Tuya Hoseri

A variety of thuja "Khozeri" is considered one of the most compact and miniature decorative conifers. A dwarf shrub, reaches a height of ½ meter, looks great in summer and winter, unpretentious to agricultural technology. This type of frost and winter is not afraid, has a good immunity to diseases, is practically not subject to burnout under the sun's rays, therefore it is popular among Russian shrub growers, and is widely used in decorating territories.

Western thuja Hoseri: description of the variety

Tuya Hoseri: photo

A young species of western thuja Khozeri came to us from Poland, a shrub of a compacted form, its annual growth is 5 cm. In good climatic conditions, the branches grow by 10 cm, not more. The shrub has many trunks, its branching is active, in this regard, a dense, in the form of a sphere, and over the years, in the form of an egg, a crown is formed.

The needles of the Hozeri variety are soft, in the form of scales, bright green in summer and bronze in winter. Young shoots are silver colored. The plant changes its color depending on the season, but it looks great in any season.

The greenery of the shrub is gradually replaced by 3 years, this is noticeable in the appearance of the thuja. In the spring season, the top of the old shoots has flowers that appear one at a time. After the pollination process has taken place, small cones, 1 cm in size, are formed in place of flowers.

Characteristic features of the variety "Khozeri" and its agricultural technology in the middle latitudes.

• An adult shrub does not need shelter for the winter at temperatures up to -29 degrees. If a more severe time is coming, then the shrubs easily cover.
• When planted in groups, thuja, which grow in shaded areas and in sunny areas, are identical in color and growth activity.
• Since the crown of the plant is compacted, it rarely lends itself to damage by the wind, but at the same time it does not tolerate drafts in the winter season.
• Shrubs, especially young seedlings, require regular watering.
• In mid-latitudes, the variety is immune to common diseases, but insects can harm it.

If you take good care of a dwarf, then its growth and development will continue for 20 years or more. At the age of ten, the size of the thuja Hozeri barely reaches 80 cm in length. A small increase in mass per year makes it easier for the bush to form or maintain it in its usual form through sanitary pruning. With sanitary pruning, old, dried and damaged shoots are removed.

Tuya Hoseri in landscape design: application

Tuya Hoseri in landscape design

The shrub is grown singly, in decorative groups, with low compacted borders. After all, the signs of the variety can allow it. Thuja looks great on a garden plot in a flower bed or in a container.A miniature crown can allow you to decorate stairs, verandas, terraces, roofs, balconies with potted bushes. The versatile variety looks good in a variety of lighting conditions, in combination with a variety of garden plants.

Western thuja Khozeri are planted longitudinally to the paths of alleys, parks, in rockeries and rock gardens. The low growth of shrubs and the tolerance of shaded areas by them contributes to the revitalization of the lower tier of the garden area, visual support of the planted ferns, tall grasses and cereals.

The thuja border has excellent thickening tolerance, it is easy to form, it keeps in a certain shape for a long time. Therefore, there is often no need to carry out haircuts of green mass and correction of the crown.

In open spaces, the variety stands out for its rich coloration, it can divide zones. A beautiful background for the rich green crown of thuja is deciduous and flowered shrubs of high growth, various conifers, plants from the Cypress family, fruit trees. Thuja in flower beds contrasts amazingly with variegated plants that cover the soil.

Breeding methods of the variety

There are 2 ways of propagation of western thuja Khozeri - cuttings or seed path. Fruit ripening in cones occurs late in the fall. They often remain for the winter under the snow cover or immediately land in a permanent place during the cold winter season and germinate in the spring season.

The interval between seeds when planting is 25 cm, not less. If seedlings appeared at the same time, then it is necessary to thin out the plants more than once. The soil must be mulched. The sprouts that appeared in the spring season are thin, vulnerable and tender. Carefully care for the shrubs for up to three years. When the bushes are five years old, they can be transplanted.

Although seedlings appear quickly, the fruits are rarely used for germination purposes. The seed method of reproduction is a long and laborious process; it is used, for the most part, by experienced gardeners and scientists. Seed propagation does not always allow you to get bushes that have inherited all the maternal features. But grafting contributes to obtaining a quick result and full varietal compliance of the bred shrubs.

Western thuja Hoseri: photos

Tuya Hoseri: propagation by cuttings

Branches are cut late in the fall, 15 cm long.

The needles are removed from the lower part of the stem, and the shoot is dipped in a solution of the drug to stimulate the growth of the root system. It is necessary to withstand a day.

The site for planting petioles should be protected from drafts and direct sunlight. It is on such a site that the petioles are buried. Or the rooting of cuttings takes place in containers with lightweight soil. It is important that the container contains a drainage system.

When the warm time comes with temperature conditions of +22 degrees, the root system of the seedling begins to actively form. If the petiole has adapted, it will show it to you with its growth.

If you grow thuja at home, then the planted plants need to be covered with film material, thus creating a greenhouse. The removal of the cover is carried out after the sprouts have appeared. Petioles are transplanted into open ground after a year.

Young seedlings of spherical thuja Hoseri need shelter for the winter. The plants are covered, in this case, with spruce branches and non-woven material. With this method of reproduction, thuja will grow a compacted apical part and several bearing trunks in 2-3 years.

How to correctly plant a spherical thuja Khozeri

To decorate a garden plot, you need to buy three-year-old seedlings that have grown in nurseries. Such shrubs are compact, the crown in the shape of a ball is already noticeable, the appearance is already decorative.

Thuja in containers are easier to transport and can wait for suitable weather conditions for planting without losing their qualities. If the root system of the variety is open, then it is urgent to transplant the seedling into the ground.

When can plants be planted.

It is possible to plant the western thuja Khozeri with an open root system in the spring season, after the ground warms up, but before the shoots begin to grow. Planting in the autumn season begins after the leaves have fallen in the garden area, 3-4 weeks before the constant cold weather.

Closed-root plants can be planted in the ground throughout the growing season. Planting in the autumn season will contribute to the successful rooting of thuja. If the seedlings are planted at a later time, they will freeze.

How to choose a planting site and prepare the soil for the western thuja Khozeri

The spherical thuja Hoseri can be cultivated under light, which is scattered or in partial shade. Shaded areas are prohibited for growing any conifers. It is also not worth planting thuja close to tall trees, because because of them, thuja will lose its decorative effect. If you plant plants in an open space where there is a lot of sun, you need to carefully monitor the moisture content of the soil and watering in a timely manner. If the area is constantly blown by winds, then the shrubbery clearly does not belong here, because the soil and air will dry out quickly, and this thuja will not like it.

The variety likes moist, fertile soils, but if moisture stagnates or there is a lot of precipitation, the planting site needs to be drained. The drainage system is located at the bottom of the planting pit, and is a 15 cm layer of sand, gravel or expanded clay.

The descriptive characteristics of the variety indicate that it can grow on any soil. Nevertheless, it is recommended to cultivate thuja on sandy loams, loams, moderately nutritious soils of a slightly alkaline or neutral type. It is required to add lime or dolomite flour to acidified soils during digging, and add wood ash when planting. If the soil is depleted and weighted, then its contents are completely removed.

The soil mixture should consist of the following components: humus or soil from a garden plot, coarse river sand, dark peat, in a ratio of 2: 1: 1, a complex of fertilizers for conifers, follow the recipe.

Organic fertilizers, especially fresh manure, are not used when planting the variety. In order for the seedlings to root successfully, it is only necessary to introduce a complex mineral composition.

Working process

It is recommended to prepare the planting site in advance. The hole must be dug 60 cm deep. The interval between the bushes when planting in a group is 80 cm. Reducing the interval is required if a large number of seedlings will be cultivated, for example, in order to form a compacted border.

• A drainage system is placed in the prepared hole.
• The prepared soil mixture is poured on top.
• The seedling is installed in the central part of the hole so that the root collar is above the surface layer of the soil.
• All empty spaces must be filled with earth, each layer must be tamped slightly with the palm of your hand.
• After the plants are planted, a small earthen wall should be arranged around the thuja's circumference for watering.

The soil ball in the container needs to be stirred and roots untangled before planting. The intertwined roots curl up in the container and grow inward due to the lack of space in the seedling. Bushes with such a neglected root system take a long time to adapt.

After planting, each plant is irrigated with 10 liters of lukewarm water and the surface layer of the soil is mulched with crushed bark, sawdust, and peat.

How to properly grow and care for a variety of spherical thuja Hoseri

Although the variety is considered unpretentious, it still needs to maintain some soil parameters. The loosened soil contributes to the necessary respiration of the root system, if there is not enough air, then there is an inhibition of growth and the extinction of the decorative crown. It is forbidden to constantly loosen to a great depth, because the root system is close to the soil surface.

The variety is not tolerant to dry periods. If the land is in a dry state for a long time, especially in hot weather, the plant begins to wither, and the needles turn yellow. These shrubs will have to be cut in full, and they will also take a long time to recover.

Mulching is fine in this case. It will satisfy the plant's requirements for soil. Mulch consists of sawdust or bark. Its layer is 5 cm. Mulching will protect the soil from winds, crust formation and water loss.

Tuya Hozeri: when and how to water

• Irrigation depends on the season and the age of the shrubs.
• Irrigation of the land under the bushes is carried out, if necessary, but the soil should always be maintained in a slightly damp state.
• For adult shrubs, watering is applied 1 time / 7 days, about 10 liters for each bush.
• In hot weather, in order to prevent the effects of dry air, the bushes are sprayed in the evening hours.
• Before the onset of cold weather, abundant water-charging watering is carried out, which will help the plant to successfully transfer the winter season.

If shrubs are protected from sunlight by tall plants, they will suffer less from drying out of soil and air. In open areas, plants may burn, this will be noticeable by a change in coloration at the tips of the shoots. If you add a lot of moisture in the evening hours, then the thuja will perfectly cope with the hot period.

Feed

The variety grows well on all types of soil, if fed in moderation. You don't need to feed too much, especially organic. An excess of manure or bird droppings will cause the plant to overeat nitrogen and acidify the soil.

Top dressing principles

• If the planting hole was correctly laid, then the seedlings do not need to be fed for about 2 years.
• Adult plants are fed early in the spring with conifer complexes. Without fail, feeding is carried out after the spring circumcision procedure, when rotted organic fertilizers can be introduced into the trunk circle.
• In order for the roots to awaken and adapt faster, watering is carried out with the addition of Epin or Kornevin preparations.
• In the autumn season, together with pre-winter watering, you can add small doses of potassium and phosphorus.
• During the growth period, you need to feed if the bushes are really weakened, or the needles are damaged by the sun's rays.

Universal feed mixes: "Khvoinka "," Zdraven "," Good power". Dosing solutions is required strictly according to the recipe in order to avoid burns of the root system.

Circumcision procedure

• Plants of this variety grow a little a year and themselves grow a crown in the shape of a ball. Often there is no need to trim shrubs. In the spring season, it is mandatory to inspect the bushes and remove all branches that have been damaged by frost. If it is necessary to form a crown, circumcision is carried out before the fry appear.
• Mature shrubs shed their needles inside dense bushes. So that the insides are not exposed, at times thinning of the skeletal branches is performed so that light and wind can enter. Dead needles are removed.
• If you need to strongly form the bushes in the borders, re-pruning is carried out after a year. It is necessary to give the bushes time to recover, to ensure the growth of shoots.

Tuya Hozeri: how to prepare plants for the winter period.

The variety is not afraid of frost. With a large amount of snow, shrubs tolerate winter well, they do not need to be additionally covered.

The variety suffers more from a cap made of snow or ice. After all, she can break the crown with her mass.For this reason, it is recommended to tie the branches together before cold snaps, without pulling them together.

Late in the fall, an inspection of the bushes is carried out, damaged, dried or old shoots are cut off. After abundant watering has been carried out, the soil must be mulched with a 10 cm layer. Shelter is required if the winter season is harsh. Good protection - huts made of branches or perches, which are covered with non-woven material.

Harmful insects and diseases

The species is immune to garden diseases, but some diseases can still affect weak bushes if not properly cared for.

Diseases and treatment

• Rust, shute - 20 g of the preparation "Hom" / 5 l of water, spray the bushes with the solution. The drug "Fundazol" (the same dosage) is used for watering the soil.
• If late blight is found, then the bush is dug up and destroyed outside the territory. Prevention - spray the bushes with fungicides.
• If the plots are struck by a tinder fungus, then they are cut out, the shrub is treated with Bordeaux liquid.

Preventive measures against all diseases - in the spring, treat all the bushes with a solution of Bordeaux mixture (1%). You can spray the bushes when the young needles begin to grow.

The bushes can be attacked by all sorts harmful insects

• Tuva aphids and false shield will be destroyed by drugs Karbofos, Antio, Rogor.
• The foxglove moth will be coped with Moskitol and Fumitox.
• They will get rid of the thuja beetle "Fufonon", "Clipper", "Alatar".
• Spider mites will be dealt with Fitoverm, 30-V, RosKhim.
• They will get rid of the wireworm Taboo, Zemlin, Provotox.
• In the fight against the May beetle, spraying with insecticides is carried out, and a solution of the drug will also relieve it Actellika.

Summary

Variety thuja "Hozeri" perfectly accentuates flower beds and supports almost all ensembles in the garden. The variety is unpretentious, resistant to weather changes. Therefore, the species can be cultivated easily, without much worries and hassle. Since thuja is very decorative all year round, it is included in the TOP of the most famous conifers of recent years.

Tuya Hoseri: reviews of the variety

Marina, 53 years old, Moscow region: “A couple of bushes of this variety were presented to me 7 years ago. The plants formed quickly. I did not prune for 4 years, then I began to observe that the crown thinned out, and somewhere fell apart. Now I have regular haircuts in the spring. I try to be in time before a new growth appears, otherwise the bushes will not look well-groomed. My crown is thinned out for airing. I water and feed the bushes in the spring, I don't do anything else. "

Vladimir, 41 years old, Pskov: "Thuja varieties" Hozeri "is my favorite on the territory. Compact, always in good shape, no need to cut. If the frosts are not severe, do not make shelter, under my hood one bush has practically disappeared. Although there is little snow, the bush does not freeze, probably because there are no drafts, and on the north side there is a fence, which covers it. Reproduction was carried out by cuttings. I planted it directly into the ground. "