How to grow a lemon at home?

The easiest way to grow a lemon from a bone is in the sense that it is the most affordable planting material. To plant the stone, you need to prepare the soil. Composition of land mixture for indoor lemon the following:

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  turf ground - 2 parts;
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  sheet earth - 1 part;
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  greenhouse humus - 0.5 parts;
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  large river sand - 0.5 parts;
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  a little chopped charcoal (better birch).

In principle, if you do not want to mess with the composition of the land mixture, you can buy in a flower shop ready land for citrus plants.

Fresh bones of lemon, recently taken from the fruit, rises better than dry ones. So if you want to grow a lemon from a bone, it is better to drop it immediately, without letting the bone dry. A stone is put to a depth of about 1.5 cm (two lengths of a stone) in a pot with a diameter of 6-7 cm.

A stone is planted in moist soil and covered with a film. You can not water the planting: if you moisten the soil too much, you can rotroots, and you will not be able to grow a lemon. Therefore, it is better to spray the planting from time to time. The illumination of planting does not affect the emergence of seedlings, but the temperature should be at least 18-20 ° C.

Approximately in three weeks, shoots should appear. As soon as the second pair of leaves appears, remove the film and transfer the pot to a bright place. You need to water sprouts moderately: they are harmful both drying out and waterlogging of the soil. Shoot lemon watered with standing water at room temperature (or a couple of degrees warmer), watered with cold water can not.

Do I need to feed sprouts? The first 2-3 months the plant does not need fertilizers, it is possible to grow lemon and without them. When the homemade lemon "becomes older", it can be fed with a solution of organic and mineral fertilizers once a week during a period of active growth (in spring and summer). But without fanaticism: an excess of fertilizers is just as harmful as their lack.

In the period of active growth, the lemon should also be watered - abundantly, but without letting soil silt. Some growers carry it to the balcony, to fresh air, but lemon - the plant is whimsical, in response to sharp changes, it can discard the leaves. If you still suffered a lemon, be sure to protect it from sunlight and drafts, and if the temperature falls in the street, immediately return to the room.

In autumn, watering should be reduced by watering the lemon only when the top layer of the ground dries. Feed the lemon at this time once a month, not more often. In autumn, you need to help the home lemon go into a state of rest, for this purpose, the air temperature should be lowered to 15 ° C or additional lighting of the plant.

Lemon grows fast enough, so to grow a lemon strong and healthy, it must be regularly transplanted. Transplant a lemon is necessary when the whole earth clod is entangled in roots (this can be determined by the fact that from the drainageholes in the bottom of the pot are looking through the roots). A young lemon can be transplanted 2 times a year, and an adult plant will have one transplant in 3-4 years.

Transplant the lemon carefully, trying not todamage the roots of the plant. The new pot should be larger than the old one by 3-5 cm. It is best to transplant the lemon in the early spring, while the shoots have not yet started to grow, but are already ready to do it. In the years when you do not transplant the plant, the top layer of soil thickness of 2-3 cm should be replaced with fresh.

As you can see, growing a lemon at home is not so difficult. But keep in mind that grown from a stone lemon will begin to blossom and bear fruit only in a few years. To get fruits, you need not just grow a lemon, but also plant it with a stalk or a kidney from a fruit-bearing lemon.