Lemon - evergreen undersized plant with small prickles on escapes. The houseplant enjoys the increasing popularity thanks to decorative edible fruits and dark green leaves which fill the house with phytoncides and aromas of essential oils. How it is correct to impart room lemon and to receive rich harvest? This question is asked more often by fans of citrus plants.
Instruction
1. The lemon which is grown up from seeds will begin to yield fruits only 8-12 years later. If in time to impart seedlings escapes from fruitful citrus copies, they will blossom for the third year after its inoculation. It is the procedure, quite difficult for plant, it has to be carried out quickly and accurately. It is possible to impart room lemon in two ways: okulirovka and in rasshchep, the most suitable time - summer or spring.
2. Okulirovk needs to see off on plant which age is 2-3 years. At the same time it is possible to assume that the stock and scion were citrus plants of a different type. For this purpose the citron, grapefruit, orange or lemon can well approach. At the time of inoculation the room lemon has to possess active sokodvizheniye that the layer of bark could separate and open cambium with ease. It can achieve if some days before inoculation to begin it is abundant to water plant.
3. Recede 5-10 centimeters from the earth and choose the place for inoculation, it has to be without thorns and kidneys, gladkokory. Accurately by means of one pressing of knife make cross cut which length has to be no more than one centimeter and execute longitudinal superficial section (2-3 centimeters).
4. After you have made cuts, take budding or normal knife and extremely carefully hook tip the made an incision bark, a little it move apart. Thereby you will slightly open bed for the imparted peephole. Return bark to initial situation, having left at the same time small opening on the top. Through it you should enter peephole.
5. Now it is necessary to prepare stock. Cut off kidney from shank together with bark, guard and thin layer of wood. Take shank one hand and, propping up finger under kidney, make knife cross easy cut. Establish knife blade over cut and separate guard together with kidney. At the same time conduct edge smoothly and continuously, moving from below up parallel to shank.
6. Quickly insert the cut-off guard into the cut made on bark of room lemon slightly pressing from top to down. The acting tip of guard needs to be cut off accurately. Densely wind the place of okulirovka with transparent tape and leave kidney together with scape outside. The field of it it is desirable to put plant to the greenhouse and to try to maintain high humidity. Do not put in the sun at all.
7. In due time delete the forming escapes on stock, they muffle growth of desirable scion. If three weeks later the shank has not disappeared and has not turned yellow, so you managed to impart lemon successfully. If it dries up, it is necessary to repeat the procedure at first.