Want to know how to plant a lemon at home?

Many lovers of domestic plants have tried to someday grow from a stone some miracle tree. Well suited for this bone from dried dates or from any citrus - lemons, oranges, grapefruits. Under normal conditions, home-grown lemons, grown from the stone, begin to bear fruit, reaching the age of 8 to 15 years. You can achieve this and earlier - through vaccination from a fruit tree. It remains only to understand how to plant a lemon at home, and then apply this new knowledge in practice. There are two types of vaccination: grafting with a cut (in the cleft or lateral incision) and oculization, that is, using the kidney. The latter method is the simplest, but in both cases the vaccination procedure is carried out as quickly and clearly as possible.

It is noteworthy that it is possible to plant on lemon any citrus, even orange and mandarin, and vice versa. The tree on which you are going to plant a kidney or stalk should not be older than 2-3 years. Before planting a lemon, make sure that the diameter of the stem of a home-grown bone is no thicker than a half centimeters.

The material for grafting, that is, cutting, must be selected from healthy trees. Shoots mainly annual, which have already formed, but have not found a wood sheath, and they need to be taken from the top of the crown, which is most illuminated. Then the cuttings will have to be cut off, but leave the petioles, because they have kidneys in their sinuses. If there is no possibility to inoculate immediately, the cuttings can be stored in the refrigerator for 2-3 weeks or in the cellar 2-3 days, after having wrapped them in a damp cloth, and then in a bag or film. The ideal time for vaccination is the first spring months, especially March.

How to plant a lemon at home using the method of budding

For incubation, a circular knife with a rounded edge sharpened on both sides is used. On the branch, in the place where it will be necessary to attach the kidney, at a level of 5-10 cm from its base it is necessary to make a vertical incision 2-3 cm long, and on its top - a transverse length of about 1 cm. As a result, a T-shaped incision. The resulting corners on the cut must be bent by a bone, which is on the back of the eyepiece knife. Hands can not touch the notch.

Then the kidney is cut from the cuttings, which is chosen for inoculation. Approximately 1 cm below and above the kidney is made along the transverse incision on the cortex and along with the bark and part of the wood, the kidney with the petiole is neatly removed. Also it is undesirable to touch the kidney with your hands.

Then the kidney is implanted into the incision on the inoculated tree, the corners of the cortex on the cut are smoothed back, and the place under the kidney and above it is tightly wound with tape, tape or plaster. Just in case, it is better to get a vaccine with two or three kidneys.

The kidneys take root approximately three weeks, if the petiole near the kidney turns yellow and disappears, it means the vaccine was successful. After that, it is necessary to remove the bandage, remove part of the branch at a height of about 10 cm above the kidney and shoots in the lower part of the lemon. After the inoculation of the kidney, flowering begins soon, and after it - fruiting.

How to plant a lemon at home with a handle

If you plant a lemon with a handle, you need to use a special inoculum. On cuttings for grafting in this case should be no less than 2-3 kidneys, bark - green, not stiff. The stalk is implanted in a split branch in the center or in a lateral incision. The grafting in the cleavage is carried out after the whole crown is cut off at a height of about 10 cm from the soil at the tree. And already on the resulting hemp make a vertical cleavage into which the stem is inserted. In this case, the edge of the cut is cut with a wedge, the length of which is 3-4 cm, that is, the oblique cut must exceed the length of the cuttings by a factor of 3-3.5. The length of the cut itself is usually 10 cm.

In order to plant the lemon with a handle, in a side cut on the branch, make an incision on the bark, but already deeper than when grafting the kidney - the wood is slightly incised. Then this branch needs to be cut without hemp, two oblique cuts are made on the cuttings so that the result is an isosceles triangle. After the cuttings must be inserted into the incision so that the cambial layers and bark branches and cuttings coincide.

In either of the two latter ways, the place of grafting should be tightly wrapped, and the places of the incisions should be treated with garden varnish. When the cuttings are inoculated with a handle, the lemon fruit begins in 2-3 years.

So, you learned how to plant a lemon at home . And if you do everything right, quickly and accurately, the privoj will get accustomed, and your house will be filled with surprisingly thin citrus aroma of white flowers. Provided that these flowers are cleaned properly after pollination, they will turn into ovaries, and after a while your tree will be decorated with real lemons.