How to grow a mandarin from a bone

From a stone it is possible to grow practically any citrus tree - though a lemon, though an orange, though a mandarin. Just remember that it will not begin to bear fruit, in 10-15 years, and the fruits will be acidic - fromBones in you will grow wild. To obtain tasty fruits at home, a mandarin grown from a bone will need to be planted with cuttings of cultivated plants.

To grow a mandarin from a bone, you need to sprout it first. For planting, you need to take fresh bones,which were recently removed from the fetus and had not yet dried. Saturate water with cotton wool or gauze, put bones on it and do not forget to wet it with water from time to time so that the cotton wool (gauze) does not dry out. Wait for the seeds to swell (or better yet, be patient and let them germinate), and then plant.

For planting is best to take in the flower shop special land for citrus fruits, although in principle any light earthmixture. For example, you can mix leafy ground, tuft ground, compost and completely reparted manure with humus in equal parts. A mixture based on peat to do or buy is not worth it. Do not forget about drainage.

Seedlings will not appear soon: a mandarin may take two to three weeks, andthen a month to germinate. Mandarin tree generally grows slowly, sometimes it can even stop growing. But sooner or later your mandarin will become a beautiful tree, if, of course, you will properly take care of it.

To grow a mandarin from a bone, it is necessary to observe certain rules of leaving. At all, mandarin - unpretentious wood (and in general, and even among citrus fruits), but this does not mean that in nursing he does not need at all. One of the most important conditions for the normal development of a tree is the abundance of light.

Mandarin is a light-loving plant, it needs year-round intensive lighting 12 hours a day. Since the sunlight falling into theapartment through the window, it is not enough, you need additional lighting with a fluorescent lamp, or better - a special lamp for plants. In the warm season, you can take out a mandarin tree on a balcony, priteniv from direct sunlight.

Also for mandarin, moisture is important. In summer, the tree should be watered abundantly (but notfill), in winter, watering should be reduced, but at the same time to ensure that the soil does not dry up. In addition, it should be sprayed daily with clean water (it is best to take filtered or boiled) to compensate for the dryness of the air. You can put a small room fountain next to the additional humidification of air.

As the mandarin tree grows, it needs to be transplanted into a larger pot. It is best to do this in late winter - earlyspring. You need to take a pot 3-5 cm in diameter larger than the previous one. Transplant the mandarin tree by transshipment method, keeping the old earth litter as much as possible, so as not to damage the root system of the plant.

A few weeks after the transplant, the tree should begin a period of active growth. Such periods will be repeated several times during the spring-summer season. In this period, you need once a week or two to feed mandarin with mineral and organic fertilizers. You can use as a fertilizer spit tea brew, which you need to dig into the soil.

Pomegranate can interfere with the normal development of mandarin, most often the mandarin suffers from cobwebsticks and mock frogs. Therefore, watch your mandarin carefully and process it with special preparations on time, noticing the first signs of pest infestation.

To grow a mandarin from a bone is not too difficult. Just give him a little of your attention - and After a while your home garden will decorate a cute evergreen tree.