Sadik on your window: how to care at home for a lemon

Citrus have long ceased to be exotic for us. Lemons, oranges, tangerines can easily be bought in the market or in the nearest supermarket. But it is much more interesting to grow a real lemon tree and drink a cup of tea with your own fruits.

His Highness Prince Lemon!

First of all, it should be noted that this frequent visitor on our table appeared not from somewhere, but from hot and humid subtropics. However, he reliably settled in the winter gardens, halls and living rooms and has long been grown from a conventional bone. Therefore, of course, immediately the question arises: "How to care at home for a lemon, so that it fructifies?" The answer is: "For these purposes it is better to buy a tree in a store already inoculated." Or to be engaged in inoculations, that not so it is simple. Plus, you need to know which variety should be planted. Large and fleshy fruits grow primarily in the trees of two varieties of lemons: Ponderosa and Meyer. If we consider the work of Russian breeders, then attention should be paid to the lemon Pavlodar. All three types of trees have undergone cultivation and feel good in tubs and flowerpots. In height, they are stretched under favorable growth conditions up to one and a half meters, are rather spreading. Therefore, knowing how to care at home for a lemon, experienced florists in a young plant must pinch all new shoots. Why it is needed: when the upper kidney is removed, and 2-3 leaves remain on the branch, a compact circular crown is formed. This is important if the tree grows in a small area. In addition, the plant has more juice and nutrients, which it can spend on an earlier and abundant flowering. So pinching is an important and useful tool of limonology.

Conditions of detention

Now more about how to take care of your lemon at home:

• In general, the advice comes down to the following: you need a lot of light, the room should be ventilated, water stagnation should not be allowed in the flowerpots (that is, quality drainage should be provided in the soil) and regularly fertilize with the necessary fertilizers. This is the case with the active growth period of the tree. In winter, the basic principle of how to care at home for a lemon - is to rearrange it in a cool place, so that the plant is well rested. In the summer, it would be good to take a pot on a balcony or even to the street, under a canopy. Heat to him to anything, but the temperate heat and diffused (for young planting, adults and direct rays are well tolerated), sunlight is excellent. In winter, the temperature of the air in the room should not be below +10. It is important to remember that the lemon prefers high humidity. The tree of the house (how to care for it, take note) should be sprayed several times a day with boiled or filtered, standing water (room temperature, not from a tap), watered daily, but without puddles around the trunk. Keep this regime from the beginning of May to the middle of September. Then cut.
• Soil in the vase pick up a neutral acidity, consisting of ordinary garden soil with foliar humus, from turf, river sand, additives of charcoal. It has already been said that the lemon-plant does not tolerate bogging. How to care to avoid trouble: at the bottom of the pot lay a drainage layer of pieces of brick, and the top of the make of sand (river). In the period of intensive growth, 2 times a month to feed the tree with complex fertilizers.
• The lemon starts to blossom in the spring. The plant self-pollinates, and the fruit ripens for a long time: from 6 to 12 months. But under good conditions of maintenance, flowering occurs 3 times a year.