Breadfruit tree – the representative of sort of plants from family Mulberry which are widespread in Polynesia and Central Asia. These are the monoecious trees having lacteal juice in fabrics and yielding large fruits.
It is required to you
- - seeds of breadfruit tree;
- - pot of 1 l;
- - soil;
- - drainage;
- - greenhouse.
Instruction
1. Ordinary-looking inflorescences after pollination form soplodiya which outer layers turn into fruits. Breadfruit trees there are 50 types. The most popular jackfruit – the Indian breadfruit tree. The jackfruit is called in India "bread of poor people" because of its nutritiousness and low cost. It is recognized as national Bangladesh fruit, and its fruits use both in ripened, and in unripe look. The fruit of breadfruit tree can reach weighing more than 20 kg. Immature it is vegetable, ripe – the fruit which is tasting like mango, papaya and melon. Seeds of jackfruit are eaten as chestnuts or beans.
2. The breadfruit tree can be grown up from seed and to contain in house greenhouse or winter garden as kadochny plant. It is necessary to take seeds from mature fruit of jackfruit and to wet in water for day. It is not recommended to store seeds long as they in month after extraction from fruit lose viability. For landing it is necessary to prepare pots by volume to liter, the nutritious substrate consisting of peat, sand and humus (2:2:1), drainage in the form of haydite.
3. The seeds soaked in water submerge in the moistened soil on depth of 2-3 cm on one in pot. Soil is watered, and expose pots to the warm place with temperature not below +27 °C. The breadfruit tree can ascend from 20 to 45 days. Then, at emergence of four real leaves, saplings pass in big pots with new fertile soil. At change it is necessary to work accurately as the root system of this grain "giant" very gentle and is afraid of damages.
4. The jackfruit loves the sun, is not afraid of direct sunshine, prefers constant heat, except winter months when at plant there comes the period of relative rest. It is necessary to water breadfruit tree often – it does not take out drought. The soil always has to be damp, but not filled in. The breadfruit tree will quickly grow therefore already in half a year be going to do the forming cutting that it strongly did not grow (in the nature the breadfruit trees reach 20 m).
5. "In bondage" the plant can quite blossom and yield fruits. However, because of the absence of insects pollinators, it is necessary to be engaged in pollination manually. Men's flowers grow at breadfruit tree on thin branches, and women's – at the trunk basis where branches are thicker. There further fruits are also formed. They grow ripe long, from 4 to 8 months. But it is possible to eat also green fruits.