Can lemon trees be cut?-Lemon cutting technique

Citrus fruit seeds can be used to make fresh indoor potted plants, such as lemons, oranges and grapefruit. Of course, you must know some basic planting skills. It usually takes several years to grow fruit, so it takes a lot of patience.

Lemon potted ornamental is still very good, the green leaves and strong fresh flowers, very good potted green plants. The most rapid and direct reproduction method of lemon is cutting, and the method is also very simple and easy to learn. Let's take a look at how lemon cutting should be done.

1. Cutting time

The most suitable cutting time is late May, September can also be carried out, but after all into autumn, the air humidity is very low, the need to pay attention to the regulation of moisture. If the lemons raised by flower friends are covered with plastic film, they can also be cut in spring or winter.

2. Utensils selection

You can choose flowerpots, disposable cups, or other suitable utensils, but remember to make the bottom permeable.

3. Cutting medium

The most suitable is the sandy soil with good air permeability and excellent drainage. The soil should be disinfected in advance, but do not fertilize it.

4. Cuttings

Cut sophisticated and strong branches, probably grew for a year, too young is not good, lack of nutrients, and simply rotten away. The length of the cuttings is about 15 cm, and then cut off most of the leaves on the branches, leaving only the top two or three pieces.

5. Cutting method

Insert the medium into a small hole with a cotton swab, then insert the branch into the hole, about one or two nodes, and then fill the hole with the medium.

6. Handle after insertion

After cutting to sprinkle water, pour thoroughly, can sprinkle some water on the leaves, and then put on the semi-shade, covered with plastic film, insist that the soil is moist but can not accumulate water, too much water may cause rotten roots. The temperature is about 25 ℃, about 40 days around will sprout, gradually make it see the light, enter the normal management.

Compared with "circle branch method" and "grafting method", the survival rate of lemon cutting method is lower. If necessary, try to do it in an environment of 15-25 degrees. Therefore, the cuttage propagation method is more suitable to be carried out in about two or three months of the Qingming Festival of the year.

Before completing the cutting operation, fill the river sand in a flowerpot (try not to contain mud) to keep the sediment humid. no mud can ensure that the cut lemon branches will not be attached to the soil microorganisms, preventing the fruit branches from rotting and affecting the rooting rate. After preparing the sand, then use fruit shears to obliquely cut the strong branches, keep a joint tooth in the part that is inserted into the sand, leave two or three teeth in the exposed part, and cut off the excess leaves. Watering three times a day, it is strictly forbidden to touch branches during root cultivation.

Generally, new leaves can be spit out in about two months, with long roots at the bottom. As the roots are still young at this time, do not pull up the seedlings when transplanting, dig them out with a small shovel and move them to the outdoor for unified and intensive cultivation. Pay attention to proper shading to keep the soil moisture at the root. Wait for the roots to be strong and the leaves grow several layers before they can be planted independently.

Time: 2019-06-10 Click: