In almost every flower shop today you can see a luxurious tangerine tree. These citrus indoor plants have very beautiful shiny leaves, blooming with fragrant flowers, and even bear fruit if properly cared for.

You madly want to have citrus houses, but to spend money from the family budget to buy an expensive exotic plant is even more insane! A familiar situation, but it is completely unsolvable!

Not everyone knows that it is possible to grow mandarin at home on their own. Knowing the basic requirements for planting and caring for it, all novice growers can start an original houseplant on their windowsill on their windowsill. Today, you will learn how to grow a tangerine from a stone at home and what you need for you to have a real fruiting citrus tree.

Tangerine from the bone: the preparation of planting material

To get tangerine tree at home, the necessary seeds and it will be the usual bones of its fruit. You can get them by buying in the store the ripest specimens, but only without damage and rot.

For the initial work to give positive results, it is better to stock up with a few bones, about ten, so there will be a high probability of getting shoots.

Anyone who has experienced planting any seeds is well aware that they should be allowed to swell before planting into the ground. In this case, the tangerine seeds have to slip, for which they will need a moist environment:

  • Best of all, it can be created by wrapping the seeds in gauze, slightly moistening it with water and keeping it moist for several days.
  • Another option could be a special hydrogel, which will not allow the seeds to dry. You can buy it in specialized stores. By placing the stones in the middle of the gel, they will be provided with constant moisture.

But how to grow a tangerine from the bone at home, if absolutely no time to engage in soaking seeds? Can be planted in the prepared soil and do not hatch bones. In this case, sprouts of homemade citrus fruits will appear somewhat later, however, they will be no worse than sprouts.

Home tangerines: planting seeds in the ground

There are seeds, but first of all, you should choose a suitable soil. The best in this case can be called a special mixture for citrus, which can be purchased at any flower shop. Although, what kind of soil will be used for growing a tangerine tree at home is not a matter of principle.

Home tangerine is good because this plant is not too whimsical and you can take any mixture, for example, from leaf and sod land. You can use nutrient and neutral soil "Biohumus" or "Rose". The only restriction is peat, which contains few nutrients, dries quickly and sours.

To grow a tangerine from the stone, you can independently prepare the soil for growing indoor citrus fruits. The following mixture recipe is perfect if, for example, you decide to grow oranges at home.

To obtain a primer for homemade citrus fruits, it is necessary to mix:

  • turf ground - 3 parts;
  • leaf ground - 1 part;
  • cow dung (rotten) - 1 part;
  • sand - 1 part;
  • some clay.

At the bottom of the tank it is necessary to provide a drainage - for which you can use expanded clay, small pebbles, broken red brick. The resulting soil composition needs to fill a container, for example, a seedling box or a pot, where the swollen bones will be planted.

Nutrition and care for tangerine trees

Initially, mandarin care requires minimal, but with the advent of the first sprouts, and they will be about 3 weeks after planting, you need to start the plant to feed. To do this, you can use fertilizers, both organic and inorganic. You can buy fertilizers in flower shops. Well, if you find special formulations for nourishing citrus plants.

Care for mandarin at home involves:

  • The annual transplanting of a plant that is advisable to carry out in the spring without damaging the integrity of the earth around the root system. When the room tangerine from the stone reaches 8 years of age, you can go to transplanting every two years.
  • Watering and spraying, since high humidity is vital for this type of house plant. Watering requires abundant and daily use of water at room temperature. Spraying can be carried out once a week. In addition, near the pot with a tangerine tree, you can put a vessel with water.
  • Maintain optimum temperature, as the mandarin from the bone like the sun. The best place for it will be the window sill, facing the south side, where a sufficient amount of sunlight falls. In winter, it is necessary to ensure that the air temperature in the room does not fall below the mark of +14 degrees.
  • Protection from pests - red spider mite, shield insects, citrus whitefly. For this purpose, special preparations are sold, for example, Fitoverm, Aktellik, with which it is necessary to wash the leaflets.

Both citrus fruit and young seedlings have common fertilization rules. The process of feeding occurs after watering the tree. Particular attention should be paid to feeding in the period from April to September. Experienced growers argue that careful care of citrus fruits in the spring and summer period will allow the fruit to grow sweeter.

How to grow fruiting mandarin

  Usually, tangerine at home, grown from a stone, bears fruit for the first time in 5-7 years. The first fruits are called wild, and they do not have the usual citrus taste. How to speed up the process of fruiting?

To get juicy, sweet and mouth-watering fruit and much faster, it is recommended to inoculate a tangerine tree. As a rule, the best time for it is April, the first half of May, and also August. You can count on a positive result if everything is done as accurately as possible, quickly and cleanly.

Do you think that vaccination of mandarin, like any other seedling - the prerogative of men? Their advantage is that they act more decisively and do not doubt the result.

If you want to grow a fruiting mandarin at home, carefully study the video with the master classes of plant vaccinations and do not forget that women make everything much more accurate, it means that you will surely succeed in grafting mandarin.

For grafting a tangerine tree, you must have:

  1. Stock - in our case, this plant is grown from bone. It must have a barrel of at least 5-7 mm. It does not have to be mandarin, orange or grapefruit seedlings are great for rootstock.
  2. Graft is a stalk of a fruiting mandarin with a branch not older than 2-3 years. Cut stalks or eyes cannot be stored for a long time. Use only fresh cut material.
  3. Gardening equipment - abutment knife, elastic band, garden var.

Grafting a tangerine tree step by step:

  • At a height of 10 centimeters on the trunk of the stock is made an incision of the T-shape.
  • The prepared graft is inserted into the incision.
  • Vaccination site carefully wrapped.
  • After vaccination, the plant is closed on top of a can or plastic bag to create the necessary microclimate.
  • When a bud grows, it must be gradually accustomed to the air, daily increasing the duration of ventilation.
  • When the winding is removed, the stock stem must be cut diagonally - about 3 centimeters higher than the shoot. The cut is necessarily covered with garden pitch.

Using this simple instruction, you can grow a fruiting citrus tree in your home, which will give your home a pleasant aroma and complement it with comfort and coziness. It is likely that the first time, not everything will turn out smoothly, but you will get valuable experience for further attempts.

If you still feel that this is not yours, then you know how to grow tangerine from the stone. Yes, it will be later fruitful to produce such indoor citrus fruit, but it will be so pleasant to see how every month your tangerine tree grows taller, more beautiful and stronger. Good luck!

A fragrant citrus tree is no more difficult to grow than any other fruit crop. After learning how to grow a tangerine, you can use the advantages of this tree - high immunity, ease of care and good yield will simplify the task of the most inexperienced gardener.

Where are tangerines grown?

Citrus fruits are whimsical to the climate: their homeland is subtropic, so they need a short warm winter and a long wet summer. This rule applies to cultivation in the open field, because the heat-loving tree in the apartment can bloom and bear fruit almost all year round. Recommendations on how to grow a tangerine at home vary according to growing conditions. Their main differences are that:

  1. For planting in the garden should be chosen early-ripening crops with small sweet fruits, so as not to worry about the loss of the crop due to early frosts and heavy rains. The development of indoor varieties can be regulated artificially - the choice is not limited here.
  2. When experienced gardeners talk about how to grow a tangerine, they first mention the landing site. It should be the sunniest in the garden and protected from the cold wind. On the windowsill or in the winter garden is set dosachivanie and sprayer.

Growing tangerines in the open field

If the planting place is nevertheless a garden, the most frost-resistant varieties from the existing ones are selected. Pay attention to the hybrids: they are artificially bred, which guarantees good varietal characteristics. In the open ground, they grow both through direct planting of seeds, and after transplanting the cutting. In order not to have to puzzle over whether it is possible to grow a tangerine in an ordinary garden after buying seeds, you need to pay attention to such varieties:

  • "Clementine";
  • "Pioneer 80";
  • Kavano-Vasa;
  • "Sochi 23";
  • "Unshiu broadleaf."

How to grow a tangerine in a pot?

At home, any plant is easier to grow, because you do not have to deal with weather vagaries and pest attacks. It is not worth buying a grown tree from flower shop sellers, if only because plants are prepared for sale with the addition of potent fertilizers, without which a tree can die at home in a couple of days. The following knowledge about this culture will help you to understand how to grow mandarin on the window:

  1. From planting a bone or stalk until the fruit appears, at least 2-3 years pass. During this time, the plant will replace the thin leaves on the dense, as if covered with wax leaves and strengthen the trunk, as well as the root system.
  2. The correct form of the citrus tree is spherical or close to it. Specialists who know how to grow a mandarin, insist on this form, because it allows you to identify the diseases of the trunk and upper part of the root in time.
  3. The worst neighbors for mandarin, affecting the energy of growth and taste of fruit - poisonous houseplants (cyclamen, spurge, dieffenbachia or striped aloe).

How to grow tangerine from the bone at home?

Everything connected with the answer to the question of whether it is possible to grow a mandarin from the stone at home is similar to the method of sprouting any fruit on the windowsill. The bones are soaked in gauze for a week so that they swell. Gauze cloth should be slightly damp, but not wet. It can be replaced with a hydrogel that retains moisture. After the spitting of the shoots, they are transplanted according to the following principle:

  1. In a peat pot with a mixture of base soil and sod land with the addition of clay, seeds are buried 2-3 cm.
  2. The first feeding is carried out when the height of the sprout reaches 5-6 cm.
  3. When the mandarin is strengthened, it, along with an earthy lump, is transplanted into a large pot.

Do I need to instill a mandarin grown from the bone?

Without grafting mandarin will surely give fruit, which in most cases will be bitter to the taste. The guaranteed result of a full-fledged harvest with excellent taste properties can only be promised by graft. Before grafting a mandarin grown from a bone, the future workplace is disinfected to ensure the survival of the shoots. The manipulation itself does not require special skills:

  1. A miniature T-shaped incision is made on the stem of the plant, the vertical of which will be 2 times longer than the horizontal.
  2. From a graft taken from a fruit-bearing plant, a section of a branch with a bud is taken, without a leaf plate and thorns. It is inserted into the incision, and after the injured section of the trunk is wrapped with elastic tape - otherwise, how can you grow a tangerine if it is ruined by an infection? The plant is placed under a glass jar or covered with a package.
  3. When the bud grows, the jar is removed and the incision site is processed.

When the mandarin is grown grown from the stone?

Flowers on citrus - the main indicator that the care of the plant is carried out according to the rules. Flowers will appear on it 3-4 weeks after the first ovaries appear. If the cultivation of mandarin from seeds is delayed and the buds do not appear, the beginner will be able to accelerate their appearance using proven methods:

  • tying strong branches;
  • water deprivation for 1-2 weeks;
  • refusal to transfer to fresh land, which is carried out 2 times a year.

Will the mandarin be grown from the seed?

Wait for the harvest in the first year after planting does not make sense. There are cases when citrus began to bear fruit in the second year after grafting, but the fruit could not be eaten due to excessive use of fertilizers. For those who want to understand how to grow decorative mandarin without eating fruits, this option is suitable. Gardeners who dream of a rich harvest will need at least 2-3 years before the appearance of suitable ovaries.


How to grow tangerine from the stalk?

Propagation of citrus from a fruitful tree is easier than seed germination. To grow a tangerine from a sprig, you need to find a healthy stem with 1-2 green leaves, and then proceed as follows:

  1. In the plastic pot with drainage holes, a cutting is planted from the bottom, and a glass jar is covered on top.
  2. On rooting, he spends at least 2-3 months, during which the plant can not be disturbed by transplants and sprays.
  3. When the mandarin begins to grow, and the trunk thickness in diameter is 1 cm, it can be transplanted into a large pot or box.

Mandarin - growing conditions

A comfortable tree atmosphere can be created without serious financial expenses and temporary investments. In the recommendations on how to grow tangerines at home, the basic guidelines are clearly defined:

  1. Lighting.   The light day for a shooted growth should be increased to 12 hours. In the apartment in the winter for this apply.
  2. Watering.   For him is suitable boiled water without impurities.
  3. Transfer.   As soon as the level of fruiting decreases or the tree begins to ache, it is transplanted. February, March, September and October are considered the best in all respects.

Mandarin at home - care

When rooting and grafting will be a thing of the past, citrus will need some other plan of care. Those who know how to grow a mandarin in a pot, they say that the emphasis should be on the formation of a tree. A ball consisting of branches is adjusted as necessary:

  1. When the plant reaches 30-40 cm in height, it is pinched side shoots of the first order.
  2. If the citrus begins to branch uncontrollably, form the lower branches, removing all up to 4-5 leaves.
  3. Up to 3-4 years, weak shoots are removed from the indoor fruit tree during regrowth.

How to grow tangerine - watering

Room citrus, like its ancestors, negatively perceives dry periods, so you can not forget about its watering. Growing tangerine on the windowsill with a water deficit, but an abundance of sunlight, will lead to the dropping of leaves and wilted flowers. Excessive watering is dangerous by lowering immunity to fungal diseases. The following irrigation subtleties are considered optimal:

  1. Selection of water volume, based on the size of the pot, leaf area and growth of mandarin. The higher these indicators, the more water should be used to moisten the earth.
  2. Check the soil after watering. You can pierce the ground with a wooden stick for 5-6 cm. It should be slightly damp, and not soaked through with water.
  3. Watering should be carried out until 12 o'clock in the afternoon. Then the plant activates vital processes to the maximum.
  4. Observance of temperature. It would not want to grow a mandarin, you should follow its life cycle. If the plant falls into a "hibernation" due to a decrease in temperature outside the window, it is watered only slightly to maintain its vital activity.

How to grow a tangerine with fruit - feeding

The variants of citrus fertilizer are divided into two types: root and foliar. If fertilizers of the first type contribute to an increase in the immunity of the trunk, then additives of the second type accelerate the growth and maturation of glossy fruits. Since it is possible to grow a tangerine in an apartment only in a pot or a box, the responsibility for the saturation of the soil with organic matter lies with the owner of the tree. Overfeeding it makes no sense - fertilizer is used no more than 1 time in 2-3 weeks. It is possible to use for enrichment of water before watering and spraying:

  • inkstone;
  • magnesium;
  • zinc oxide.

Growing tangerines at home - diseases and pests

At home, citrus is little threatened, because it is resistant to most of the known phytoinfections. External defects of fruits caused by insufficient watering or lack of sunlight and trace elements are common. Non-compliance with the rules of care is rarely displayed on the tree, but it is important for everyone to know its symptoms. Among them: dwarfism, yellowness of leaves, shrinking of the trunk, folds on the leaves and shedding the ovaries. Before you grow a tangerine at home, you should familiarize yourself with the list of pests that provoke diseases in citrus crops:


Grow or lemon in childhood tried most of those who are fond of floriculture. And often even received tender shoots. But at least not everybody can grow a small tree. Often his leaves turn yellow and fall off. How to care for mandarin, so that it grows and even fruited at home?

Together with oranges, grapefruits and their hybrids, mandarins belong to citrus fruits. They are distinguished by a soft, fragrant peel and a segmental structure of the fruit. This is an evergreen plant.

Now bred varieties intended for growing in an apartment or a greenhouse.

They form a low dense bush of spherical shape. Mandarin leaves elliptical, dense, leathery. Each of them lives for 4 years, and then falls. Flowers are white, fragrant.

The fruits are known for all the taste and appearance. They are less orange, contain less acids, and more water. Color varies from orange to reddish. Get them in our conditions can only be subject to the rules of care. But even without the fruits, the tangerine tree looks beautiful and will serve as a home decoration.

Mandarins are grown from seed or grafted. But you can eat homemade mandarins only 7 years after planting seeds. The first fruits will be completely tasteless and non-aromatic.

In order to get a harvest in the third year, you need to buy a grafted plant or vaccine yourself. Growing mandarin at home can be an exciting process for the whole family. Begin by sowing seeds.

Features of growing tangerine from seed:

  • Mandarins, like other citrus fruits, do not like acidic soil. It should not contain peat, which is included in most types of earth mixtures. It dries quickly, and often turns sour with heavy watering. Therefore, it is not easy to choose a primer for a tangerine. You can take the soil neutral acidity. To prepare it yourself, they mix: leaf soil 2 hours, humus 2 hours, sod land 2 or 3 hours and sand 1 hour.
  • The resulting mixture should be loose, well pass air. If there are no components, add a glass of ash, a handful of superphosphate and a kilogram to ordinary garden soil. A small amount of clay will help the mixture retain moisture.
  • The stones are harvested from ripe and intact fruits. They take about a dozen to choose the strongest plant. Before planting seeds, it is desirable to germinate. To do this, they are placed in a wet gauze and kept for several days. Make sure that they do not dry out, but you can not fill them with water.
  • In order not to constantly monitor, you can put the seeds in a special hydrogel, bought in a flower shop. It retains moisture and creates a comfortable environment for the seed. Even easier to plant the seeds are not germinated. In this case, they sprout a little later.
  • Prepare the dishes. These can be single cups, flower pots or a common box. At the bottom lay a layer of drainage. It can be made from coarse sand, fine expanded clay, crushed stone or charcoal.
  • Sow the seeds for 3 cm. Watered, cover with a jar or polyethylene. Install in a warm place. Nearby should not be poisonous plants (eg, oleander).

When sprouts appear on the soil surface, the dishes are transferred to the light, but not under direct rays. The temperature in the room should be around 20 ° C. Periodically watered the soil in pots, maintain high humidity. Watering is carried out with water, which before settled for at least 3 days.

When the plants reach a height of 10 cm, they are transplanted into 4-liter pots. The soil is prepared in the same way as when planting seeds. Transplantation is carried out by the method of transshipment, pre-moistened soil in a pot. In this case, the root system is practically not damaged.

A few days after the transplant keep the mandarin in a shaded place. Then set on the sun, but protect the leaves from the effects of scorching rays. Subsequent transplants are carried out once a year on the same principle. The best time for this is the end of February or the beginning of March.

When the tree reaches the age of 8 years, transplant it a year later.

How to take care of the tangerine tree:

  1. For successful growth, the tangerine tree needs a constant temperature regime. The minimum temperature is 14 ° C.
  2. The main problem in growing tangerine wood is dry indoor air due to heating devices. Therefore, every day the plant should be sprayed with a spray with heated water. You can install a humidifier near the tree. Decorate the interior and increase the humidity of the mini-fountain, which is located near the mandarin. Increase the humidity of trays with expanded clay, filled with water.
  3. A light day for successful growth of a tangerine tree must be at least 12 hours. If it is not enough, they are illuminated with fluorescent lamps or a specially designed Reflax lamp.
  4. Watering in spring and summer should be regular and frequent. In the autumn and winter, the number and volume of watering is reduced. Water only as the soil dries.
  5. Begin to feed the tangerine tree 2 weeks after the sprouts appear from the ground. Use specially intended for fertilizing citrus fertilizer, which is bought in flower shops. It can be: "", "Sudar". They make 2 g per liter of water. You can use the concentrate horse horse manure "Flumb". It is bred in a ratio of 1:60. It is possible to apply fertilizer only to the damp earth. Watering dry soil can cause root burns. Autumn and winter fertilizers do not make.

  Mandarin vaccination: terms and rules

Tangerine tree is beautiful with its leaves. But many people want to receive fruits from it. For this, the plant must be planted from an adult fruiting tree. The best dates for this: April, May and August. Then passes the period of sap flow.

Features of the plant:

  • Inoculate a plant whose trunk diameter has reached 6 mm. It can be not only mandarin, but also orange or grapefruit. Acquire a graft, part of a one- or two-year branch of a fruit tree, or a fresh eye. It can be purchased at some flower shops.
  • Prepare a special trimming knife. It will help make an even and precise cut. Prepare an elastic tape, for example, a narrow medical plaster and. All instruments are sterilized, vaccination is carried out clean.
  • At a height of 10 cm from the ground with a knife, a cut is made in the shape of the letter T. The leaves are removed from the cutting, the kidney is cut off along with a small shield of bark. Insert into the incision so that the cut off part fits snugly to the cambium.
  • Primatvayut tape to the trunk. Places where it is loose, covered with garden pitch. From above the bush is covered with a can or a film.

A month later, the stock will begin to germinate. They begin to open the jar by airing the plant. Gradually increase the time it spends without shelter. After 3 weeks, when it becomes clear that the bud has taken root, the trunk of the grafted tree is cut off a little above the grafting site. Smear the cut place with a garden pitch. If the bud has dried, the top is not cut, repeat the operation again. Install a footing that will help the grafted tree grow vertically.

Mandarins are often affected by pests that are common to most houseplants:

  • Dummy guard - brown oval insects covered with durable shell. They secrete a sticky substance that closes the pores of the plant.
  • A spider mite is a small spider wrapped around a plant with a thin cobweb. Discharges of pests do not allow him to breathe.
  • The citrus whitefly is a butterfly up to 3 mm long, whose wings are covered with a white wax coating.
  • Aphid - small black or green insects, gathering in groups on young shoots and leaves. Allocate sticky plaque, drink the juices of the plant.

All these insects are almost invisible to the eye. They are moving from other indoor plants. They feed on their juices, multiply rapidly. As a result, the leaves lose their attractive appearance, then fall off. After that, the whole tree perishes.

More information can be found in the video:

To prevent this, constantly inspect the plant. You can even use a magnifying glass. When pests are found, they need to be urgently destroyed. The spider mite is afraid of water, so the bush is washed in the shower, having previously covered the soil with plastic wrap.

Many pests are afraid of infusions of tobacco, garlic, onion peel.

If there are many pests, and they are not amenable to destruction by folk remedies, you need to use biological preparations:

  • Fitoderm
  • Actellic

They are not harmful to people as chemicals, but they must be used according to the instructions. It is better not to spray the working substance, and wash them with leaves and stems. Especially actively wash the lower part of the leaves, where mostly collected pests. The treatment is carried out 3 times with an interval of a week.

If small flies appear on the surface of the soil, this may indicate a strong waterlogging. Their larvae can be found in the ground, which damage the root system. To destroy them, loosen the soil and are treated with the drug "Thunder 2". Grow tangerine tree at home is not difficult. With constant care and attention can be a few years after planting to eat delicious fragrant fruits.

You can grow a tree with the help of saplings or plant a seed. If problems can arise with a seedling, then you definitely won't have any seeds. You can go to any store near the house and buy tangerines. In its tender and juicy flesh, you will definitely find a couple of seeds, from which you can grow tangerine at home.


But, like any plant, this tree requires a special relationship to itself. Growing a plant from a stone has its own special secrets.

Seed preparation

Those who have ever tried to germinate seeds know that it is better if the stones are soaked before. To do this, the bones can be put in a damp cloth made from natural fibers, and left alone for 2-3 days, putting the house in a warm place. Just make sure that the cloth always remains wet and periodically wet it. A few days later the roots will begin to appear.


Only it is necessary to avoid an excess of moisture, the seeds should not float in water! It is better to immediately germinate up to 10 pieces or more, because to germinate all at once will not work, some of them will die before rooting. Then choose the strongest and healthiest plant that grows at home.

If you are not sure that you can keep track of the humidity of the fabric, go to a specialty store and buy a special hydrogel. It will not only create optimal humidity, but will feed the already sprouted sprout. The main thing is to immerse the bones in the middle of the gel, and not just scatter them on the surface.


Soil preparation

When choosing a soil for your tree, immediately abandon the use of peat, this soil dries out too quickly, and there are few nutrients in it. Ideal would be a primer made by yourself, for this you need the following:

  • Forest soil - 2 parts;
  • Humus - 2 parts;
  • Sand - 1 part.

But, if it is not possible to mix the ingredients yourself, then you can buy in the store the soil with a neutral pH. For example, a mixture of "Rose" or "Biohumus", there is a special mixture for growing citrus fruits, but it is not always possible to find it.

How to plant a seed

When the bone is swollen, the root has sprouted and sprouted, it is time to plant it at home. You do not know what the grown seed looks like, look at the photos better so as not to make mistakes.


For planting fit a small pot or pot, a volume of more than four liters. Before falling asleep the ground, pour drainage to the bottom. It may be small pebbles, nutshell, expanded clay, etc. Then we fill the pot with earth, leaving about 6 cm from the top edge. Place the seeds on the ground, preferably several pieces at once, and fill them with another four centimeters of earth.


It is best to place a pot with stones in a warm place, ideally, if on the south side and be sure to monitor the condition of the soil. The ground should be wet, but not wet. And temperature - not below 20 ° C. Remember, you have a guest from a warm, southern country who needs special care.

What you need to do for active growth

Landing has passed, but you need to wait two or three weeks before the plants themselves become noticeable. In general, the mandarin is quite slow in the growth of the tree. It may stop growing for several months. But if you give him everything you need at home, then after a few years your view will delight a beautiful tree.

For growth and development to go right, you need to take into account such factors as temperature and lighting, watering and feeding, transplanting and more.

Lighting

Lighting has important beneficial properties for growth. Plentiful sunlight requires him at least 12 hours a day all year round. But at the same time in the spring and summer in the hottest hours, when direct sunlight falls, the tree needs to be pritenyat. Temperature - do not let the temperature decrease at home, where mandarin grows, should be no lower than +13. But the temperature of +40 ° C and above the plant uneasy, if only the humidity was sufficient.

Spraying

Very fond of this plant moisture. Dry earth and air can lead to death. Therefore, if the apartment has dry air, care includes spraying the leaves and stems from a spray bottle and wiping it with a cloth from dust.

Useful properties has a monthly shower procedure.

Watering

Watering mandarin at home is necessary when the layer of earth is drying from above. Just take a lump and rub it between your fingers. The earth crumbles when pressed - it is time to water. But excessive watering will lead to rotting roots.


Tap water is absolutely not suitable for citrus plants, as it contains chlorine and metal salts. Such water will not bring any benefit to the plant, and it will also cause the appearance of spots on the leaves, disrupt the metabolic processes in the shoot, which will have a negative impact on the cultivation. It is better to pour water from a hot tap, putting it to stand for at least a day, and it will be suitable for watering.

If you live in your own home, then it is better to take water in a well or a stream, putting it to warm to room temperature. But rainwater is better not to use, too much of it now contains various chemical impurities and all the useful properties in it are gone.

In winter, a tree should be watered with water heated to a temperature of at least +30 ° C. In the summer with this it is easier to put water on the window and the heated question will decide the sun for you.

Top dressing

With the advent of the first leaflets, you can begin feeding and do it at intervals twice a month, with both organic and mineral fertilizers. There are also citrus fertilizers available for sale. Top dressing is done on the next day after watering, otherwise the roots will be burned. When the plant takes the form of a tree, feeding is carried out only in the spring and autumn period. In winter, the beneficial properties of feeding are lost, as the plant is resting.

Transfer

With growth, the tree should be transplanted once a year into a larger pot. Pick a new one with a diameter of 3 cm more than the previous one. The best time for transplant is February-March. Transplantation is carried out by transshipment, preserving the old clod of earth and filling the sides with fresh soil. After two weeks, the plant always starts the period of growth activation, at such a time it is better to feed the tree.

Pest and disease control

For a plant cultivated at home, the enemies are gnawing and sucking pests, as well as viruses and fungi. The most common ones are spider mites, aphids, scutes, thrips, etc. The care lies in their destruction. Use natural biopreparations that have useful properties - an infusion of onion peels or garlic.


The appearance of the house earthen flips-thrips - the first sign of a wet ground, constantly loosen the earth and allow the top layer to dry out.


But the infection of a mandarin grown from the seed with flakes or spider mite can lead to the death of the plant. If you notice the thinnest cobweb on the stems and leaves, make sure that this is not the work of the spider and urgently treat it with special preparations, for example, “Aktellik”, but others will do. But clearly follow the instructions for the drug.

You can apply and folk remedies - laundry soap and tobacco dust mixed in the following proportions - 10 grams added to a solution of 1 tbsp. spoon, filled with a glass of water and infused for 6 days. The resulting solution is necessary to spray the plant 3 times, with an interval of 6 days.


Vaccination and mandarin fruit

After about eight years, the grown tree will bloom and bear fruit. Only the fruits are beautiful and green, but not very tasty, very sour.

If you want to grow the same fruits as in the store, then you can not do without vaccination. To do this, you need to buy the stalk of the desired variety or search the fruit-bearing plant for acquaintances. It is necessary to perform the grafting operation with a sterile instrument, but it is up to you to decide which incision is better. Look at the photo and choose the best for your plant.

But remember that you need to vaccinate clearly and quickly, thinking through everything in advance. Caring for the junction is in the processing of garden barb and bandage.

Mandarin grown at home is up to 1.5 m high. When it blossoms or bears fruit, you always want to capture it in a photo, because the tree simply attracts the eye with its beauty.



You can grow a tangerine from the stone yourself at home, but this process is not fast.   If you have patience and abide by the simple conditions of the plant in the room, the tree will delight the fruits and flowering year round.

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Conditions for growing tangerine from the stone

To grow a tangerine from the stone, you need to comply with several conditions necessary for comfortable growth of seedlings.

The conditions of its content are as follows:

  1. Temperature. Mandarin is a heat-loving plant, because the pot with it is placed on the windowsill on the south side of the house. The optimum air temperature is from +14 degrees.
  2. Environment. Near no poisonous plants that can harm the health of citrus should not be.
  3. Humidity. Near put tanks with water, the evaporation of which will provide humidity.

Selection of bones for planting

Selection rules:

  • the best varieties of hybrid mandarins, because they contain the greatest number of seeds;
  • fast germination is a plus, early flowering, in most cases, the plants give edible fruits and are easier to take root;
  • you should choose from 5-10 pieces of seed to get a couple of seedlings, and if in the future it is planned to inoculate a plant, then from 10 or more pieces;
  • so as not to lose money with the seeds, inspect every seed.

Mandarin seeds should be:

  • with bulging sides;
  • no bloom gray or black;
  • incomplete, dense.

Suitable for planting seeds will help you choose water. Seeds are placed in a filled container. Suitable for sowing will sink, and the empty ones will remain on the surface.

Soil preparation and pot

The soil for mandarin should not contain peat, because it does not retain moisture and oxidizes, which are detrimental factors for the seedling.

Neutral substrate for cultivation of mandarins can be purchased at the store or cook yourself.

For this you will need:

  • leaf soil - two parts;
  • humus - two parts;
  • sand is one part.

Small claydite or pebbles are placed on the bottom of the pot, which will provide a drainage effect. A mixture of soil is poured over the drainage. This basis allows the roots to get enough air and moisture.

Sowing seeds

To grow tangerine from the stone, you can first soak the seeds in gauze - for swelling.

The algorithm of action is as follows:

  1. In a small container placed a piece of gauze, folded in several layers.
  2. Then pour a small amount of water to a humid environment, and put in a bright, warm place.
  3. As it dries, add water. Usually the process takes two to three days.

An excellent alternative to gauze can serve as a hydrogel. It not only retains moisture well, but also has the nutrients needed for plants. The main thing is to ensure that the seeds do not lie on the surface, but are among the mass of balls.

Landing is carried out as follows:

  1. Swollen bones are placed in the ground to a depth of about 2-3 cm and sprinkled on top.
  2. The surface of the soil is sprayed from a spray bottle.
  3. The pot is covered with cling film to create a microclimate and placed on the windowsill. The first shoots appear after 3 weeks.

Soaking seeds, planting and the first seedlings of mandarin

You can plant the seed without soaking, but the seedlings will appear much later.

Tangerine care at home

Growing tangerine at home is easy, most importantly, properly care for him, so the cultivation of citrus requires:

  • timely transplant;
  • observance of temperature condition and sufficient illumination;
  • maintaining soil moisture and air;
  • timely fertilization during rapid growth and refusal of feeding in the dormant period of the plant - in winter.

Transplanting seedlings

When the seeds germinate in a pot, they should be rearranged to a bright place, protected from direct sunlight.

Features transplantation:

  1. Grown up and grown strong plants are transplanted into pots with a volume of four liters.
  2. When transplanting capture part of the soil, so as not to damage the roots. This contributes to the speedy survival of the new place and the best growth of the tree.
  3. It is necessary to observe the depth of planting, otherwise, even with appropriate care, the fruits will not appear.
  4. The young plant is transplanted annually, preferably in spring.
  5. When the seedlings reach the age of eight years and begin to bear fruit, they are transplanted once every two years. The pot at the same time pick up on 4-6 centimeters wider than the previous one.

An example of how deep the neck of the trunk should be

Old plants can not be transplanted, the top layer of soil is removed and replaced with a new, fertile.

Watering

Since the mandarin is a moisture-loving plant, the features of its watering are:

  • watering tangerines is recommended daily in small quantities;
  • do not allow the soil to dry out and overwet it;
  • water should be at room temperature;
  • once a week it is necessary to spray the bush additionally;
  • need to water the tree to the root.

It is necessary to ensure that water does not fall on the flowering buds.

Top dressing

To make the plant shine with health, it must be fed as follows:

  1. It should be done within two weeks after the first shoots once every 2 weeks.
  2. The feeding period is from the beginning of spring to late autumn.
  3. For fertilizers use special additives for citrus fruits, which are sold in flower shops. You can use chicken manure, diluted with water, in a ratio of 1:20.
  4. Feed the additives after watering, otherwise the roots can be burned and harm the plant.
  5. In winter, fertilizing is stopped in order to provide the mandarin with a rest period.

Vaccination mandarin at home

The grown tree begins to bear fruit for 5-6 years of life. Sometimes this does not happen or the taste of a ripe fruit leaves much to be desired and then vaccination comes to the rescue. It is necessary to carry out it from the middle of spring to the end of summer, when the plant is capable of fast recovery after damage.

Citrus can be grafted if its trunk has reached 6 millimeters in diameter. In the role of grafting plants worth taking varietal mandarin, because it is he who will set the taste for your pet.

The procedure will require:

  • stock - mandarin, grown by you;
  • graft - stalk varietal mandarin;
  • a knife for making cuts;
  • garden pitch;
  • tape;
  • jar, bottle or package.

Making sure you have all the components, you can take up the vaccine.

It includes the following steps:

  1. Forming stock. To do this, it is cut at a height of about 10 centimeters, then make a shallow incision in the middle of the trunk.
  2. The connection of parts. Into the stock, insert the prepared scion stem, cut in wedge shape.
  3. Treatment. The place of junction is treated with garden bar so that the plant is more likely to recover.
  4. Fasteners. We roll up the place with tape or elastic tape.
  5. Creating a microclimate. Cover the grafted tree with a cut off plastic bottle, a can, or a transparent plastic bag.
  6. Providing light. Put the plant on the sunny side, avoiding direct rays.

Mandarin Vaccination Sequence

A month later, you need to start opening the greenhouse to ventilate and teach mandarin to room temperature. It should be done gradually over a month, gradually increasing the time spent in new conditions for the bush. By following these simple rules, you will achieve the desired result.

In the video, you can examine in detail the method of grafting citrus at home. Shot channel Botanichka. ru.

Diseases and pests

In addition to drying out or over-wetting the soil, the plant can destroy pests. When they are detected, it is urgent to take action.

During the growth and care of the plant, some unforeseen trouble may occur, such as yellowing of the leaves. Perhaps the mandarin resets aged foliage or gives a signal for help. It is worth looking at your "pet" and determine the reason for its elimination.

Possible reasons:

  1. If your tree is many years old, but it looks healthy, then the reason for yellowing is getting rid of old, unnecessary leaves.
  2. When the crown completely gets a lighter shade, the reason lies in the lack of light. Then you need to rearrange the plant in a more sunny place, or if you can not put artificial light.
  3. Too dry air, a draft or a very deep planting of rhizomes can cause foliage shedding. In this case, eliminating the cause will correct the situation.
  4. If the sheet begins to dry at the tip and falls, then this indicates over-wetting of the soil or an excessively large container. To eliminate the trouble, you need to transplant the plant into a suitable-sized container, cutting rotten roots, prepare the soil (loosen the new ground).
  5. When the green begins to turn yellow from the bottom of the tree and continues to move to the top, then the mandarin must be fertilized with a nitrogen-containing agent. This behavior speaks precisely about the lack of this substance.
  6. The yellow color of the shoots, calling on the old leaves, indicates a lack of iron.
  7. If none of the signs are found, but the tree loses its foliage, the plant lacks potassium. In this case, potassium nitrate will help.