Agrotechnics for growing citrus fruits in a room is complex. You should start with a lemon, growing and caring for it at home is easier than other sissies. You can buy a young bush, or you can grow it, starting from sowing a seed or rooting a cutting. For all favorable conditions from a plant from a stone, a crop can be obtained in 20 years, from a cutting in 7-8. But a lemon from a stone at home will be more adapted, healthy, beautiful with its dark shiny foliage. You can graft a shoot from a fruiting lemon to it, which will speed up flowering. The choice is for the amateur.
What care does indoor lemon require at home
Lemon is a tree room conditions he also wants to grow. There are several varieties that breeders have accustomed to room content. But they rebel if the care is wrong. Before planting a seed, you need to know that only indoor varieties can share a home with a person. These include:
- Pavlovsky;
- Anniversary;
- Mayer.
These varieties are distinguished by their rapid fruiting and high productivity when caring for lemons at home. When buying a ready-made varietal seedling, flowering should be expected in two or three years.
indoor lemon at good care lives up to 30 years. Lemon after tying is poured for 9 months, but even after that it continues to increase in size, but becomes tasteless and thick-skinned.
It is important to prevent the weakening of the flower and cut off the buds until there are 20 leaves on the bush. Scientists believe that each fruit feeds 9-10 leaves. middle age. Depending on the number of leaves, you need to leave the crop. For the same reason, you need to protect the leaves from shedding, which the plant protests when it is uncomfortable. At the same time, it is obligatory to trim the tops of the branches in order to form new shoots, which means to increase the number of leaves. Therefore, plant care is carried out on the verge of knowledge and intuition. 
Optimal conditions for lemon care
Only if you have a spacious bright room can you count on creating a citrus garden. Even being in a permanent place, the tree does not like to be moved. And for uniform development, it is rotated a few degrees after 10 days, so that a full turn is obtained in a year:
- From the stand to the ceiling must be at least two meters.
- Doesn't take out dry air. Optimally 70% humidity. This means keeping the plant away from the radiator, having a humidifier or an aquarium, equipping the humidity zone with any accessible way and often spray the leaves with a fine spray.
- In summer, it is useful for a lemon to be in the sun for 2 hours, but not longer. Therefore, the morning sun on the eastern window is just right for him. In winter, when growing lemon and caring for at home, 5-6 hours should be organized.
- The temperature of the content for a lemon should be from 14 to 27 degrees. During the flowering period, the lemon needs coolness.
- The watering schedule in summer is very busy. The pot is watered twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, soaking the clod of earth completely. Due to good drainage, water stagnation does not occur. A drip tray must be installed at the bottom to collect water. Soft settled water is used for irrigation.
The temperature should not change drastically. If the plant is introduced from cold veranda in warm room, it will drop foliage. The earth in the barrel is cold, but the leaves are warm! In winter, you need to find the coldest corner in the home for the lemon. Without a full dormant period, flowering in the future will be poor.
Of great importance in caring for a lemon is its formation, keeping it growing with systematic pruning and pinching of the green cone. The deepest pruning is done in the spring. 5-6 living leaves are left on the branches, the rest are removed, and material for propagating lemon by cuttings is obtained from them.
Diseases and pests of lemon
When caring for a lemon at home, and growing it, you need to know the signs of disease in order to quickly correct the mistakes made. Often the plant needs moisture, which can be determined:
- the earth is gray from above, the lump crumbles in the hands;
- the pot makes a loud sound when patted;
- the leaves curled up, and the tops drooped.
As a result, after a while, the leaves, flowers and ovaries will begin to fall.
If the plant does not receive top dressing, the leaves become light, flowering stops, the ovaries begin to fall off. But the same signs and with excessive fertilizer. Therefore, it is necessary to follow the recommended doses and instructions on how to care for lemon at home.
If the plant has not been transplanted for a long time and has not changed the ground, fertilizing watering may not save. The earth has compacted, irrigation water has made passages in the thickness and merges without completely wetting the volume.
As a result of errors in care, a weakened plant is colonized by pests or fungal and bactericidal diseases appear.
Various diseases of citrus fruits are specific, they are called:
- xylopsorosis and tristera - viral incurable;
- gommoz - infectious when a tree trunk is affected;
- malseco - infectious, begins with reddening of the leaves, the tree dies;
- root rot - fungal disease, it is required to remove the damaged parts and transplant into a new soil.
The cause of any disease is improper care behind the plant. And even if the tree does not bear fruit, it has the same diseases.
How to grow a lemon at home
Of great importance is the selection of a container for the plant and substrate. The container must have good drainage holes. The root system of a lemon is compact, the young plant is good for an annual transplant, so create conditions for acidification of the soil in big pot not worth it. For older plants, the land is changed less frequently, but the upper fertile layer is renewed annually.
The composition of the earth:
- leafy humus - 2 parts;
- humus from cattle - 1 part;
- washed river sand - 1 part;
- - 0.25 parts.
At the bottom, lay out a layer of charcoal mixed with expanded clay, add vermiculite to the substrate for looseness. Transplantation of plants should be carried out after the grown roots of the lemon braid a clod of earth, using the transshipment method.
When pruning a lemon tree, a lot of planting material and twigs remained. Cuttings will be obtained from them, if you pinch off a couple of leaves from below and put a green twig in the water. Further, the cutting takes root in the substrate in a small volume. How to care for a lemon obtained from a cutting? After the stalk has given leaf growth, it is contained, as mature plant. At a height of 25 cm, pinch the top of the plant, limiting growth. The resulting central and side shoots in the amount of 4 pieces are left, the rest are cut off into a ring.
Lateral shoots grow by 25 cm and pinch again, repeating the operations, as for the first time. A bush is molded twice more, as a result, enough leaves are obtained on a round tree, and flower buds are laid on the branches. The lemon is ready to bear fruit, it has gained enough strength to feed the pouring fruits.
Propagation of lemon seeds is a lengthy process. The resulting seedling must be grafted in order to obtain a fruit-bearing tree. The wild will develop for a long time, bloom little and the quality of the resulting lemons will be poor. Therefore, the grown plant must be grafted by budding or splitting to get a cultivated tree.
A seedling without grafting will become an excellent ornamental tree with good disease resistance. It is necessary to form a crown so that the bush is neat and does not stretch with branches, taking up a large space.
Video about planting and caring for lemon
Lemon tree - citrus evergreen perennial, which grows in a subtropical climate, and therefore does not tolerate frost well. The growth of a lemon tree in a warm climate occurs year-round, the plant is medium tall, reaches a height of 8 m in open ground. meet and dwarf varieties up to 3 m. Thermophilicity and relative unpretentiousness allows you to successfully grow lemon at home. A lemon tree at home, with proper care, will bear fruit and be able to reach large sizes.
Many domesticated, specially grown lemon varieties can bear fruit. all year round and have a small crown. These varieties (the most famous Pavlovsky variety) allow you to get a small crop of lemons at home on a regular basis. And a few plants can fully provide a small family with citrus fruits.
Planting a lemon at home.
Reproduction of lemon trees is carried out in two ways: cuttings or seeds. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages.
First of all planting material gotta get it somewhere. Everything is clear with seeds - we go to the store and buy the first fruit we like. As with growing avocados at home, the lemon fruit must be ripe, i.e. uniform yellow. Almost all lemon fruits contain seeds. You need to take cuttings somewhere: ask a friend who already has a homemade lemon, you can buy a seedling in a store, or, if you are lucky enough to meet on a trip, cut a branch of a lemon growing in the open field.
A lemon planted at home from a seed is stronger on its own. It grows more actively, adapts better to new conditions, is more unpretentious to diseases, the plant acquires beautiful crown, which cannot be said about trees propagated by cuttings. However, it is worth bearing in mind that a lemon grown from seed will have slightly different biological characteristics than its parent tree. Planting by cuttings naturally involves 100% transfer of the parent's genetic material.
And the most important thing that can affect the choice of how to plant a lemon at home is the beginning of fruiting. A tree from a seed will begin to bloom and bear fruit at the age of 8-10 years, the cutting method of propagation reduces this period by half.
Growing a lemon tree from seed.
Choose well-formed, neat seeds from the lemon fruit. Sow for fidelity at once several pieces from different fruits to exclude unripe specimens. Plant immediately after removing the seeds, in small pots or long boxes at a distance of 5 cm from each other and 3 cm from the walls. The soil should be a mixture of peat and flower land in a ratio of 1:1, with good drainage. 
Dig the seeds to a depth of 1 cm and maintain a constant soil moisture, but without overflow. The optimum temperature for seedlings will be 18-22 degrees Celsius. Lemon sprouts at home appear, as a rule, after 2 weeks. Among the hatched lemons, choose the strongest, most powerful, with correct form. Growing should be done by covering the sprout with a jar - to create a microclimate, in a bright place, but without direct sunlight. Once a day, remove the jar for a while to refresh the air around the lemon. 
After the appearance
pairs of real leaves, plant your favorite specimens in separate pots, no more than 10 cm in diameter, provide drainage. Keep the roots and peat mixture around them intact. To fill the pot, use a mixture of humus and flower soil. In this pot, the lemon should grow to 15-20 cm, then a transplant is necessary.
Propagation of lemon cuttings.
For cuttings, choose branches 4-5 mm thick and about 10 cm long. The cut should be made directly under the kidney from below, and above the kidney from above. 3-4 formed buds and 2-3 leaves should remain on the handle. It is desirable to treat the twig with a root growth stimulator, and then place it 1/2 length in water for 3 days. For rooting homemade lemon cuttings, use boxes or pots with a mixture of humus, coarse sand and flower land in equal shares. Dig the cuttings into a compacted substrate to a depth of 3 cm. The absence of roots at the first stage does not allow you to get enough moisture from the soil, therefore lemon Tree needs daily spraying of leaves. The soil should be well moistened, without stagnant water. The air temperature is optimal for rooting - 20-25 degrees Celsius. The final rooting occurs after 30-45 days. The homemade lemon tree can then be transplanted into a small pot.
Growing conditions and care for homemade lemon.
The soil for growing lemon at home should have a good supply of nutritious mineral and organic matter. A flower mix sold in stores is quite suitable, or soil with suburban area enriched with humus. Be sure to organize good drainage at the bottom of the pot using expanded clay or charcoal. Stagnation of water in a pot during irrigation is unacceptable, however, you need to ensure that the entire earthen ball receives moisture, otherwise the plant will begin to lose roots and hurt. 
Watering is carried out about 2 times a week, allowing the soil to be completely saturated with moisture, and then dry. In case of overflow and decay of the soil, it must be completely replaced. An ideal container for growing lemons is a clay pot. Due to its moisture permeability, it helps to balance soil moisture by absorbing and evaporating excess.
Lemon is a light-loving plant, a grown tree needs direct sunlight for about 2 hours a day. Lemon at home does not tolerate rearrangement to a new place, so it is advisable from the very beginning to determine a permanent place for a home tree in a room with south-facing windows. You can turn the pot of lemon to form the correct crown, but gradually, every day for small angle so that the plant has time to turn the foliage. 
Every year as you grow homemade lemon needs to be transplanted into a new pot. The new container should be slightly larger than the previous one by 1-2 cm in diameter. The old earthen ball with roots must be removed with the least damage and transferred to a larger pot, and the difference filled with new earth. When the pot reaches 8-10 liters in volume, transplants can be replaced with top dressing, and the topsoil can be renewed 2 times a year.
Optimum temperature growing lemon: 18-27 degrees Celsius. Lemon, like all indoor plants, does not like drafts, especially in winter. It is advisable to spray homemade lemon with water several times a week to maintain a comfortable humidity. In winter, during the heating season, daily spraying is required.
To give an aesthetic appearance to a lemon at home, it is necessary to form a crown of the type you need. In the first year of life, the tree gives one shoot up to 30 cm high. In the second year, before the start of active growth - in the spring, it is necessary to cut it with secateurs or sharp knife the top of the shoot, leaving about 20 cm. 
This stimulates the tree to release lateral buds. Then you need to remove the lower kidneys, leaving the top 3. Of these, the skeletal main branches of the homemade lemon crown will develop. The next year, we perform the same operation with the lateral branches of the second order: we shorten them, stimulating them to lateral growth, and leave a few upper buds on each. Often, after cutting the central shoot, the lemon releases only one new sprout from above, then it is necessary to re-cut the branch along with the top, and if the length allows, then the second bud from the top. The lemon tree usually acquires beautiful view in the presence of main branches up to 5-6 branching levels. In the future, to maintain shape, it is enough to pinch individual rapidly growing shoots, or remove them altogether.
With proper care, after a few years, a home-grown lemon will begin to bloom. To form the ovaries, transfer the pollen with a cotton swab from the anther to the sticky stamen. If a lot of fruits are tied, then some will need to be removed. Otherwise, the plant may die from exhaustion. For normal development, one fruit should have 10-15 leaves.
citrus tree it will bring a piece of subtropical warmth into the house, the aroma exuded by the leaves will provide a pleasant atmosphere in the room, and if you have patience, you can easily get your own, albeit small, crop of lemons.
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A subtropical tree called a lemon will definitely take its place in the home green corner. Everyone can grow it, provided that the shrub is provided with a favorable microclimate. Learn how to plant a lemon at home, and one day it will reach a truly large size. In addition, lemons are actively fruiting. If you follow the basic care recommendations, your tree will bear fruit throughout the year.
Planting a lemon is carried out by two common methods: cuttings or seeds. Each of the methods has its advantages and disadvantages, but it is equally widely used by domestic flower growers. To plant a lemon at home competently, it is worth considering both technologies. Thus, you can choose the most optimal method for yourself.
Bone
How to properly plant a lemon tree using seeds - flower growers who are first faced with such a need are often interested in this. First of all, you need to select high-quality seed. Take only large seeds for planting. Direct planting of grains in the ground is carried out in stages:
- in flower pot pour a substrate specially designed for planting citrus plants;
- sow lemon seeds in the ground;
- at the end of the procedure, thoroughly moisten the soil, but avoid excessive accumulation of water in the ground. Otherwise, the seeds will begin to rot, and seedlings will not appear;
- in one pot it is recommended to sow several grains of homemade lemon at once. When they finally sprout, you can leave the strongest ones in the ground. Another option - all the sprouts you like can simply be planted in different containers;
- when you decide on lemon sprouts at home, be sure not to damage the root system, which is already quite frail. That is why it is better not to touch the earthen ball that envelops the rhizome of the plant.
This planting method is not bad and is often used by domestic flower growers. However, not all so simple. There is an opinion that a lemon grown does not bear fruit on its own. This is possible, but the situation is fixable. To do this, it is recommended to graft an ascended and strengthened plant from another citrus tree (grapefruit or orange), which has been growing in your home flower garden for several years.
cutting
Such a tree at home is often propagated. To do this, you will need to cut off, leaving two kidneys along the edges. It is desirable that each future sprout has 2-3 leaves and the same number of buds. When the branch is cut, dip it briefly in a growth stimulator, and then put it in water for a few days. Planting occurs, as a rule, at a time when the stalk has not yet rooted. That is why it is very important to be able to properly care for the plant. Carefully spray newly planted sprouts, because in the absence of roots, the future tree is still unable to receive moisture from the soil.
Landing time
How to plant a lemon? The result is influenced not only by the method of disembarkation or quality, but also by the period that is most optimal for such a procedure. For the most part, a lemon tree is planted in the ground in late winter or early spring. What is favorable for this time of year is the phase of awakening the tree itself and the activation of life. A plant rooted during this period will quickly take root.
What kind of soil is needed
To planting and caring for houseplant proved to be effective, special attention should be paid to the selection or preparation of a quality substrate.
It must meet two key requirements: be loose and include various nutrients. In addition to the earth, it is recommended to put a layer of drainage in the flowerpot. The very same soil mixture is considered optimal for growing indoor lemon, if it includes light loamy soil, leafy, as well as sand and humus. Of course, some flower growers prefer to dig up ordinary earth somewhere on personal plot. However, if you want to grow a full-fledged lemon tree, such land will be too scarce for him.
Capacity selection
It is necessary to plant a lemon tree in a properly selected container. You should not immediately purchase a voluminous flower pot: in an excessively large space root system plants can rot. As for the material, it can be plastic, glass, and wood. However, it is still preferable to buy a clay container in which indoor flower will feel at ease. You will have to water a planted lemon quite often, so you can’t do without drainage holes in the pot.
Landing instructions
Florists often ask how to properly plant a lemon using cuttings. You will get the desired result, provided that you adhere to the basic recommendations. Special attention pay attention to the recess in the ground of the root neck of the tree: it should not be located deeper than 5 mm in the substrate. Plant the cutting in such a way that in the future the root collar does not begin to rot. After you plant all the branches, it's time to spray them first with water and then with a solution of potassium permanganate.
Further care
It is not difficult if you provide him with a humid microclimate. The plant must not only be watered and sprayed, but also thoroughly washed with leaves. During the growth of the vegetative mass, lemon is recommended to be fed with mineral and biofertilizers. Give preference to formulations with a liquid consistency. Remember that you will bring much less harm to the shrub if you underfeed it with vitamins, rather than vice versa.
Tell me how to grow a lemon at home? My daughter wants to plant a seed, but I'm leaning towards the option with a seedling. I'm planning to go shopping this weekend. What does a homemade citrus tree need to grow well?
Among indoor ornamental plants it is worth highlighting the lemon trees. Glossy dark foliage and an easy-to-shape crown make them look very pretty. In addition, with proper care, they will also delight you with fragrant vitamin fruits. Of course, there are always on sale, but homemade is tastier, and even more useful. There is nothing complicated about how to grow a lemon at home, no. After the next purchase of exotic fruits, just do not throw away the seeds, but plant them. And you can make it even easier - if possible, buy a young seedling in a flower shop and surround it with care and attention.
In room conditions, undersized varieties of lemon are most often grown. Among them, it is worth noting Canadian lemon, Chinese dwarf and Genoa. Their height does not exceed 1 m, besides, the fruits are tasty, because they are lemon-orange hybrids. Slightly higher and sourer are Lunario, Maikopsky and Pavlovsky lemons.
We grow homemade lemon from a seedling
Most fast way get a beautiful tree and drink tea with the first sour fruits - purchase a ready-made seedling in the store. First of all, transplant it from the transport soil into nutritious light soil. For the first time, a pot of up to 2 liters will suffice. Do not forget about drainage - it will protect the roots from rotting.
The soil for a lemon can be made at home by mixing sand, humus and soddy soil in equal proportions.
Lemon loves the sun, but it is better to choose a place for him where the lighting will be diffused. But in winter, when the day is shorter, the plant will feel better on the window.
Caring for indoor lemon is simple and includes:
- Daily watering in summer and less frequent (once a week) in winter. Do not use cold water so as not to cause disease. In summer, spray the crown often, especially if you take the lemon outside. In winter, simply wipe the foliage with a damp sponge.
- Regular seasonal feeding. Get a special mineral complex - it contains the full composition nutrients required by citrus plants.
- Annual transplant. Transfer the bush along with a clod of earth into a more spacious flowerpot, but you do not need to take too large dishes. In it, the soil remains wet longer, which is fraught with the occurrence of fungal infections.
- Pruning. In the spring, shorten long shoots and cut branches growing deep into the crown. This will help the tree to get a beautiful look.
How to grow a lemon at home from a seed?
If you decide to go through all the steps on your own and cherish a citrus pet, choose large seeds from a large lemon. Then everything is simple:
- pour the substrate into small pots with drainage holes;
- moisturize it;
- plant a bone, but do not bury it too much - 2 cm is enough;
- if desired, cover the container with a film, but you can do without it;
- put the flowerpot on a bright and warm windowsill.
After about a month, you will see a green sprout appear from the ground. When the seedling grows up to 4 leaves, transplant it into a large bowl and take care of it as you would a store seedling. The only thing worth considering is that a lemon grown from a seed will not begin to bear fruit soon. If you do not want to wait 5 years, or even 3 times longer, it is better to plant your own lemon.
And everyone already has their favorite varieties, we prefer them among the many others that are widely represented in our stores. Is it possible to grow a lemon from a seed at home?
Admirers of a wonderful plant have also appeared, they selflessly grow lemon trees in their apartments, even varieties of fruit-bearing indoor lemons bred and successfully grown.
Preparatory activities
How to choose the right place?
How to grow at home?
Here we will try to figure out how (seeds) are at home, is it possible and what are the ways.
From the bone
Variety selection
Homemade lemon is much easier to grow from seed than cuttings. When propagated by seeds, the plant grows faster, gets sick less, it is unpretentious, and more easily adapts to adverse conditions. In order to grow a full-fledged tree at home, it is important to choose suitable grade. Best suited for home growing the following varieties:
- Pavlovsky. It has huge fruits weighing up to 500 grams, the taste is sweet, the growth of the tree is over 2 meters, the leaves of the tree exude a wonderful aroma.
- Meyer. This is a hybrid weighing up to 150 grams, the taste is sweet and sour, it gives a rich harvest.
- Anniversary. This is the variety that gives bountiful harvest. It differs from other varieties in that the skin of the fruit is thick.
- Genoa. Most unpretentious variety, which has a fragrant taste, gives a harvest relatively early - at 4 - 5 years of life.
- Ponderosa. It is a hybrid of grapefruit and lemon with a rather bitter taste, this variety differs from others in that it constantly blooms.
Choose the most suitable fruit, in your opinion, the way you would like to see your harvest, and even better, just in case, a couple, for safety.
Seed preparation
The most important thing is that you can not use bones that have been extracted for a long time and have had time to dry. You need to take fresh, be sure to ripe lemons, carefully remove the seeds from them, wash them warm water and plant, and in order for the seed to germinate faster, you can carefully remove the hard surface of the stone with a sharp knife. If the shell is not removed, then you need to lower the bones for several hours in a growth stimulator solution. The seeds must not be allowed to dry out, they must be planted wet.
Instruction
To germinate a lemon from a stone (seed), it must be planted in a small container, to a depth of 3 centimeters, covered with a film and put in a warm place.
Sprouted young plants up to 15-20 centimeters can develop in containers for sowing, but as they grow, they need to be moved to individual pots. When the lemon reaches 30 centimeters in height, the top must be cut to 20 centimeters, this activates the growth of side shoots.
IMPORTANT! Watch for their uniform growth. It is necessary to form a lemon before the appearance of shoots of the 5th and 6th orders, pinching is best done in the spring.
Read about the rules for forming a lemon crown and the secrets of pruning a tree at home.
Plants from seeds are distinguished by enviable health, but, like all plants obtained from seeds, they come into fruition later than those that were grafted with a varietal bud onto a seedling.
Watch a video on how to properly plant a lemon seed:
From a cutting
Cutting a lemon at home is a propagation method in which the qualities of the mother plant are copied, and you will know exactly what kind of fruit will appear on your plant.
On the handle must have a few leaves. and 2 or 3 buds on both sides, the length of the handle is about 10 centimeters.
cuttings needed place in a solution of Heteroauxin or Kornevit, these are root growth stimulants, and then at the time specified in the instructions for the drug, plant in a pot with soil.
Do not forget to arrange drainage at the bottom of the pot, fragments of ceramic pots, broken, red brick are good for this.
Pour the stalk cover glass jar , and leave to root. The jar will exclude excessive evaporation, films, bags are not very stable, you may not notice the loss of moisture and the drying of the soil.
Rooting is determined by the appearance of growth. Cuttings are also a great way to propagate a lemon at home.
Care
Gardeners note that lemon is a capricious plant. The development of a plant is highly dependent on the composition of the soil. Approximately the following composition is recommended: 1 part of sand, 1 part of manure, 3 parts of leafy soil and 2 parts of loam. It is desirable to choose a pot from burnt clay.
You can find more information about caring for indoor lemon at.
Watering
Too good is also not good, we can say about excessive moisture, a plant regularly exposed to overflow will die due to rotting of the root system. Watering the lemon is necessary as the soil dries., it is important not to forget about timely loosening, which is not in vain called dry irrigation - the evaporation of moisture after loosening is significantly reduced.
subtropical plants love spraying, air humidity during heating season Easy to adjust with water bottle. Evaporating, it maintains the microclimate of the room.
NOTE! Watering and fertilizing winter time should not be excessive, the plant is resting.
Water the plant abundantly with settled water. In winter it is desirable to heat the water. IN summer time water 2-4 times a week, in the afternoon. In winter, water once in the morning.
You will find more tips on caring for homemade lemons in the winter at, and we talked about the features of caring for a tree in the fall.
Lighting
The pot with the plant should be placed so that the sun's rays fall on it less than 3 hours a day.
top dressing
The ideal option for feeding a lemon is the alternation of organic and mineral species fertilizers. In winter, it is necessary to reduce the amount of fertilizer, low temperatures render negative impact for absorption.
Important: you can not water dry soil with top dressing, the lemon will get a burn of the root system.
Read about how and what to feed a room lemon at home.
growing up
As you grow every spring in a pot of centimeters 5 more than before, it is not necessary to plant in a pot for growth.
There is no need to replant a grown lemon either, every spring the top layer of soil in the container where your tree lives is replaced with humus or fertile garden soil with the addition of humus, and this is enough for him.
Also developed and widely used complex fertilizer Zdraven for citrus fruits, it contains the whole complex of macro and microelements necessary for the growth and fruiting of plants.
grown lemon can be placed in the garden for the summer, the place should be protected from winds and other possible adversities, a sharp change in lighting can have a bad effect, be careful.
Now you know how to grow a lemon at home, and most importantly, how to do it right. Now let's look at the main lemon diseases and pests to protect our crop.
A useful video on how to properly transplant seedlings into separate pots:
Pests and diseases
Your lemon may be interested in aphids, scale insects, mealybugs or spider mite if there are few pests, shake them off into a special container so that they do not run away, from the trunk with a soft toothbrush, but with a cotton swab from the leaves, and treat the plant soapy water anabasine sulfate.
ATTENTION! If there are a lot of pests, spray the plant preparations Actellik, Ditox or any other insecticide for indoor plants.
Sores that appear on the bark must be cleaned and processed blue vitriol, mold, wherever they settled, you just need to clean it with a damp cloth.
It also happens that the leaves of a room lemon fall off, curl or change their color. We talked about the causes of this phenomenon, as well as ways to deal with it in.
Will there be fruits?
If you plant a room lemon with seeds, then it will begin to bear fruit in 7-9 years, if by cuttings - in 3-4 years, by layering - in 1-2 years.
To speed up fruiting, there are the following methods:
- splitting. Make an incision on the seedling and attach a cutting from a fruit-bearing tree, wrap it with electrical tape, cover it on top plastic wrap, like take root - remove the film.
- Budding.We cut the seedling to 10 cm and plant a fruit-bearing stalk to it. Both methods greatly accelerate fruiting. The plant may not bloom if the cutting was taken from a tree that had not previously fruited.
Lemon fruits have both useful and healing, and harmful properties. You can read about them at.
In case of non-compliance temperature regime, insufficient lighting, irregular pruning and disease damage, the plant will not bear fruit.
You can make a lemon bloom using cross-pollination during the flowering period within the same variety.
Conclusion
Paying great attention to the question of how to grow a lemon tree at home from a seed, we forget that this beautiful plant with glossy, dark green leaves, fills the room in which it grows with a light lemon scent. Essential oils lemons are volatile, they purify the air of bacteria, and aromatherapists consider it a source of vigor and good mood.
Therefore, growing a lemon in a pot can be not only for the sake of fruits, but also as lovely decoration your interior, the main thing is to observe.