How to Plant Apricot Seeds? Detailed Planting Steps and Timing
Do you like eating apricots? The pits left over after eating apricots can be planted to grow apricot trees. Do you know how to plant them? The planting time for apricots is after the Start of Winter and before the Start of Spring. They are a major cultivated fruit tree in low mountain and hilly areas.
1. Take out the seeds left over after you finish eating apricots. To ensure the germination rate for spring sowing, the seeds should undergo stratification treatment in winter, that is, store the seeds in sand. First spread a layer of wet sand on the bottom of the pit, then put the mixed seed pits into the pit, filling it to about 30 cm from the pit opening, level it off with wet sand on top, and finally pile up soil into a mound that rises above ground level; the mound should be of an appropriate height to prevent water accumulation.
2. For the sowing method, you can mainly adopt the trench sowing method. First open the trenches in the bed, with the trench width kept appropriate, and maintain a certain row spacing and plant spacing.
3. Soil management is very important. In autumn, plow the soil deeply to about 20 cm to keep the soil sufficiently aerated and increase the soil's fertilizer-holding capacity, which helps the root system grow better.
4. Reasonable fertilization can increase the fruit-setting rate of apricot trees. It should basically be based on organic fertilizer, combined with some diammonium. The basic fertilizer can be applied in trenches in autumn. As for topdressing, it needs to be done twice: before flowering in spring and after the apricot trees set fruit. The basic topdressing should be mainly urea fertilizer, combined with some diammonium, placed in shallow trenches, which has a good promoting effect on fruit setting and fruit development. Before bud break, water thoroughly once to meet the needs of apricot flowering and growth. After flowering and during the fruit expansion period, another thorough watering is needed to improve the fruit-setting rate and fruit quality.