How to choose a fir for the New Year and how to care for it?

The symbol of the New Year and Christmas is traditionally considered a live spruce, which, if desired, can be replaced with any coniferous plant - pine, thuja, fir. These plants appear in a wide variety on the shelves of retail chains, they are acquired not only for celebrating the New Year, but also for subsequent planting on a personal plot in the form of a garden plant.

Fir is a pretty beautiful, but very demanding plant to care for. She loves coolness and good watering - only with good care will the green beauty not throw off her needles.

This is a compact plant, in which the needles are kept quite firmly and for a long time.

On the eve of New Year's holidays, firs are sold mainly of dwarf varieties. They are slow-growing - in the spring such a plant can be moved to the garden for further growth. Compared to a felled spruce, a live fir growing in a pot attracts with the fact that the tree remains alive, it does not have to be disposed of after the holidays and it will not be necessary to observe its growth and development for many years in the future. A living plant will be an excellent decoration for the garden, which means that your money will not be spent in vain.

When buying a live fir in a pot, designed to decorate the New Year's interior, there are important points to consider.

• Purchase the plant in a specialized garden center, as in non-core stores, fir can be transported from an open root system, and then the plant was planted in pots the day before the sale.After such transportation, the chances of survival for the fir are significantly reduced.
• Don't buy plants outdoors. Despite the fact that the branches of the fir will be fresh and soft, their root system may be slightly frozen, which will subsequently lead to the death of the tree.
• The appearance of the plant is important - its size, color of needles, branching of the crown. The youngest plants retain their appearance better and subsequently take root more successfully in the garden.
• Buy healthy plants that do not have cracking of the bark, the buds are green inside, and the tips of the needles should be soft and flexible, with a characteristic coniferous aroma.
• The potted plant should sit tightly, the roots are covered with earth, which does not spill out. If the fir is properly planted in the container, it is possible to remove it only by shaking it out.

At the time of purchase, you need to find out_ what is the name of the fir variety, what features it has in growing_ what care is required, lighting, soil composition, air humidity and regularity of watering, as well as the temperature regime.

Fir is a plant that loves water, and if there is a sufficient amount of moisture in the soil, then in the house it will withstand a week without prejudice to its appearance. If the fir stands in a house where it is very hot, then in order to avoid the death of the plant or shedding of its needles, it is best to install it outside.

A festive arrangement with fir can be placed in a container with sand and make sure that it remains wet. If the top of the plant is too large, do not cut it, this will accelerate the shedding of the needles, and the plant will not be able to delight you with its beauty for a long time.

It is recommended to dress up the fir as soon as you brought it into the house, as long as its branches are flexible and, without getting drunk with moisture, do not become too elastic. You can decorate the tree with small Christmas tree decorations, bows or tinsel. To increase the decorativeness, pots with fir are wrapped in festive paper or cloth.

You can save the fir at home if you take care of it and water it regularly. The small tree is also grown after the holidays so that it can be planted after the New Year and rooted in the garden. You can transplant the fir in the spring.

It is undesirable to put a fir near heating devices, the crown of a green beauty should be regularly sprayed.

The sooner you remove the toys from the tree, the more chances you will have of germinating it in the spring in a permanent place.

How to choose a live fir for the New Year, see the video below.