Dogwood: planting and care in open ground. Dogwood blooms but does not bear fruit. Why dogwood does not bloom; what to do?

We have three bushes growing (one is 5 years old, the other is 3 years old) from the Artemovsk nursery, but, unfortunately, they do not bloom and, naturally, do not bear fruit. And we don’t know whether we will wait for the harvest. What is the problem?

Dogwood is a very interesting super-intensive crop. Today there is a wide variety of varieties that differ in color, size, shape, taste of berries, ripening time, etc. But the main advantage of this crop is its very rapid entry into fruiting. In the first year, the seedling must take root, and the next year it will definitely produce a harvest. Already in the year of planting, you can see with your own eyes the “intention” of your pet to bring a harvest next summer: in August, large round flower buds, in appearance reminiscent of the well-known spice cloves, appear on the branches. All dogwood varieties finish forming a flower bud by the time the fruits ripen, so when you harvest this year's harvest, you actually see the next one.

Reasons for the lack of flowering and fruiting of dogwood:

You purchased an ungrafted dogwood seedling (wild forms);
Lack of moisture;

At good care Dogwood does not bear fruit periodically, but annually delights with an abundance of fruits. In our conditions, the only limiting factor is the lack of moisture. By installing drip irrigation, we get a full harvest every year. Winter frosts, return of cold weather, pests and diseases do not have any noticeable effect on the quality and quantity of fruits.

One-year-olds often already have one or two flower buds (from 20 to 60 buds), and two-year-olds carry dozens or even hundreds of them. Grafted seedlings are very noticeably different from seedlings that produce crops in the 10th-12th year. To be sure, you need to purchase only varietal planting material in trusted nurseries, then you won’t have to wait long for the harvest.

Grafted dogwood seedling is the key to a good harvest

Frankly speaking, I have not yet seen grafted dogwood seedlings on the markets. In order to grow a seedling, which we call annual, you need to spend five to seven years, then it bears fruit in the second year after planting and bears fruits that are large, beautiful and tasty, and different color, shape and timing of ripening.

The increased demand for seedlings provoked businessmen to sell anything, and it’s good if they are at least seedlings dug up in the forest; they will still, even after ten years, bear dogwood fruits, even if they are few, small and sour.

You can just as easily buy a pig, and any other forest bush will be slipped to you, as they say, with one left hand. You need to plant real grafted varietal seedlings next to your “savages”, especially since they do not require a separate place - they, especially in the first years of life, feel much better in the shade of trees. In the future, forest “brothers” will serve as pollinators, and at the same time you will see for yourself and tell people how they differ from one another.

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Dogwood in the garden

Dogwood is a genus of the dogwood family, numbering 24 species of plants from Europe, North America, India, China, Japan. Representatives of this genus are herbs, small trees and shrubs. Many types of dogwood are very beautiful, have elegant edible fruits and have medicinal properties.

In the gardens and parks of the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, it is cultivated as an ornamental plant. dogwood capitate(Cornus capitata). It's small evergreen tree with large white flowers and red fruits.

In the forests of Europe and the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus, only one species grows “wild” - dogwood(Cornus mas). It was this species that was introduced into culture as an ornamental and fruit plant.
I want to talk about the common dogwood - its use, cultivation and propagation.

Using dogwood

Dogwood berries are used in folk medicine with diarrhea, diabetes mellitus. Dogwood fruit juice lowers blood sugar levels and normalizes the activity of the pancreas.

Dogwood contains tannins.
An infusion of dogwood bark was previously used to treat malaria.
The wood of the plant is very strong and flexible, so the local population of the Black Sea region used dogwood to make bows and various crafts until the 18th century. Thin branches of dogwood bend and weave perfectly, making strong, durable baskets.

Dogwood flowers are rich in nectar and attract many pollinators to the garden; This plant is a good honey plant.

Currently, dogwood is grown in our country mainly by amateur gardeners; its industrial plantings are very rare and occupy small areas.

Growing and fruiting dogwood

In our area (Black Sea coast), wild dogwood has long been grown and used. Only in the last few years have appeared in our gardens garden forms dogwood. Large-fruited varieties of common dogwood with berries weighing up to 30 g have been bred, while in wild forms of dogwood the fruit weight usually does not exceed 5 g.
Dogwood fruits are very pleasant to the taste, they are sweet and sour (sometimes tart). Typically, ripened dogwood berries are bright red, but yellow-fruited plants are also found.
Dogwood begins to bear fruit early and bears fruit for a very long time, up to 100 years.

Scientists consider the common dogwood to be a subtropical plant, although it is very frost-resistant (according to some data, it can withstand temperatures down to –35 degrees). However, the peculiarity of this plant is its very long growing season.
There is information that some amateur gardeners grow dogwood even in the Moscow region, but there are difficulties with its fruiting and wintering.
But in Kuban and in Rostov region dogwood grows and bears fruit quite successfully, practically without freezing. But without watering, the dogwood here often suffers from summer drought.

The common dogwood is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub or small tree up to 7 m high. Wild dogwood is often found in the undergrowth deciduous forests, but rarely forms pure thickets.
Dogwood is unpretentious (undemanding to the composition and fertility of the soil, not afraid of air pollution), resistant to disease, and easy to care for. Dogwood can even grow on rocks, but in this case its fruiting is very weak.

Wild dogwood bears fruit most abundantly in well-lit places with sufficient moisture: along the edges of forests, and especially along the banks of rivers and streams, where the plant’s moisture supply is optimal. Great harvest dogwood can be obtained in the garden - on fertile soil, with watering.

The size of the dogwood berry harvest also greatly depends on weather conditions during flowering. When the weather is dry and sunny, the yield will be maximum. If it rains during the flowering period of the dogwood, and even more so if it snows, then there are practically no berries.

Like most plants, dogwood is responsive to fertilizers. I only use mineral fertilizing: at the beginning of the growing season - nitrogen-phosphorus fertilizers, and starting in August - potassium fertilizers ( wood ash). I determine the amount of fertilizers and the frequency of fertilizing based on the condition of the plants - what better height and the greener the dogwood leaves, the less I feed.

Common dogwood blooms long before the leaves bloom (in our area - usually in February, and only in relatively cold winters does flowering occur in March). Dogwood flowers are small, yellow, bisexual; collected in umbrella-shaped inflorescences. Dogwood flowers are pollinated by both wind and insects.

The ripening time of dogwood fruits depends on the place where the plant grows, on the temperature during the season, and on the characteristics of the variety. The fruits of early varieties of dogwood ripen first on the southern slopes, at low altitudes above sea level. Later the fruits ripen on the northern slopes and higher in the mountains. The first ripened dogwood fruits can be seen in our markets in early August, and the last ones - at the end of October.
Adult bushes of non-varietal (wild) dogwood produce a yield of 5-10 kg per bush, varietal plants are more productive.

Dogwood fruits have the ability to ripen well when stored, being collected even at the very beginning of ripening. At the same time, early harvesting does not affect the taste and juiciness of dogwood fruits.

Dogwood propagation

Dogwood can be propagated in different ways: seeds, cuttings, grafting and layering.

Of the methods of vegetative propagation, dogwood is the easiest to use reproduction layering. To do this, 1-2 year old dogwood shoots are bent and pinned to the ground in the fall. It is not even necessary to cut the bark on dogwood shoots and use rooting stimulants. You just need to pour a mound of earth (about 10 cm high) onto the bent shoots and make sure that the soil of the mound does not dry out.
Rooting of dogwood shoots with this rooting method occurs within about a year. In the next season, the young plant is separated from the mother bush during dormancy and planted on permanent place.

Cuttings Dogwood is used less frequently for propagation; Both green and lignified cuttings are used.
Green cuttings are cut in June-July from the middle of annual shoots. Square leaf blade cut by a third and soak the cuttings for 5-6 hours in a preparation that stimulates root formation (for example, in an aqueous solution of heteroauxin, indolylacetic acid, etc.). After preparation, the cuttings are planted in the ground in partial shade - in a previously prepared loose soil, into the cuttings or under plastic film (you must ensure that the film does not touch the cuttings). By the end of the growing season, the rooting of green dogwood cuttings occurs by 50-60%.

Woody dogwood cuttings are cut in the fall. In our area they are planted before winter, immediately in a permanent place.
In more northern regions, it is better to keep dogwood cuttings in the refrigerator until spring, and then plant them for rooting. Before planting, the preserved cuttings must be kept for 24 hours in a solution of any drug that stimulates root formation.
Planted woody dogwood cuttings are demanding of soil moisture.
Rooting of dogwood cuttings by autumn occurs by 60-80%.

Varietal dogwood is most often propagated vaccination (budding method), but this method can only be recommended for areas where dogwood grows wild. To carry out grafting, you must have well-developed wild dogwood rootstock seedlings.
For some reason, dogwood does not work well when grafted with cuttings in the spring, and therefore bud budding is usually used in August-September.
The technique of this grafting is common for tree species. Cut the scion bud with the leaf petiole and insert it into a T-shaped cut on the rootstock, then wrap it tightly with plastic tape so that it does not cover the bud. If the grafting has taken root, the leaf petiole does not lose turgor, but falls off after 2-3 weeks. In October, the bandage of successful vaccination is removed.
When the bud of the dogwood scion begins to grow, the shoot of the rootstock above it is cut off, and subsequently all the shoots of the rootstock are gradually removed.

What exactly is the yield of varietal dogwood? I cannot say about this yet, since the grafted dogwood varieties have not yet begun to bear fruit in my garden.

What year does dogwood bear fruit?

If you live in Crimea, then dogwood is certainly not a curiosity for you.
But thanks to Roman, I only recently discovered dogwood for myself. Moreover, as it turned out, he feels great here in Lithuania, where winters are relatively harsh - down to minus 35.

Look at this beautiful harvest:

Photo gallery of dogwood fruiting:

One box of cultivated orange dogwood from this harvest fell to me. The jam, let me tell you, turned out excellent! However, there was no more of it left - we ate it very quickly...

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Why doesn't it bear fruit?

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29 Comments on Dogwood fruiting.

you open up new horizons for us, and therefore new interests, skills and discoveries. Unfortunately, I can't keep up with you. But this year I planted apricots. Have you tried experimenting with this plant?

Roman brought out his own variety apricot I saw abundantly fruiting trees after a winter of 32 degrees below zero.
This variety is called Roman VR 1. We will propagate it.

Well, the Baltic states are far from the north, and God himself commanded your dogwood to bear fruit.
Dogwood bears fruit even in the Moscow region!
I have a two-variety bush (grafted with a yellow-fruited and a red-fruited variety) that endured the last frosty winter without any shelter. Only the tips of the branches were frozen. True, it is still small and does not bear fruit. Only this spring one of the grafts bloomed for the first time, but there were no introductions - apparently, cross-pollination is required. So I’m waiting for the second one to bloom.
On next year I ordered several more varieties of dogwood.

Andrey, please tell me where you ordered the dogwood seedlings? This, as I understand it, is an online gardening store?

I ordered from Felix Ivanenko from Sochi

Thank you! I found Felix Ivanenko’s address on the Internet. I'll have to write to him.

Hi all!
Please tell me the maximum allowable distance between seedlings for normal cross-pollination. I have three dogwood trees, but they are planted at a distance of about 10 m from each other. The neighbors do not have dogwood trees. Isn't it too far?
Previously, the trees bore fruit quite well. Last year the harvest was weak. And this year, none at all. Perhaps the garden has grown and blocked the dogwood’s path to unhindered cross-pollination. As a result, there were almost no fruits, although the trees bloomed very amicably and luxuriantly, despite the harsh winter. Or is that not the reason?
And another question: Can the close occurrence of groundwater affect the normal development of dogwood, even taking into account its “moisture-loving” nature?

At this distance, the cause of poor pollination may be a lack of bees or unfavorable weather conditions for cross-pollination, for example, rain during the flowering period.
Try grafting (by budding) buds from one of your trees onto others. Branches will grow from the buds, which will bloom in a couple of years and will be guaranteed to pollinate all your dogwood trees.
Despite the dogwood’s moisture-loving nature, getting its roots wet and excessive soil moisture can be harmful to it.

Thanks for the tip, Evgeniy!
I will definitely use it and re-graft my kidneys.
As for the absence of bees, it is doubtful, because... The neighbor has an apiary behind the fence and a dogwood tree is blooming - the first spring treat for the bees. But the rains... I don’t remember anymore. Most likely, there was a reason for them.
Excessive soil moisture is, of course, difficult to combat. Drainage ditches cannot be installed, because... there is a lowland around and there is nowhere to dump excess water, drainage pipes too...
You just have to grow new seedlings from the shoots to replace the “dead” plants.

Simply, if possible, bring in soil, create a hill and dogwood at the planting site, and not only dogwood will grow normally.

I have had dogwood for 9 years. Indeed, he started giving birth when he was 6 years old. It is about 3 meters high, formed by a tree. In recent years, up to two buckets of berries have been collected. We mostly freeze them for the winter, so we always have them fresh in winter. They taste a little like cherries (after they sit for a while), and when picked they are immediately tart. (Ukraine, Lutsk).

Hello, Vladimir.
Do you send dogwood cuttings and under what conditions? I really want to plant this plant in my home. What varieties do you grow?
Thank you for your reply.

Hello. I don't do expulsions. Although I could send it if it is within Ukraine.

I realized that you are not involved in forwarding)), I just “joined” your comment so that those who send cuttings would also notice mine)))

And it’s clear that Lvov. Can you share your young shoot? I have wild plants. Having learned from the film what cultural varieties are. Do you know anything about the nursery?

Always very interesting and useful lessons. But the quality is terrible. For a long time now there has been an HD format on both cameras and cameras.

We have been filming and publishing in Full HD for quite some time now.
You just don’t know how to look yet.
On the right bottom corner The video viewing window (player) has small button icons. Click the one that looks like a gear or a flower. When you hover over it, the message “Change quality” pops up.
After pressing, select the highest value and enjoy watching in HD or Full HD - it’s up to your speed and computer power.

In our city, this is the Lviv region, there are several dogwood trees that are already about a hundred years old. Over the past 40 years that I remember, they have had a huge harvest every year. Despite the frosts, frosts, and prolonged spring rains. And they ripen every year, no matter what summer it is. I think such a dogwood would grow in Finland. In our conditions, it ripens in mid-August.

Just great. Dogwood, in general, is very capricious. You are GREAT!! Thank you. Health, strength and good luck. Make us happy and share your experience. I would like to hear, and maybe see, about Walnut. Sincerely, Alexander.

I really like everything, only I once saw Evgeniy showing the formation of young apple trees, I wanted to watch it again, but for some reason I can’t find it.

Everything is great, just wonderful. Tell me where and how to purchase either seeds or seedlings of the dogwood.

I wouldn't mind buying seedlings or seeds either.

In your first post it was said about Lutsk, and now about Lviv. If you are in Lviv, then we are with you. I look forward to your confirmation.

I have been dreaming about a dogwood for a long time, but I don’t know whether it will grow near St. Petersburg. You always inspire me. All that remains is to find seedlings, thanks guys!

I also recently planted a dogwood tree at home, I hope the harvest will be no less than yours!

Thank you. very interesting.

Who knows whether dogwood will grow in Ukraine and whether it is afraid of cold weather?

Evgeniy, I bought two dogwood trees, Vladimirsky and Yantarny, maybe they can be planted in one hole as was ordered in one of your films, or they need to be spaced 3-5 meters apart, I just don’t have that much land

Evgeny Fedotov

Yes, Denis, you can put him in one hole. This way they will cross-pollinate better than at a distance.

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How many years does it take for dogwood to bear fruit?

Which dogwood variety is considered the best?

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What to do to make dogwood bear fruit?

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Conditions under which dogwood blooms and bears fruit

Dogwood blooms in early spring and looks very impressive against the background of other, not yet blooming shrubs and trees. It is for this feature that the crop is often cultivated as a decorative one. And in some gardens this is what happens; after flowering the berries do not set. However, this is not a feature of the dogwood, but an error in planting or care.

When does the dogwood bloom?

Common dogwood blooms earlier than others fruit crops. As soon as the wintering onions emerged from the ground, currant and gooseberry buds began to bloom, the trees were still bare, and gardeners were delighted by the lush dogwood inflorescences. Flowers appear before the leaves and fall off at the beginning of their blossoming.

Video: dogwood from bud break to harvest

The favorable temperature for flowering is 8-12 °C; in each region it is set at its own time. So, average daily temperature+10 °C in Krasnodar region observed in March, and in the Rostov region - in early April. In central Russia, dogwood blooms in mid-late April, and in the northern regions and Siberia - in late April - early May. Flowering lasts from one week to three, depending on the variety, and is almost always subject to return frosts. However individual species They bloom in summer and again in autumn, for example, White Dogwood.

Large flower buds are formed already in August; in spring, flowers tolerate frosts down to -7 °C

How dogwood blooms

From one flower bud up to 25 buds appear, which form umbrella inflorescences with a diameter of 5–7 cm. The flowers are bisexual, small, each consisting of a pistil and stamens surrounded by four petals. The common dogwood has yellow flowers, but varieties with white, cream, pink and even bicolor petals have also been bred.

The second name for the common dogwood is male dogwood.

Photo gallery: blooming dogwood

Is it possible to replant dogwood during flowering?

Even at the age of 7–15 years, dogwood easily tolerates transplantation and quickly restores fruiting. But first, the plant undergoes anti-aging pruning to balance the volumes of the above-ground parts and roots. The good survival rate is explained by the superficial location of the roots; they are easy to dig out without damaging them. Despite this, best time for transplantation - autumn, a month before frost, and a short period in spring, before buds open. However, if there is an urgent need to transplant blooming dogwood, then dig up and move the plant with a lump of earth.

Dogwood seedlings with a closed root system take root faster and grow

The main part of the dogwood roots is located in the upper 40 cm, so the plant needs to be watered regularly in the summer and covered in the winter. trunk circle mulch.

Dogwood seedlings obtained vegetative propagation(by root suckers, layering, grafting), they bloom in the second year, so they often go on sale with open buds. Usually there are only a few of them. For better survival, it is recommended to remove them before planting.

Video: features of planting and growing dogwood

Why does dogwood bloom but not bear fruit?

It happens that after abundant flowering, the dogwood does not bear berries. There are several reasons for this:

There is no cross-pollination: although the flowers are bisexual, pollination occurs between several bushes. It is advisable to have a dogwood on the site different varieties.
Unsuitable soil: clayey, airtight, deficient in phosphorus and potassium.
Insufficient watering: dogwood roots are not able to extract moisture from the depths. In the absence of rain, it is necessary to water once a week, otherwise the plant simply will not have enough moisture to bear fruit, and the flowers will fall off.
Heavy rains during flowering wash away pollen, and pollinating insects cannot fly in such weather.
Return frosts: In some years, spring frosts exceed the frost resistance threshold. The dogwood continues to bloom, but the pistils and stamens are damaged, and the ovaries do not form. This can explain the situation when last year the dogwood blossomed and bore fruit, but this year there is not a single berry or there are few of them.
Unscrupulous seller: in response to increasing demand, some traders sell ungrafted seedlings, that is, wild forms of dogwood. An ungrafted plant has smooth bark, without scars or thickenings. The graft is usually located at the bottom of the trunk, often the color of the bark in this place is a different shade. Another difference is that wild dogwood blooms very profusely, while on cultivated plants there are several times fewer buds and they are larger.

A young dogwood bears up to 10 kg of berries, and at the age of 15 years - up to 30 kg

Dogwood is a long-liver, growing and bearing fruit for up to 250 years. Seedlings grown from seeds bear the first berries only after 8–10 years.

To ensure that your dogwood not only blooms, but also bears fruit, buy several grafted seedlings of different varieties, and always from a trusted seller. Prepare loose and fertile soil for planting, and then provide adequate watering. Protect from severe return frosts by smoking or sprinkling. Still young and low bushes can be completely wrapped in covering material.

The type and timing of dogwood flowering depend on its variety. However, this fruit crop attracts with its decorative value at any time of the year. After a long and luxurious flowering, the branches are covered with bright berries, and in autumn and winter - with large beads of flower buds.

Actinidia fruiting

Aralia appeared here about ten years ago. We planted it near the southern wall of the house. Only once there were about ten fruits on it that looked like gooseberries and tasted like overseas kiwi. Please tell us what needs to be done so that our aralia has a lot of fruits.

What you have growing is not Aralia, but Actinidia, most likely Kolomikta. “Kiwi” is Actinidia sinensis, which grows only in the hot and humid tropics. And kolomikta is the northernmost of the actinidia, which can withstand the harsh frosts of the Amur region in nature. The plant is dioecious, but apparently you don't have a male plant, so the fruits on the female plant are set in very small quantities from random self-pollination. On my estate, kolomikta is represented by six varieties, all of which bear fruit abundantly every year. The south side of the house is not the best place for this species, because long-term direct sun is not suitable for it - growth and yield decrease, and may even disappear altogether. Actinidia kolomikta loves diffused light and partial shade, and in my case it bears fruit well even against the northern wall of the house.

Actinidia kolomikta can grow and bear fruit in one place for decades. It must be flood-proof and protected from direct sun rays at least in the lower part of the plant. Since the plant needs long-term support, then, naturally, its base should be metal (for example, a pipe column). From it, thin rods or synthetic cords twisted in several pieces can branch upward in different directions to a height of at least 2-3 meters (can be attached to the roof, attic, balcony, etc.). And if it is possible to collect fruits higher, then the support can be 5-6 meters.

You can practice lifting the support using stairs and arches (the support must be permanent), since kolomikta does not require removal of vines and protection from frost. Thanks to its variegated leaves, it is very decorative. It combines green, snow-white and brick-raspberry colors. On some varieties and on males in midsummer the leaves are mostly tricolored.

The roots are shallow, but the soil must be breathable - sandy, sandy loam with a mixture of peat or black soil. For the same reason, you should not abuse manure, clay and other floating compounds, as well as use fertilizers that increase acidity. When landing on acidic soils It is mandatory to lim the arable layer within a radius of at least a meter in accordance with the prescribed standards: 0.2-0.5 kg of slaked lime or chalk per square meter. For dolomite flour and ash, doses are increased by 1.5-2 times. During the summer it is necessary to feed the plants 2-3 times liquid fertilizers: precipitated peroxided multi-day solution of manure and ash (separately, preferably alternating). Regular watering of the tree trunk circle is also necessary. The roots of Actinidia kolomikta constantly “crawl out”, striving for air, therefore, as well as to retain moisture, mulching and weed control are required. It is better if the mulch is “inert” (in which there is no nutrients). Don't forget about one more important event. The fact is that kolomikta contains actinidia alkaloid (especially a lot of it in the roots) - the same one that is sufficient in valerian. This smell is not felt by humans, but has a stimulating effect on cats. Nets and other mechanical devices do not help prevent damage to plants. The surest remedy is to distract cats with a strong, persistent, overwhelming odor. And plants will help with this again! On my estate, proven protectors of actinidia for many years have been the sage, spicy rue, and balsam tansy (or balsam feverfew) growing nearby. In autumn and winter, they retain their scent on withered leaves and shoots. I sprinkle the dried leaves of these plants on the tree trunks together with mulch or separately.

Over the 10 years of cultivation of actinidia, I have not noticed any diseases or pests and have not used any “chemistry”.

A young liana, having strengthened its roots within 1-2 years, shoots up sharply, reaching 2 meters in one summer, sometimes more, and in subsequent years it intensively branches and grows, increasing fruiting. Regular pruning of vines is required. I do this twice, in June during green cuttings and in late summer after harvesting the fruits. The main purpose of pruning is to prevent excessive branching and fruiting.

Actinidia does not produce basal shoots; the supporting “backbone” of the plant from the ground throughout its life is one thin bole. You must always remember this and carry out any work extremely carefully so as not to damage the bark. I would even advise mechanically protecting it. You can form the lower part into 2-3 boles, bending the side branches and rooting them.

Pollination of actinidia occurs with the help of insects. For 3-4 female specimens, one male is enough, regardless of the variety. The distance between individual vines should be at least 2 meters.

With proper agricultural technology, all varieties and clones bear fruit well, and every year! The fruits ripen from mid-August to the end of September, depending on the variety. The yield per vine is 5-10 kg. The ripening of the berries is uneven, so they need to be picked several times. Over-ripening is fraught with shedding.

Lack of moisture;

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Why dogwood does not bear fruit The magic of plants

Dogwood is not big bush arnica or a tree whose fruits are drupes, that is, years with seeds (one or two). Very common, both in wild and cultivated forms, having specific taste qualities, allowing you to diversify gastronomy. It is also grown as an ornamental plant, as it has an early flowering period and can decorate a garden, greenhouse, and so on. For all these qualities, dogwood is also loved by amateur gardeners, in whose plots this shrub can be found more and more often. However, many dogwood fans often encounter difficulties - the dogwood does not bear fruit. In this regard, there is a need to consider this question in more detail and find ways to solve it.

Plant variety

Lack of moisture

Soil poverty

Timely vaccination

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The dogwood tree is planted near the border of the site, retreating 3-4 m from it. fertile soils The feeding area of plants should be 6x6 or 5 x 6 m, on poorer ones - 4 x 5 m. With dense plantings, the tree crowns close together by 20-25 years, are poorly lit inside, and the fruits ripen at the same time. The formation of flower buds in dogwood occurs simultaneously with the growth of shoots. The planting of next year's crop begins in May-June, and by the end of the growing season the buds are fully formed.

HOW AND WHEN TO PLANT DOGEL?

To plant dogwood, the soil is prepared in advance, in summer or autumn. It is best to plant it in early spring, in late March - early April, before the buds open. However, under favorable weather conditions it is possible
Plant dogwood in the fall, but no later than mid-October, 2-3 weeks before the onset of frost. Well-watered and hilled plants have time to take root, winter well and immediately begin to grow in early spring. To improve the growth and fruiting of dogwood, organic fertilizers are applied before planting.

cage pits are dug with a diameter of 80-100 cm and a depth of 70-80 cm. Then they are filled with good fertile soil mixed with organic and mineral fertilizers.
Humus and compost are divided into two parts, one part is mixed with the top layer of soil and mineral fertilizers and the hole is filled halfway in the form of a mound. The second part is used to directly cover the roots during planting.
The planted plant is watered at the rate of 30-40 liters per hole and the tree trunk circles are mulched. After planting, the shoots must be trimmed by 1/2-1/3 in order to balance the above-ground and root parts.

FEATURES OF CARE OF DOGINE WOOD IN THE GARDEN AREA

Caring for plants consists of removing weeds, loosening the soil, fertilizing and watering. Dogwood grows very well in slight shade, especially in the first years after planting. It is advisable to fertilize the trunk circles of young trees in autumn or spring with organic matter at the rate of 2-3 kg/m2. Mineral fertilizers are applied as follows: phosphorus (30-35 g/m2) - in autumn, nitrogen (15-20 g/m2) and potassium (10-12 r/m2) - in spring. Annual grafted dogwood seedlings must be mulched with sawdust, peat, humus or mown grass.

Pruning dogwood

Dogwood does not require special pruning for fruiting, but the formation of the crown must be done in the first years. Seedlings are formed with a trunk 50-70 cm high and 5-7 skeletal branches. At the same time, shoots located below the planned height of the trunk are removed. In the future, pruning of fruit-bearing plants comes down to the removal of broken, intertwined skeletal branches and small shoots that thicken the crown. In fruit-bearing plants at the age of 15-20 years, rejuvenating pruning is done, but it must be carried out in early spring (in the conditions of the Kuban - in March, in the south - in February or earlier), before the start of sap flow.

HOW TO PROPAGATE DOGINE AT THE COUNTRY?

An effective way to propagate dogwood is by layering. It consists of stimulating root formation on the stem until it is separated from mother plant. The number of layerings obtained from one plant depends on its age and habit. From one tree you can get 5-8 layerings annually.

WHAT CONDITIONS DO DONGEL NEED?

It is advisable to plant dogwood on light soils. mechanical composition, with good air and water permeability.
Well-warmed and illuminated areas, with a slope of 5-10°, in a southern and southwestern direction, are suitable for this crop.
The groundwater level should be no closer than 1.5-2 m.
Calcium must be present in the soil
To stimulate plant growth and development, as well as other nutrients.
For good cross-pollination of plants, it is better to plant several different varieties, since they bloom at the same time.
So:
At good lighting and moistening, seedlings develop powerful roots.
For better cross-pollination, several trees are planted on the site or another variety is grafted into the crown of the plant.
Dogwood can be propagated by rooting green cuttings.

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Dogwood is a very exciting super intensive crop. Now there is a huge abundance of species that differ in color, size, shape, taste of berries, ripening time, etc. But the main advantage of this crop is its very rapid entry into fruiting. In the first year, the seedling should take root, and the next year it will certainly produce a harvest. Already in the year of planting, you will be able to see with your own eyes the “intention” of your pet to bring the harvest next summer: in August, large rounded flower buds, in appearance reminiscent of the well-known spice cloves, appear on the branches. All dogwood varieties finish forming a flower bud by the time the fruits ripen, so when you collect this year’s crop, you can practically see the next one.

Prerequisites for the absence of flowering and fruiting of dogwood:

You have received an ungrafted dogwood seedling (wild forms);
Lack of water;

With good care, dogwood has no frequency of fruiting, delighting with many fruits once a year. In our criteria, the only limiting factor is the lack of water. By installing drip irrigation, we get a real harvest once a year. Winter frosts, return of cold weather, pests and diseases do not have any noticeable effect on the quality and quantity of fruits.

One-year-olds often already have one or two flower buds (from 20 to 60 buds), and a two-year-old bears tens or even hundreds of them. Grafted seedlings are very noticeably different from seedlings that yield in the 10th-12th year. In order not to hesitate, it is necessary to obtain only varietal planting material from proven nurseries, and then you will not have to wait a long time for the harvest.

A grafted dogwood seedling is the key to a good harvest

Frankly speaking, we have not yet seen grafted dogwood seedlings in the markets. In order to grow a seedling, which we call one-year-old, it is necessary to spend five to seven years; that’s when it bears fruit in the second year after planting and bears large, beautiful and tasty fruits, while different colors, shape and timing of ripening.

The increased demand for seedlings has provoked businessmen to sell anything, and it’s great if they are at least seedlings dug up in the forest; they will still, even after 10 years, bear dogwood fruits, even if they are few in number, small and sour.

With the same success, you can buy a pig, well, and any other forest bush will be slipped to you, as they say, with one left. You need to plant true grafted varietal seedlings next to your “savages”, especially since they do not require a separate place - they, especially in the first years of life, feel even better in the shade of trees. The forest “brothers” will serve as pollinators in the future, and at the same time you will see for yourself and tell people how they differ from each other.

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When does the dogwood bloom?

Common dogwood blooms earlier than other fruit crops. As soon as the wintering onions emerged from the ground, currant and gooseberry buds began to bloom, the trees were still bare, and gardeners were delighted by the lush dogwood inflorescences. The flowers appear before the leaves and fall off as they begin to bloom.

Video: dogwood from bud break to harvest

The favorable temperature for flowering is 8-12 °C; in each region it is set at its own time. Thus, the average daily temperature of +10 °C in the Krasnodar region is observed in March, and in the Rostov region - in early April. In central Russia, dogwood blooms in mid-late April, and in the northern regions and Siberia - in late April - early May. Flowering lasts from one week to three, depending on the variety, and is almost always subject to return frosts. However, some species bloom in summer and again in autumn, for example, White Dogwood.

How dogwood blooms

The second name for the common dogwood is male dogwood.

Photo gallery: blooming dogwood

Is it possible to replant dogwood during flowering?

Even at the age of 7–15 years, dogwood easily tolerates transplantation and quickly restores fruiting. But first, the plant undergoes anti-aging pruning to balance the volumes of the above-ground parts and roots. The good survival rate is explained by the superficial location of the roots; they are easy to dig out without damaging them. Despite this, the best time for transplantation is autumn, a month before frost, and a short period in spring, before buds open. However, if there is an urgent need to replant a flowering dogwood, then dig up and move the plant with a clod of earth.

The main part of the dogwood roots is located in the upper 40 cm, so the plant needs to be watered regularly in the summer, and the tree trunk circle needs to be covered with mulch in the winter.

Dogwood seedlings obtained by vegetative propagation (root suckers, layering, grafting) bloom in the second year, so they often go on sale with open buds. Usually there are only a few of them. For better survival, it is recommended to remove them before planting.

Video: features of planting and growing dogwood

Why does dogwood bloom but not bear fruit?

It happens that after abundant flowering, the dogwood does not bear berries. There are several reasons for this:

There is no cross-pollination: although the flowers are bisexual, pollination occurs between several bushes. It is advisable to have different varieties of dogwood on the site.
Unsuitable soil: clayey, airtight, deficient in phosphorus and potassium.
Insufficient watering: dogwood roots are not able to extract moisture from the depths. In the absence of rain, it is necessary to water once a week, otherwise the plant simply will not have enough moisture to bear fruit, and the flowers will fall off.
Heavy rains during flowering wash away pollen, and pollinating insects cannot fly in such weather.
Return frosts: In some years, spring frosts exceed the frost resistance threshold. The dogwood continues to bloom, but the pistils and stamens are damaged, and the ovaries do not form. This can explain the situation when last year the dogwood blossomed and bore fruit, but this year there is not a single berry or there are few of them.
Unscrupulous seller: in response to increasing demand, some traders sell ungrafted seedlings, that is, wild forms of dogwood. An ungrafted plant has smooth bark, without scars or thickenings. The graft is usually located at the bottom of the trunk, often the color of the bark in this place is a different shade. Another difference is that wild dogwood blooms very profusely, while on cultivated plants there are several times fewer buds and they are larger.

Dogwood is a long-liver, growing and bearing fruit for up to 250 years. Seedlings grown from seeds bear the first berries only after 8–10 years.

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Reasons for the lack of flowering and fruiting of dogwood:

You purchased an ungrafted dogwood seedling (wild forms);
Lack of moisture;

With good care, dogwood has no frequency of fruiting, delighting with an abundance of fruits every year. By installing drip irrigation, we get a full harvest every year. Winter frosts, return of cold weather, pests and diseases do not have any noticeable effect on the quality and quantity of fruits.

One-year-olds often already have one or two flower buds (from 20 to 60 buds), and two-year-olds carry dozens or even hundreds of them. Grafted seedlings are very noticeably different from seedlings that produce crops in the 10th-12th year. To be sure, you only need to purchase varietal planting material from trusted nurseries, then you won’t have to wait long for the harvest.

Grafted dogwood seedling is the key to a good harvest

Frankly speaking, I have not yet seen grafted dogwood seedlings on the markets. In order to grow a seedling, which we call an annual one, you need to spend five to seven years, then it bears fruit in the second year after planting and bears large, beautiful and tasty fruits, and of different colors, shapes and ripening periods.

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Measures to combat bud mite on currants

Black currants grow and bear fruit in every summer cottage. Her beneficial features undeniable. But, like other garden crops, it is susceptible to damage by various pests, including the currant bud mite. This article describes various ways to protect the berry plant from pest attack and measures to combat it.

Currant bud mite

The currant bud mite is a four-legged mite. It is extremely difficult to see them due to their microscopic size. The external dimensions of adult female kidney mites are 0.2 mm, and males are even smaller. The body of the currant bud mite is white, worm-shaped, elongated and round, with 4 legs. The legs are made up of segments, hence the name arthropods. Using piercing-sucking mouthparts, mites suck out the sap of plants, dooming them to death.

A currant bud affected by the currant bud mite, in section. © Otokkatieto

Development cycle of currant bud mite

Fertilized female currant bud mites overwinter in the buds. A closed shelter protects them from winter frosts and other weather disasters.

In the spring, when the air warms up to +5°C, female currant bud mites begin to intensively lay eggs. One female is capable of laying about 8,000 eggs. One bud can contain 3-8 thousand individuals at the same time, causing the bud to swell and become like a miniature pea. In cross-section, such a pea resembles a bursting head of cabbage.

The intraovular development of the currant bud mite larva lasts about 6-12 days. Gluttonous young individuals, through tears in the “head” during the bud opening period, penetrate into healthy buds and begin to feed. By sucking out the juice of young shoots, flower and vegetative buds, they lead to the death of plant organs that have not yet developed. The migration of young females and larvae of the currant bud mite lasts about a month, coinciding with the beginning and mass flowering. During this period they can be seen with the naked eye. The horde of voracious pests is carried by wind, clothing, and rain to other bushes.

How dangerous is the currant bud mite?

Based on the level of harmfulness, the currant bud mite belongs to the group of very dangerous pests of garden and berry fruit crops. In one year, 1 female currant bud mite gives 5 generations (2 spring and 3 summer-autumn), which is about 15-40 thousand pests. In the process of development, currant bud mites have adapted to endure climatic disasters in protected conditions (buds, shoots, galls, etc.), which complicates the fight against these pests. The developed adaptability is so reliable that if drastic protective measures are not taken, the berry plant (black, red, white currant and gooseberries) can die in one season.

Signs of damage by currant bud mite

The currant bud mite mainly affects the buds of the plant. By autumn, deformed, damaged buds increase in size and begin to external form different from healthy people.

On currant bushes affected by currant bud mite in autumn After the leaves fall, two types of buds are clearly distinguished:

Healthy buds, normally developed flower buds, rounded elongated and elongated leaves, covered with outer dense scales.

Patients are swollen, round, resembling a tousled miniature head of cabbage. They are swollen with a huge number of overwintering mature female mites, which, with the onset warm weather ready to breed.

During the spring-summer period:

The change in shape, size and color of leaves on the tops of young shoots is alarming.
The leaf blade becomes rough, leathery to the touch, light in color, and may be deformed.
The shoot stops developing. Witches' brooms appear on the stems. This is a viral infection of plants, the carriers of which, along with other pests, are bud mites. They are carriers of viral diseases such as leaf reversal and double flower disease. There is no treatment. Diseased plants are destroyed.

Measures to combat currant bud mite

It is very difficult to fight the currant bud mite, which spends almost its entire life inside the bud. Maximum amount vulnerable larvae could be killed by treating them with pesticides upon relocation. But, given the period of relocation (budding and flowering), treatments are strictly prohibited, since at this moment pollination is taking place beneficial insects(bees, bumblebees). Therefore, currant bud mites are classified as special dangerous pests. Methods of active destruction of the currant bud mite are carried out in the period before flowering and after harvesting.

All types of control of currant bud mite on currants can be divided into:

preventive;
agrotechnical;
chemical;
biological;
folk

A currant bush affected by the currant bud mite. © sumiagro

Prevention against tick-borne infestation

Preventive measures against currant bud mite include:

maintaining the site without weeds;
cleaning the berry garden from leaf litter;
mandatory sanitary pruning in autumn and spring;
propagation only with healthy planting material.

Agrotechnical measures

Timely watering, fertilizing and treating plants, which will increase the plants’ immunity to the damaging effects of pests.

For planting and propagation, use only zoned, pest-resistant varieties.

It is very important that the planting material is not affected by the pest. To prevent infection, you can completely immerse a seedling or rooted cutting for 18-20 hours in a working solution prepared from agrovertin (10 g) and colloidal sulfur (40 g) in 10 liters of water.

Before planting, seedlings and rooted shoots can be kept in hot water(+40..+45°C no more) for 15 minutes;

The larvae of currant bud mites do not tolerate high humidity air. You can take advantage of this property and, during the first migration of hatched larvae (the first spring generation), drain the berry garden.

Every year, in early spring (early March), treat the dormant buds of black, red and white currant bushes (currants only) with fire.

Performing the procedure: After sanitary and thinning pruning of currant bushes, using a blowtorch fire or gas burner at a distance of 8-10 cm, move along the branches 2-3 times from top to bottom, without stopping, so as not to burn the branches. Heating by fire will kill aphids and most bud mites without damaging the plant. Fire will not damage healthy buds covered with dense upper scales. Diseased buds are loose, the cover is torn by overpopulation of the bud by pests that lay eggs of future offspring. They are very vulnerable during this period and the fire (high temperature) burns and causes the death of unwanted “tenants”. Of course, not all females die with this method, but their activity decreases sharply.

During the same period, instead of fire treatment, you can “bathe” the currant bushes with a hot shower, spending 1.0-1.2 buckets of water on a large bush.

Carrying out the procedure: To process the bushes, it is more convenient to use a watering can with a sprinkler. Pour boiling water into a container. Above the bush, from a height of approximately 15-20 cm, we wash the bush. At low air temperatures, hot boiling water, when filling the waterer and until the water reaches the bush, will cool to +60..+70°C. This temperature will not damage the plant, but will destroy some pests (the principle of action is the same as during fire treatment) and fungal infections.

Physical destruction of currant bud mite

At spring pruning It is necessary to carefully examine each currant branch. If there are 1-2 swollen buds on a branch, they are torn off and placed in a bag, which is then burned. If the number of swollen buds is 4-6 pieces, and they are scattered throughout the branch, it must be cut off and burned. Such physical destruction of the currant bud mite is effective, especially if this procedure is performed annually in spring and autumn.

The use of chemicals and other drugs to destroy the currant bud mite

The following methods for exterminating the currant bud mite are not safe for the owner, his family, pets and birds. Therefore, before starting to use pesticides to kill ticks, it is necessary to carefully prepare, study the action and aftereffects of the chemical, its effectiveness, repeated use and technical recommendations execution.

Frequency of treatments

If the instructions for use of the drug are violated, its effectiveness can be reduced to zero.

The development cycle of the currant bud mite depends on external temperatures. The first active development of currant bud mite larvae begins at an air temperature of +10..+12°C, but their emergence and migration may occur after 25 days, until the air warms up to +18°C. The higher the air temperature rises, the shorter the period of development from the egg of a carnivorous larva, which will infect new buds on the native and neighboring bushes (Table 1).

Table 1. Treatment intervals with drugs against currant bud mite

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Dogwood- a shrub from the Dogwood family of plants. It looks very interesting on the site, and is especially bright when it begins to bloom. Translated from Turkic, the name “dogwood” corresponds to the flower of the tree’s fruit – “red”. Dogwood was grown in Asian countries - China and Japan - but then successfully migrated to Eastern and Southern Europe, and America.

Common dogwood

The common dogwood tree – another name for “male” – reaches 2.5 meters in height. Builds up leaf mass with dark green leaves, bright red shoots and milky inflorescences. It is quite possible to grow it and how ornamental plant, and as a source of healthy fruits.

Pros of keeping dogwood: the tree takes root quickly, has an elongated shape, so it’s easy to care for the crown. The plant is quite frost-resistant and can survive in conditions down to -15 or -20 degrees, but if the air temperature drops below -30 degrees, the ends of the shoots begin to freeze and the vitality of the dogwood is lost. The shrub also holds the record for life expectancy - more than a hundred years!

Cons of keeping dogwood: It’s hard to find obvious disadvantages of keeping dogwood - the shrub is too good - but the disadvantages most likely lie in the planting. Dogwood is recommended to be planted in autumn. spring planting carried out only if spring in the region is early, so the soil has time to warm up. The soil for planting can be any, but in acidic soils it can grow, but often more so. It is also worth noting that dogwood is a paired plant. It is imperative to plant a second one five meters from one bush, otherwise it will not bloom.

The reason for the lack of fruiting when the dogwood is in excellent flowering may lie in two different problems:

Lack of moisture in soil mixture, accordingly, incorrect care;
The wild form of dogwood, that is, an ungrafted seedling;

Ungrafted dogwood seedlings do not take root well, so beginners in gardening should definitely not purchase them, otherwise the reason why the dogwood blossoms but does not bear fruit will not be immediately revealed.

How to distinguish grafted seedlings? Firstly, when purchasing, attention is paid only to planting material belonging to a specific variety, and, secondly, they have from 20 to 60 buds and no more, while wild ones have more than a hundred and their peak yield falls on 10 th year of life.

Insufficient watering has a bad effect on dogwood fruiting due to the fact that the bush loves constant moisture. If all conditions for the development of the plant are met, then it can bear fruit continuously. How to achieve active fruiting in dogwood and carry out constant watering? There is a solution: drip system Watering will not only increase the number of fruits in the dogwood, but will also solve the problem with the energy- and time-consuming process of care.

If you notice that the dogwood blossoms, but does not bear fruit for some reason, immediately rule out frostbite or pests and diseases, since they do not have such a strong influence as the choice of variety and subsequent care, namely watering, on the fruiting of the dogwood on the site.

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The main causes of dogwood non-fruiting and ways to eliminate them

Plant variety

As a rule, this is the main reason, since dogwood almost never bears fruit in the first years of life and this fact must be taken into account. For example, if you plant a “wild” plant, the gardener will wait for the first fruits no earlier than the seventh, and sometimes even the tenth, year of the plant’s life. Many cultivated varieties tend to bear fruit at an earlier period, the average of which is 3-5 years. But today there are cultivated varieties of dogwood (for example, mosvir and exotic), which give their tasty and healthy berries to people within 2 years. Thus, in order to collect an early harvest, you need to know the variety and its characteristics and give preference to cultivated varieties.

Lack of moisture

Generally unpretentious temperature conditions dogwood (tolerates well and cold winter, and hot summers), it nevertheless reacts to insufficient watering with the absence of a harvest or its scarcity. Moisture should be stable to avoid drying out of the soil near the plant. The solution to this problem, especially during dry periods, is to use a drip irrigation system.

Soil poverty

Dogwood can grow on almost any soil, but in order to achieve stable and rich fruiting, it is important to timely feeding plants. In the spring, nitrogen and phosphorus-containing fertilizers are applied under the tree, and potassium is applied in August and September. As the latter, you can successfully use wood ash. In addition, regardless of the season, you can apply universal complex fertilizers, including organic ones (manure, etc.) in moderate quantities.

Timely vaccination

Even highly cultivated selective dogwood varieties begin to run wild over time, bringing increasingly meager and unstable harvests. In this regard, the tree needs to be grafted at least once every 10-15 years. The procedure is preferably carried out in late August-early September.

When does the dogwood bloom?

Video: dogwood from bud break to harvest

Large flower buds are formed already in August; in spring, flowers tolerate frosts down to -7 °C

How dogwood blooms

The second name for the common dogwood is male dogwood.

Photo gallery: blooming dogwood

The flowers of the common dogwood are yellow in color. The Florida dogwood has soft pink flowers. The white dogwood has not only flowers, but also white fruits. The flowers of the Canadian dogwood are single, white-green.

Is it possible to replant dogwood during flowering?

Even at the age of 7–15 years, dogwood easily tolerates transplantation and quickly restores fruiting. But first, the plant undergoes anti-aging pruning to balance the volumes of the above-ground parts and roots. The good survival rate is explained by the superficial location of the roots; they are easy to dig out without damaging them. Despite this, the best time for transplantation is autumn, a month before frost, and a short period in spring, before buds open. However, if there is an urgent need to replant a flowering dogwood, then dig up and move the plant with a clod of earth.

Dogwood seedlings with a closed root system take root faster and grow

The main part of the dogwood roots is located in the upper 40 cm, so the plant needs to be watered regularly in the summer, and the tree trunk circle needs to be covered with mulch in the winter.

Video: features of planting and growing dogwood

Why does dogwood bloom but not bear fruit?

It happens that after abundant flowering, the dogwood does not bear berries. There are several reasons for this:

There is no cross-pollination: although the flowers are bisexual, pollination occurs between several bushes. It is advisable to have different varieties of dogwood on the site.
Unsuitable soil: clayey, airtight, deficient in phosphorus and potassium.
Insufficient watering: dogwood roots are not able to extract moisture from the depths. In the absence of rain, it is necessary to water once a week, otherwise the plant simply will not have enough moisture to bear fruit, and the flowers will fall off.
Heavy rains during flowering wash away pollen, and pollinating insects cannot fly in such weather.
Return frosts: In some years, spring frosts exceed the frost resistance threshold. The dogwood continues to bloom, but the pistils and stamens are damaged, and the ovaries do not form. This can explain the situation when last year the dogwood blossomed and bore fruit, but this year there is not a single berry or there are few of them.
Unscrupulous seller: in response to increasing demand, some traders sell ungrafted seedlings, that is, wild forms of dogwood. An ungrafted plant has smooth bark, without scars or thickenings. The graft is usually located at the bottom of the trunk, often the color of the bark in this place is a different shade. Another difference is that wild dogwood blooms very profusely, while on cultivated plants there are several times fewer buds and they are larger.

A young dogwood bears up to 10 kg of berries, and at the age of 15 years - up to 30 kg

Dogwood is a long-liver, growing and bearing fruit for up to 250 years. Seedlings grown from seeds bear the first berries only after 8–10 years.

Prerequisites for the absence of flowering and fruiting of dogwood:

You have received an ungrafted dogwood seedling (wild forms);
Lack of water;

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With good care, dogwood has no frequency of fruiting, delighting with an abundance of fruits every year. In our conditions, the only limiting factor is the lack of moisture. By installing drip irrigation, we get a full harvest every year. Winter frosts, return of cold weather, pests and diseases do not have any noticeable effect on the quality and quantity of fruits.

One-year-olds often already have one or two flower buds (from 20 to 60 buds), and two-year-olds bear dozens and even hundreds of them. Grafted seedlings are very noticeably different from seedlings that produce a harvest in the 10-12th year. To be sure, you only need to purchase varietal planting material from trusted nurseries, then you won’t have to wait long for the harvest.

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10 little-known facts about dogwood

The berries take quite a long time to ripen – 2-3 months. It's better to plant early varieties.

The root system of dogwood is powerful, but shallow. Can be grown in containers.
Dogwood seedlings are not picky about soil quality - they grow in poor, rocky areas with a shallow layer of soil.
In nature, dogwood grows on mountain slopes and in gorges. That is why swampy and acidic soils are taboo for dogwood. In such conditions, it develops poorly and practically does not bear fruit.
The dogwood tree is a long-liver - it grows and constantly bears fruit for up to 300 years.
Flower buds and blossoming dogwood flowers are not at all afraid of early spring frosts. Dogwood blooms very early.
The plant can withstand frosts down to -30 without additional shelter.
This crop needs cross-pollination - you need to plant another dogwood nearby, preferably a different variety.
Easily tolerates drought, sudden temperature changes, and dry winds. But it does not like even short-term flooding and the location of groundwater close to the roots.
Dogwood needs 25 square meters of feeding area. The distance to neighboring trees should be at least 5 meters.

For the first three years, a dogwood seedling must be kept in “Spartan” conditions, that is, care should be minimal. During the juvenile period ( first 3 years of life) the plant is adjusted to specific growth settings that will be perceived as normal and optimal.

If in the first years the seedling received high-quality care, and then for some reason the amount of nutrients decreased sharply, the dogwood receives severe stress, ceases to bear fruit and may even die.

Dogwood will bear fruit well if, from the 4th year of life, the conditions for growing the seedling change in better side: will appear more fertilizer, moisture and heat, illumination will improve, pruning and treatment against diseases will become better.

Therefore, a dogwood seedling Should NOT be planted in highly fertile soil and add plenty of fertilizers landing hole.

Choosing the ideal dogwood seedling

The ideal planting material is an annual large-fruited variety. The younger the plant, the better it adapts to the characteristics of the site: soil composition, lighting, neighboring plants, climate. Choose dogwood seedlings from local garden nurseries. They are already adapted to local growing conditions.

Seedlings with a closed root system take root best ( in containers). For normal life, a dogwood tree requires special microflora on the root system.

It is formed in the first year of life in a nursery. If the earthen lump with beneficial bacteria separate, the dogwood will freeze in one place for several years.

Planting dogwood

As mentioned above, the dogwood seedling does NOT need to create good conditions for growth at first. Therefore, planting dogwood is extremely simple: neither organic nor mineral fertilizers are added to the planting hole.

The nearest tree and fence must be at least 4 meters away. Dogwood lives for a very long time and grows greatly. And in the shade and dense plantings it bears fruit poorly.
Dig a hole measuring 80x80x80. Throw the top layer of soil to one side, and the bottom layer separately.
Place 10 cm of crushed stone or expanded clay on the bottom.
Fill the hole with fertile soil from the top layer of soil.
While preserving the earthen lump as much as possible, place the dogwood seedling and cover it with soil.
Then water generously.
The root collar should be at ground level. Burying the seedling is not allowed.
Cut all branches by 1/3. If the seedling has no side branches, cut it at a height of 50-60 cm from the ground to form the height of the trunk.

When to plant

It all depends on the climate. In the southern regions, it is better to plant dogwood in the fall until mid-September. The seedling will have another 2 months before the onset of persistent cold weather to restore root system and “grab” the ground.

In the northern regions, where winter comes early, planting dogwood is recommended in the spring before the buds open. The dogwood garden is planted according to a 5x5 meter pattern. You will need 400 seedlings per hectare of area.

Dogwood care

In the first 2 years, caring for dogwood is simple: the seedlings are regularly watered and the tree trunk area is mulched with hay or sawdust.

Preferably do not allow drying out earthen coma. The bulk of the roots are located at a depth of up to 40 cm. In hot summers, the roots quickly dry out and overheat. Therefore, you can’t do without mulch.

Important: dogwood cannot be mulched with manure or humus. It’s better to just sprinkle the tree trunk circle with light sand. Regular watering increase the size of the berries.

If dogwood care was organized correctly, then in the first growing season a healthy, well-groomed dogwood seedling will will give 30-40 cm of growth.

In subsequent years, with the development of a powerful root system, the aboveground part. Growth is 90-130 cm.

Unlike natural conditions, grafted dogwood does not grow as a bush. It is easy to form a compact tree in a summer cottage.

After planting dogwood cut at a height of 50-60 cm. This will be the height of the trunk in the future. Until the age of seven, the dogwood produces wild root shoots, which needs to be deleted. If you leave it, the graft will die off after a while.

How to feed dogwood

Spring feeding dogwood planting consists of applying complex fertilizer before flowering and watering with an infusion of organic matter while setting and filling the berries.

After harvest you also need to water it with a solution of complex mineral fertilizer for fruit crops (2-3 buckets per tree).

Dogwood subcortex after harvesting is accompanied by abundant watering and mulching the tree trunk circle.

Feed dogwood in the fall follows organic matter and phosphorus. No nitrogen is added. In autumn, humus (2 kg per square meter) and superphosphate at the rate of 30 grams per m2 are buried in the tree trunk circle.

How to prune dogwood

No special pruning required. Let us remind you that dogwood blooms very early, one of the first in the garden. Therefore, spring sanitary pruning of dogwood is carried out at the end of winter, before his kidneys wake up.

Remove branches that thicken and grow inward into the crown. Dry, intertwined, diseased and broken branches are also cut out.

It is important to shape the tree in such a way that the middle of the crown is well illuminated by the sun. A sufficient amount of sun rays significantly increases productivity. Form a V-shaped or candelabra-shaped palmette on a 50-60 cm stem.

Dogwood will look very decorative and will decorate the garden. It is actively used in landscape design.

In the future, when caring for dogwood, you need to regularly remove wild growth from the rootstock. Dogwood propagates by seeds, layering, cuttings and grafting.

Anti-aging pruning of dogwood is carried out at the age of 15-20 years, when annual growth weakens.

Pests and diseases

Dogwood is extremely rarely affected by pests and diseases. At severe frosts(below -30 C) flower buds are damaged. IN summer heat leaves may dry out.

It is important to constantly water the bush, and shade young plants if possible. You can plant sunflowers and a high variety of chrysanthemum next to the dogwood seedling. They will protect the fragile dogwood from the scorching sun.

Harvesting

Dogwood berries ripen unevenly over several weeks. Very ripe berries fall off on their own. You can manually remove slightly unripe fruits; in a few days they will reach ripeness.

The yield from a 10-year-old dogwood ranges from 10 to 25 kg, from a 20-year-old dogwood - from 40 to 60 kg, and from a 40-year-old dogwood you can get more than 100 kg of berries.

Dogwood varieties

Currently, several dozen varieties of dogwood have been bred. different terms ripening with pink, yellow and red fruits.

Elena, Elegant– early, red-fruited varieties. The berries begin to ripen in early August.

The Elena variety is vigorous, the fruits are sweet, but do not last long in the refrigerator.

The Elegant variety has the advantage that the berries do not fall off and hang on the tree for a long time. But they don’t wither, they begin to rot. Therefore, you should not delay harvesting.

Starokievsky, Lukyanovsky, Evgenia, Vydubetsky– average ripening period (mid-August).

These varieties are large-fruited, the berries are beautiful red, do not fall off, and bear fruit consistently and generously.

Vladimirsky, Firefly, Semyon– late. The berries ripen in late August-September.

Vladimirsky and Semyon are large, drought- and frost-resistant. The fruits can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 4 weeks.

The berries of the Firefly variety ripen at the same time and do not fall off. The variety responds very well to fertilization and correct pruning– the fruits become very large and sweet.

Coral- pink-orange fruits. The variety belongs to the mid-late variety. Especially good for jam.

Amber– the only variety with yellow berries. Late. Ripe fruits fall off, so harvesting is carried out until the berries are fully ripe. Dogwood of the Yantarny variety makes very tasty and original-colored jams and jelly.

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Reasons for the lack of flowering and fruiting of dogwood:

You purchased an ungrafted dogwood seedling (wild forms);
Lack of moisture;

One-year-olds often already have one or two flower buds (from 20 to 60 buds), and two-year-olds carry dozens or even hundreds of them. Grafted seedlings are very noticeably different from seedlings that produce crops in the 10th-12th year. To be sure, you only need to purchase varietal planting material from trusted nurseries, then you won’t have to wait long for the harvest.

Grafted dogwood seedling is the key to a good harvest

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The main causes of dogwood non-fruiting and ways to eliminate them

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Lack of moisture

In general, dogwood is unpretentious to temperature conditions (it tolerates both cold winters and hot summers well), it nevertheless reacts to insufficient watering with a lack of harvest or its scarcity. Moisture should be stable to avoid drying out of the soil near the plant. The solution to this problem, especially during dry periods, is to use a drip irrigation system.

Soil poverty

Dogwood can grow on almost any soil, but in order to achieve stable and rich fruiting, it is important to timely feed the plant. In the spring, nitrogen and phosphorus-containing fertilizers are applied under the tree, and potassium is applied in August and September. As the latter, you can successfully use wood ash. In addition, regardless of the season, you can apply universal complex fertilizers, including organic ones (manure, etc.) in moderate quantities.

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Common dogwood

The common dogwood tree – another name for “male” – reaches 2.5 meters in height. Builds up leaf mass with dark green leaves, bright red shoots and milky inflorescences. It can be grown both as an ornamental plant and as a source of healthy fruits.

Cons of keeping dogwood: It’s hard to find obvious disadvantages of keeping dogwood - the shrub is too good - but the disadvantages most likely lie in the planting. Dogwood is recommended to be planted in autumn. Spring planting is carried out only if spring in the region is early, so the soil has time to warm up. The soil for planting can be any, but in acidic soils it can grow, but often more so. It is also worth noting that dogwood is a paired plant. It is imperative to plant a second one five meters from one bush, otherwise it will not bloom.

The reason for the lack of fruiting when the dogwood is in excellent flowering may lie in two different problems:

Lack of moisture in the soil mixture, respectively, incorrect care;
The wild form of dogwood, that is, an ungrafted seedling;

Insufficient watering has a bad effect on dogwood fruiting due to the fact that the bush loves constant moisture. If all conditions for the development of the plant are met, then it can bear fruit continuously. How to achieve active fruiting in dogwood and carry out constant watering? There is a solution: a drip irrigation system will not only increase the number of dogwood fruits, but will also solve the problem with the energy- and time-consuming process of care.