In general, plant fruit trees between November and March
Most fruit trees are grafted when they are just a few years old and transplanted with bare roots into your own garden. This also applies to column fruit, which in its requirements Location and care is not dissimilar to other types of fruit. Fruit trees generally tolerate transplanting best if it is done at a frost-free time during the winter months. At this time the plants are in the so-called sap dormancy, but the root growth can also ensure solid rooting at the new location during the winter time. If the next spring then follows, it is that which was planted a few months earlier Column fruit already firmly rooted in the ground to invest all of its growth energy in the formation of leaves, twigs and flowers.
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Column fruit in a plant container
While bare-root columnar fruit should only be planted on frost-free winter days, in one Specimens acquired in plant containers are planted more or less all year round at the desired location in the garden will. Midsummer should not be used as the planting time for container plants either, as the plants can be damaged by drought even if they are transplanted very quickly. While with bare-root plants a certain root pruning before winter planting can promote growth, the ball of the earth around the roots of a container plant should be affected as little as possible during planting will. In the case of planting and transplanting activities during the year, the following factors should also be taken into account:
- Do not select a heat and dry phase as the planting time
- water the plants more intensively in the first few weeks at the new location
- provide shade when transplanting with a parasol
- Dig out the planting hole large enough and fill it with loose substrate
Tips
in the pot Cultivated column fruit should be transplanted at least every five years. This should be done in autumn, if possible, so that the roots can still recover sufficiently before winter and can thus cope with the more exposed temperature situation of a tub culture.
