In many homes you can see a lemon tree. Usually, lemons grow well without constant shaping.
However, in order for the tree to have an attractive appearance and a neat crown, it is necessary to regulate its growth all the time, regularly doing pruning, as well as pinching, pinching and pruning the resulting kidneys.
Young lemons at the initial stage of development form only one shoot of the vertical direction, and after a while the side shoots appear.
The branches of the following orders develop only after several years of growth of the tree. It is these short shoots that serve as the site of the appearance of flowers and the ovary.
One of the main components of lemon care at home is pruning.
Features trimming at home
Lemon tree pruning can be carried out throughout the growing season.
Trimming carried out according to the following principle: it is necessary to shorten each branch carefully, and at the same time work should start from zero escape. Thus, the plant will begin to bush, and the so-called fetus will appear much faster.
Fully matured branch of zero order must be shortened by almost twenty centimeters. As a result, there should be only a pair of well-developed kidneys, which are turned in different directions. After some time, sprouts will sprout from them.
The latter will also leave 4-5 branches of the first order, which served as the basis for the skeleton of the plant. Such branches should be cut so that their length does not exceed an average of twenty-five centimeters.
All shoots that belong to the second order, you need to cut about ten centimeters. The branches of the remaining orders are shortened by no more than five centimeters. The skeleton of the crown is formed to the stage when shoots of the fourth order will appear. Then this process needs to be completed.
When working on the formation of a suitable skeleton of the lemon tree crown very important to control the fact that the shoots formed not one, but several buds simultaneously.
Understand the differences "trim" and "delete". Thus, pruning in the process of forming a lemon grown in indoor conditions is not the most suitable option. This is because the procedure is both irrational and “painful” for the plant.
Indeed, in order to build a trunk tree, a tree takes quite a lot of time, as well as a huge amount of various nutritional components, without which the normal development of the plant is impossible. Therefore, one should not carry out such idle work.
Pinning
The most suitable option is pinning. This method is based on removal of unwanted shoots at the initial stage of its development from the fruit-tree. Sometimes the kidney has to be pinched again. Not less favorable effect has pinning on the tips of intensively developing shoots.
As a result, you can significantly save nutrients in the tree, which will contribute to more intensive maturation of the latest growth of lemon tree.
Crown formation
Recently, gardeners have often preferred the formation of a crown of a tree with a flat shape.
This form is considered appropriate for growing plants in confined spaces.
How to form a crown lemon at home? It is not very difficult to form this crown: from the very beginning it is necessary to direct all the branches and shoots at a certain time, breaking off and bending them, if necessary.
Then, when the size of the crown of the tree reaches the borders of the window opening, it is necessary to carry out a hard nip, and in some cases pruning. As a result, the lemon will develop well, as well as give abundant yields.
Being engaged in forming the crown of lemon tree at home, it is necessary to constantly ensure that in the crown of homemade lemons, and in the lower area of their trunks do not develop fat shoots or so-called spinners.
Because the tops grow quite intensively in the vertical direction, consuming a huge amount of nutritional components, which negatively affects the appearance of the whole plant and its further development.
Fruiting
It is worth noting that fruiting better not to allow final completion of the formation of all the skeletal branches of the lemon crown.
This is explained by the fact that the branches under the heavy weight of the fruits develop very poorly. In most cases, with the premature formation of buds they simply break.
And here is a video about how to form a crown, how to properly trim a lemon so that it bears fruit.
Another method
Also practiced is the cardinal lemon pruning method, when all branches are shortened to a certain length. However, he has one big drawback - the tree may not bear fruit throughout the next year.
It is better to carry out corrective pruning, slightly shortening new gains. Usually on the newly formed shoots soon appear buds, which grow rapidly.
Lemon pruning - crucial procedure in the crown formation process plants. Within a couple of weeks after pruning on completely bare branches, new places of growth are formed.
Video on how to properly trim a lemon at home, about when you can prune lemon tree.
And then there's a video about how to cut a lemon at home.
