The small tree with yellow bright fruits for certain will decorate your house. You can even break fragrant fruit and cut segments to tea. Because it is ordinary lemon which can quite be grown up independently on windowsill.
House lemon on windowsill: advantage
The lemon has numerous useful properties. It is simply oversaturated by vitamin C, such necessary for organism, in 100 g of its fruits about 50 mg contain. And also there is a lot of also other vitamins and microelements. Segments of lemon add to tea, put in salads, bake with them meat and so on. And leaves emit phytoncides and purify air in the room from microbes. That the house lemon on windowsill yielded really tasty fruits, it is necessary to buy high-quality saplings because those that are grown up from stone, will be bitter and small.
Grades of room lemon
There is no complexity in cultivation of decorative lemon tree, the main thing to buy good sapling. If you want to have big high lemon, buy sapling of grade of Lisbon and Kursk. They grow to 1.5 m and above. Height at lemons Pavlovsky, Lunario, Maykop, Willa Franco, etc. is less. It makes from 1.2-1.5 m. And to absolutely low, to one meter, belong Canadian, Genoa, the Chinese Dwarf. At the same time the last is hybrid of lemon and orange and yields tasty fruits. In general, there is a lot of grades therefore it is possible to ask for the consultant in shop to tell in more detail about any given sapling.
How to put room lemon
Plant the bought sapling in the burned clay pot with opening in day for ventilation of roots. At the same time the pot should not be glazed. At first take the capacity of 1-2 l, then, in process of growth of root system, more spacious pots will be necessary for you. Fill with such soil mix: • 1 part of the bank washed-out sand; • 1 part of humus; • 1 part of the cespitose earth. On bottom of pot do not forget to put beaten crocks for drainage, at the same time one crock cover opening in day with the convex party up. It is necessary that water did not accumulate, but at the same time from opening air constantly arrived. Put tree to such place in the room where on it scattered sunlight will fall. Lemons do not love direct beams and well feel about windows, but in the winter they can be put directly on windowsill.
Room lemon of the house: leaving
That the room lemon well grew and has soon pleased with juicy fragrant fruits, it is necessary to look after it correctly: • to water • to fertilize; • to replace; • to preserve against wreckers and diseases. Having watered the Room lemon water with otstoyanny water of room temperature. In the winter it is done seldom, usually by 1-2 times a week, are guided by soil moisture. If the lemon costs in the cold room, it is necessary to water it even less often – 1-2 times a month. There is main thing, not to pereuvlazhnit the soil, otherwise roots can decay or the mold will begin to develop in soil. In the summer watering is carried out by 1-2 times per day. Never take cold water, especially in hot day, from it leaves can turn yellow and even to fall down. It is important to water correctly. Do it by small portions of water that all soil has become impregnated with it. UdobrenieTak as the root system of tree is in limited space, it quickly takes away all useful substances from the soil. That there was no "starvation" of lemon, it needs to be fertilized. Regularly you carry out fertilizing under roots. For this purpose buy one of specially balanced fertilizers for room lemons and use it, according to the instruction. Especially fertilizing is required in spring time when the plant becomes more active. The PeresadkaKomnatnyy lemon grows, also the root system becomes higher and wider more, respectively. To plant it is already close, and it needs to be replaced in more spacious pot. Usually it is required every year for young sapling and after five years – each 3 years. The soil is used new, surely put drainage on pot bottom.
Diseases and wreckers of room lemon
If it is frequent to fill in plant with water, there can be root decay from which leaves fade and gradually the lemon perishes. Root decay is eliminated difficult therefore it is better to prevent its emergence. And it is for this purpose important to watch soil moisture. Web red tick – one of the most frequent wreckers of lemon. It is shown in emergence of spider line on escapes then the plant badly grows and loses leaves. It is simple to get rid of web tick, for this purpose spray room lemon with the medicine "Carbophos" or other insecticide. You love room lemon: water, feed up, wipe to it leaves with damp rag. And he will answer you violent blossoming and will present with tasty fruits.