Lemon in the apartment is beautiful and spectacular, but when autumn comes all nature begins to prepare for winter.
How will the indoor lemon behave in the autumn season and how best to prepare it for wintering?
There are several recommendations that will help answer these questions.
Care for indoor plants
What care is needed in the fall? No special action is needed with this plant in the fall. If it stood on the street, then it is worth bringing it into the room before the temperature drops to +10 C.
In winter, almost all plants are at rest, and lemon is no exception. With the inclusion of heating in the apartments air gets drier. Room lemon is a plant that does not tolerate high temperatures with dry air. You can increase the humidity of the air by daily spraying or install containers with water on the heaters.
With a decrease in daylight increasing need for lighting. Therefore, it is necessary to make more light plants. This can be done with a fluorescent lamp or with an ordinary electric lamp. The duration of artificial lighting must be at least 10 hours.
From mid-September, it is necessary to reduce the number of irrigations. Watering should be carried out when the earthen clod is dried and only with warm water, in order to exclude the temperature drop on the root system.
Can I Replant?
Is it possible to replant in the fall? Time for the best transplant room lemon is the end of winter. But there are cases when a transplant is simply necessary, for example:
- The plant is purchased in the store, the roots stick out of the pot.
- The plant withers, the smell of rot spreads from the pot.
- The plant does not bloom, does not grow and does not give fruit.
You will find rules and recommendations for transplanting room lemon in a separate article, and here we talked about how to prepare the perfect soil mixture for a tree at home.
Video about reproduction by layers and transplanting in the fall to new pots.
Dropped leaves, what could be the reason?
Lemon shed leaves in autumn? What to do? Why is this happening?
Lack of daylight
In the fall, insufficient light can cause leaves to fall.
Such leaf fall is caused by the stress of the plant on external climatic conditions.
To avoid this, you need to install sources of additional lighting.
Also, if possible, put a pot of lemon on the south window.
Soil depletion
In summer, during the active growing season, the plant consumes mineral substances and trace elements from the soil.
Nutrient deficiencies can be identified by leaf fall.
More information about how and how to fertilize lemon at home, you will find in our article.
Too dry air
Unusual for this indoor plant, a dry climate is a stressful condition for it.
And in response to such conditions, he responds with leaf fall.
To avoid this, it is necessary to regulate the temperature in the room, spraying regularly and more often arrange a lemon shower.
- Planting lemon from the stone and rooting cuttings.
- Features care for the tree in the winter.
- Rules for pruning and crown formation of lemon.
What to do when flowering in the fall?
Room lemon can bloom and bear fruit year-round.
Flower buds are formed throughout the year, but the main peak is, of course, in the spring.
Lemon bloomed in the fall? What to do? If the tree bloomed in the fall do not tear off the ovary. The plant itself decides to throw them off if it realizes that now is not the time for this. Often on adult plants you can find buds, flowers and fruits at the same time.
It is autumn and winter - the hardest time for indoor lemon. Due to improper maintenance at this time, many plants die. And only care and proper care can help the plant to endure autumn and winter.
To get the fruits from your houseplant you need to be patient for a few years. Protect and properly care during the autumn-winter period, take care of spring and summer.
And then, of course, a fragrant little yellow lemon will appear among the shiny glossy leaves.
