How to grow mangoes from the bones at home

1. buy mango

Try to choose a ripe fruit. He is fragrant and slightly soft, and with a light pressure is applied to it remains a small dent.

Skin color may be different, it all depends on the variety. The main thing that she wore small dark specks. This is another sign of ripeness.

If the peel falls under the finger, ripe mango. To fit it just right, but the taste is not very much. And the smell of it sour.

If all the fruits of hard to the touch, not scary. Buy any of them, put in a loosely closed paper bag and let it sit for a day or two. Neighborhood with apples or bananas will accelerate due to ethylene, which they emit.

Instead the package and is suitable container with ordinary uncooked rice. Shove it in mango, cover, and the next day remove ripe fruit.

2. Prepare for landing pit

Clean ripe fruit peel and pulp. Wash the stone under running water and inspect. If the shell has burst open it till the end. If not, no big deal. Just carefully incise it with a kitchen knife.

Remove the seeds, being careful not to damage it.

Before planting, 10 minutes soak seeds in a solution saturated with potassium permanganate pink, and after rinse with water. This treatment will protect against fungal infections. Instead of potassium permanganate can use fungicides, which are sold in stores houseplants.

If the seed is already beginning to grow inside the shell, in addition to germinate it is not necessary.

Do not tighten with planting seeds, which got out of the shell. A few days later she was just dry and germination can not wait.

3. germinate seed

Wrap the seed in good gauze moistened with water, a small towel or soft cloth, and then in the package. Put in a plastic container with a lid and store in a warm and dark place. For example, under the battery, if the planting during the heating season.

Daily moisten the package, the humidity is constant, and the seed is not dried up.

When the bone begins to grow (usually occurs within 5-14 days), put it in the ground.

4. Select the appropriate pot

Take the pot with a diameter of 8-10 cm, preferably high, so that the roots have space to grow. Always with a drainage hole at the bottom. For the first year it will be enough.

Do not put too large a capacity. Ground it will be a long time to dry and sour, so that the roots will be deprived of access to air and begin to rot.

5. Select the appropriate land

For planting seeds and growing adult plants suitable mixture universal neutral soil (pH = 7) or peat with coarse sand in the ratio 2: 1.

At the bottom of the pot put a drainage layer, so it took about a quarter of the space. In addition to the flower expanded clay, which is sold in stores, you can use crushed stone, gravel, broken bricks, and even foam crushed into pieces of 4-5 cm.

6. plant a seed

Make a hole in the middle of the ground and slide back down the spine of a mango seed. It should be buried no more than ¾.

7. Pour and provide humidity

Pour the ground that it was moderately moist. The excess water will not go to the benefit of plants, it will rot.

For watering the seeds and then plant use only filtered or defend the water required to room temperature.

Pot cover bag or cling film. Instead, the film is suitable and plastic bottle with a circumcised bottomed necessarily transparent. Its diameter should be slightly smaller than the diameter of the pot, so that it is easily inserted. So inside will be a constant humidity.

8. Put the pot in a bright and warm place

For example, on a windowsill or shelf near the window. If this is not possible, use additional lighting for houseplants.

During warmer months, take out the pot on the balcony, but protect it from direct sunlight.

9. Properly care for seedlings

Moderate watering every 2-3 days, lest the land swamp, but did not have time to dry out completely.

Once a couple of days lift film, Bone and watering ventilate the pot for 10-15 minutes in order to avoid rotting. On the dome of the bottle even easier: unscrew the lid on a similar time to the air.

After 10-15 days, and possibly even earlier, the germ appears. From one bone may be several.

When mango sprout, do not rush to remove the protective teplichku. Abrupt change of humidity can be detrimental to a plant that has not been strengthened.

If the pot was covered with a bag or foil, make a few small holes for ventilation. Daily increase their size, and after a couple of days completely remove the protective dome.

If seedlings are covered with a cropped bottle, open it daily for 40-50 minutes, but after a few days, remove the design at all.

10. Create conditions for the growth of mango

Regularly, not less frequently than once every 3 days, water the plant. In the summer the land dries out faster, shorten the interval between waterings.

Every 2-3 days spray the mango from a spray or wipe it with a damp cloth leaves every week.

In the summer take out plants on the balcony or outdoors.

When mangoes a year old, start to feed in the spring and in the summer 2-3 times every month. Use conventional fertilizer houseplants the recommended ratio.

11. Repot the mango and the form of the crown

Transplant the mango in half a year, when it had already become strong enough. Take a pot diameter of a few centimeters longer necessarily tall and with drainage holes. In order not to damage the root system, move the mango with a clod of earth and dosypte right amount of land.

The next time you repot the plant when it becomes crowded in the same capacity. It's time - if the roots of a fully braided earth com, filled almost all the interior space and are visible through the drainage holes. Another feature - the slowdown even with regular dressing fertilizer.

If the mango too will be extended, prischipnite its top, it stimulates the growth of lateral branches. When the height of the trees will be more than a meter, make regular pruning to maintain shape of the crown.

Mango bloom after 6-10 years. However, the harvest will not likely.