Plant an orchard on the balcony by yourself

When it comes to growing fruit, what comes to mind is Flower and Fruit Mountain and flat Peach Orchard. In short, it is a large space, fertile land and good landscape, and the requirements for climate and soil are particularly high. In fact, eat the rest of the fruit core do not throw away, small potted plants can also grow "orchard"!

However, it takes more patience to grow fruit than to grow vegetables and flowers. Make the balcony into a bright orchard that makes people drool. Are you ready?

Strawberry

Plant beautiful fruit in half a year

Heartbeat stage: fruit setting and picking period

Index of use: ★

Optimum temperature: 20-30 ℃

Small potted plants with primary seeds

Strawberry is one of the girls' favorite fruits! Before eating strawberries, pick the seeds from the skin with a toothpick.

Choose strong seeds, sow them on the surface of the basin soil, and cover them with a layer of fine soil. After pouring enough water, cover the basin with a layer of wet newspaper and put it in a sunny place. after about 2-3 weeks, you can see the sprouting, and the green leaves grow after two months.

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Strawberries produce fruit the fastest of all fruits, and can blossom and bear fruit 3-4 months after the seeds are planted.

During the growing period, strawberries should be fertilized more and the soil moisture should be watered until water flows out from the bottom of the basin. Remove dead leaves, axillary buds and stolons in time and keep 5-6 leaves. In the north, heat preservation management should be carried out in winter, or put in a place of shelter from the wind. Be careful that the fruit doesn't touch the dirt.

Pomegranate

An inverted Golden Bell that will bear fruit

Cardiac stage: flowering stage

Index of use: ★★★★

Optimum temperature: 15-20 ℃

Small potted plants with primary seeds

After eating the pomegranate, soak the seeds in clean water, leaving the seeds at the bottom of the water.

Soak in water for 6-10 days, change the water once a day, until the water becomes clear, you can take out the seed.

After the basin soil is wet, sow the pomegranate seeds evenly on the basin soil, spread a layer of fine soil, and then sprinkle with water to make the seeds fully moist.

Spray water once a day and it will sprout in about three weeks. Thirty days later, it can be transplanted to a larger flowerpot.

The pomegranate blossoms are somewhat similar to hanging the golden bell upside down.

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If the pomegranate is planted well, it will bear fruit in 1-2 years. But just like girls and boys are not suitable for puppy love, blossom and bear fruit too early is not conducive to tree growth. In order to grow healthy and delicious pomegranates, the flower buds should be removed in the first few years to make the trees strong. Leave 5-7 pomegranates after 4-5 years, increasing year by year.

The flowers of pomegranate can be divided into fruit flowers and non-fruit flowers, blooming 2-3 times a year, leaving 3-5 fruit flowers at the first time, removing 1 pear 2 for non-fruit flowers, leaving a few if the first fruit flowers are insufficient, and leaving no fruit flowers for the third time. Since then, the number of fruits can be increased year by year.

Avocado

A "fortune tree" that will bear fruit

Cardiac stage: rooting and budding stage

Index of use: ★★★

Optimum temperature: 25-35 ℃

Small potted plants with primary seeds

Wash the pulp on the core and insert 3-5 toothpicks around. Stand the "tortured" avocado on a transparent container and water over the bottom of the avocado.

Change the water every day, and after 2-3 weeks, you can see the avocado crack, grow white roots and sprout new buds.

After the new bud is facing up, it can be transplanted to the basin, and the watering should wait until the soil is dry, not too diligently.

I can't tell the avocado seedlings from the rich trees.

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Two avocados should be planted if you want to eat the self-planted avocado, because the maturation time of pistil and stamen is different, and the seed setting rate of cross-pollination is higher.

Avocado is fertilized with nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other complete fertilizers. Although avocados like the sun, the soil should not be too dry.

Starting from the seed, it usually blossoms and bears fruit in 4-6 years. In southern China, it blossoms in March and the fruit matures from August to September.

Dragon fruit

A cactus that will bear fruit

Cardiac stage: budding stage and growth period

Index of use: ★★★

Optimum temperature: 25-35 ℃

Small potted plants with primary seeds

Soak the dragon fruit pulp in water, crush it and screen it with a filter cloth and screen to separate the pulp from the seeds. And then dry the seeds.

Spread gravel in a non-porous basin, put it in the soil, sow sun-dried seeds, and spray water gently (do not pour water directly).

Cover it with cling film and remember to lift the cling film every other day and sprinkle it with a spray can.

After 3-5 days, the seeds germinate, the cling film can be removed, and in a few days it will become as green and transparent as emerald.

In a few weeks, Xiao Miao will turn into a long-spiny "cactus", placed at the table, very pleasing to the eye!

Advance to a small potted orchard

Like avocado, dragon fruit is cross-pollinated, and it usually takes 3-4 years to bear fruit if you need to plant more than two trees.

If you want to eat your own dragon fruit, you have to use the boss's flowerpot, with a diameter of 35cm and a height of more than 30cm.

The north needs to be kept in a greenhouse in winter to ensure a few hours of sunshine every day. When the topsoil is dry, we should also pay attention to the application of thin fertilizer.

It takes a long time to go from seed to fruit, and it is also more challenges and tests for you. If you want to get faster results, you can also buy seedlings directly and plant them back.