How to plant apricot kernel

Apricot kernel refers to the core of fruit apricot, apricot is an important economic fruit tree species in China, is one of the common fruits, nutrition is very rich. When people finish eating apricots, they leave apricot kernels thinking that they will plant fruit trees. So how to grow apricot kernels?

How to plant apricot kernels

1. Soak seeds and sow seeds

Spring sowing time can soak the stored seeds, put them in a plastic bag and dry them in the sun directly. Sprinkle water and stir every 3 days. After 15 days, the seeds will be cracked before sowing. If the amount of seed is small, the shell can be artificially broken before spring sowing and soaked in warm water to accelerate budding after sowing. The seeds treated by the above methods were taken out and sown from late March to early April, irrigated the nursery once before sowing, applied sufficient base fertilizer after water infiltration, and sowed in ditches.

2. Seedling grafting

Variety selection. Can choose the new century, Hongfeng, Zaohong, Hongguang, Jinyang, Zhongmi No. 1, Hongguan medium varieties. If branch grafting or wood bud grafting needs to be cut off the scion the previous year and stored in sand after grafting in spring, it can be used when grafting; when budding, it can be cut directly from the mother tree. 3. Summer budding

In the middle and last ten days of July, when the thickness of the rootstock reached the thickness of chopsticks, T-shaped bud grafting was used. Apricot bud slices are soft and should be inserted slowly to prevent them from wrinkling and affecting their survival. Attention should also be paid to bud grafting in sunny days, where the wound is easy to flow glue and reduce the survival rate.