If you love large trees in tubs which expand to ceiling, magnificently blossom and fructify, you should trying to grow up coffee tree. At once prepare that coffee from the grown-up grains will be, most likely, not really tasty even if you will manage to make it correctly. But this tree is quite unpretentious and will please you for many years.
It is required to you
- - coffee kernel;
- - shank;
- - pots of the different size;
- - earth for coffee tree (sheet, humous, cespitose, sand mix);
- - water.
Instruction
1. If you have fresh seed of coffee (in one fruit two grains), try to grow up coffee tree from it. Consider that grains quickly lose viability and in year after collecting it will be already difficult to couch. Seed grains in superficial box with the special earth (easy cespitose – 1 part, sheet – 0.5 parts, sand – 1 part). Put box to the warm place, not less 20-25C, and wait for shoots 1.5-2 months. Do not forget to water from time to time seeds that the earth was damp.
2. When saplings a little grow up, choose couple of the strongest and plant them in small pots with the earth of the same structure. It is abundant water trees. Put them in the shaded place for two weeks, and then expose on fresh air and the sun.
3. As seeds quickly lose viability, it is simpler to grow up coffee tree from shanks. Cut from the pleasant tree of shanks and put to the damp place, then replace to the earth.
4. If at your place chilly and hot, create own tropics for young tree. Water it, cover with plastic bag and tie package at the top edge of pot. Carry out watering through pallet. From time to time air plant.
5. Every spring replace coffee tree in pot of the bigger size, providing good drainage. Feed up him fertilizers each two weeks in the summer. It is possible to add a little horn flour to improve growth and blossoming. Besides, at change put dry fertilizer – ammofoska or superphosphate, one tablespoon.
6. Often water coffee tree with otstoyanny water of room temperature, it does not transfer drought. You can carry out watering twice a day in the summer, in the winter – is more rare. If you allow drying of the soil, the tree for a long time will stop in growth, and several droughty days will ruin it. In hot days spray leaves from spray.
7. Put tree far away from heating appliances in the winter, it is possible even to the cool place, but temperature should not fall below 13C. Optimum temperature in the winter of 15-17 °C.
8. To stimulate blossoming of coffee tree, do nipping in the spring, deleting excess branches. In cloudy days apply additional artificial lighting.