Dates: growing up in the home of the Bone

How to create a dream holiday mood at any time of the year? Hang out in the room a bright picture, fill it with summer scents, add all that recalls the sea and... acquire its own palm tree. What you need to grow a date palm at home?

1. Select the nearest market quality date palm fruit, not spoiled and not subjected to special treatment.

2. Bone (and preferably several, something that can not germinate) clear from the pulp, which can cause bone lesions mold or simply slow the emergence and growth of trees.

3. Hold the seeds in hot water for 10 minutes to treat them either sandpaper. This will allow you to see the first stirrings of a few weeks rather than six months later.

4. Future trees put in cold water for 3 days, changing it often.

5. Mix in the same amount of peat, sawdust and sand. Bone can grow both vertically and horizontally - in a single plant per pot in different ways, top soil and sprinkle pour.

Ideal for them will be a place with a temperature of 30-35 degrees - for example, near a heater.

6. Be patient and wait for the first seedling. Once proklyunetsya sprout, place it in a very bright place no lower than 25 degrees.

7. When revealed the first sheet, the plant must be transplanted into a pot of 15 cm depth, the bottom of which must be drainage.

8. Watering is carried out in summer from 3 times a week in the winter - not more than 2, a clean, soft and warm water.

9. In winter the temperature can be reduced (but not less than 16 degrees) to a tree slowed metabolism and do not suffer from a shortage of light.

10. Transplanted to a more voluminous pot need: a small tree - a year older than 5 years - every 2-3 years. A decade and a palm tree over just enough to fill up on top of the new soil.

If the young plants transplant you will touch the root, it dies.

Older trees can be saved by cutting off a part of their leaves (to the remaining roots have not experienced a big load).

11. As a way to protect against pests in the indoor environment can be carried out with a solution of soap cleansing leaves once per month. It should not allow the solution to reach the ground.

12. If a palm tree stood in the growth, may deal in low ambient temperature or increased the acidity of the ground (can occur when watering hard water).

Transplant tree in the ground with a neutral pH and place in a warm place.