To grow up in own apartment small limonariya, the amateur plant breeder needs to work much. In house conditions the lemon is very whimsical. Especially great difficulty – reproduction of this plant. Not all young escapes turn into the fructifying lemon tree. Try to master for a start the easiest way of cultivation of citrus – cherenkovaniye.
It is required to you
- - healthy maternal plant;
- - garden knife;
- - pots with a diameter of 10 cm;
- - mix of sand and earth;
- - glass jars on number of pots;
- - watering can for watering;
- - thermometer.
Instruction
1. Wait for the best time for lemon cherenkovaniye. It is considered that young lemon escapes not bad take roots in the first half of summer. If you gather to grow upcitrushouse in normal flowerpot, then and take saplings only from house plant – the healthiest, fructifying. "Children" and maternal tree have to grow in identical conditions.
2. Choose suitable shanks. It is recommended to use last year's young escapes with 3-5 kidneys. Their thickness has to reach not less than 0.4 cm, and length – about 10 cm.
3. Cut off shanks of lemon couple millimeters lower than the lower peephole, and from above cut off each escape couple millimeters higher than top kidney. Work with very sharp garden knife, doing diagonal cuts.
4. Land shanks in pairs in pots with a diameter about 10 cm, in mix of sand and the earth. Limonchiki have to stand on some distance from each other not to shade leaves of the neighbor. Landing depth - about 5 cm.
5. Carefully stamp and water shanks, then cover future trees with glass jars – it is necessary for ensuring greenhouse effect. In such conditions usually root system of house lemon develops pretty fast. Only during the heat it is necessary to raise slightly banks that shanks breathed a little.
6. Provide optimal conditions for reproduction of lemon with shanks. On pots direct sunshine should not get; indoors it is impossible to allow drafts at all. For rooting of shanks temperature from 20 to 25 degrees is good, and here for regular watering it is necessary to warm up water to 27 degrees.
7. If you have chosen healthy shanks of lemon and correctly looked after them, then in month they will give roots. The top kidney will begin to develop. Now gradually reduce temperature in the improvised hotbed, more and more raising banks. Then remove them at all and let's small trees develop in some conditions with maternal plant. The strengthened lemons can yield fruits for the third year.