How to grow Schizandra Chinese
How to grow Schizandra Chinese
There is an opinion that Chinese magnolia vine isdecorative plant. Flying supports, he can decorate any garden building, whether it is a gazebo or an arch. But the medicinal properties of lemongrass are many times greater than its beauty. How to grow lemongrass on your site and get healing berries?
What is the benefit of Schisandra?
Berries have a tonic effect on the body. They can be consumed in any form (dried, fresh, sprinkled with sugar), added to tea or boiled water. Schizandra helps to increase attention and concentration, stimulates the nervous system. But there are contraindications to the use of berries: hypertension, heart disease, insomnia.
How to Grow Chinese Schisandra
You can grow lemongrass from a seed or fromgrew from the root. The main way of growing is from the seed. This takes a long time: 2-3 years the seedling will grow on the seedling bed, and only then it is planted in a permanent place.
Sowing schizandra is necessary for winter, in advanceseeds for 3-4 days soaked in water. If planting the plant in spring, the soaked seeds should be mixed with sand, put in a container and held for a month at a temperature of +15 degrees. After that, remove them for another month in the refrigerator (you need a temperature of no higher than +5 degrees). After a month, the seeds are kept at a temperature of +10 degrees, until they germinate. Until this time, strictly to ensure that the sand with seeds does not dry out. Planted on a seedling. Seedlings grow very slowly, caring for them is reduced to timely weeding and watering.
If you decide to grow lemongrass from the rootthe process will go faster. It is necessary to dig out the young shoots, cut off the main root and plant them in a permanent place. It is important to water them well, and then the plants will very soon take root.
Care for Schisandra
The most important thing in care is a good support, because withoutsupport will only grow leaves, and berries and flowers will not. In the ground under lemongrass pour humus. This can be done, but not necessary, because the lemongrass is a deciduous liana, it is enough just not to gather fallen leaves from under it. Liana stably tolerates winter frosts, but is sensitive to spring frosts.
For the cultivation of Schizandra the soil is suitable, similaron structure with forest. If there is heavy loamy soil on your site, you need to add peat and sand to it. It grows well in the penumbra. It can also grow on a darkened stretch of land, but there will be no berries on it. Very sensitive to drought, young plants with insufficient watering perish.
