This plant is unpretentious, photophilous. If you decide to grow a room grenade in the hope of enjoying its fruits, you will immediately be disappointed. For delicious fruit will have to go to the store, but the beautiful flowering plant will certainly please you.
Room garnet: cultivation
Grow grenades in two ways: from seeds or cuttings. Cuttings for growing indoor pomegranate must be prepared after all the leaves have fallen off. This is done in late autumn or winter. To do this, independently prepare the soil of such composition: humus, garden soil, some sawdust, add a little peat and sand. All this is thoroughly mixed. It is very important to remember: the mixture of soil for pomegranate should have water permeable properties, be loose and keep moisture well.
Clay pot fill the substrate, first fill a good layer of drainage. Now, in the soil, stick a stalk and pour it abundantly. The pot is pulled with polyethylene, and the top is tied with an elastic band. Completely the stem will take root by the summer, although in the spring it may already have small leaves.
Room garnet from seeds
To grow a house garnet from seeds, you need to try very hard. Seeds are grains of ripe fruit, fresh and large. And it is necessary to plant grain with pulp. Some prefer to remove the pulp and wash the seeds in a solution of potassium permanganate. Before planting, it is advised to soak seeds for the night in milk.
For planting, peat is mixed with sand, which is pre-steamed to avoid infection with microorganisms. Indoor pomegranate - a plant unpretentious in all senses, the soil should not be selected too carefully. The seeds are poured into a layer of moist soil and sprinkled with earth on top. Make sure that the depth does not exceed 1 cm. To grow well, wide and spacious boxes are suitable. The box must be kept in a room with a constant temperature of about 25-30 ° C. At home, you can put the box near the battery. Plant grenades best in the period from late February to March. Watering is carried out with warm water, the crops need to be constantly ventilated, this will help to avoid decay.
In 2 weeks you will see the first shoots. But it can also happen that only after 2 months you will see the fruits of your labors. It all depends on the plant variety. One month after emergence, the grenade is transplanted into a separate pot, the diameter of which should not exceed 8 cm.
How to care for a room grenade?
Place the flower pot on a sunny spot, but avoid direct rays. Ideally, for the summer, the plant is carried to a balcony or garden. Periodically spray the plant with water, especially in hot weather.
Grenades are not exacting for top dressing. You can buy the most common complex fertilizer, you can have a high nitrogen content. Fertilize pomegranate is necessary in the period from late March to April. Before wintering, you can feed the plant a little potassium, this
To garnet in room conditions had a beautiful and dense crown, it must be periodically cut. Remove all dry twigs, branches growing inside the bush, and larvae. Pruning a house grenade is done twice a year: in the spring during the appearance of young foliage, in autumn during the fall of the fall.
Indoor miniature grenade
This plant is ideal for growing a miniature tree. Care for this sort of pomegranate is different from caring for other species. In the rest period, keep the plant cool, and at other times the temperature should not exceed 20 ° C. The more spacious the pot you take, the more flowers the bells will appear on the tree. During the flowering period, watering should be slightly reduced.