Pomegranate – fruit plant is from subtropics of Central Asia and North Africa. This plant is parted for the sake of its juicy fruits. In house conditions grow up dwarfish forms of pomegranate which fruits in food are not suitable. Pomegranate shanks and seeds breeds.
- - pomegranate seeds;
- - potassium permanganate;
- - potassium humate;
- - cespitose earth;
- - sheet earth;
- - bank sand;
- - drainage.
1. The situation when in some of big flowerpots there were pomegranate sprouts which have sprouted from the seeds which are accidentally thrown there in the winter or in the fall in the spring is familiar to many fans of houseplants. If you want to see shoots in month, seed pomegranate in February or the beginning of March. It is the best of all to use the seeds which are just taken from fruit.
2. Wash out fresh seeds of pomegranate in water of room temperature and process weak solution of potassium permanganate. If you ordered seeds by mail, before crops wet them in the potassium humate solution prepared at the rate of one milliliter of medicine on water liter.
3. Prepare substrate of equal amount of the washed-out sand and the cespitose earth. Sand for mix is sometimes recommended not only wash out, but also to steam the earth. In order that to make it, pour water into big capacity and put it on plate. Lay out the earth in sieve and put it on the vessel with the boiling water. It is necessary to steam the earth within three-four hours. It is the best of all to do it indoors with good ventilation.
4. Cool the steam-seasoned earth, mix it with sand. Fill up mix in container in which you will couch seeds such layer that from the surface of soil to top of container there were about two centimeters.
5. Close up seeds in the prepared soil on depth of half-centimeter or centimeter. For maintaining humidity cover capacity with seeds glass or polyethylene film. Air temperature in the turned-out hotbed should not fall lower than twenty degrees. Check soil dampness if it has begun to dry up, water it with warm water.
6. Grenades sprout unevenly, the first sprouts can appear in two-three weeks after crops, other seeds can sprout in one and a half months. Cases when sprouts appeared how substrate in which there were pomegranate seeds has been used for landing of other plants are known.
7. After emergence of sprouts uncover container. As soon as seedlings have the third couple of leaves, dive them in separate small tanks. On bottom place drainage layer, and as soil use mix from equal amount of sand, the sheet and cespitose earth.