Lemon is a plant from faraway Asia. It is a small tree not exceeding five meters high. It is valued for its beautiful and aromatic leaves and flowers, as well as for its fruits, which have a lot of vitamins and other nutritional values. Unfortunately, it is not resistant to low temperatures, which means that in cold climates, cultivation is usually problematic and requires the use of appropriate containers and transfer to warmer rooms in the cold season.

Usually the trees are put outdoors in the warm months, and in the cold months they return to the orangery. Fortunately, it doesn't take so much to have its own lemon trees. Due to the small size of the plants, even a cool corridor or a bright veranda is sufficient in winter, provided that it is a place with the right air temperature.

Flowers and fruit

The lemons ripen all year round and their fruits remain on the branches for a long time. Unlike the seasonal plants typical of our climate, flowers and fruits appear on the trees at the same time and decorate the trees all the time. Contrary to appearances, it is a plant well prepared for difficult times. When it lacks water, sun or heat, it starts to lose its leaves and flowers. In this way it becomes a kind of hibernation, from which it will come out if its conditions improve.

Our climatic conditions make the development of the lemon uneven. It is most active in spring, when flowers appear in waves. Fruiting is most intense in summer. It should be remembered that the ripening of lemon fruit in the apartment is a slow process and takes four times longer than the same process in nature, i.e. 12 months.

Domestic plantation

Properly managed lemon plantation is the need to use fertilizer for flowering plants and the need to ensure that the soil in the pots is always moist. The substrate of the plant should have a slightly acidic reaction, which helps the roots to absorb the nutrients as much as possible.

Pollination is also problematic to some extent. Especially if the plant is at home, there is no chance that it will be pollinated. It is therefore necessary to use brushes that transfer pollen from one flower to another. Rapid growth also requires some forbearance. If you want to have fruit early on, let the tree grow as it likes.

Planting a tree is fortunately not difficult. It is enough to put the seed into moist soil and it will start to grow at room temperature.