Citrus

Original citrus varieties
1. Lime, common lime, sour lime, Mexican lime, West Indian lime, big lime, Lime, Common lime, Acid lime, Mexican lime, West Indian lime, Sour lime, Large lime, Key lime
2. Mandarin, common mandarin, true mandarin, Mandarin, Common mandarin, True mandarin, Mandarin orange, Culate mandarin, Suntara orange
3. Citron, Citron
4. Помело, Pummelo, Pomelo, Shaddock, Thai grapefruit, West Indian pomelo

Root family. In room conditions, lemon, orange, tangerine, grapefruit, kinkan are grown. Although it must be said right away that often attempts to grow a fruiting citrus tree at home end very quickly when evergreen trees that are more than a meter high do not bear fruit. Although with cold wintering (5-8 ° C) citrus fruits can bloom and bear fruit after 2-3 years. In indoor conditions, plants will bear fruit only if they are vaccinated. For some, it will be a pleasure to grow a tree from a bone and it will not matter whether it bears fruit or not. In any case, in order for your pet to look good, it is important to know the conditions in which it needs and something about the formation of the crown...

Citrus propagation is usually carried out by grafting, cuttings, branches and seeds. At home, citrus fruits are usually propagated by cutting and grafting - these methods allow you to get a fruiting tree after 3-4 years, and with a grafted twig even earlier. Citrus fruits grown from seeds at home can bloom and bear fruit with the best care (with proper pruning, cool wintering, high-quality soil) only for 10-12 years.

In order for citrus fruits to have a beautiful crown, they began to bear fruit faster, a tree formation is needed. First of all, on a tree grown from a seed, shredded or grafted, you need to form a trunk. Before pruning and pinching the plant, create the shape of the future tree in your mind. What will it be like? You can give a rounded shape (most suitable for stunted citrus), you can form a palmette (suitable for large spreading trees), you can bush, etc. I will dwell on the classic form - a tree with a rounded crown. The trunk is trimmed or pinched at a height of 20-25 cm from the soil level. Then lateral shoots should appear on the trunk - future branches of the 1st order...

In autumn, the length of the light decreases significantly, the most difficult period in the life of citrus fruits begins. The day is very short, there are few sunny days. With a lack of light in a warm living room, the leaves of citrus fruits are formed very thin, large, and the shoots are overextended. With an increase in air temperature, the breathing of trees increases (carbon dioxide is released). Trees consume a large amount of nutrients for breathing, and their accumulation, due to lack of light, is very slow. As a result, trees are depleted, their growth is weak, and flowers and ovaries, as a rule, crumble. With a large lack of light, leaves can also crumble...

It is a very controversial question which soils are better - purchased or of their own preparation, peat in the soil is good or bad, why do plants grow better on some mixtures containing peat, and die on others? Is it convenient to grow plants on a hydrogel and why pH is so important. These and other issues are addressed in this review article...

Almost all indoor fruit plants are easily propagated by cutting, mandarin cuttings are most difficult to root, therefore, they are vaccinated when propagating.

Consider the simplest methods of cuttings. Cut the branch of the plant, which is intended for reproduction, into cuttings. To do this, make the lower section under the kidney (below the kidney by 2-3 mm), remove the lower 2 sheets, leave the next 2-3 sheets...

Here are collected questions and answers on the rooting of lemon cuttings and other citrus fruits. Experience from the forum - why cuttings on rooting bloom and what to do. Do I need zircon, epin and other stimulants. How to heat the soil on the rooting of cuttings, where cuttings are better rooted in the soil or water? And much more...

The formation of the citrus crown is an exciting but patient process. The thing is that citrus fruits are distinguished by a rather stubborn character. They do not always want to grow as we need - a compact tree. Therefore, let's try to formulate a detailed formation instruction. And the most important thing here is the beginning, when the sprouted seed, rooted stalk or young graft has just begun to grow. But before we talk about formation, let's touch on the issue of physiology...

On shoots of the fourth or fifth order, the formation of skeletal branches ends. If the shoots begin to bloom until the crown is formed, it is better to cut off the buds, since there will be no growth on such branches, the formation will drag on for a long time. And only with the formation of shoots of the fifth order, citrus can be allowed to bear fruit.