How to increase the fruiting of mandarin
Mandarin is a tree from the citrus plant family. In order to grow a tangerine at home and get the first fruits from a tree grown from a seed, you need to observe the temperature regime and regularly spray and fertilize. If you do not take measures to stimulate fruiting, then such a tangerine will bear the first fruits no earlier than ten years after planting the seed in the pot. Late entry into the fruiting period is due to the way citrus plants are fed and the structure of the mandarin root system.
Tangerine growth
Mandarin stores all nutrients in leaf plates, so it builds up a powerful crown. The more leaves a tree has, the more fruit buds it will form in a stressful situation. If the mandarin branch breaks or the root system does not receive enough nutrients, then the reserve accumulated in the leaf plates will begin to be spent on the formation of the fruit ovary.
If the tangerine grows in a warm room, it will accumulate nutrients, building up more and more green mass. Such mandarin will begin to form flower buds on branches of the third or fourth order, depending on the variety. Given that tangerines form new shoots every two years, and it takes several more years to accumulate enough nutrients for flowering, it will take a very long time to wait for the first fruits.
Temperature regime and feeding
To speed up the entry of the tree into the fruiting period, in winter, move it to a room with an air temperature of +8ABOUTFrom to +16ABOUTC. In such a room, the tangerine will enter a dormant period, suspend the formation of leaf plates and begin to form the first peduncles.
In summer, tangerines are best planted in open ground. Under the hot sun, the tree will lay more leafy buds, which means it will accumulate more strength for future fruiting.
Summer tangerines are fed wood ash and well-rotted cow dung. You need to transplant a tree in open ground within three years. If the tangerine begins to throw out flower stalks during this period, then they are cut off at the bud stage. In winter, foliar dressing is carried out with chemical fertilizers with a high content of magnesium and phosphorus.
When the tree grows up to 1.5 m in height, a trunk constriction can be used to stimulate the fruiting of the tangerine grown from the seed. The mandarin trunk is tied with thick wire and left for a year, then most of the nutrients remain in the branches. Because of this, the tangerine forms flower buds faster, after the formation of which the wire is removed.
After the tangerine has bloomed for the first time, there is no need to repeat the constriction, otherwise there is a risk that the plant will die.