How to grow fruiting lemon and tangerine from a stone
As it turns out, there is nothing easier than to grow citrus from seeds. Just have to buy in the store ripe favorite fruit, and follow the instructions:
- Cut into slices and select seeds.
- Without washing or slicing, dry air a couple of hours and the "stick" the seeds in the soil to a depth of 1-1.5 cm.
- Drizzle the ground.
- Make sure that the pre-emergence seedling ground was constantly wet.
After 3-4 weeks, will be the seedling. When it will be a month after germination, it must be transplanted in a separate container of small size (for example, a plastic cup). Further, once on the surface of the pot seem roots, tree stands transplanted into capacity increase diameter of 2-3 cm from the previous one, since the balance between the amount of soil and the volume of the root system very important. Such transplants in the first year will be 2-3. Old citrus transplanted every 5-6 years.
Methods of grafting lemons and mandarins
transplant rules:
- On the bottom of the pot is placed keramzit - 2 cm.
- Acquire "ground citrus" own or mixed primer 2 parts universal pochvosmesi, 1 part peat and 1 part sand.
- Rolled over with a clod of earth, holding the inner barrel between his fingers. All the soil from the roots can not shake off. Shake only one that is easily eliminated.
- Place the plant with a clod of earth at the center of a new tank and fill up around fresh soil.
- Trumbo and fill up on top of the soil.
- Water the plant.
Place "habitat" is selected out of direct sunlight, as recently handled tree can get a sunburn.
When waiting for the fruits of
Tsitrusovody grown from seed stock only (ie, Stalks, which are grafted branches of the crop plants), because the fruits appear on this plant by 20 years in the branches of the 5th and 6th order. If for 1.5 years to grow rootstock and instill cultural kidney fruits appear in 1.5 years. Total period of growing up to be the first fruits of 3 years.
Vaccination in the splitting
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There are 2 ways to vaccination: in splitting and budding. Vaccination in the splitting - a simple exercise without damaging the bark of the rootstock.
Methods of inoculation:
- Rub and cut the rootstock (something that is grafted) at a height of 10-15 cm.
- Stationary blade or surgical blade, treated with alcohol, cut straight flat inner barrel cut to a depth of 1.5 cm.
- Cut off a small twig from the cultivated plant (or buy in Flower Center) - this will be vaccinated. The thickness must be the same.
- Remove the excess leaves from the scion, leaving only half of one sheet.
- Cut off the crust on both sides of the scion, without touching the fingers as fat trace prevents coalescing.
- Insert the scion into the rootstock and wrapped with electrical tape.
- The upper part of the stock (which has been cut) are coated with a garden pitch.
- Grafted plant transparent cover half sack or plastic bottle without the lid to retard evaporation process.
- During the decade of the remaining half of the leaf will turn yellow and will disappear - it means that everything has turned out.
Different varieties of lemons ripen 6-9 months, tangerines - bloom in the spring and mature by the end of December.
When the first Lemons should be left on the tree a few pieces of fruit rate of 1 to 15 leaves. Otherwise, a lemon tree to spend too much energy on growing and ripening of crops and may die. If the article has you curious, please put "Thumbs up!" thanks. Read more: For a better window to put the geraniums, orchids, violets and Spathiphyllum