Indoor banana
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Who would have thought that you can grow a banana at home - this popular delicious fruit. One experienced hostess shares her experience, saying that for 8 years she has been growing bananas, oranges and other exotic plants at home. Not all actions were successful, she had to make many mistakes and mistakes, and now we just need to learn the basic rules of growing bananas. How to grow a indoor banana, what types of it are, the subtleties of care - all these questions are revealed in this article
Indoor banana: seed propagation
Indoor banana: photo
If you want to grow indoor banana just for fun and for decorative purposes, then you can plant it with seeds. So you will get a tree even with fruits, but they will be inedible. In this case, leaving is pretty simple. Since banana seeds have a very tough shell, it needs to be slightly damaged with a knife or needle to make it easier for the sprouts to "wade" through it.
Next, the seeds of the indoor banana are placed in a container with moist soil, which contains a mixture of peat and most of the river sand.
You should not bury the seeds of an indoor banana; you should press them down a little. The distance between the seeds should be 10 cm. From above, the box must be covered with a film and placed in an open, sunny place, but make sure that no direct sunlight falls on the garden bed. A homemade greenhouse must be ventilated once every few days by removing the film. Indoor banana seeds sprout for a very long time, about 3 months, and then the seedlings are planted, after another week or two weeks.
Indoor banana: types and varieties
Indoor banana: photo
If you want to grow a indoor banana and consume its fruits, then you should buy ready-made seedlings specifically for home conditions, that is, they will be initially small in size, and will also have immunity to common diseases and are more or less suitable for home living conditions.
The indoor banana plant has many types that differ from each other in size, color and fruit.
The varieties of indoor banana that have edible fruits include: "Kiev dwarf", "Superdwarf".
The height of these crops reaches no more than 2 m, and after three years you can already taste the sweet fruits.
For a decorative variety of indoor banana suitable: "Lavender", "Velvet pointed", "Bright red", "Cavendish", "Dwarf". The height of the plant is not higher than 150 cm, but it turns out bright, beautiful, exotic bushes that bloom very beautifully.
When buying seedlings, you need to carefully examine and choose the plant that has the healthiest appearance, as well as strong stems and roots.
Fertilizer for indoor banana, plant care rules
Considering that the banana is a southern plant, it will take a lot of effort to make it comfortable to grow in your home.
First, the air temperature should be about 30 degrees and at least 24 degrees. Drafts and cold should not be allowed. Secondly, very good lighting is required, so the place must be chosen as sunny and southern as possible. If this is not the case, then the lighting should be done artificially. It is not necessary for the banana to be in direct sunlight all day.
Watering the banana regularly is very important because it loves moisture very much. This must be done every day, while the water temperature must be warm.In winter, you should give the plant a rest, and switch the watering regime to once a week. To moisturize the plant, you also need to spray it with water. It is not recommended to wipe the leaves. It is important that there is good drainage in order to keep the roots from rotting.
The soil should be composed of river sand and peat. When the seedlings are transplanted into a pot, you can add forest soil, sod, humus to the mixture. Expanded clay can be used as drainage.
As for dressing for indoor banana, here it is necessary to feed the plants once every 2 weeks from spring to autumn. Complex mineral fertilizers especially for houseplants are best suited.
A comfortably growing bush has a powerful root system, has an underground shoot, leaves grow from the ground, the combination of which forms the basis of the trunk. When the number of leaves is enough, and this is about 18 pieces, then the bush will begin to bloom.
The color of the inflorescence, as a rule, has a light green color, and the flower itself is a bud.
When you saw the first shoots, the plant then begins to actively develop, therefore, the number of liters of container should be increased annually, replanting the plant each time in the spring. This is done because the growing root system requires a lot of nutrients and free space.
When transplanting an indoor banana into a pot with a large volume, you can also carefully cut off small shoots from an adult plant and leave them in a special solution called "Kornevina" for an hour or two. Then transplant the indoor banana into a separate pot filled with humus and vermicompost. In this way, you will propagate the plants.
If the banana is decorative, then you can also propagate it with the help of seeds that you take from the ripe fruit.
Indoor banana: home care video
Indoor banana: home care
Despite the fact that breeders have developed disease-resistant varieties of indoor bananas, there is still a chance that they will get sick.
- If you see dark spots on the leaves, then it is necessary to remove the plants from direct sunlight.
- If you see that new leaves and shoots do not grow on the plants, then you need to reconsider the conditions in which this plant lives or transplant it into a larger pot, or also feed it.
- If the edges of the leaves become dry and darkened, then the plant does not have enough moisture. It is necessary to water and spray the bush more often.
- If you see a soft, rotten stem, there is more than enough water in the pot. Or the plant got sick with a fungal disease. Here it is necessary to use a fungicide, and reduce the amount of watering.
Pests rarely attack indoor bananas, but if this happens, it is necessary to use special pest control drugs.
Thus, we can conclude that even a indoor banana can be grown at home, observing the following rules:
- It is necessary to buy seedlings in special stores if you are going to eat banana fruits.
- It should be borne in mind that the seeds will germinate for a very long time, so you need to be patient and wait at least 3 months, or, again, buy already grown plants.
- Take good care of your plant. Observe the temperature and all other air parameters.
- In addition, it must be remembered that a growing plant needs a "growing" pot.
Observing these simple rules, after two or three years you will be able to please yourself and your loved ones with the sweet exotic fruits of indoor banana
