Wild lemon tree perfectly adapts to the natural climate and can actively bloom and fruit with any weather. But at home, the citrus plant begins to capricious, becomes overly sensitive to any temperature fluctuations and movements. To give the southern variety of proper care, you need to carefully examine its features.
The reproduction of the lemon tree is produced by shifting, grain, vaccination and seeds. However, few lovers of exotic plants are decided to remove the culture on their own. Basically, the young seedling get completely ripe in a specialized store and bring home. So, you have a new sub-emergency resident, what to do next?
How to care for lemon - place and lighting
Home lemon must be placed in a well-lit room. Ideal - a window from Eastern and Western side, reflecting the scattered rays of the sun. The plant can be kept on a scorching area of \u200b\u200bno more than 2-3 hours per day, with exceeding time, burns may form on gentle leaves. In winter, citrus culture will require additional backlight.
- Home lemons have a feature to deploy their leaves in the direction of the incoming light. So that the Kruna village does not look at one-sided, the Vase is needed once every 15-18 days to gently rotate.
Long-term foundation (for more twelve hours) leads to a slowdown of fruiting and an increase in green mass. With insufficient lighting, the growth of citrus is slowed down, and the root system becomes vulnerable to infection with fungal diseases.
How to care for lemon - temperature regime
Lemons are especially demanding about compliance with the temperature regime. When the tree begins to form a wound, form buds and flowers, you need to create a plant cool, at least + 15-18 degrees. Excess temperature permissible can lead to dropping flowers and fading of leaves.
Throughout the winter time, citrus is needed in a bright room, with a temperature of no more than +12 degrees. For these purposes, a warmed loggia will be perfect. The deprivation of a wintering plant may entail the lack of fruiting and disease appearance.
How to care for lemon - humidity
The leaves, trunk and soil of lemon wood require a constant humidity, at least 70% at a temperature of 20 degrees. In the summer, the plant spray 1-2 times a day. If lemon is contained in the winter period next to hot batteries, the spraying must be saved. Leaves and shoots suffering from dry air can overcome mites and shields.
How to care for lemon - soil
Scroll for lemon wood should be not acidic, with a neutral reaction. Adult trees need drainage from fine rubble, crushed foam or charcoal. The exemplary composition of the soil should consist of:
- 1 pieces of sand, 1 piece of leaf land, 3 pieces of turf, 1 part of humus.
In order for the root system to breathe and missed water well, the top layer of the soil is neatly loosened every two weeks.
How to care for lemon - watering
Starting from March and continuing until mid-October, lemon shed abundantly 2 times a day, pre-accumulated water.
During the wintering period, watering is reduced to 1 time in 7 days. But it is not necessary to forget about the regular inspection of the state of the leaves and the earth coma. If lemon will experience a lack of moisture, the leaves will yellow, twist and fall. In this case, you need to wrap the trunk of wet gauze, the crown should be ached and shed good soil.
How to care for lemon - feeding
The most important component of the care of capricious culture is the regular fertilization. The finished feed mixes can be bought in a flower shop, they contain all the necessary trace elements that provide good growth and abundant fruiting.
- In the first summer months, the first feeding is made - it will prevent the bitter taste of greeted lemons, peculiar to room plants.
- Further fertilizers are made every 3 weeks, 15 minutes after watering.
If citrus is getting an additional backlight in the winter, their root system also needs fertilizer.
How to care for lemon - trimming and transplant
The young tree is transplanted into the deeper vase 1 time per year in early spring or in mid-September. Three-year-fastened plants are alarming less often, there will be enough transplant times every two or three years.
- Before transplanting the root system is spilled abundantly, after which it is neatly removed from the pot.
- Extra spoiled roots are deleted.
- The new vase should be one and a half times more than the previous one, preferably with a cone-shaped form.
Timely trimming will give rise to new shoots and increase fruiting. When lemon reaches 20-25 cm, the trunk needs to be discharging to appear lateral branches. To accelerate the formation of obscenities, there is one trick - the trunk is grabbed with copper wire, together with 2 branches of the lower tier, the procedure is called ringing. This technique disrupts the exchange processes of the plant, stimulating the appearance of the kidneys in the field of the copper ring. As a result, the winner of the lemon will receive the first harvest for 3-4 years earlier.
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