Avocado, or "alligatorova pear" belongs to family of laurel. In nature grows in damp tropics where reaches up to twenty meters in height. House avocado loves bright light and moisture not only soils, but also air.
Instruction
1. In house conditions sapling of avocado can be received, having landed fruit stone. When the sapling has first 3-6 leaves, replace it in pot. The first change can be made in quite big pot to ten centimeters in the diameter. Avocado — fast-growing plant, but for the first year of life such "lodge" will be the most suitable. As soon as the tree reaches growth to meter, replace it again.
2. Prepare structure of the soil independently from the following components: the garden and sheet lands, peat and sand taken in equal parts. As avocado badly grows in sour soils, add lime to mix. The soil has to be easy, friable.
3. That the tree could be taken easily from pot, well humidify the soil under avocado. Having carefully taken out from pot, attentively examine roots, remove with secateurs or knife the decayed and died off shoots.
4. On bottom of new pot pour out haydite layer for strengthening of drainage, powder with earth mix and accurately place plant roots, trying to distribute them on all surface of the bottom of pot. You discipline trunk of tree vertically.
5. Form crown already at the first change. Prishchipyvy tops of young branches, it is possible to achieve that avocado will have sprawling rich cap from large leaves.
6. Choose the place for avocado with bright light, but without direct beams of the sun. The bush loves the damp friable soil therefore observe the mode of watering strictly. Air temperature can be to +35oc in the summer, and during the winter period the plant can die already at +10oc.
7. If at avocado tops of escapes begin to dry up, to fall down leaves – means, it lacks moisture. Spray plant with water, you remember that in the summer it needs to be done daily.
8. You make fertilizing of plant one of the complex ready fertilizers intended for houseplants once a month.
9. In house conditions "alligatorova pear" seldom blossoms, does not fructify. Generally the tree is used as decorative element for decoration of interior. In height the bush reaches 2-2.5 meters, at the same time the thin brown trunk is gradually exempted from leaves, forming spherical krone. Prishchipyvy run, you can create the necessary form for it.