How to grow mandarin from seed at home, instructions for growing at home

It’s not difficult to grow tangerine from a stone at home, but getting a beautiful shaped tree with fruits is much more difficult. Especially if you want to pick large, juicy and sweet fruits from your tree.

Is it possible to grow mandarin from seed at home

Well-developed and fruitful tangerines are quite expensive, so not everyone can afford to buy it. But to grow a whole tree from a small bone, to experiment with the formation or grafting is much more interesting. You don’t even have to go to the garden store for seeds - just buy and eat tangerine, and plant seeds.

Will the fruit that has grown from the seed be fruiting

Unfortunately, the tangerine grown from seed does not always begin to bear fruit, and if you could wait for the flowering and fruit setting, the result may openly disappoint you. Very often, sour and small wild game grows from the seeds of sweet and large mandarin.

If tangerine is grown for the sake of fruit, then it is necessary to plant a cutlet of varietal tangerine on a wild seedling.

Planting tangerine seeds at home

To plant tangerines with seeds, you need to stock up on pots, good soil and tangerines. If you plant mandarin just to get a tree, then a bone from any mandarin will do, but Hybrid fruits are believed to be more likely to have a non-grafted tree bearing fruit. the fruits.

Selection and preparation of tangerine seeds

In hybrid mandarin oranges there are more seeds than in varietal ones; they germinate better and in most cases yield tasty fruits. Therefore, it is better to take seeds from such a multi-seeded mandarin. It is advisable to leave a dozen seeds for planting, so that there is a choice and stock of seedlings.

Freshly picked mandarin seeds are best planted immediately in moist soil, but if you already have dried bones, it is advisable to soak them, and even better - to sprout until the spine appears.

You need to soak the bones for a couple of days, you can add a growth stimulator, for example, Epin.

One of the most reliable methods of germination is in hydrogel. These are dry granules that absorb water and swell, increasing in size. In a quality hydrogel, the granules do not fall apart and do not turn into mucus.

Do not take decorative round gel balls for germination.

How to make kernels hatch

1. 1 teaspoon of granules is placed in a container with a lid (containers from salads are best), pour a little water and wait a few minutes. When all the water is absorbed, you can pour as much more water into the water to wait. Typically, on the packaging for a hydrogel, the manufacturer himself writes how much water is needed to soak the hydrogel.
   

   The hydrogel from the Ural summer resident does not turn into mucus when wet, but remains large granules

2. Now, on the soaked granules, place the tangerine seeds and close the lid. Be sure to leave room for air between the seeds and the lid.
   

   We place the hydrogel in a container so that there is room for air

3. Now put the bowl in a warm place and wait for the sprouts to appear. Thanks to the moist air, the mandarin seeds will begin to sprout, and the spine that appears will go to look for moisture in the hydrogel.

A less expensive method of germination is in a damp cloth or gauze. For germination, the seeds are placed in a damp cloth or gauze, placing it on a saucer with a very small amount of water. To prevent evaporation of moisture, you can additionally remove the saucer in a plastic bag. It is important to moisten gauze in time so that the seeds do not dry out, but rather swell. Sprouted bones need to be immediately transplanted into the ground, without waiting for the root to become tangled or grow into tissue.

How many days will be pitted stones, it is definitely impossible to answer, it will depend on the quality the seeds themselves, and how dry they are inside, and whether the land in which they are dry are growing. Fresh or pre-soaked seeds germinate usually after 6-10 days.

How to plant tangerine seeds

Mandarin seedlings are not fragile and develop strong roots. therefore often they are simply planted in a pot with some kind of houseplant, and only then they dig it out and move it into a separate pot. However, if you want to get a powerful and strong plant, it is better to immediately choose a personal capacity for it and soil suitable for the chemical composition.

Which soil and pot to choose

So, while the seeds are germinating, you need to prepare the soil. Do not plant seeds in pots with already growing plants - they will be quite difficult to transplant.

It is believed that mandarin does not like peat land, so you can often find a recommendation for the preparation of soil mix for mandarin from forest land, humus and sand (2: 2: 1). However, for many citizens it is simply impossible to do this. But you can make a multicomponent mixture of the following components:

• Universal peat mixture of neutral acidity - 5 liters.
• Coconut substrate (soaked) - 1 liter.
• Biohumus - 0.5 liters.
• Vermiculite (perlite or sand) - 1 cup.

All components of the mixture need to be mixed well and can be used.

As a container for planting, you can use both individual cups with a volume of 200 ml or ordinary pots for plants with a diameter of about 10 cm and a height of 8-12 cm. In a large pot, you can plant several bones at once and then pee them.

When is the best time to plant mandarin

The season of ripe tangerines is autumn and winter, so it is better to plant seeds at this time. It is advisable to plan the planting so that the seedlings appear by the beginning of spring, when the plant needs the sun, and you do not have to highlight the young seedlings.

Instructions for planting mandarin bone

1. Pour the soil mixture into the prepared pot and compact it, 1-2 cm should remain from the ground to the edge of the pot to make it convenient to water.
2. Using a finger or a suitable tool, make a hole in the soil, 1-1.5 cm deep, where we carefully place the sprouted or dry seed from the mandarin.
3. We fill the bone with soil and carefully pour the pot with water at room temperature.
4. We remove the pot in a transparent bag so that moisture does not evaporate, and put it in a warm place. The optimum temperature for germination is 20–25⁰ WITH.
5. When shoots of tangerines appear, the pot must be rearranged on the bright southern window sill, and the package removed.

Video: planting tangerine seeds

Young shoot care

For tangerines that sprouted in early spring, care consists of watering, spraying and periodic top dressing.

Young plants need to be watered so that the soil is moderately moist, so you will have to water more often in hot rooms than in cooler ones. In addition, at least once a week, the mandarin must be sprayed with water, and in summer put the pot on a pallet with wet expanded clay. Of course, in regions with frequent rains and high humidity, such procedures are unnecessary.

Mandarin top dressing is best done from spring to late summer, using a special fertilizer for citrus fruits.

When and how to transplant a tree

If tangerines are planted in a common box or a pot, then after some time the seedlings will have to be peaked in separate pots so that they do not begin to oppress each other. It is advisable to transplant in the warm season: in spring or early summer.

Seedlings ready for picking should look strong and with 2-3 true leaves.

Seedlings grown in individual cups can be transplanted in a more adult state, simply transferring the plant from a smaller capacity to a large one.

Picking seedlings

1. Water the container in which the tangerines grow well.
2. We prepare individual cups or pots for each seedling. For young plants, a pot with a diameter of 8-10 cm is enough.
3. In the bottom of the pot we make drainage holes and pour expanded clay with a layer of 1-2 cm.
4. Pour the soil and gently crush it, in the center we make a cone-shaped hole and pour it with 1-2 tablespoons of water.
5. From a bowl with tangerines we pick up one seedling with a fork, knife or other sharp object and transfer it to a depression in a new pot.
6. We set the seedling so that the ground level in the new pot and the old one matches, sprinkle the voids with soil and lightly water it.
7. Removed tangerines in a bright place, but not in direct sunlight, to allow the plant to take root.

After the transplant, you can sprinkle the tangerines with Epin's solution, this will relieve stress and help the plants take root better.

Video: pick of citrus

Mandarin Crown Formation

The most preferred crown for mandarin is spherical, and the first fruits can be seen on the branches of the fourth order of branching, so the formation of the crown for fruiting is very important.

You will not see the fruits on the branches of the first, second and third order, as well as on fattening or strongly growing shoots.

If the tangerine does not branch itself, then the first formation begins at the time when the seedling grows to 30 cm - the crown of the head is pinched. New shoots (second order) will grow from the buds, which must be pinched already after 4-5 real leaves.

Then again, growth of shoots (third order) will begin from the buds, which also pinch after 4-5 leaves.

The fruiting tree is pruned in late winter and early spring annually.

What should be removed:

• twigs that already had fruits;
• fattening shoots;
• twigs growing inside the crown;
• Sick or broken twigs.

You can not remove completely strongly growing branches, but simply shorten them to a length of 20–25 cm, on which the crop will be formed already next year. After spring pruning, many new shoots will appear, among which 2-3 of the strongest and most correctly sprouted branches are chosen.

Tangerine grown from seed blooms, at best, in 5–6 years. But most often it does not repeat maternal qualities, it can be tastier, and maybe wild sour meat. In order to get more edible fruits, a varietal shank is grafted onto a seedling of a mandarin.

Indoor Mandarin Inoculation

Mandarin, grown not for fruit, can simply be shaped with a green bush. In other cases, it is better to plant a kidney or stalk from varietal mandarin on the seedling.

All vaccination or trimming operations are carried out with a sharp disinfected tool.

How to plant varietal cuttings "in a split"

The trunk of the mandarin-wild must be about 5-6 mm in diameter, it is cut completely horizontally at a height of 7 to 10 cm. On an adult tangerine, you can use one of the skeletal branches of this thickness and plant several varieties on one tree.

Perpendicular to the cut, make a cut down the trunk, 2–2.5 cm long. On a high-quality mandarin cuttings we make a V-shaped cut so that the length of the wedge is about 1.5–2 cm.

We insert the wedge into the incision on the wild, press firmly, wrap it with a garden bandage.

So that the scion does not evaporate excess moisture, the plant is placed in a greenhouse or hotbed (you can cover it with a bag). If new leaves appeared in a month - the vaccination was successful.

For those who are completely new to grafting trees, you can practice maple shoots: chop them and try vaccination of one branch on another, while simply observing the technology and training the hand, not trying to get a gain.

Kidney vaccination of a varietal bearing plant

It is carried out under the cortex with one kidney. An incision is made in the game in the form of the letter T, where the lower part of the letter is 2–2.5 cm long and the upper part is 1 cm.

The slice is made so as to cut only the bark and bend it from the wood.

A kidney is cut on a varietal cut so as to capture a part of the wood with bark. It is inserted into a T-shaped incision and wrapped in a garden bandage.

The graft along with the mother tree is placed in a package to improve survival.

The result of vaccination will be visible only after a few weeks.. If a kidney or a stalk has released new leaves, the vaccination has been successful.

It’s quite possible to get a tangerine tree from a stone. For a decorative green tree, it is enough to hold the nipples forming the crown in the desired version, but in order to get tasty fruits, you need to plant varietal mandarin on the wild.