Among favourite house plants the lemon tree surely holds leader positions. It is beautiful, rather unpretentious, and, above all, can quite fructify.
Instruction
1. Buy the saplings of lemons imparted on seedlings in shop. Do not buy already big trees as they can not take root.
2. Take pot which top diameter and height should not be more than 10-15 centimeters. At the bottom of pot make several small openings in order that excess water when watering easily filtered and did not flood sprout.
3. Prepare drainage: on bottom of pot put small pebbles, and from above wet sand. The following layer lay the soil. The best soil, where most of all humus, that is top soil. At the same time fill the soil so that it did not reach about one centimeter edge of pot.
4. Make deepening in the soil and accurately plant sapling. You watch that the root neck has been deepened to the soil no more than on 5 millimeters, otherwise the sapling will not take root.
5. Spray the planted tree with water, and then water with weak solution of potassium permanganate. Put pot on windowsill to light, so that sunshine got on future leaves. In hot time to pritenyayta sapling from hit of direct sunshine, and in cold protect it from drafts.
6. Begin to plant lemon tree in small pot, no more than one liter. In process of growth of sapling, in year, replace it in more capacious pot to 2 liters. For the third year of life of tree replace it in three-liter pot, and in year make change in 5-10tilitrovy pot.
7. Water tree in process of drying of top soil. For this purpose daily check the soil for humidity, especially in hot season. Water sapling only with water otstoyanny within a day for removal of chlorine which makes pernicious impact. In cold season previously warm up water for watering up to the temperature of +30 degrees.