How to grow a lemon. While a beginner inspect the cultivation method.

１、Fascinate to grow a lemon

①　 Fascinate to grow a lemon in a house.

②　I went to Shimanami Kaido!

２、The history of the lemon

🔎　The first lemon

🔎　A lemon came over to Japan.

３、About how to grow a lemon.

①　 On the cultivation of the lemon.

👉　Area suitable for the cultivation

　　 of the lemon

👉　The tree bears fruit with one

👉　Time is necessary before it bears a

　　 fruit for the first time

②　How to buy young plants, various kinds

👉　A stick seedling and large seedling

👉　When should we buy a seedling?

👉　How to choose good young plants

・「Nursery tree of lemon The various kinds」

③　Soil, manure (effective microorganisms)

👉　How much is the quantity of

fertilization?

a. requires a lot of manure

b. organic quality compound fertilizer

in about February

c. almost same quantity

d. method to sprinkle manure

👉　Careful about manure desperation

👉　The measurement of the acidity

👉　Effective microorganisms

The article,

・　「I bought effective microorganisms (1)and molasses！」

・　「I made EM manure！」

・　「I made EM wash！」

・　「I tried fertilizer in November!」

・　「I surround organic quality compound fertilizer in about February

(initial fertilization).」

④　Watering

⑤　Do you plant a lemon in the garden?

　　Or,is it a potted plant?

・　Easy to bear a fruit by a potted plant

⑥　How to plant a lemon in the garden

👉　Proper time for plantation

👉　Place to plant a seedling

👉　Plantation

👉　How to fix forms of the tree

⑦　How to plant a lemon in pots

👉　Proper time for plantation

👉　A large seedling is suitable for a potted plant

👉　Various bowls

👉　Soil to use

👉　Plantation methods

⑧　How to transplant a lemon into a bowl

👉　Article of the transplantation that I tried.

⑨　Care for flower and bud

　　(I work on pollination)

👉　About pollination

👉　Care for flower and bud

・Physiological fruit drop (June drop)

・Biennial bearing

・Incomplete flowers bloom

・The article「Finally blooming flowers!」

・The article「I tried picking fruits of lemon of potted plants.」

⑩　Cutting of the lemon

・The article 「I tried cutting with lemon!」

・The article 「Cutting of lemon 54 days later... 」

⑪　Grafted tree of the lemon

👉　"Karatachi" often used as a rootstock of lemon

・ The article 「Grafting of lemon. I will try a multi-kind joint with one lemon tree!」

・ The article 「I tried grafting on a lemon tree. Challenge for many kinds of joints!」

⑫　The pruning of the lemon

👉　Purpose of pruning

👉　Pruning lemon Suitable period · · · February - March

ａ． Reduce the spread of trees

ｂ.　Cut out unnecessary branches

ｃ.　Cut the tip of a long branch

👉　Characteristics of spring branch, summer branch, autumn branch

and Pruning in summer

👉　After pruning, apply a fusion accelerator

・The article「I tried pruning！」

・The article which is summarizing pruning articles and updating

「To improve the fruit of next year!」

⑬　Cold measures

👉 Measures against cold of lemon in the garden

👉 Measures against cold of potted lemon

・The article 「the measures against cold！」

⑭　Lemon cultivation and insects

・　Ladybug

・　Mantis

・　larvaes of green lacewing

・　Hover fly（Adults and larvae）

・　Spider

・　Tree frog

・　Pillbug

・　Earwigs

４、Pest of the lemon

①　Coccoidea

②　Larva of the swallowtail butterfly

③　Citrus leafminer (Ekakimushi)

④　Bell moth

⑤　Aphid

⑥　Spider Mite

⑦　Longhorn beetle

⑧　Thrips

５、Disease of the lemon

①　Melanose

②　Xanthomonas campestris pv. citri

③　Elsinoë fawcettii

④　Gray mold

⑤　Cercospora leaf mold

👉　Painted Polymita eats it

６、Diagnosis due to the symptom

①　A leaf is yellow

👉　Leaf photos by type of disease

②　The spots of the leaf is yellow

👉　Five elements of fertilizer

a. Nitrogen

b. Phosphoric acid

c. Potassium

d. Calcium (lime)

e. Magnesium

👉　About immediate / slow release chemical fertilizer.

👉　Lemon leaves turned yellow, so I applied dolomitic lime.

③　Flowers falls

　　(flowers do not bloom)

④　The fruit drops

👉　Saplings are too young.

👉　There is a problem with daily management.

👉　Nutrition was used too much to grow the branches.

👉　Lemon could not pollinate.

👉　 A biennial bearing.

👉　I pruned too much.

７、Monthly work, monthly record