Pineapple - the tropical fruit loved by all. It has gentle taste and pleasant aroma. In pineapple there are substances which promote weight loss. However the few know that our exotic favourite can be grown up on the windowsill. However, the patience and persistence for this purpose will be required. Do you want to try to grow up house pineapple?
Instruction
1. For a start buy pineapple. It has to be surely ripe. At ripe pineapple slightly orange shade between scales. Then accurately cut off fruit top - that place from where leaves grow. It is necessary to cut off without pulp. Then suspend the cut-off top cut up, and foliage down. It has to be in the aired room at the room temperature within 4-7 days. It is better to powder the place of cut pounded wood charcoal or normal activated. It becomes not to allow rotting. Then it is careful, on one remove the lower 15-20 leaflets. Between them you can see thin backs. They cannot be damaged. After that it is possible to maintain top 2-3 more days, but it is possible and to put at once.
2. Pineapple best of all takes roots in previously calcinated sand. However it is possible to manage mix from the cespitose earth, peat, the sheet earth, birch sawdust and coarse sand. The proportion has to be 3:2:2:2:1. Still other mix will approach: the garden earth - 2 parts, the rerotting manure - 1 part, peat - 1 part, the rerotting birch sawdust - 1 part. The pot is better to choose plastic.
3. Now pineapple should be covered from above with plastic bag or can that greenhouse effect was created. But the package or to bank should be raised from time to time to air sapling. It becomes in order to avoid rotting of pineapple. Until pineapple gives roots, there will pass about a month. But that it happened, it is necessary to create it suitable conditions. Water shoot only with warm water - 25-30 degrees. It is possible to pour water not only into the earth, but also into the socket, pineapple loves it. Spray it more often. Create to pineapple additional lighting. Pineapple has to receive light not less than 12 hours a day. He is from tropics, and there warmly, light and is damp. The pineapple which is grown up from shank will blossom and will yield fruit approximately in two years. Then he will die, but will give new shoots.