How to grow Lemon plant successfully

 

Sowing time of acid lime:

The sowing of seed generally undertaken in early October after the rainy season is over. Through, the fruits are full of juice during this time; the seeds get shrivelled especially in mature fruits. Such a shrivelled seeds often loss the viability and vitality. Under such circumstances comparatively less quantity of sound seeds are available from such fruits. On the other hand good qualities of seeds are extracted in June from mature fruits which are free from shrivelled seeds. Germination of such seeds is high, however seedling stand is poor due to disease during rainy season hence, cause reduction in planting material. In order to overcome this problem, it would be advantageous to extract the seeds from just mature fruits in June and sown after the rainy season is over. This involves the storing of seeds for longer period. Seeds remain viable for short period and germination is lost (Kumar and Mazumdar, 1973). The research on storing of citrus seeds up to 90 days at 4°C to 7°C temperature were remained viable and could obtained satisfactory germination (Mallreddy and Sharma, 1983). - Seeds were treated with NAA @40 ppm by soaking overnight and allowed to dry for 15 minutes in shade and then sowing was done on raised bed of 2 m x 1 m plots. After one month of germination, spraying of same concentration was given. All the treated seeds were nourished uniformly by providing the similar cultural practices such as fertilization, irrigation, weeding and plant protection measures during the entire period of studies.

Irrigation:

Water is most important at three stages:

Initial growth stage

At flowering and fruit setting

At post-harvest storage

Fertilizer:

Three stages of fertilizer are applied are following

December-January

June-July

September-October

Age	N g/tree	P2O5 g/t	K2O g/t	FYM kg/tree
4th and above	1500	600	800	10
7th and above	450	450	900	50
After 4th year	300	200	400	20

 

Improvement in yield:

Foliar application of GA₃ at 10ppm and NAA at 10 ppm on lemon before full bloom,  at full bloom stage and again 14 days later results in very high yield.

Harvesting:

Plants start bearing at the stage of one and half year. But at the age of 7^th year old best economical crop can obtained.

Months of harvesting:

May-September

June-September

December-January.

REFERENCES:

https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=g3NiCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT49&dq=organic+fertilizer+at+growth+stage+of+lemon+plants&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLmpj-x6H5AhVS6aQKHXB1AZcQu