What to do to make citrus fruit? 🍋 What procedures should you remember in the summer? This is the topic of today's video. I invite you! 🍋 Beautiful, fruiting, encouraging to buy citrus fruits, in various varieties, often appear in garden stores in winter. These can be lemons, tangerines, kumquats, small calamondins, or quite large grapefruits. Then, during the year, they are also often available for sale, so we can start the adventure with their cultivation practically at any time. We can also get our own citrus practically free of charge by sowing a stone, i.e. a seed of a selected ripe fruit. However, in this case, you should count on the fact that we will have to wait several years for the fruits of such a plant, and it may even happen that they will not appear at all. In the case of seedlings already fruiting purchased in the store, there is no such problem, because they are often propagated by cuttings, and are often also grafted. The citrus fruits that we grow in our homes are edible. Not all of them are tasty, because sometimes they lack sun in our climate. But for example, lemons from my small tree are practically no different from lemons bought in a grocery store. Of course, you shouldn't count on one plant to give you enough fruit for the whole year. Unless someone needs just a few lemons in a year. They ripen for quite a long time, from the appearance of flowers to the harvesting it takes a good few months, sometimes even a year. They often fully ripen in winter, but if we keep the plant in a cool place then, and not in a warm house or apartment, harvesting is also possible in spring and summer. Citrus fruits are one of the few species that can bear fruit, bloom and set fruit at the same time. Their flowers smell wonderful, attracting bees and other pollinating insects. This scent is really intense, slightly sweet, but at the same time floral and very pleasant. For me, this is one of the greatest advantages of citrus fruits. Their smell when they bloom. But to make them bloom and then bear fruit, it is good to put citrus fruits in the garden or on the balcony in summer. It is worth remembering. These are plants that love the sun. When it is warm or hot, they will feel best under the open sky. Warm, summer rain is also good for them. The time to put them outside depends largely on where they were kept in the winter. If in a cool room, we can put them outside as soon as the risk of frost has passed, usually in May, but sometimes even in April. Many species will survive even slight frosts. My citrus trees spent many days in the garden last winter. December and many days in January were warm enough, with temperatures above zero, that they could be left outside. During heavier frosts, I hid them in the garage. There are small windows there, but these plants certainly did not have enough light. So I took them out at every opportunity. If we do not have such an opportunity and we take citrus trees indoors for the winter, we take them outside when the temperature is permanently above 5-7 degrees Celsius. However, then we must remember to harden them off. First, we place the plants in the shade for a few hours, gradually extending this time. Only after a few or a dozen days do we start to accustom the citrus fruits to the sun, also gradually, until finally we place them in the sunniest and best sheltered place that we can find for them. In nature, they are mostly trees, in Europe they grow in warmer regions of the Mediterranean basin and grow, depending on the variety, to several meters in height. In container cultivation, we will not get such sizes, mainly due to the root ball limited by the pot. The larger the pot we are able to provide the plant, the more it will be able to grow. It is recommended to repot most houseplants in early spring, but in the case of citrus fruits, as well as other Mediterranean plants, the beginning of summer, when the plants have fully accustomed themselves to the conditions outside, is also a good time. In stores, you can buy ready-to-use soil for Mediterranean plants, including citrus, which contains peat of various structures, compost, crushed pumice, washed gravel and clay, thanks to which the substrate has the right structure for these plants. In addition, it is enriched with multi-component fertilizer, so we do not have to additionally fertilize the plants for several weeks after transplanting. If we already have a large specimen, which... And that's all for today. I invite you to watch the next videos from the series "Balconies and Terraces" and other videos on the OGRÓD CO DZIEŃ channel. Links : Facebook : / izabella.schick Blog : https://ogrodnacodzien.pl/ Instagram : / ogrod_na_co_dzien #lemons #citrus #cultivation #grapefruit #mandarin #mandarins #mandarins🍊 #care #ogrod_na_co_dzien #plants #plantsathome #pottedplants #plants #own