How to grow a large date palm from a small bone

Several years ago, I learned that it is possible to grow the palm of the bones from the usual dates, purchased in the store, and the idea caught fire. If you want to supplement their collection of plants, happy to share their experiences, and at the end of the article will tell you about a mistake that cost me a few shoots.

Let the cultivation of palm trees from a stone takes time, but you will get a strong and healthy plant that will be familiar from birth to in your home environment.

Selection and preparation of the bone

About his experience with the readers shared channel Dean - subscribers will Voronezh, a lover of indoor plants and the owner of the home of palm trees grown personally

I bought figs on the market in the department of dried fruits. Try to find a fresh, even ascend and cured, if they do not pass through the heat treatment. Dates can be purchased in different places and put a few seeds of each species.

Examine the results - Choose the most beautiful, intact, with no trace of mold and rot. Clean from the pulp, rinse with warm water. You can gently rub them with a brush to clean off the surface with all superfluous. Before planting, soak the stone in warm water for a few days, but do not forget to change it regularly.

Landing

You can use a special ready-mix for palms, or do it yourself:

• Mix one part of the sheet and turf ground with clay;
• add one part compost;
• Stir in 1/2 of the river sand and peat, and in the end - a handful of ashes.

find the right capacity. The root of the palm from the rod-shaped, so that the width of the pot is unimportant, but the height is important. Ideal half-liter plastic cups - containers easy to cut and transfer method to transplant the plant without disturbing the root system.

At the bottom of the container layer sprinkle drainage (Expanded clay, gravel), then fill soil and make it a hole depth of 4-6 cm. Bone put horizontally, the longitudinal seam down. From then it will root. Sprinkle with the ground, sprinkle, cover with foil and put in the battery. Daily ventilate the soil and make sure that it does not dry up. As soon as the first shoots seem, move to the window and remove the film.

Care

Palms need a lot of sunlight, so choose for her a suitable place - east or south window, protected from drafts. Periodically turn the pot to the plant grows straight and strong, do not deviate.

In the summer the plant watered every 2-3 days, and in winter - as drying topsoil. To help move the palm of the heat, periodically organize her shower: close the primer film and send warm jets of water on the leaves.

Feeding - acceleration of growth

Feeding - mineral and organic - makes twice a month in the summer, every 30 days in winter. You can take a ready-made, but with them I used to do on their own from:

• ash. Dissolved in 1 liter of water 1 tbsp. l. I use the ash in the period from April to September, when the palm tree is actively growing.
• starch. Sometimes, instead of ash fertilize with water remaining on the potato cooking (of course, one must first cool fluid).
• yeast. 10 g liter stirred with warm water and add art. l. sugar insist couple of hours, and then breed with water in a proportion of 1 to 5 and water the plant, if it appears weakened.
• onion peel. To prepare the spray broth on this recipe - per liter of water 25 g of husk of precipitating, put on fire pot after boiling and boil for 10 minutes. Just a few hours insist, then strain and use.

My mistake

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I put all the bones in the container, and a little bit delayed with change. As a result of the roots grown palmochek intertwined, and unravel them was difficult. Several seedling root system is damaged, they did not survive the transplant.

It is better to put the bones in the cups - in this way I grew Canarian date, and its transfer took place without problems. If you like homemade palm trees and the article was of interest to you, please rate it "Thumbs up". Thanks! Read more: How to make the orchid bloom. simple ways