Fragrant sweet tangerines are a real treata storehouse of vitamins and health. The smell of tangerine helps to restore strength in case of overwork and chronic fatigue, eliminates anger and irritability, helps to concentrate. And the sight of golden-orange fruits against the background of juicy green leaves can effectively drive away depression and melancholy and help to tune in to a positive mood. Therefore, if you want to create a festive mood in your home, then get a tangerine tree. And we will tell you how to grow a tangerine from a seed. Surely, having eaten a fragrant sweet tangerine, you had a desire to grow a tangerine. Perhaps you even tried to do it. And if you did not succeed, we will now find out how to grow a tangerine at home and how to care for it. Many exotic plants are very whimsical in care. But when they bloom, you understand that the effort was worth it. But there are also exotic plants that are not very demanding in care. This includes citrus fruits, including tangerines and lemons. Growing a tangerine from a seed at home is quite a feasible task. A tangerine tree grown from scratch will not only be a real source of your pride, but also a source of good mood in the house. It will delight you with the beautiful gloss of greenery, filling the house with a characteristic tangerine aroma.
Cultivation of mandarin
If you are interested in how to grow a tangerine fromseeds, then the rules that we will tell you now will help you easily cope with this simple task. To plant a tangerine tree, you need seeds, which you will find in ripe tangerines. To increase your chances of success, collect more seeds - at least a dozen, since not all of them will germinate. In order for the seeds to germinate, wrap them in gauze and lightly moisten them with water for several days. For the same purposes, you can use hydrogel, balls of which are sold in flower shops. Hydrogel absorbs moisture and retains it for a long time, thereby creating the necessary conditions for seed germination. It is better to plant a tangerine seed in the middle layer, since the top dries out quickly, and the bottom can be very wet. If you are too lazy to germinate the seeds, you can stick them directly into the ground, but do not forget to water them. To successfully grow a tangerine on a windowsill, you need good lighting, adequate nutrition and high air humidity. If your windows do not face the south, you need to illuminate the tangerine tree in the morning and evening so that its daylight lasts 12 hours. It is better to use a special lamp "Reflax" for this purpose, but you can also turn on a daylight lamp. To provide the necessary humidity, the leaves should be sprayed daily with clean, or better yet, boiled or filtered water. Instead, you can install a humidifier or a mini-fountain next to the tree.
Drainage and nutrition of mandarin
Mandarin is grown in nutritious soilmixtures that include equal parts compost, rotted manure humus, leaf and turf soil. Peat cannot be used because it dries quickly, is not very nutritious and often turns sour. Therefore, you will have to take care of the soil mixture yourself, since peat is the basis of all soil mixtures sold in the store. In the worst case, you can take ordinary soil and add a glass of wood ash, one kilogram of organic fertilizer "Dream of a gardener" and a small guest of superphosphate per bucket of soil. Drainage should be placed at the bottom of the container, for which you can use charcoal or expanded clay. Usually, the active growth period begins in two or three weeks. At this time, it is advisable to feed the mandarin with fertilizer solutions once every two weeks. Of the mineral fertilizers, these can be "Kemira-Lux", "Ryazanochka" or "Sudarushka", which are diluted at the rate of 1-2 g per liter of water. Of the organic fertilizers, this can be a concentrate of horse manure "Flumb", which is diluted 1:60. The plant should be replanted in the same mixture and in the same way. It is better to do this at the end of February or the beginning of March. The plant is replanted, trying to preserve the previous earth lump as much as possible, so as not to damage or disturb the roots of the plant.
Protection against pests
When growing a tangerine tree, you shouldknow that failures in this matter are associated with the activity of such pests as false scale insects and spider mites. False scale insects are motionless brown "turtles" that secrete a sticky substance, and spider mites are tiny spiders that wrap the plant in a thin web. Plants "suffocate" from the secretions of these pests. To combat them, there are biological preparations "Fitoverm" and "Aktellik" that are harmless to humans, but very dangerous for pests, which must be used exactly according to the instructions attached to them. But it is better not to spray the plant, but to thoroughly wash the crown in a bucket with a solution. In this case, the preparations act more effectively. This procedure should be repeated three times every week. We advise you to read:
