not like water, usually in the maintenance process, can keep the pot soil slightly dry, watering method to see dry see wet is better, summer weather if particularly dry, can appropriately increase the watering frequency; Hawthorn trees like thin fertilizer, in early spring to apply a large proportion of nitrogen fertilizer, into the flowering period to apply a large proportion of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer can be.