How to grow mandarin from bone at home?

How to grow mandarin from bone at home? This is easy, because tangerines, like all citrus, plants are unpretentious. It is only necessary to comply with a number of important rules

Well, who of us does not like Mandarin?! These fragrant solar bright fruits resemble childhood and celebration of the New Year.

Our Country Mandarins are imported from Turkey, Georgia, China, India, Brazil, Azerbaijan. On the territory of Russia, tangerines are grown only in Sochi, where the notorious garden museum is located «Friendship tree». By the way, the Sochi fruits are so tasty that tourists who have tried them, no other tangerines do not want.

Is it possible to grow a tree at home?

However, grow Tangerine tree possible not only in a special greenhouse or in a hot country. This can make every resident of Russia at home.

Many vegetation lovers in the apartment do not start this exotic pet, because they do not know how to properly grow mandarin – from a twig or bone – and how to care for him. And meanwhile, Mandarin among all citrus plants is the most unpretentious and «Landmark».

In addition, this plant remarkably decorates the interior: a neat slim tree with bright shiny leaves, flowers, and then small fruits have a stunning characteristic citrus fragrance, capable of spreading to the entire apartment.

It is believed that the owners of the room tangerine tree are less likely to suffer from headaches, migraines, insomnia, depression, decadent forces.

Today we will tell you how to grow Mandarin yourself and how to care for it.

How to grow mandarin at home?

You can go on a short way and grow a tree from the grafted twig bought in a flower shop. But if it is not for you to pocket, the plant can be grown independently from ordinary bone.

Such a citrus tree will be a year round to please you with your appearance and aroma, but it will be able to fruit only after 12-15 years (naturally, with proper care), but it is also unlikely that such fruits can be eaten – as a rule, they grow small and Tablery.

In order to get a rich and sweet harvest of tangerines, it will be necessary to subsequently instance to grow the treasury of a stalk from a fruiting plant.

How to grow mandarin from bone?

Magnify seeds

First of all, get several ripe orange medium-sized mandarins in the store or on the market. Buying yellow or green fruits meaningless – such a color suggests that the fruits were torn by no excuse and seized already in the process of transportation (this is done in order to extend their expiration date, because no entrepreneur is unprofitable to sell rotting goods).

Separate bones from fruit. It is desirable that they are as much as possible, about 10-15 pieces, since not all of them can germinate – many may die from diseases or after vaccination.

Call bones in several layers of wet gauze, put in clay or glass dishes and leave in a warm place for several days. Periodically add some water so that the march is constantly wet. Bone not worth the water.

If you do not have the opportunity or desire to mess around with gauze, you can purchase hydrogel in a specialized store – the substance is akin to drip watering, wonderfully deterrent moisture. Bones should be put in the middle of the hydrogel so that they do not swam.

Sit into the primer

After the bones proceed, they must be planted into the ground – in the usual flower pot or drawer. On its bottom should post pebbles for drainage or clay.

Earth for the plant can be cooked independently.

This will require:

• 3 pieces of turf land;
• 1 part sheet;
• 1 part of the overloaded cow manure;
• 1 part of the sand;
• A little clay.

If you live in the city and get the above ingredients do not have the opportunity, buy a nourishing soil in a specialized store.

Care, feed, protect

All citrus fruits are quite preferable to light and humidity. That is why Mandarin must be grown in a place where there is always a lot of light (on the window, from the south side) and water enough, but not to pour so that the soil has always been a slightly wet. In addition, leaflets once a week should be irrigated by filtered or rainwater to compensate for dry air in the home.

If you have the opportunity, purchase artificial fountain for these purposes.

Indoor tangerines are grown at a temperature not lower than 14 ° C. At a lower temperature they die. So keep next to the chummer thermometer.

Mandarin care is also in protection against pests – citrus white bumps, shields, red spider tick. If you notice that the plant is an extremely invisible cob, this is a sign that it is sick. In such situations, preparations should be purchased in the store «Phytodemer» or «AKTELLIK» and rinse them with a solution of plants leafy according to the instructions.

In the spring season it is necessary to feed the plant with organic and mineral fertilizers. Also as feeding can be used with a drink tea welding (without sugar), mixing it with a soil.

Transfer

As Mandarin grows, it will be necessary to transplant in a larger pot. Do it better every year at the end of winter or early spring.

The plant should be replant with the method of transshipment, keeping the root lump so as not to damage the root system.

Vicious

Vaccination is needed by a plant in the event that you want to see fruits on it. You can instill in April, May or early August and only if the thickness of the barrel has already reached 6 mm.

To do this, you will need:

• the cruise (cuttings, taken from another fruit mandarin from the branch, not over 2 years old);
• garden var;
• Medical elastic ribbon;
• Village knife.

On the trunk at an altitude of approximately 9-10 cm Make a T-shaped incision. From the platform, remove the spikes and leafy plates, cut the kidney from it with part of the wood and insert into the incision at your tree. Then everything neatly secure the elastic ribbon and lock.

Then wrap the mandarin by a polyethylene package to provide it with the necessary microclimate. Periodically open the film to control the tree.

A month later, it will be clear whether the crown turned out. If the pet is soooked, an attempt should be repeated. If the kidney sprouted and the petiole passed, «operation» was successful. Adhesive tape can now be removed.

Three weeks later, a young escape will grow from the kidneys. It is at this time that it will be necessary to cut the stem of the tree at a height of 0.5 cm above the foundation of escape, and then be sure to treat his garden boraner.

Well, now stick to the pot with a flower wooden wand to teach it to grow vertically. And of course, do not forget to water, irrigate and fertilize your pet!