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  1. Alina ROGOVSKAYA, Tula

    To the apricot pleased with a generous harvest, it is important to correctly form its crown. At 3-year-old age in the autumn, it is necessary to shorten the conductor by a quarter. Next year, choose the two strongest skeletal branches and cut them halfway.

    Immediately cut the conductor, but so that it was at 20-30 cm above the skeletal branches. You need to remove those branches that thicken the crown and grow at an acute angle. In a year it is necessary to allocate still 4 skeletal branches above the first two. This will be the second tier of the crown. The last, 7-th skeletal branch should be cut level with the conductor. When a smooth, spherical crown is formed, it will be enough to perform autumn rejuvenating and sanitary pruning. That is, remove the thickening and old shoots.

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  2. Nikolai KASIMOV, Kazan

    Apricot seedlings, brought from other places, usually grow poorly. If you want to start a novelty, then it's better to plant a cultural stalk on a rootstock grown in a given locality. This at least slightly improves the functioning of the roots and root collar, which is the most vulnerable point in apricot.

    As apricot rootstock apricot seedlings as well as wild apricots are suitable, some varieties of peach, plum, thorn, almond, and plum are suitable. Of apricot varieties, the best as a rootstock is apricot Pink. It grows well both on loamy and carbonate soils (which is important for southern regions) and has the most
    resistant root to the eaves and frosts of the root neck.
    The best type of fabric compatibility with modern varieties is the apricot royal variety. Its shortcomings include tallness and the later entry into fruiting of the rootstocks grafted onto it.
    If it is planned to grow apricots on heavy clay soils, then ordinary (non-hybrid) plum may be used as a stock. It is better than the seedlings of the apricot, it transfers the excess density and moisture of the soil. But since the life span of individual trunks of a cherry plum is low, the grafted apricot on it will not become a longevity.

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