mini herb garden - coffee
Real coffee tree in the house - it is not exotic. Many, many growers dare to grow this amazing plant with extremely fragrant flowers. Not only is the coffee tree just magically blooms, it also breeds, giving even a little, but the real harvest coffee. True, not all types of coffee and all kinds of coffee trees can be grown indoors. So that your tree is not grown in this giant, taking half of the apartment (and throw something bad!), Let's find out how to grow a coffee tree, and how much effort and knowledge on your part that require a botanical experiment.
Miracle tree
In the wild coffee trees - more shrubs or trees, reaching heights of up to eight meters and has about a hundred species. Wild Coffee lives in tropical Africa, the Mascarene Islands and Madagascar. Its flowers are very similar to jasmine flowers (but much larger) and have at least a pleasant aroma. Coffee fruits are decorative as much as its flowers, they resemble red or blue-black cherries slightly elongated shape. This plant is cultivated (in order to obtain grains) in tropical America, Africa and Asia.
At room conditions coffee tree can grow up to 5.4 meters (so far as the ceiling height). However, it is so intense growth can be managed by cutting to the required size and restraining insatiable desire for heaven. In addition, for indoor flower already derive special dwarf varieties of coffee trees. A well-known and common types of home coffee trees suitable Arabian coffee (Arabica), Brazilian and Liberian.
Care for an adult tree is not difficult, but it is growing some difficulties. This process is, well, not the easiest. Usually grown coffee tree from seed or from cuttings. How to do it?
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coffee tree care
Coffee trees from cuttings
For this method of growing a new plant is selected from the middle branch of the crown adult fruiting wood. Better if it is a branch previous surplus (they formed buds) with two pairs of leaves. If you put just such a cutting, the tree that grew out of it early will bloom and bear fruit.
Graft to land prepared as follows:
1. 1Graft cut, indented from the lower pair of leaves for about two to three centimeters.
2. 2From the bottom of the cutting sewing needle make several longitudinal scratches that promotes rapid root formation.
3. 3 (Graft only the bottom part) is placed hour for three hours in a solution of one and a half liters of water and a quarter of a tablet of IAA (stimulant plant growth, plant hormones). Or a pint of warm water and 25 mg IBA acid. In such a solution graft is placed about 15 hours.
For rooting cuttings fit any mold, but it should be breathable and good moisture retention. The most suitable substrate for rooting coffee tree is a mixture of peat (or sphagnum bog) and one part perlite (expanded construction sand). Pour into the container substrate is left in the backwash position and shed a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
A cutting vertically immersed in the ground for two, two and a half inches, and the bottom pair of leaves also dig in the soil. With this method of planting can be expected almost one hundred percent rooting because of growth in leaf form additional roots. After this cutting planted again watered permanganate, cover with a plastic bag or a plastic bottle, making holes in them for ventilation.
This mini-parnichok will maintain an appropriate temperature for rooting, which ideally should reach 25-27 degrees. The higher the temperature, the faster they will stalk roots, but at temperatures above 32 degrees the effect will be reversed. Rooting period lasts about 37-40 days, during which the future of the tree must-sprayed and protected from direct sunlight.
Once the handle appear first upper Rostova kidney - he gave the roots. And after the first of a new pair of leaves can be transplanted seedling has a permanent place. True, it should be done very carefully, because the root system of the tree-baby is still quite weak. Suitable for transplanting a mixture of four parts of the turf, two parts peat and one part sand and a pot with a diameter of 10-12 cm
At the bottom of the pot is placed drain (about 1 cm) and poured prepared soil. Coffee tree seedling planted very carefully, placing the roots in a small pour mound, spreading them and covered with earth. After that tree watered abundantly.
The benefits of the coffee tree propagation cuttings are:
* Preserve all the parent tree;
* Early flowering (even while rooting);
* Early full fruition (already at the annual tree).
The disadvantage of this method can be considered only that grown from cuttings coffee tree care requires complicated by the need to form the crown.
Coffee tree from seed
For the cultivation of coffee trees from seeds suitable only fully ripened fruit of coffee (you can rip straight from the tree.) It is believed that the berries with two Bobkov germinate better. Coffee beans are very capricious and rapidly lose viability, so prepare them for planting should be immediate. For this grain is cleaned of "skin" (the outer shell) and first washed with water and then soaked for half an hour in a solution of potassium permanganate.
By the way, the soil for planting coffee beans also need to prepare in advance. It should be loose, slightly acidic and have time to settle (or present) before landing in two weeks. For planting beans is the most optimum soil mixture of two parts sod land, one part sand and one part peat. Experienced growers recommend prepared the ground steamed or ignited in the oven.
Each coffee bean planted in a separate pot to a depth of one centimeter. Grain is put into the ground with the convex side up: so they are easier to grow. Pasazhennoe grain (as in the case of the shanks) watered and covered with a can or plastic bottle.
Needed for germination temperature is not below or above nineteen twenty-four degrees. In such circumstances, in about a month and a half, the first leaves appear, protected seed coat. Before they will be free from this shell, seedlings should be kept in a wet (very wet) environments. But after the release of their full can (and should) begin to teach this delicate coffee germ to normal room air. To do this, remove the jar from the pot first on just a minute, and then gradually increase the time of airing.
Young green sprout will necessarily drevesnet, becoming little more, but now the coffee tree. This process can be intimidating beginners' coffee plantation, "so looks like a kind of disease. First on a green stalk appear unsightly brown spots, and the stem looks like he starts to dry up. However, he can actually dry up almost half. Then spots gradually enlarge and coalesce, becoming a "crust" of this coffee tree trunk.
In the first year of cultivation grows only trunk and the crown of the tree is not formed. And in the second year start to grow skeletal branches of the crown. To give these fluffy tree branches need little pruning. And in the future is no crown formation of such a tree is required. By the way, no problems with the formation of the crown can be attributed to one of the main advantages of a tree grown from seeds. And it is quite simple and cheap. Lack of breeding seeds - it later fruiting.
Therefore, knowing how to grow a coffee tree from seed or cuttings, choose the method that you like best. And let this be a successful experience in growing and fruitful (in the literal sense). And then, suddenly, and with his own grown coffee can be brewed. Well, in order to surprise the guests but to amuse their ego.
mini-herb-garden-garden-in-bottle
Real coffee tree in the house - it is not exotic. Many, many growers dare to grow this amazing plant with extremely fragrant flowers. Not only is the coffee tree just magically blooms, it also breeds, giving even a little, but the real harvest coffee. True, not all types of coffee and all kinds of coffee trees can be grown indoors. So that your tree is not grown in this giant, taking half of the apartment (and throw something bad!), Let's find out how to grow a coffee tree, and how much effort and knowledge on your part that require a botanical experiment.
Miracle tree
At room conditions coffee tree can grow up to 5.4 meters (so far as the ceiling height). However, it is so intense growth can be managed by cutting to the required size and restraining insatiable desire for heaven. In addition, for indoor flower already derive special dwarf varieties of coffee trees. A well-known and common types of home coffee trees suitable Arabian coffee (Arabica), Brazilian and Liberian.
Care for an adult tree is not difficult, but it is growing some difficulties. This process is, well, not the easiest. Usually grown coffee tree from seed or from cuttings. How to do it?
picture
coffee tree care
Coffee trees from cuttings
For this method of growing a new plant is selected from the middle branch of the crown adult fruiting wood. Better if it is a branch previous surplus (they formed buds) with two pairs of leaves. If you put just such a cutting, the tree that grew out of it early will bloom and bear fruit.
Graft to land prepared as follows:
1. 1Graft cut, indented from the lower pair of leaves for about two to three centimeters.
2. 2From the bottom of the cutting sewing needle make several longitudinal scratches that promotes rapid root formation.
3. 3 (Graft only the bottom part) is placed hour for three hours in a solution of one and a half liters of water and a quarter of a tablet of IAA (stimulant plant growth, plant hormones). Or a pint of warm water and 25 mg IBA acid. In such a solution graft is placed about 15 hours.
For rooting cuttings fit any mold, but it should be breathable and good moisture retention. The most suitable substrate for rooting coffee tree is a mixture of peat (or sphagnum bog) and one part perlite (expanded construction sand). Pour into the container substrate is left in the backwash position and shed a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
A cutting vertically immersed in the ground for two, two and a half inches, and the bottom pair of leaves also dig in the soil. With this method of planting can be expected almost one hundred percent rooting because of growth in leaf form additional roots. After this cutting planted again watered permanganate, cover with a plastic bag or a plastic bottle, making holes in them for ventilation.
This mini-parnichok will maintain an appropriate temperature for rooting, which ideally should reach 25-27 degrees. The higher the temperature, the faster they will stalk roots, but at temperatures above 32 degrees the effect will be reversed. Rooting period lasts about 37-40 days, during which the future of the tree must-sprayed and protected from direct sunlight.
Once the handle appear first upper Rostova kidney - he gave the roots. And after the first of a new pair of leaves can be transplanted seedling has a permanent place. True, it should be done very carefully, because the root system of the tree-baby is still quite weak. Suitable for transplanting a mixture of four parts of the turf, two parts peat and one part sand and a pot with a diameter of 10-12 cm
At the bottom of the pot is placed drain (about 1 cm) and poured prepared soil. Coffee tree seedling planted very carefully, placing the roots in a small pour mound, spreading them and covered with earth. After that tree watered abundantly.
The benefits of the coffee tree propagation cuttings are:
* Preserve all the parent tree;
* Early flowering (even while rooting);
* Early full fruition (already at the annual tree).
The disadvantage of this method can be considered only that grown from cuttings coffee tree care requires complicated by the need to form the crown.
Coffee tree from seed
For the cultivation of coffee trees from seeds suitable only fully ripened fruit of coffee (you can rip straight from the tree.) It is believed that the berries with two Bobkov germinate better. Coffee beans are very capricious and rapidly lose viability, so prepare them for planting should be immediate. For this grain is cleaned of "skin" (the outer shell) and first washed with water and then soaked for half an hour in a solution of potassium permanganate.
By the way, the soil for planting coffee beans also need to prepare in advance. It should be loose, slightly acidic and have time to settle (or present) before landing in two weeks. For planting beans is the most optimum soil mixture of two parts sod land, one part sand and one part peat. Experienced growers recommend prepared the ground steamed or ignited in the oven.
Each coffee bean planted in a separate pot to a depth of one centimeter. Grain is put into the ground with the convex side up: so they are easier to grow. Pasazhennoe grain (as in the case of the shanks) watered and covered with a can or plastic bottle.
Needed for germination temperature is not below or above nineteen twenty-four degrees. In such circumstances, in about a month and a half, the first leaves appear, protected seed coat. Before they will be free from this shell, seedlings should be kept in a wet (very wet) environments. But after the release of their full can (and should) begin to teach this delicate coffee germ to normal room air. To do this, remove the jar from the pot first on just a minute, and then gradually increase the time of airing.
Young green sprout will necessarily drevesnet, becoming little more, but now the coffee tree. This process can be intimidating beginners' coffee plantation, "so looks like a kind of disease. First on a green stalk appear unsightly brown spots, and the stem looks like he starts to dry up. However, he can actually dry up almost half. Then spots gradually enlarge and coalesce, becoming a "crust" of this coffee tree trunk.
In the first year of cultivation grows only trunk and the crown of the tree is not formed. And in the second year start to grow skeletal branches of the crown. To give these fluffy tree branches need little pruning. And in the future is no crown formation of such a tree is required. By the way, no problems with the formation of the crown can be attributed to one of the main advantages of a tree grown from seeds. And it is quite simple and cheap. Lack of breeding seeds - it later fruiting.
Therefore, knowing how to grow a coffee tree from seed or cuttings, choose the method that you like best. And let this be a successful experience in growing and fruitful (in the literal sense). And then, suddenly, and with his own grown coffee can be brewed. Well, in order to surprise the guests but to amuse their ego.
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