How to instill mandarin at home?

Citruses grown in residential conditions have long ceased to be rare.Many crops are grown from pits and give a good harvest, if properly fit and maintained. Mandarins are no exception, but for the desired fruits to appear on the tree, vaccination is necessary. This procedure has its own rules and subtleties that need to be considered.

When planting seeds of citrus plants, you can really grow a beautiful tree that is unlikely to bear fruit - at best, it can be sour, almost not edible wild fruits. In this case, it is not necessary to wait for a normal harvest. To get the fruit of the same variety from which the seeds are taken, it will be necessary to carry out vegetative propagation, usually this is grafting and grafting.

This event is a combination of several plant parts - the stem or foliage of one tree with the stem of another, with the result that the splicing occurs, which has a beneficial effect on fruiting. In this case, the tree that is being grafted is considered a stock, while the attached part of another plant is graft.

Such vegetation gives undoubted advantages:

• the possibility of rapid reproduction and crossing of various citrus crops;
• the onset of flowering and the formation of ovaries in a short time;
• resistance of the tree to negative external influences;
• improving the external characteristics of the plant;
• high quality and quantity of the formed fruits.

Mandarin vaccination has its own characteristics and different options for implementation, and it is quite simple to spend at home.

To obtain normal varietal fruits with acceptable size and good taste, first of all, it is necessary to properly grow tangerine from the stone, and only then make a connection with graft from an already fruiting tree. Cultivation of high-quality seedlings can be considered a preparatory stage for plant grafting, which is at the same time the key to further normal fruit formation.

Gardeners with experience advise:

• plant several bones at once;
• for this purpose, take only ripe, even overripe fruits;
• take planting material from the fruit immediately before planting;
• Do not use spoiled and rotten tangerines.

Place the bones on a saucer with gauze abundantly soaked in water and cover with the same wet material. The swollen bones are ready for planting, and they are moved into separate cups with earth, and during the development of the root system - into a more spacious container. Do not forget that so that the soil for the plant is light and nutritious - for this purpose, in equal parts they connect humus, compost and sod soil, it will also require good claydite drainage.

For further growth, the tree will need regular watering without waterlogging, diffused light, regular airing of the room. Beginner gardeners will have to be patient, as the plant grows at home for quite some time.

According to agrotechnical rules, it is possible to inoculate a mandarin at home, starting from its two-year age, because up to this point the plant has not yet been fully formed, and, therefore, is not ready for reproduction. It is desirable that the size of the shoot was 5-7 mm in diameter.

It is better to carry out the process in early spring (early April) or late summer (last week of August). True, some experts in this area believe that the best time for this procedure is May, and if the plants are planted in a greenhouse without heating, then even later - in June.

Provided a special technology during vaccination:

• all cuts made should be perfectly smooth;
• before connecting the place of vaccination must be treated with a fungicide and soapy water;
• Pre-disinfected instruments and sterile gloves are used for work;
• it is better not to touch the cut sections;
• the process must be carried out in a short time, so that the plant tissues do not have time to oxidize when exposed to air.

A week before vaccination requires abundant watering of the tree. You will also need to take care of the availability of the variety, which will be grafted - it will require a cutting with 2-3 buds.

There are several vaccination techniques that can be used for transplantation. The simplest way in which plants are least damaged is called budding. Its characteristic feature is a T-shaped cut on the main tree, into which the bud-eye (graft) is placed.

It is necessary to comply with the following requirements:

• before the procedure, wipe the bark of the original plant with a moist material;
• the incision is made 4-7 cm from the ground, it should be about 3 cm in length, and 1 cm in width;
• the edges of the incision expand, inserting a graft;
• Paste on the basis of wax and propolis is applied to the site and fixed with a special inoculum.

After 30 days, the upper process of the rootstock can be shortened by 10 cm. If you plant the plant with different varieties of citrus, it is possible to get the fruits of different crops on the same tree. The fact that grafting was unsuccessful may indicate the appearance of a black plaque at the site of inoculation.

Copulation has two options.

1. In the first case, both parts of different plants are selected with identical diameter of the shoot. In both, oblique cuts are made, vertical incisions are made along their center. Then both parts are combined and optimally combined.
2. An alternative method involves making two cuts on top of the plant material. Further they will need to be tightly connected.

At the end of the work, a special tape is used, and a thick film is additionally fixed on top to create a microclimate. Grafting with a splinter is recommended for beginner gardeners.

The procedure involves the following sequence of actions:

• the vaccination site is treated with a damp cloth;
• using a pruner, horizontally prune the shoots of the main plant;
• the center of the stock is notched to a depth of 3 cm;
• the scion is sharpened with two slices of the same length;
• it remains only to place the graft in a split incision, then treat with putty and pull off with garden tape.

In one stock, you can put two or three grafts at once. For correct work, it is necessary to use tools such as PVC tape, putty and special garden tools for grafting. If the seedling was grown from a fruit seed indoors, it is necessary to carry out the grafting process a little differently.

First, the main plant clears the bark 100 mm above the soil, an incision is made on the stump, and a graft plant with several buds is inserted inside. It is important that at the same time full compatibility of plant parts is observed.

A successfully grafted plant will be able to produce a full harvest in 2-3 years, but for this it needs to create comfortable conditions. The room should be warm, humid (more than 50%), a lot of air and light, direct sunlight is excluded. If possible, after vaccination, it is better to move the pot with a seedling to the greenhouse for a while.But you can also take care of the greenhouse climate at home by covering the culture container with a transparent plastic film.

Other points related to mandarin care are also important.

• It must be regularly watered using only filtered or settled water. In summer, watering is carried out up to 3 times a week, in winter it is enough once for the same period. Twice a month will need treatment with a weak solution of manganese.
• Culture requires periodic spraying with ordinary water, in the summer - every other day, and in the winter - once every two weeks.
• Until four years old, the plant must be replanted annually, mature trees - once every two years. For room culture, each transplanting is done in a pot, which is about 5 cm in diameter from the previous one. An earthen room is necessarily preserved, otherwise, the mandarin root system may be damaged.
• As for fertilizing, organic fertilizer based on compost, horse manure, humus and mineral supplements should be made all spring and summer with a frequency of 2-3 times a month.

It is important to monitor the status of the crown of citrus. To do this, not only shorten the trunk and cut off the damaged branches, but also pinch the young shoots, as soon as 6 leaflets form on them. It is necessary that the power of the plant was directed to fruiting, and not to grow. Ideally, the shape of the tree should be rounded. In winter, the plant rests, it requires cool air (+14 degrees) and rare watering.

How to grow a tangerine from the bone, see the next video.