Lemons are tasty and useful. Their stones easily sprout therefore everyone without any work can grow up small lemon tree on windowsill. And here, that the citrus has blossomed and, moreover, has begun to fructify, it is necessary or to wait for many years, or to help plant, working on science.
Instruction
1. The bought tree is the easier and simplest to force to fructify already ready to it. But it is much more interesting to grow up it independently. At first pave the way for landing. Take flowerpot on 3-4 liters with one or several openings below. Fill up bottom with small layer of haydite or bank sand, they will play drainage role. Fill pot up to the top with the special purchased earth or the most normal, mixed with sand and humus. Soil substrate has to turn out rather friable, in dense soil the roots of lemon will badly expand.
2. Make small opening in the earth, place in it lemon stone and slightly powder it with the earth. Do not dig in seed too deeply, 5-10 mm will be more, than there is enough.
3. Well water the soil, cover pot with film and put to the warm light place, but not under direct sunshine. Germination of stone can last from 1 to 4 weeks, the is fresher stone, the quicker it will sprout. Remove film from pot. Water lemon in process of drying of the top soil layer. Water for watering needs to be settled for full removal from it the chloric connections pernicious for lemon. It is better if water is warm. Do not forget that lemons after all the southern plants.
4. The tree grows from stone quickly, in 2-3 years it can reach half-meter height more. And here such citrus will begin to fructify very at a distant day. You should undergo years 10-15 to receive the first small fruit. To receive own lemons in the near future, the plant is necessary shank. In this case it in 2-3 years will be able to yield the first harvest.
5. If the shank could not be got, then begin to cut off seedling krone gradually. The tree, first, will become accurater you induce to look, and secondly, it to formation of new escapes. Escapes 5-6 about - those that are necessary to you. On them the dichok of lemon forms the first ovaries. Many amateur plant breeders do not know about this feature of lemon trees therefore they cannot wait for harvest years and even decades.
6. For the winter move lemon in the cool room and arrange it dormant period, for the summer return on the usual place. Look after tree with love, and it will surely please you with yellow fragrant fruit.