How to care for a lemon

Many people want to have a citrus plant, like a lemon. But courage is not enough for everyone because of fear that the apartment conditions are not suitable for fruiting, and how to look after a lemon at home do not imagine everything. But everything is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. If you put a goal in front of you - everything will happen.

Lemon - the tree is evergreen, with small spines on the shoots. Room lemon is very popular. White flowers with dark green leaves saturate the room with a special aroma of essential oils. The brightest fruits bring the greatest joy when the snow lies outside the window. Lemon is very adapted to the warm dry air of the living quarters. Many varieties of it do not react to the lowered humidity in the room or insufficient lighting. This circumstance facilitates the decision of a question on how to look after a lemon.

To the room conditions such tested varieties as "Pavlovsky", "Kursk", "Meier", "Maikop", "ponderosa" are adapted. These varieties have such features as compactness, dense crown, abundant flowering, good fruit tie, early fruiting, precocity (with a pleasant and not very sour taste). They weigh, on average, one hundred and fifty grams, but if their number is small, then it can reach five hundred grams. Green cuttings are well rooted.

Everyone who has encountered growing other citrus fruits knows how to care for a lemon. Differences in care almost does not exist.

In case the lemon is grown on the southern window, on particularly hot days it should be moved away, avoiding sunburn, as well as overheating of the roots. Direct sunlight for some varieties is not always acceptable.

Of course, everyone wants to make the lemon bloom as quickly as possible, because you want to see the fruits with your own eyes in your own apartment. To do this, you must make the most of diligence and patience. You also need to know how to care for the lemon correctly. You need to start by providing the plant with additional ultraviolet light. You can use a special lamp for plants. Despite the fact that the lemon tolerates a lack of moisture well, you should not experiment with it. Moderately humid room only benefits plants, if it is not enough, you should think about the electric humidifier. This plant needs a regular transplant, approximately once or twice a year. It is better to do it in winter in February and in summer in June. And the next pot should be three to five centimeters more than the previous one. In the selected soil should adhere to equal parts of foliage, turf, humus and compost.

Lemon needs regular feeding. It is better to start from February to September. During the growth period, the plant needs more nutrients. The greatest positive result will be produced by ready mineral fertilizers, and liquid ones are much more effective than dry ones. But even if purchased plsednie, they must be diluted with water at the rate of one to two grams of fertilizer per liter of water. It is also useful to use ready-made infusions, alternating them with concentrates of organic fertilizers.

How to care for a lemon in the flowering period, you should know every fan of indoor plants. If the seedling blossoms immediately, in the first year, all the buds must be cut off. For obvious reasons, it will be difficult to do, but in the name of the future harvest, it is necessary to cross through pity. Lemon, if you leave him all the buds, will spend his energy on their rapid flowering and, in the end, die himself. Flowering can be allowed to him in the event that one ovary will account for not less than fifteen leaves.

If in summer the plant must be protected from burns, then in winter it is necessary to try not to allow its hypothermia. To do this, the pot must be wrapped with heat-insulating material or put on a foam.

Caring for a room lemon does not require much effort or special knowledge. It's enough just to love this plant and have a great desire to grow your own fruits.