Not so long ago, the residents of the middle lane were fortunate enough to adapt themselves to cultivating the well-known banana tree pawpaw. The process of planting and caring for a tropical tree is quite laborious and requires a lot of patience and effort, but, judging by the positive reviews of successful gardeners, the result of such an experiment will exceed all your expectations.
general information
Azimina is a tall (from 6 to 9 meters) dicotyledonous ornamental tree with a pyramidal crown, glossy, oblong-ovate leaves and bell-shaped purple flowers. It is a perennial exotic plant from North America, but, despite its ability to produce excellent, fragrant fruits, it can easily withstand quite severe frosts (up to -30 degrees). 
Did you know? The inhabitants of America consider the fruits of the paws to be unique in their properties and treat them even gastric poisoning. The inhabitants of the tropics believe that the grown "bananas" are able to remove all slags from the human body in literally 1 month of their daily consumption. And such beliefs are not at all groundless, because the plant, indeed, has an antibacterial and even antitumor effect, and the healing pulp in the USA is even sometimes used to prevent cancer.Banana tree genus has strength 9 varieties but for growing paws in the middle zone of the Moscow region or in Ukraine, only one adaptable species is suitable - three-blade.
Choosing a place
A place for growing three-bladed paw paws should contain a weakly loamy fertile soil, always with good drainage, and be in an elevated, windless and well-lit area. When planting in a prone place, a prerequisite for further good development will be the arrangement of gutters that will protect the plant from streams of storm and melt water.
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Planting and breeding
Banana exotics are propagated in three ways - seed, using root shoots and grafting. The presented division processes are very complicated, but they are quite feasible if all the recommendations and rules are followed.
Growing from seed
So that the process of growing full-fledged paws from seeds was not hard and immediately assumed good shoots (already in 7 weeks), the planting material must first be stratified at a temperature of 0 to 4 degrees for three to four months. The seeds of the plant are quite large in size (about 2.5 cm) and have a rich, dark brown shade - they can easily be confused with persimmon seeds. Planted material should be planted to a depth of at least 3 cm. The first shoots will appear in a month. It is important to remember that early and young sprouts of exotic plants have a very fragile root system, therefore they should not undergo a transplant process. The trees obtained from the seeds, despite the low survival rate, begin to bloom together and bear fruit, starting from 4 to 8 years. The time for the implementation of these processes depends entirely on the quality of planting material, care and varieties of future plants. 
Reproduction by root shoots
When breeding root processes before planting a banana tree at a prepared place in the planting pit, you must add compost, humus, sand and wood ash. The root neck of the seedlings is smoothed out to the maximum and then buried:
- in loamy soil 5-8 cm;
- in light soil at 10-12 cm.
Important! Mechanically compacting the soil or trampling after planting is not recommended. It will ruin all your landings.
Graft
A banana tree is usually planted in the middle of spring in a split by a woody shank. Manipulation is divided into several simple steps:
- the stock is cut off;
- splits along;
- the graft is sharpened, and then gently inserted into the stock splitting;
- traced, whether the cambial layers coincided correctly;
- further vaccination tightly fixed with a polymer film;
- To protect the vaccinated place from moisture, a cap is put on it.
Care Tips
The North American tree is unusual, and, despite the fairly standard manipulation of care, it requires special attention. Let's take a look at some tips to get this process done as best as possible.
Watering, loosening, soil mulching
The soil under the banana exotus should be in a constantly hydrated state, so watering the trees often will be necessary.
Important! However, stagnation of excess fluid can be dangerous for the root system, and, despite its excellent resistance to diseases, rot can occur.
In the fall of the plant watering must be reduced. Loosening and mulching the soil is also an integral part of proper plant care. The loosening process should be carried out periodically, a few days after watering, the depth must be no higher than 1 cm. With mulching, everything is also quite simple, for preparing mulch, perennial grasses are most often used, which, after mowing, treat row spacing and tree trunk circles.
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Top dressing
It is not necessary to feed aziminu in the first year after planting, and already for the next one year period organic and mineral fertilizers are applied in early April. Organic top-dressings can include ash and manure, and mineral complex compounds are chosen with a high content of nitrogen and phosphorus. During the season, "feeding" is preferably carried out every week, and in the winter, during the rest period, once a month. 
Pruning
Since azimina berries appear on last year's shoots, it will be better to prune adult plants for replacement. And in the spring it is necessary to take care of the cut of all the sick and frozen branches.
How is pollination
The flowers of a banana tree are protogenic (the stigma of the pistil ripens before the anthers open), so the process of pollination inside one flower is impossible. For more proper cross-pollination, at least 2 varieties should grow in your garden.
Did you know? During the flowering season, the paw plant attracts flies to its brown flowers, which are the natural pollinators of the plant. They flock to the not strong, but, to put it mildly, unpleasant smell of rotten meat, which is emitted by future fruits.To increase the yield of paws at times, Many farmers use this method: they collect ripe pollen with a brush and transfer it from some flowers that have already been pollinated to others.
How to endure winter and cold
The pavement has high frost-resistant qualities and can survive a strong drop in air temperature, even being in an open area, but if we are talking about growing a tree in the middle lane, where the thermometer may well fall below -30 or -35 ° C, then its health is better take care in advance and pre-cover the spanbond or spruce branches, and tie the trunk tightly with newspapers.
When it starts to bear fruit
The beginning of the period of fruiting paws falls on September October, approximately 4-6 years after its landing in the ground. In place of the former red-brown buds, a bunch appears with several oblong-cylindrical berries, the size of which varies from 5 to 15 cm, and the weight can be about 1 kg. This bunch is very reminiscent of a banana, so very often this tropical exot is called "poor banana" or "Indian banana."
If you follow the advice and recommendations of experienced gardeners on growing and caring for pimine, who were able to grow a miracle tree in their plots without any problems, even in the middle lane, you can just as generous and plentiful from your plant every year harvest
