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If you have a desire to have their own lemons at home, nothing is impossible not here. You just need to know what to do and how to grow this plant in your home. In this article you will learn how to grow a lemon house, which varieties to choose, how to grow a lemon and care for him.
Lemons are evergreen plants of the family Rutaceae. On the leaves of lemon in large numbers are glandular cells that produce fragrant essential oil, which causes most people to grow this plant in your home. Externally lemon looks like a small tree with leathery leaves are dark green and small spines, which are quite rare in its shoots. Lemon flowers inside white and outside - reddish.
Lemon is the birthplace of the Indian subcontinent. It was from this plant has spread across the globe - first lemon was in Mesopotamia, then to Italy, and from Italy - the other countries of Europe and the world. To date, meet wild lemon is impossible, it is mainly cultivated in the subtropical climate. But to meet him at someone's house now also not uncommon.
If you're wondering how to grow a lemon on a windowsill, you should know that for this purpose only suitable varieties "Genoa", "Maikop" and "Eureka." They are the low-growing, other varieties sometimes reach a height of 3 meters. With particular yield different quality "Maikop".
Grow house lemon in two ways: by planting cuttings or seeds of the fruit lemon. Most people believe that grow from seeds and lemon to achieve in the future it can not fruiting, but it is not. 4-5 years it is possible not only to grow the plant, but also to begin to collect his fruit. Thus, in the subtropics of Spain and Italy, and in South-East Asia, the lemons grown lemon seeds, begin to bear fruit for 5-7 year. Of course, growing lemon house - this is not the subtropics, so it is important to know the basic techniques that can help you not only make the lemon blossom and bear fruit.
To start with, how to grow a lemon from the cutting.
Lemon grow from cuttings
Of course, to plant a lemon by cutting preferable. You can buy a lemon cutting gardeners or in botanical gardens. So, if you have a place to buy a cutting - choose this method of cultivation of lemons home.
For the most efficient cultivation of lemon should maintain the same conditions. When choosing a handle should know his age and count the number of leaves on it. That is, the age of the cutting should be at least 1 year, and leaves on it - at least 3-4. Should acquire a cutting in the second half of February or in early spring, as in the wild at home this season is the period of active vegetation lemons. At other times, just not cutting accustomed.
Cuttings for planting, select a special primer. That is, the land must be very loose, consisting of compost, leaf and sod land in equal parts and half a part coarse sand.
Pot of lemon, choose a spacious, carefully clay. Before planting the cutting pot should stand for several hours in the water. After that, the pot is placed convex side up crock, which should cover the hole in the pot, then laid a layer of fiberglass, then - the drainage layer of coarse sand. Then he laid a layer of small pebbles or charcoal. On top of these layers is placed in a pot of dry manure, and then - soil mixture. When planting cuttings is important to see to it that it was the root collar at the top of the pot, or slightly below.
Planted graft should pour warm water and cover the glass container to increase humidity, which protects the leaves of the cutting of excess moisture evaporates. Remove glass container can be after cutting fully entrenched.
So, how to grow a lemon of a handle, we tell you. We hope that in this respect, you will not have problems. Now let's talk about how to grow seeds of lemon.
Grow lemon lemon seeds
So, now we come to how to grow a lemon from seed. Lemon to not only increased, but began to bear fruit, you should know some details. Central to this process is the choice of seed and sowing.
To grow from seeds from the fruit of the lemon should choose the largest lemon seeds. They should be planted in small containers - on seedlings. For this purpose will go quite cups of yogurt or trimmed plastic bottles. The selected seedlings for planting in containers should be done drainage holes.
Before planting, the seeds need to handle the selected biological natural stimulant. As such, you can choose the solution of the drug sodium humate "Sakhalin". This solution must be darker beers. In this solution, omit the seeds and hold them for the night. This measure is necessary to ensure that the root system of plants subsequently developed more good. After keeping the seeds in a solution of sodium humate, they should be for 8-12 hours put into the water with drugs zircon and Appin-extra (1 drop in a glass of water), which will accelerate the growth of plants and make them more resistant to low light and dry air in your apartment .
A time to plant is worth about a dozen or two seeds, then to select the best of them.
To grow a lemon from seed, it should be planted in loose fertile soil to a depth of 1-2 cm in 3-5 months should be selecting the best plants that carefully transplanted into larger pots with preservation of earthen coma, in which the seedlings were growing before. It is important to add to the soil vermicompost.
Should reject mandatory plants with slender shoots, and the low number of leaves.
How to form a crown of lemon?
How to grow a lemon at home? Lemon - quite capricious plant in terms of lighting. Put a pot of lemon should be on the west window, or near it. It is not necessary to move the lemon from place to place, even within the sill, because lemon is very not like changes in illumination. Once a week to turn the pot to 1-2 cm to subsequently tree crown did not become one-sided.
In the first months of life, prevent odnostebelnoe plant development. Necessary to encourage lateral branching lemon, which 4-5 times a year during the next wave of growth (occur at intervals of 1-3 months) to pinch the tip grows escape tweezers or fingernail. If topping does not lead to regrowth of lateral shoots, the newly regrown top again removed. Regrown side shoots should also be subjected to topping as soon as they will have 2.3-leaf, not later.
Inside the crown should avoid the appearance of vertical branches. Such shoots as they are flexible and young, should be angled and tie a thin rope to the stick stuck in the ground. You should also not be allowed to grow into branches of the crown to tree crown too thickened.
It is also important to make "banding", which is as follows: copper wire covered trunk at the base of plants or 1-2 skeletal branches. Wires have to slightly pressed into the bark of lemon trees. The result of this procedure: the field banding formed influx, which stimulates the accumulation of beneficial plant substances that accelerate the formation of fruit buds. After half a year of the wire should be carefully removed so as not to damage the tree, and the trace of the wire to cover up garden pitch, or wrap a strip of flexible polyethylene.
That is, in fact, all you need to know about the formation of the crown of lemon.
Caring for Lemon
Here you have planted a lemon tree at home: Caring for them requires special attention. It is this side of the coin and are dedicated to the following lines.
To bring the bloom and, indeed, fruits observe the following care lemon:
1. 1Should arrange additional ultraviolet light. To do this you need a special fitolampu (lamp for plants).
2. 2 The room in which there is a lemon tree, you should always moisturize
3. 3 lemons regularly turn over. This should be done 1-2 times a year - in February and June. And the important factor here is the change in pots for 3-5 cm more than before. The soil must choose, which we wrote about earlier in this article - consisting of equal parts of the turf, leaves, compost and humus. In addition, the soil mixture can be made as follows: in the soft garden soil to add 1/3-1/4 part (of the total land) horse manure.
4. 4 It should make regular feeding - in the period from February to September, as the nutrients are retained in the soil no more than 3-5 months. And when waves of lemon plant growth requires more power. As dressing better use existing facilities of fertilizers, and manure in liquid form is much better dry, so even dry fertilizer should be diluted with water at a concentration of 2.1 g of the drug per liter of water. Also very good for the plants alternate concentrate organic fertilizers with ready infusions.
5. 5 If in the first year seedling bloom, it should cut all the buds. If this is not done, lemon, do not cultivate it in their natural environment, will spend all their forces to the flowers, and soon dies. Let the lemon trees bloom is possible only when there would be no less than 10-15 leaves per ovary.
So you put a lemon tree at home care, in principle, it is not a big deal. Unless you can also mention how to grow a lemon in the cold season. Actually it in the first place, in the event that the plant is on the windowsill.
If you decide to grow a lemon on a windowsill, then you should make sure that in the winter, the plant is not frozen, because hypothermia root system promotes disruption of normal functioning of the metabolic processes, resulting in a plant can just die. Not frozen to a tree in the cold season, simply wrap the pot or heat-insulating material beneath the pot with the plant a piece of foam.
So, we discussed how to grow a lemon of seeds and from cuttings. Which option is more suitable for you - that's up to you. After all, grow a lemon house is not too difficult if you love the plants and the like, by all means, have your own lemons. We wish you success in the cultivation of lemon and its abundant fruiting!
Medicinal herbs
Lemon - care and growing on the windowsill
If you have a desire to have their own lemons at home, nothing is impossible not here. You just need to know what to do and how to grow this plant in your home. In this article you will learn how to grow a lemon house, which varieties to choose, how to grow a lemon and care for him.
Lemons are evergreen plants of the family Rutaceae. On the leaves of lemon in large numbers are glandular cells that produce fragrant essential oil, which causes most people to grow this plant in your home. Externally lemon looks like a small tree with leathery leaves are dark green and small spines, which are quite rare in its shoots. Lemon flowers inside white and outside - reddish.
Lemon is the birthplace of the Indian subcontinent. It was from this plant has spread across the globe - first lemon was in Mesopotamia, then to Italy, and from Italy - the other countries of Europe and the world. To date, meet wild lemon is impossible, it is mainly cultivated in the subtropical climate. But to meet him at someone's house now also not uncommon.
If you're wondering how to grow a lemon on a windowsill, you should know that for this purpose only suitable varieties "Genoa", "Maikop" and "Eureka." They are the low-growing, other varieties sometimes reach a height of 3 meters. With particular yield different quality "Maikop".
Grow house lemon in two ways: by planting cuttings or seeds of the fruit lemon. Most people believe that grow from seeds and lemon to achieve in the future it can not fruiting, but it is not. 4-5 years it is possible not only to grow the plant, but also to begin to collect his fruit. Thus, in the subtropics of Spain and Italy, and in South-East Asia, the lemons grown lemon seeds, begin to bear fruit for 5-7 year. Of course, growing lemon house - this is not the subtropics, so it is important to know the basic techniques that can help you not only make the lemon blossom and bear fruit.
To start with, how to grow a lemon from the cutting.
Lemon grow from cuttings
Of course, to plant a lemon by cutting preferable. You can buy a lemon cutting gardeners or in botanical gardens. So, if you have a place to buy a cutting - choose this method of cultivation of lemons home.
For the most efficient cultivation of lemon should maintain the same conditions. When choosing a handle should know his age and count the number of leaves on it. That is, the age of the cutting should be at least 1 year, and leaves on it - at least 3-4. Should acquire a cutting in the second half of February or in early spring, as in the wild at home this season is the period of active vegetation lemons. At other times, just not cutting accustomed.
Cuttings for planting, select a special primer. That is, the land must be very loose, consisting of compost, leaf and sod land in equal parts and half a part coarse sand.
Pot of lemon, choose a spacious, carefully clay. Before planting the cutting pot should stand for several hours in the water. After that, the pot is placed convex side up crock, which should cover the hole in the pot, then laid a layer of fiberglass, then - the drainage layer of coarse sand. Then he laid a layer of small pebbles or charcoal. On top of these layers is placed in a pot of dry manure, and then - soil mixture. When planting cuttings is important to see to it that it was the root collar at the top of the pot, or slightly below.
Planted graft should pour warm water and cover the glass container to increase humidity, which protects the leaves of the cutting of excess moisture evaporates. Remove glass container can be after cutting fully entrenched.
So, how to grow a lemon of a handle, we tell you. We hope that in this respect, you will not have problems. Now let's talk about how to grow seeds of lemon.
Grow lemon lemon seeds
So, now we come to how to grow a lemon from seed. Lemon to not only increased, but began to bear fruit, you should know some details. Central to this process is the choice of seed and sowing.
To grow from seeds from the fruit of the lemon should choose the largest lemon seeds. They should be planted in small containers - on seedlings. For this purpose will go quite cups of yogurt or trimmed plastic bottles. The selected seedlings for planting in containers should be done drainage holes.
Before planting, the seeds need to handle the selected biological natural stimulant. As such, you can choose the solution of the drug sodium humate "Sakhalin". This solution must be darker beers. In this solution, omit the seeds and hold them for the night. This measure is necessary to ensure that the root system of plants subsequently developed more good. After keeping the seeds in a solution of sodium humate, they should be for 8-12 hours put into the water with drugs zircon and Appin-extra (1 drop in a glass of water), which will accelerate the growth of plants and make them more resistant to low light and dry air in your apartment .
A time to plant is worth about a dozen or two seeds, then to select the best of them.
To grow a lemon from seed, it should be planted in loose fertile soil to a depth of 1-2 cm in 3-5 months should be selecting the best plants that carefully transplanted into larger pots with preservation of earthen coma, in which the seedlings were growing before. It is important to add to the soil vermicompost.
Should reject mandatory plants with slender shoots, and the low number of leaves.
How to form a crown of lemon?
In the first months of life, prevent odnostebelnoe plant development. Necessary to encourage lateral branching lemon, which 4-5 times a year during the next wave of growth (occur at intervals of 1-3 months) to pinch the tip grows escape tweezers or fingernail. If topping does not lead to regrowth of lateral shoots, the newly regrown top again removed. Regrown side shoots should also be subjected to topping as soon as they will have 2.3-leaf, not later.
Inside the crown should avoid the appearance of vertical branches. Such shoots as they are flexible and young, should be angled and tie a thin rope to the stick stuck in the ground. You should also not be allowed to grow into branches of the crown to tree crown too thickened.
It is also important to make "banding", which is as follows: copper wire covered trunk at the base of plants or 1-2 skeletal branches. Wires have to slightly pressed into the bark of lemon trees. The result of this procedure: the field banding formed influx, which stimulates the accumulation of beneficial plant substances that accelerate the formation of fruit buds. After half a year of the wire should be carefully removed so as not to damage the tree, and the trace of the wire to cover up garden pitch, or wrap a strip of flexible polyethylene.
That is, in fact, all you need to know about the formation of the crown of lemon.
Caring for Lemon
Here you have planted a lemon tree at home: Caring for them requires special attention. It is this side of the coin and are dedicated to the following lines.
To bring the bloom and, indeed, fruits observe the following care lemon:
1. 1Should arrange additional ultraviolet light. To do this you need a special fitolampu (lamp for plants).
2. 2 The room in which there is a lemon tree, you should always moisturize
3. 3 lemons regularly turn over. This should be done 1-2 times a year - in February and June. And the important factor here is the change in pots for 3-5 cm more than before. The soil must choose, which we wrote about earlier in this article - consisting of equal parts of the turf, leaves, compost and humus. In addition, the soil mixture can be made as follows: in the soft garden soil to add 1/3-1/4 part (of the total land) horse manure.
4. 4 It should make regular feeding - in the period from February to September, as the nutrients are retained in the soil no more than 3-5 months. And when waves of lemon plant growth requires more power. As dressing better use existing facilities of fertilizers, and manure in liquid form is much better dry, so even dry fertilizer should be diluted with water at a concentration of 2.1 g of the drug per liter of water. Also very good for the plants alternate concentrate organic fertilizers with ready infusions.
5. 5 If in the first year seedling bloom, it should cut all the buds. If this is not done, lemon, do not cultivate it in their natural environment, will spend all their forces to the flowers, and soon dies. Let the lemon trees bloom is possible only when there would be no less than 10-15 leaves per ovary.
So you put a lemon tree at home care, in principle, it is not a big deal. Unless you can also mention how to grow a lemon in the cold season. Actually it in the first place, in the event that the plant is on the windowsill.
If you decide to grow a lemon on a windowsill, then you should make sure that in the winter, the plant is not frozen, because hypothermia root system promotes disruption of normal functioning of the metabolic processes, resulting in a plant can just die. Not frozen to a tree in the cold season, simply wrap the pot or heat-insulating material beneath the pot with the plant a piece of foam.
So, we discussed how to grow a lemon of seeds and from cuttings. Which option is more suitable for you - that's up to you. After all, grow a lemon house is not too difficult if you love the plants and the like, by all means, have your own lemons. We wish you success in the cultivation of lemon and its abundant fruiting!
Medicinal herbs