Growing a symbol of well-being - a pitted mandarin at home
Everything that we send to this world comes back. Creating a tangerine tree at home, a person will spend a lot of effort, especially growing a tangerine from seeds at home. The goal will be the opportunity to receive delicious fruits and give them to loved ones. Moreover, each fruit will contain one of the messages - harmony, balance, abundance, love. A man, together with a tree, cultivates the well-being of his family and the world around him. Good motivation!
Why the mandarin brings goodness to the house
According to the Feng Shui theory, in a prosperous home, everything matters and is responsible for the karma of the inhabitants. The tangerine tree in the southeast side of a clean dwelling is a symbol of good luck in business, well-being. It combines green with orange, this combination symbolizes gold. And since the tree grows and is alive, it is a symbol of growing prosperity. How to plant and grow home happiness with your own hands?
Tangerine tree growing technology
For indoor cultivation, the Japanese Unshiu or Satsuma mandarin is suitable. They are the ones that grow in the south of Russia. Growing a tangerine at home consists in obtaining a plant by grafting or growing by layering. They have almost no seeds. But a seedling can be obtained from any variety, and it is precisely an escape from a cultivated home tree to graft.
The technology on how to grow a tangerine from a seed is simple. First, you should soak the seeds that were taken from the fruit in a moist environment. If there are a lot of them, it doesn't matter. Not all sprout, only the strong grow. The science of how to grow seed tangerines is simple. Fertile loose soil is being prepared. In the conditions of the city, the purchased substratum "Rose" or "Biohumus" is suitable. The rest of the soil mixtures contain peat and are not suitable for this crop. You can independently prepare the composition for growing seedlings and for young plants in the following proportions:
- sod land - 2 parts;
- river sand - 1 part;
- humus or compost -1 part.
For adult plants, the content of garden land is increased, instead of humus, fresh mullein is used and a little clay is added.
All land is disinfected, including purchased ones, the dishes also require careful disinfection so as not to introduce pests into young plantings.
Swollen seeds are sown in a pot with a damp substrate, placed in a warm, bright place, covering the bowl from moisture evaporation. At times, the soil surface is slightly moistened and seedlings are expected to appear, which will be few in number.
If you need to grow a decorative tree with small and tasteless fruits, further care consists in timely watering, creating optimal illumination and humidity. If you create a cultivated plant with your own hands, you will need to leave a few plants, because it is not known whether a mandarin grafting will work at home. A video of how to perform this operation can be viewed on the page. Of several experiments, one will surely be successful.
The stock by this time should be two years old and as thick as a pencil.The sequence of vaccination operations.
- On the stem of the rootstock, make a T-shaped incision in the bark if budding is done, or a split if the graft is a branch.
- The stock must be young and freshly cut to keep the cambium layer alive.
- Having combined the living tissues of two plants, they are fixed and the resulting plant is closed on top to create constant air humidity.
- After a month, they check the condition of the stock and gradually begin to accustom the weak plant to the air, remove the fixing bandage.
- After the grafting is successful, remove the remnants of the old stem of the seedling (when budding).
The entire procedure must be planned in advance. A sharp, sterile instrument is conveniently close at hand. The workplace is clean. Vaccination is done only during the period of intensive sap flow, in April-May and September.
If this long-term cultivation with do-it-yourself grafting seems too difficult, you can buy a ready-grafted tree at the store.
Tangerine care
A young tree begins to grow in a container with a diameter of 7-10 cm, increasing the volume of the pot every year during transshipment. You cannot immediately plant in a large bowl, as the roots will sour and the plant will die. After 8 years, the transplant is done in a year. There are no difficulties in transplanting a tangerine tree at home in the first years of life. Later, they try to create such a container so that the bottom can be opened and the soil partially replaced.
Top dressing is best used with a special one designed for citrus plants. At the same time, they fertilize at the beginning of summer, thereby achieving an improvement in the taste of tangerines. Fertilizer is applied only to wet soil. For trees that are no longer possible to transplant, fertilizing watering is done every three weeks, including organic fertilizing.
Watering the tangerine, the guarantee of his health. In the summer, watering is done several times a day with warm, settled water. In winter, you have to water it up to three times a week, depending on the condition of the soil.
Mandarin lighting should be at least 12 hours a day, even during the winter months. Therefore, artificial lighting is encouraged.
To increase the humidity, frequent spraying with a fine spray is used, placing an aquarium nearby, or just containers with water. The plant should be bathed in the shower while it is small. An obligatory procedure will be to remove dust from the leaves, which interferes with the absorption of solar energy.
The pests of the tangerine tree are red spider mites, whiteflies, scale insects. You can get rid of them with the help of special preparations, but not by spraying, but by rubbing the composition of each leaf and particle of the trunk and branches. So that flies and other inhabitants do not start in the pot from frequent watering, the earth must be loosened more often and when watering, sometimes use a weak solution of potassium permanganate.