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Agrotehnika growing citrus in difficult room. It should start with lemon, growing and caring at home is easier for him than for other sons. You can buy a young bush, and you can grow it, starting from sowing a seed or rooting the cutting. Under all favorable conditions from the plant from the seed, the crop can be obtained in 20 years, from the cutting in 7-8.But the lemon from the stone at home will be more adapted, healthy, beautiful with its dark shiny foliage. To him you can graft escape from fruiting lemon, which will accelerate flowering. The choice is for the lover.
What kind of care does a room lemon require at home?
Lemon is a tree; in room conditions, it also tends to grow. There are several varieties that breeders have accustomed to room maintenance. But they rebel if the withdrawal 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 entry into fruiting and high productivity in caring for lemon at home. When buying a finished varietal seedling bloom need to wait two or three years.
Room lemon with good care lives up to 30 years. The lemon after setting is poured 9 months, but after it continues to increase in size, but becomes tasteless and thick-skinned.
It is important to prevent weakening of the flower and tear off the buds until there are 20 leaves on the bush. Scientists believe that each fruit is fed 9-10 leaves of mature age. Depending on the number of leaves you need to leave the harvest. For the same reason, you need to protect the leaves from shedding, which the plant protests when it is uncomfortable. At the same time, cutting the tops of the branches is obligatory to form new shoots, which means an increase in the number of leaves. Therefore, the care of the plant is carried out on the verge of knowledge and intuition. 
Optimal conditions in the care of a lemon
Only if you have a spacious bright room you can count on creating a citrus orchard. Even being in a permanent place, the tree does not like to be moved. And for a uniform development, it is turned a few degrees in 10 days, so that a full turn is achieved in a year:
- There should be at least two meters from the stand to the ceiling.
- Lemon can not stand dry air. Optimal 70% humidity. This means keeping the plant away from the radiator, having a humidifier or an aquarium, equipping the humidity zone in any way possible and often spraying the leaves with a fine spray.
- In summer, it is useful for lemon to stay under the sun for 2 hours, but not longer. Therefore, the morning sun on the east window for him just right. In winter, when growing lemon and caring at home, it should be organized lighting 5-6 hours.
- The content temperature for a lemon should be between 14 and 27 degrees. In the flowering period, the lemon needs cool.
- The irrigation schedule in summer is very stressful. The pot is watered twice a day, in the morning and in the evening, soaking the whole lump of earth. Due to good drainage, water stagnation does not occur. At the bottom should be installed pan to collect water. For irrigation using soft distilled water.
The temperature should not change dramatically. If the plant is brought from a cold veranda into a warm room, it will throw off the foliage. The ground in the barrel is cold, and the leaves are warm! In winter, you need to find a lemon the coldest corner in the home. Without a full-fledged rest period, the flowering will later be scanty.
Of great importance in the care of a lemon is its formation, keeping it in growth with systematic pruning and pinching of the green cone. The deepest pruning is done in spring.5-6 live leaves are left on the branches, the rest are removed, and material for propagation of lemon is obtained from them by cuttings.
- is on top of the ground gray, the lump crumbles in the hands;
- pot makes a ringing sound when patting;
- leaves curled up, and the tips wilted.
As a result, after a while, the leaves, flowers and ovaries begin to fall off.
If the plant does not receive top dressing, the leaves become light, the flowering stops, the ovaries begin to fall. But the same signs and with excessive fertilizer. Therefore, it is necessary to observe the recommended doses and instructions on how to take care of a lemon at home.
If a plant has not been transplanted or changed land for a long time, fertilizer irrigation may not be saved. The earth is compacted, the irrigation water has made moves in the thickness and merges, without completely moistening the volume.
As a result of care errors, a weakened plant is colonized by insect pests or fungal and bactericidal diseases occur.
Various specific citrus diseases, they are called:
- xylopsorosis and trister - viral incurable;
- gommosis - infectious, when a tree trunk is affected;
- malseco is infectious, starts with redness of leaves, the tree dies;
- root rot - a fungal disease, it is required to remove the damaged parts and transplant into a new soil.
The cause of any disease is improper care of the plant. And even if the tree does not bear fruit, he has the same diseases.
How to grow lemon at home
Of great importance is the selection of the container for the plant and the substrate. The tank should have good drainage holes. The lemon root system is compact, the young plant is good for annual transplanting, therefore it is not worth creating conditions for acidification of the soil in a large pot. For older plants, the land is changed less frequently, but the upper fertile layer is updated annually.
Composition of the land:
- deciduous humus - 2 parts;
- humus from cattle - 1 part;
- river washed sand - 1 part;
- wood ash - 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 is carried out after the grown roots of a lemon will entangle a lump of earth, using the method of transshipment.
When pruning the lemon tree, a lot of planting material and twigs remain. They will produce cuttings if you pinch a couple of leaves from below and put a green sprig in the water. Further, the stalk rooted in the substrate in a small volume. How to care for lemon, obtained from the cutting? After the stalk has given leafy shoots, it is kept as an adult plant. At a height of 25 cm, the plants pinch the tip, limiting growth. The resulting central and lateral shoots in the amount of 4 pieces left, the rest cut off on the ring.
. Side shoots grow by 25 cm and pinch again, repeating operations, as for the first time. A bush is formed twice more, as a result, enough leaves are obtained on a round tree, and flower buds are laid on the branches. Lemon is ready for fruiting, it has gained enough strength to feed the growing fruits.
Lemon propagation by seeds is a long process. The resulting seedling must be inoculated to obtain a fruiting tree. The wilderness will develop for a long time, it will be little to bloom and the quality of the obtained lemon will be poor. Therefore, the grown plant should be planted by budding or splitting it in order to obtain a cultivated tree.
Seedling without vaccination will be 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 its branches, occupying a large space.
