Among all citrus plants orange is the most unpretentious. It quickly grows and is capable to develop normally even in rooms with dry air. However, if you want to receive the real orange tree, it is necessary to watch it carefully.
Instruction
1. Stones of orange need to be landed crude, at once after you eat fruit. For landing it is better to choose clay pot, it will absorb excess moisture, and at its shortage — to return. At the bottom of ware it is necessary to put drainage.
2. The most suitable soil for citrus soil from under high nettle or oak is considered. If you have no opportunity to get such soil, it is possible to prepare mix from the sheet and cespitose earth, humus and well washed out coarse-grained bank sand. It is better to prepare it in large number that it was possible to add to pot further, enriching power supply of the growing tree.
3. Land several stones on depth of 2.5 cm, water the soil and cover with film then put pot in well lit place, but not under direct sunshine. At temperature 22-25os shoots appear approximately in 3 weeks, till this time do not remove film.
4. Among all sprouts it is necessary to choose the strongest, the others should be pinched off. The grown-up escape is replaced in big pot. It is necessary to consider that the orange tree grows to 2 m, to it it has to be spacious in the chosen ware. It is not recommended to replace plant, it is better to replace top soil with new nutritious earth mix and to regularly introduce fertilizers.
5. For orange tree it is necessary to choose the place with bright diffused light, at insufficient lighting thin and weak leaves are formed, and escapes are extended. In the summer the plant should be watered and sprayed often and also to introduce fertilizers for citrus. It is possible to take out it on balcony or in garden, gradually tempering in the spring.
6. Flowers of orange appear on branches of the fifth order, that is not earlier, than in five years. During this time it is necessary to create crown with large number of such branches. For this purpose pinch off branches 10-15 cm long in the spring, the topmost leaves leave untouched, and two following sheets tear off. So you wake kidneys from which then new escapes will appear, they also should be pinched off. Finally the bushy tree with large number of short branches will turn out, on them flowers are in the future formed.
7. To accelerate blossoming of orange, to tree create cold wintering, maintaining temperature near +7-8os. At this time it is seldom watered, approximately time in 10 days, and stop introducing fertilizers. Such plant will be able to blossom in 3-4 years. Pollination should be conducted independently, transferring brush pollen from one flower to another. Blossoming and forming of fruits best of all takes place at temperature 15-18os.