How and when to plant ginkgo seeds

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1. How to plant seeds

2. Time selection

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For planting Ginkgo, choose a substrate with deep soil and good drainage capacity, and sandy loam is the best. Select a mother tree that has been planted for about 80 years, collect large seeds for germination treatment, place them horizontally in the ditch, cover them with 3 to 4 centimeters of soil and compact them. Spring and autumn are both better planting times.

1. How to plant seeds

1. How to plant seeds

1. Substrate: The choice of soil is very important for planting. Choose a substrate with deep soil and good drainage capacity. Sandy loam is the best, but It also needs to contain nutrients, and the pH value needs to be smaller.

2. Seeds: It is best to choose a mother tree that has been planted for about 80 years. It must be of good quality and bear a lot of fruits. If there are no conditions, you can relax a little. It is advisable to harvest seeds with large particles. In this case, the subsequent growth will be better and there will be less growth failure.

3. Treatment: If sowing in autumn, Remove the outer seed coat and dry the seeds with the peel. If you choose to sow in spring, you must soak it in water and mix it with moist sand for germination.

4. Place the processed embryos horizontally in the ditch, cover them with 3 to 4 cm thick soil and compact them. The seedlings can grow to 15 to 25 cm high in the same year.

2. Time selection

Spring and autumn are both better times. Autumn planting is carried out from October to November, which allows the root system to have a long recovery time. In this regard, spring is not as good as autumn.

2. Time selection

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