In recent years avocado has become particularly fashionable among fans of a healthy lifestyle. Is it possible to grow this healthy fruit at home?
Even in the wild avocado trees produce relatively little fruit because of the complicated system of pollination of flowers. So, from 1.5-2 million flowers on the trees turns multimeter just dish up to 200 kg of fruit per year. That is, the chance of avocado - 1 by 5000 Flowers. Is it possible to repeat the feat at home? Among florists ability not only to grow the tree itself, but also to make it bear fruit, it is considered the highest skill. However, it's worth it, especially as the avocado tree itself is quite unpretentious, grows quickly and is attractive. Let us consider the course of action if you want to grow avocados at home.
1. Buy in-store ripe fruit of the avocado. Maturity can be identified by its very dark color. Cut the fruit in half along. It should be done very carefully so as not to damage the bone. The more bone - so much the better, because it correspondingly more nutrients.
2. Separate bone spoon, rinse thoroughly with warm water to her left pulp. If the stone surface will remain pieces of flesh, the mold may appear shortly.
3. To pit the avocado sprouted, it is simple enough to stick in the ground. But this method will result after quite a long time. To expedite the process, the avocado pit is better to germinate in water.
4. Plug in the pit 4 toothpicks to a depth of about 5 mm, making it more convenient at regular intervals.
5. Further, the bone should be placed in a transparent glass cup with water. Toothpicks thus help to hold it in such a way that the bone is only a third was submerged in water. As such, the bone in the glass you need to put in a well lit place, and every two days, change the water.
6. After about 3-4 weeks the bone will crack and out proklyunetsya first root.
7. When emerging roots grow to 3 cm, kostoku can be transplanted in a pot of soil. Floss before boarding neobodimo removed. Avocado is suitable for universal primer for colors, it is important that it was loose. Bone should be planted with the blunt end down, half-covered with earth.
8. Bone in the pot should be watered 1 time in 3 days. It is important that the ground was wet, and that was the pot in a warm, well-lit area. At the same time it should not be exposed to direct sunlight. It is also important for the avocado high humidity. The plant is necessary to spray, wipe the leaves.
9. Rostock may appear several days after transplanting into the pot. For a month he can grow up to 50 cm. Avocados is growing rapidly up side shoots do not appear. To a tree growing "breadth", you prischipnut the tip when it reaches the desired height.
10. About once a year the avocado should be repotted in new soil and a bigger pot.
11. In summer the plant can be taken out of the nature and stand under the trees, so that it quickly blossomed.
12. First avocados can give flowers after about 3-4 years, but in the conditions of the apartment it is quite rare.
13. If your avocados blossomed and you are going to get from him the fruit, you can try self-pollinate it. It is advisable to have at the same time there were a few avocado trees. Experienced growers share experiences that avocado flowers are revealed twice - the first time they function as a female, in the second - as male. If the first day pick some flowers and mark them on the second day, when they are "male", you can try to move the pollen from them to the neighboring flowers, opened for the first time.
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