Feichoa is an evergreen shrub up to 4 meters high, refers to the genus of the Accc, the family of the Mirate. The view is highlighted in a separate genus called Feijoa. This plant was first discovered by Europeans in the 19th century on the territory of Brazil and received its name in honor of the discoverer, who was Naturalist from Portugal Zhuan da Silva Faizho.

In the reference books of plants, the word Feichoa is indicated with different removal: on the last or on the penultimate syllable. They call this shrub also differently: AKKA, AKKA SELLOVA, AKKA FAYHAA.

For the first time, the fruits were brought to Europe in 1890 in 1901, in 1901 he tried him in California, in 1910 - in Italy, from where Faicho was spread through the Mediterranean territory. Today, the plant is successfully grown in subtropical regions of the world, a culture in Northern Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia, in the protected areas of the Caucasus, in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Armenia, Abkhazia are common. On the territory of Russia, the plant is grown in Krasnodar, Crimea and Dagestan.

The plant blooms very beautiful large flowers in May - June. Pink colors, white on the edges, with large numerous stamens (50-80 on one flower).

Feichoa fruits are berries with green and rigid skin, sour bitter taste. Maturation occurs late in autumn and in early December. The pulp, jelly-like consistency, with seeds, sweet and juicy, taste resembles a combination of kiwi with pineapple or strawberries. Eating fairy spoon, cutting the fruit into two parts. The peel into food is rarely used.

Sort

The breeders brought various varieties of Feichoa, the most popular of them are as follows:

• Besson, gives fruit weighing up to 120 g, with a green leather and a reddish blush. Inside fruits a lot of small seeds, the taste of Faicho is very juicy, with a pleasant strong smell. The crop gives unstable;
• Andre, fruits with a dark green hue leather and weighing about 120 g, very juicy and a little sour. Inside very small seeds, but they are a bit. Berries are very fragrant, a large crop does not give;
• Light, fruit during the ripening period acquire light green color. Mature Fairoa weighs about 60 g, the skin is a bit litter, the fruit is tastefully reminded strawberries. Harvest stable;
• Coolidge, fruit weighing about 60 g, dark green, with slightly corrugated peel. The crop is stable, but the fruits themselves are not so fragrant as previous varieties;
• Early aroma, fruit with smooth skin, fragrant, juicy, with sour and sweet taste. In one berry there are a lot of seeds, up to 55 pieces;
• Firstborn, small fruits weighing up to 50 g, inside every 75 bones;
• Superb, fruit round shapes, slightly stretched at the end, juicy, with a pleasant aroma;
• Cheyseana, round fruit with smooth and very fragrant skin. A bush gives an unstable harvest;
• Nikitsky fragrant, fruit oval and fragrant, weighing up to 50 g, with wrinkled light green leather, pulp with refreshing and sweet taste;
• Crimean early, fragrant sweet fruits, green shade with juicy, sweet pulp.

Benefit and harm

Feichoa fruits - record holders in the content of iodine, so very useful for the thyroid gland and during its dysfunction. But the amount of iodine in berries directly depends on where the plant has grown. The greatest percentage of iodine content in berries growing by the sea or 40 km from the sea coast.

The peel of fruits contains anthocyan natural dyes. These substances are very powerful antioxidants, the peel is used in cosmetology and medicine. It is useful to sometimes eat Feicho with crude for the prevention of cancer and the rejuvenation of the body. Many antioxidants in Feichoa's leaves, which are still rich in tannies and are natural antibiotics. The leaves and fruits of the plant are effective when coughing, Faicho essential oil well helps from acne and during problem skin.

Thanks to the large content of vitamin C, it is useful to eat Feichoa in the cold season, influenza and ARZ. Fruits well strengthen immunity. Faja's essential oils are an excellent component for inhalations during the prophylaxis of a cold.

The peel is dried, crushed and stored in glass jars. Apply when the stomach and constipation are used: in the glass, boiling water weave the tablespoon of the peel and drink half a glass before meal.

Fresh skin can be pouring boiling water, add a little soda and breathe over a solution for several minutes, covered with a towel. Effectively with a cold with a runny nose. Very useful for health There are fresh fruits with honey.

Feicho and contraindications that need to be observed in some health problems:

• oxalaturia and Gongs
• hyperacid gastritis
• stomach ulcer
• complications for atherosclerosis
• diabetes

The nutritional value

100 g of fruits are rich in vitamins C, groups B, RR, microelements and other useful substances:

• fat - 0.78 g
• proteins - 1.24 g
• carbohydrates - 10.63 g
• ash - 0.74 g
• water - 86.6 g
• phosphorus - 20 mg
• sodium - 3 mg
• potassium - 155 mg
• magnesium - 9 mg
• calcium - 17 mg
• iron - 0.08 mg
• zinc - 0.04 mg

Fruits include in diet for weight loss, because their caloric content is only 49 kcal per 100 g.

How to choose and store

The choice of Feichoa is not like this, since in appearance it is not easy to determine whether fruits matured or have spoiled. You can ask the seller when buying one yoke. If the flesh is white, then Feichoa is still greenish, if a brownish or yellow shade - the fruit began to deteriorate and wander. The flesh of ripe and suitable berries translucent and resembles jelly.

If you choose high-quality fruits on external characteristics, Feichoa peel is always green, brilliant and elastic, without spots. When pressing the fruit should be soft. If it is solid, then green. Too soft berries are spoiled, and there are no them.

Berry is stored for up to 7 days in the refrigerator. It is possible to store re-fruits with sugar, in glass sterilized cans closed with plastic lids.

Faicho in cooking

Eating fresh and purified, with sugar or honey. From fruits prepare jam, jams and compotes, juices, drinks, squabbles, cocktails, sauces, fruit and vegetable salads. Especially good Feichoa is combined with apples, carrots, beet and citrus. Pieces of fruits are baked with meat, they give dishes spike and sophistication.

Salad with Feichoa, Nuts and Oranges

Ingredients:

• lemon;
• 300 g Fairoa;
• sour cream;
• 50 g of raisin;
• 300 g oranges;
• powdered sugar;
• salt.

Cooking:

1. Clean the fruits, cut the Fihoa and Lemon and Lemon, Orange - Cubes.
2. Connect the prepared ingredients, add chopped nuts and raisins.
3. Sweep the salad of sour cream, add a pinch of salt and sprinkle on top of the way.
4. Before serving, sprink out the orange zest salad, thinly sliced \u200b\u200bstraw.

Facey meat and fish sauce

Ingredients:

• bulb;
• 5 Faja fruits;
• 2 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• ground black pepper.

Cooking:

1. Clean the bulb and Feichoa, cut into a small cube and grind in a blender.
2. Add sugar and pepper into the ground, mix again until uniformity.

Feicho in medicine

Fruits with peel and leaves are used in folk medicine. Use them for the treatment of various ailments:

• joint pain in osteochondrosis, arthritis (except for the gout) and arthritis;
• heat;
• colds;
• inflammatory processes in the body;
• unbinding and dysbacteriosis, when digesting the fruits, the substance included in their composition displaced the cavity of the digestive organs;
• digestive problems;
• reduced acidity;
• anemia, because in Feichoa in a well-digestible form contains iron;
• increased blood pressure;
• kidney disease;
• problems with pancreas, because Feichoa is one of the few fruits that can be used in pancreatitis, but not during the exacerbation of the disease. Vitamins of groups in improving the state and operation of the pancreas.

Therapeutic tea with Feichoa

Ingredients:

• natural honey;
• 1 tsp. dried peel;
• 1 tsp. dried leaves;
• 200 ml of boiling water.

Cooking:

1. Surrum with leaves grind and lay out in a boiler teapot or a cup.
2. Fill with boiling water and mix, cover the lid.
3. Leave tea to brew 15 minutes, add honey to taste and stir well.

Growing in the country

Feichoa can be easily growed independently, it is important to comply with some requirements. The shrub feels well on any soil, even on rocky and sandy. Reproduction is possible with cuttings and seeds. The most favorable landing time February is the beginning of March.

Landing seeds is carried out in several stages:

• seeds need to be extracted from well-ripened fetus. Gently cut the berry and remove the pulp, rinse seeds and dry;
• prepare the ground from the leaf land, the upper peat and river sand in the proportion of 2 to 2 to 1;
• plant seeds into the ground to a depth of 0.5 cm and sprinkle a little earth. Cover the container or pot with glass and put germing into a warm place where the temperature should be 22-25 degrees. Every day moisturize the soil and ventilate the landing. Install over the pots of daylight lamps. After 1-2 months, sprouts should appear when they go out, transform them into individual pots.

Reproduction with cuttings:

• autumn cut from a young plant cutter 10 cm long, remove all the leaves other than two tops. This is necessary for faster root formation;
• put the cuttings into the soil on 2/3 and place in a small greenhouse from the plastic bag, ensure good lighting;
• after 4-5 weeks, young leaves should appear.

Feichoa loves light, so choose a suitable place for it. If there is little light in the room, use fluorescent lamps. Wrap a plant from the straight rays of the sun.

It is important to know that not every grade during the cultivation in room conditions will give fruit in the future. There are self-polishing varieties (Nikitsky fragrant, culip, Crimean early) and non-introspective. If your plant applies to the latter, you need to grow two bustle and pollinate them yourself, with a brush, carrying pollen from one plant to another.

Transfer

For the first 2-3 years, the plant must be transplanting annually using a mixture of peat and sand in proportion 2 to 1. After 3 years, the transplant is carried out 1 time in 3 years. The soil must be from sand, humus and turf in the same proportions. You can use the transplant transplant method. The twigs in young plants are very fragile, so it is important to do everything neatly. With each transplantation, the pot must be more than 10 cm. Ideal for Feichoa, they are suitable for hubs from wood and clay pots. Metal containers are not suitable, as they have an oxidic property. The plant must be regularly sprayed and maintained the desired temperature.

Care

At the end of winter, the shrub is cut off by 40%, in the spring young shoots begin to actively grow. It is very important to proper crown formation. Young seedlings up to 30 cm high are necessary for 1/3 for the formation of major shoots. The next winter is cut every branch by 50-60%. If the root cervies begin to grow shoot, they are also cut, it is also possible to remove dry and weak branches.

The plant loves moisture, in the summer period to water Faicho need often and abundantly. When the soil dries up, the plant can reset all the leaves. When watering, water should flock from drainage holes into the pallet, it is not necessary to merge it, gradually it is absorbed into the soil. In winter, Feicho watered moderately.

Fertilizers

The soil is enriched with nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. Use preferable superphosphate, 2 liters of water 1 teaspoon. Of the ash of deciduous trees, preparing feeding from potassium. Fertilizers need to be made to wet soil. During flowering and growth, the feeding should be entered every 2-3 weeks.

Pests and diseases

Facey's young shoots are subject to the attack of the red spider tick. The plant is treated with Celttan solution (2 g per 1 liter of water). It is enough to carry out the processing once.

Another pest who is striking Feichoa, is a brown falconist. The plant spray the "carbofos" emulsion in the proportion of 5 g of the preparation per 1 liter of water. Processing is carried out 3 times with a break of 7 days.

Plants capable of rooms or greenhouses to bring useful or simply bright fruits, always considered special stars. Citrus, coffee, avocado has a non-standard and cultivation, and on their decorativeness, a competitor is a magnificent Akka Sellov, which is still known just as Feichoa. This plant with beautiful leaves, unique flowering and active fruiting surprises with its decorativeness as far as the utility.

Fayicho growing in the room. © root 98.

Feichoa - Universal Patchy, Magnificent All Year

Feichoa's fruits in recent years have been enjoying extraordinary popularity, their healing properties are considered unique, as well as specific taste characteristics. Attention to edible fruits led to an increase in popularity and these plants, so generously we giving up.

Feichoa - fruit trees growing only in dry subtropics. In the open ground in the regions with severe winters they will not grow. In contrast to container culture, changing the growth form on the bush, the plant is revealed as high-level large perfection or potted, which can be grown in a greenhouse or indoor culture without losing the ability to fruiting.

Name faicho. - Popular name-synonym for amazing fruit tree akki Sellova, or akki Feichoa (Acca Sellowiana.), Representative of the family of Acqua. The natural range of the spread of Akka, covering Latin America, has long expanded due to the cultivation of the plant as fruit culture. Today, Feichoa is grown not only in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay or Paraguay, but also on the shores of the Black, Mediterranean seas, as well as in the Caucasian countries.

At their decorative qualities, Akka Sellova fairly claims to be one of the most valuable and universal indoor crops. Combining a beautiful crown and an interesting foliage with luxurious blossoms, healthy Faja's fruits and uniqueness unique for fruiting gigids, Akka is pleasantly standing out against the background of competitors and pleases not only with its useful characteristics.

Feichoa - fruit trees, and in indoor culture - fruit shrubs, which, if desired, form in the strains. Spacidious, thin shoots with a roasty branch and light, rough crust form a sufficiently dense crown. For Feichoa characteristic of leathery, bright, grayish green leaves with glossy glitter. Quite large leaves are located on straight strong shoots oppositely. With a length of up to 6 cm, the oval leaves of the faceh in width grow almost up to 4 cm. Leather, dense, rigid surface and their special texture is pleasantly different from classic indoor trees and shrubs. Silver-gray edge on the underside of the leaves emphasizes an unusual muffled color of the color of the greenery.

Akka flowering is not just beautiful, but unique. At the beginning of the summer, the plant pleases with luxurious flowers for almost three weeks. Elegant flowers with a diameter of up to 4 cm with numerous long stamens are collected in the shields of low-sighted inflorescences, they only bloom on young branches. White, with a gentle pink sweat on the inside, the petals are strikingly contrasted with red-cherry numerous stamens, married blond anthers. Faja Flower Center looks like a precious decoration and in the grace is stretched even with the most exotic indoor crops.

After the fruit, the fleshy oval berries of a saturated green color with a sizerna, constantly increasing in size and reaching impressive dimensions of 3-5 cm long and weight in 30-50 g. The taste of juicy berries of Faicho is quite specific, often reveals only after additional processing and The introduction of them in desserts. These fruits have a mixture of pineapple flavors, kiwi and strawberries are easier to evaluate than to recognize their exotic smell. The beneficial properties of Faja fruits exceed the taste, because the content of iodine compounds, organic acids and vitamins allows them to include them in the lists of the most valuable products and treatments for the treatment of thyroid diseases.

Despite the fact that in indoor culture, only one type of Feichoa is grown, one-eyed plant is difficult to call: like any fruit plant, Akki Sellova has a lot of varieties that differ in decorative and fruitful qualities. In room culture, mostly use old, compact, time-tested self-polls fayicho varieties - "Crimean early", "Nikitsky fragrant", "Firstborn 120", "ordinary", "humpbat", "Superba", etc.

Fajoa cultivation at home

The combination of unpretentiousness and high decorative makes Aki Celle Plant unique. This fruit culture is more suitable for growing in a greenhouse or winter garden. But in room conditions, if there is an opportunity to provide Feichoa cool wintering, it is able to become one of the main stars. AKKE is needed systemic care. It does not tolerate the wrong irons and needs constant attention, but in general the plant is not difficult to grow. And constant decorativeness and bright flowering with fruiting compensate for all concerns.

Feichoa, or Acca Sellova (Acca Sellowiana). © IROPA.

Lighting for Feichoa

Increased care, it is impossible to grow, and even more so waiting for its luxurious flowering or fruiting, in the absence of maximum bright lighting. Any shading for the plant is contraindicated, Feichoa is placed in the brightest places. The high intensity of the lighting plant is necessary throughout the year, even in winter. Akkka's straight rays are not afraid.

Best of all, Akka Sellova is growing on the eastern or south-oriental window sills, on the autumn-winter period it is better to rearrange it on the southern orientation windows or to provide lighting for the preservation of foliage.

Comfortable temperature mode

Due to the fact that Feichoa is cultural fruit trees, in indoor culture they retain their unique endurance and can grow in a wide variety of temperature conditions. Akki bushes are not afraid of low temperatures and sudden temperature drops, they grow great even in unstable conditions. But the greatest decorativeness of the plant is still achieved in the coolness, at air temperature not higher than 23 degrees.

For the fruiting of Akka Sellov, cool wintering is very important. Optimal temperature indicators are from 10 to 14 degrees of heat, short-term cooling is permissible.

Watering and humidity

In the room culture, the Accc requires careful, regular irrigation and frequent check of the state of the soil. To achieve particularly abundant flowering and fruiting from the plant, it is necessary to maintain stable humidity indicators, prevent the soil drying or its excessive convergence. Between irrigations, the substrate should be satisfied only at the top. The complete drying of the soil will lead to partial loss of not only Feichoa leaves, but also shoots. Water from pallets is better to merge immediately after watering.

In maintaining steadily high humidity, the Akka does not need, but too dry air negatively affects the decorativeness of the plant. In the heat or during the heating season, the plant is desirable to gently spray, using warm water. The leaves from dust cleaned regularly. Fejoa, except for the stage of his flowering, will not refuse and warmly sowing.

Feeding for Acca Sellova

Room Fairo prefers complex, containing both mineral, and organic fertilizers, mixtures and drugs. For Akkka Sellov, you can use feeding, similar to garden plants, changing the composition of fertilizers depending on the stage of development. Spring for the plant use nitrogen and potash fertilizers, in summer - potash-phosphoric, but complex balanced feeders are still preferred. The plant responds well to the use of organications, when growing, first of all, the mineral fertilizers are better to be completely replaced by organic or biotherapies.

The frequency of feeding for Feicho is very easy. Fertilizers for this plant are contributed 1 time in 2 weeks only during the period of active growth, flowering and fruiting.

Pruning Akki Sellov

To maintain a high decorativeness of the room fairya, you will need regular trimming. It is recommended to start at the stage of growing young plants, first shortering the central trunk on a quarter or a third of the height, and then pouring the side twigs in a timely manner to obtain a powerful skeletal base.

The formation of the root row negatively affects the fruction of Feichoa, side shoots and root siblings better remove if you want to get a good crop of healthy fruits. If desired, the plant can be formed into a straw or to make a crown more strict, but the natural accuracy of the crown is usually enough, and the bats are not cut.

At the plant, each spring spend attentive inspection and sanitary cleaning - remove damaged, weak, unproductive or dry twigs.

Fayaho pollination

In room conditions for the fruction of the AKKE requires help of a flower plant. Fruits in the plant are tied only with artificial pollination. The procedure itself is quite simple - the flowers are pollinated by a soft clean tassel. When growing non-particarpic, and cross-solely varieties, it is possible to wait for the crop only when growing several instances.

Transplanting and substrate

Only young plants are needed in the annual transplant. Adult Acques Sellov transplanted only as needed, with a frequency of 1 time in 3-5 years, choosing large containers in which plants will develop where to develop. For Feichoa, standard pots are suitable - with a slightly greater than the width.

Room Fairoa is growing well in universal, standard substrates. The weakly acidic or neutral soil reaction from 5.0 to 7.0 is preferred. With independent mixing of the substrate for Feichoa, one of the vessels will fit:

1. sand mix, peat, humid and turf soil in a 1: 1: 1 ratio;
2. a mixture of the delicate soil, sand and humoring in the ratio of 1: 1: 1;
3. a mixture of leaf soil with sand and turf ground in a 3: 1: 1 ratio.

It is desirable to add a horn chips or bone flour to land for Feichoa.

Replanted the plant neatly, trying to minimize contact with roots, replacing only freely creaped soil. At the bottom of the tanks lay high drainage. The level of the shrimp root should be kept the same. After the transplantation of plants, you need to take care of direct sunlight.

Feichoa diseases and pests

Fayaho's indoor plant is more suffering from improper care than pests. The only exception is the web tick, which is found on the plant very often, and whiteflies with shields that adore to settle on rigid leaves of weakened plants. To combat insects you need to wash the leaves, increase the humidity of the air and use biological products with insecticidal properties. Classical insecticide treatment is desirable only during the period when the plant does not be fruit.

Room Fairoa during flowering. © MONROVIA.

Fayicho reproduction

Breeding Akka Sellova - the task is quite simple. Unlike the room competitors from among the fruit trees, Feichoa can be multiplied with seeds, stalling, and vaccination, and giving, and even the separation of root offspring, choosing options and methods of reproduction to their taste.

The most popular method of breeding Akki Sellov - growing from seeds, although it does not preserve the varietal signs of maternal plants. Small, but perfectly preserving the germination of Fayicho seeds can be collected even from fruits purchased for eating, if you choose the most mature fruits or wait until they become soft. True, the seed mining process itself is not so simple and will be patient: dismantled with a spoon of seeds together with the intense pulp leaves in any capacity outdoors in the warm room until the fermentation process begins, after which the flesh is washed off from seeds, and seeds themselves dried on paper or napkins. It is possible to store the seeds of Feichoa for two years at a temperature of about 5 degrees of heat, in a dry, dark and ventilated place.

Seyan's seed sowing is traditionally spent in the spring, as soon as the duration of the daylight day is to increase, in low plates filled with a disinfected standard substrate, mixed in equal parts with sand. Seeds, top cover with a layer of sand with a thickness of 4-5 mm. Capacities to cover with glass or film is not necessarily, but it is still easier to support the stable moisture content of the soil. For germination, seeds need heat (temperatures from 20 to 25 degrees) and bright lighting. The first shoots of Faicho may appear after 3-4 weeks.

It is not necessary to rush with the dive of shooting. Before the separation in the individual pots, it is better to wait until at least two pairs of real leaves grow on the plant, and if the shoots are thin and weak - and 3-4 pairs. Young Feichoa is sensitive to irregular watering and direct sunlight. Plants Even with a transplantation during active growth, it is not necessary to begin to feed immediately after the dive: the first feeding for room fairya is carried out only after 5-6 weeks after serving shoots to individual containers.

The second most popular option for obtaining your own Feichoa - shilling. The percentage of rooting the plant is extremely low. The cuttings are cut during resting from the middle part of the crown, from November to January. Semi-restned cuttings from 7 to 10 cm long to 10 cm are cut under the oblique angle and rooted after processing in growth accelerators in wet sand, providing bright lighting and stable air humidity, raising the temperature to 25 degrees of heat. They are seated immediately after rooting in standard landfill.

Feichoa's fruiting begins only after 4 years - for plants obtained from cuttings, and after 5 years - for bustard obtained from seeds.

Feichoa resembles a miniature watermelon or gooseberry with thick matte leather. The smell of berries is sharp and shrouded, with unaccustomed it seems that someone accidentally poured spirits. The name is the aroma - unexpectedly magical. Feichoa, arriving from distant lands, has gained a new outmate in Europe and Russia.

Faja description and classification

Feichoa is an evergreen subtropical shrub or a tree not more than 4 m height. The place of its growth is Brazil, where the culture was discovered and described in the XIX century by the Portuguese scientific scientific scientist Juan da Silva Faizho. She received his name in honor of him. Feijoa is sometimes referring to the family of the family of the Mytrent family, but in some cases it is distinguished into a separate family of Faijoa Selowiana. The species name culture received by the name of the famous German scientist, researcher of the plant world of Brazil, Friedrich Sellov.

Feichoa is a low shrub or tree

Origin and distribution

Motherland Feichoa - South America:

• Brazil;
• northern regions of Argentina;
• Uruguay;
• Colombia.

It grows, occupying and a tropical belt, but it feels better in the subtropical zone.

Once in France at the end of the XIX century, the plant successfully spread through Europe, even hit Russia to the beginning of the 20th century. The cuttings of unusual cultures first arrived in Yalta and on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. In the future, the quiet expansion of the overseas guest has spread to the southern regions of Russia: Dagestan, Krasnodar Territory. Fayaho is growing in Transcaucasia and Turkmenistan.

No less successful was the conquest of the plants of the Mediterranean zone of Europe. Faicho since the beginning of the last century lives in:

• Italy;
• Greece;
• Spain;
• Portugal.

With European migrants, the plant fell into a new light and gradually spread through the entire Pacific coast of the United States and some other states. In addition, Faicho is growing in Australia and New Zealand.

Main characteristics

This is a subtropical evergreen moisture-loving plant, forming a bush or a tree. Barrel grungy, brown or greenish. Thick roots are located in the soil surface.

Whole leaves, oblong, green-gray. From above smooth, lowered lowered. To the touch leathery and rigid. A controversy.

Feichoa Obsol and have an opposite location

Fayaho flowers are exotic decorative. There are single, pairly located, as well as collected in inflorescences. Each flower contains 4 velvety petals. They are sweet and edible. The outer surface is brighter, and the color of the inner surface varies from almost white at the edge to dark pink closer to the center. The abundance of stamens attracts attention and gives a colorful look. Most flowers affectly and need insect pollinators, although there are samopidal varieties.

Outer surface petal lighter inner

Usually up to 75-80% of the wound pops.

Fayaho's flowering in Russia is observed from May to June. In natural conditions, in the subtropics of the southern hemisphere, this time falls on November - December. In the tropical climate there are cyclic, and continuous flowering.

Fruits are small meat and juicy berries with a dense skin of dark green or greenish-yellow color. There are covered with waxing. In the form rounded, oblong or oval. The average weight of the berry is 15-60 g. There are Monsters fruit weighing more than 100 g. They have a peculiar aroma resembling strawberries and pineapple.

Fejoa blanks will not be vitamins in long winter months. In the network you can find many ways to prepare these berries. My option implies a minimum of effort and complete absence of heat treatment. The washed and capped ripe berries of Feicho should be skipped through a meat grinder and add sugar sand in a 1: 1.5 ratio. Carefully stir and pour into banks. Keep refrigerated. You can obtain the resulting mass to be baking or submit it to tea.

The pulp is usually white-cream or colorless. Some varieties are painted in pink. Taste with sour-sweet. The consistency usually cream. There are varieties with stony inclusions. Universal berries are applied in fresh and recycled.

Feichoa pulp usually cream or colorless

Facey fruits found organic acids, sugars, vitamin C, pectin substances, iodine. The content of vitamin C in some varieties grown in the Russian Federation reaches 50 or more mg. 100 g berries contains twice as much iodine than necessary for daily consumption. And the amount of iodine directly depends on how close the culture grows up to the sea. In the fruits of Feicho, who dwells by sea coasts, it accumulates more.

Persons suffering from diseases of the thyroid gland should be advised with the endocrinologist before using fragrant fruits, or limit the one or two berries per day.

Plants in the northern hemisphere are actively growing and fruit from April to November. The time of vegetation in the southern hemisphere falls from October to the end of April.

The fertilization among seedlings are observed only for the sixth seventh year after landing, but the vaccination is possible to get a harvest before 2-3 years. Fruit regular.

Studies have shown that these thermal loving plants are able to transfer a decrease in temperature to -11 o C.

Video: How to grow Faicho at home

Some varieties of Feichoa

In Russia, there are 2 scientific centers (in Yalta and Sochi), studying the properties and the selection of Feichoa. Employees of the Sochi Vnia Flowers and Subtropical Cultures and the Nikitsky Botanical Garden in Yalta created the Faicho varieties included in the Russian State Registry:

• Fragrant fantasy - Crimean early grade. Fruits weighing up to 35. Hollow juicy, tender pulp. Transportable. The yield is approximately 100 c / ha. Resistance to frosts 3 points. Weak drought resistance.
• Dagomysse - average ripening time. Created in Sochi. Berries are large, weigh an average of more than 85. Middle density peel. The flesh is creamy, sour-sweet, with minor stony inclusions. With a pronounced aroma. Yield more than 300 c / ha. It needs cross-pollination.
• Dacha - early grade created in Sochi. Berries are large, the average weight of 43.1 g. Skin is thin. The flesh is gentle, creamy. Yield more than 200 c / ha.
• Nikitskaya fragrant - Crimean early grade. The average weight of the berry is 35 g. The flesh is juicy, the taste of sour-sweet, neuro is expressed. Yield just over 100 c / ha. Resistance to frosts 3 points.
• September - Early grade, needs cross-pollination. Fruits with thin skin. Flesh without stony inclusions. The average yield is about 160 c / ha. Drought-resistant grade.

Overall odiho's outflows have not yet become a common food product, but gradually conquer sustainable interest due to attractive aroma, a pleasant unusual taste and gentle pulp.

Faicho. - evergreen shrub plant from the Mytov family, reaching in adult age no more than 1 meter in height, with delicious and fragrant fruits of a saturated green color.

Fruit weight It is 30-50 grams, in taste and smell they are similar to Pineapple, Kiwi and strawberries at the same time. Ripen fruits in November.

Faicho. Can be raised at home. No need to possess the knowledge of agronomas to surprise friends and acquaintances of an exotic plant in the apartment. It is enough to adhere to simple rules and advice on fayohea.

Fayicho varieties

Total exist Three varieties of Feichoa. Only one species is cultivated from them - Feicho Selloa, perfectly growing and capable of fruit and blossom in room conditions.

Actions To increase the possibility of the appearance of fruits in the plant:

• buy self-polling variety;
• expanded with brushes cross artificial pollination;
• spray water flowers plants in the evening.

Fruit benefit

Faicho. It blooms incredibly beautiful and has inconspicuous, but useful and delicious fruits with many healing properties. The ripe fruit is, the more useful they are for the body.
Rich Fruit composition:

• iodine, perfectly assimilated by the body due to the presence of water-soluble compounds (its content is comparable to the amount of seafood and fish);
• vitamin C;
• pectin;
• sucrose;
• cellulose.

DiseasesIn which the use of Fayicho fruits gives a positive effect:

• atherosclerosis (boiled or cried with sugar fruits);
• diseases of the thyroid gland;
• reduced immunity;
• avitaminosis;
• gout;
• basedova disease;
• constipation;
• cold;
• depression;
• sclerosis;
• pyelonephritis;
• disorders in metabolism;
• gastritis and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

Peel It has an antioxidant effect, but it is too tart, so the best option for its use is to add to tea. The taste of fruits grown at home is not different from those that have grown in natural conditions. Feichoa is a dietary product that is well absorbed by the body.

Plant landing

For the plant requires soil with the following properties:

• feederness;
• looseness;
• weakness reaction;
• wealth Gumus.

Watering Feichoa

Summer Feichoa Requires abundant watering. Power of the soil can lead to the feet of leaves and wound up and even the death of the plant. In winter, when wintering plants in a cool room, it should be pulled out.

Roots Water absorb not so quickly, so its oversuetting increases the risk of reloading the roots and the death of the plant.

Reproduction

Reproduction Plants are possible in two ways: seeds, rooted branches. At the same time, in reproduction, the seeds of fruits should not be waiting for the next 5 years, when using Chenkov - 4 years.

There is a third Method - Buying an expensive adult plant in the store, but there is a risk that it does not fit. During long blossom from May to June, the plant is very beautiful. Flowers of pink or red shades.

With vegetative reproduction is the best moment of process - spring and early summer. Rules for performing reproduction with cuttings:

• semi-previve branches with 3 interstices are the perfect option;
• the cuttings are processed by the coaches of the formation of roots (for this you can use coconut soil, washed sand, vermiculite, perlite or simple floral soil with adding vermiculite or perlite in proportion 1: 1;
• put the cuttings in the greenhouse, which can be used plastic bottles;
• suitable temperature for the appearance of roots - +25 degrees;
• for the appearance of the roots, it may be needed for several months and not all cuttings will come down;
• if the plant has grown from the cuttings of the fruiting face, flowering can be expected by 2 or 3 years.

For breeding Fayaho seeds perform the following actions:

• the best period of sowing is February, seeds - freshly collected;
• seeds need to be separated from the pulp and dried within 5 days;
• the semen should be shown in the glasses of plastic shallow, slightly sprinkled with the earth and are located in the greenhouse;
• next, it is necessary to perform irrigated from the shallow watering can on the filtered paper located on the surface of the Earth;
  The ideal temperature for breeding the plant by seeds - + 23 ... + 25 degrees;
• the first shoots are waiting in 3-4 weeks.

When transplanting Feichoa Care should be taken, as the branches are very brittle and fragile.

Falker Plants

In summer Fejoa requires feeding, for which complex fertilizers are perfect. Superphosphate is used for feeding, horse manure in proportions 1:10, ash hood.

For getting Potash fertilizer in 1 liter of water insist 1 tbsp. A spoonful of ash trees (mainly deciduous) in continuation of 1 week. Before feeding fertilizers, the plant should be pouring water.

Selection of place for landing

Faicho. Loves bright rooms and withstands the effect of direct sun rays. With a reduced arrival of light, the plant will not bloom and be fron.

Summer ideal The option for the plant is fresh air, in winter - a bright room with air temperature + 10 ... + 12 degrees.

Faicho. It moves normally for the winter period and at room temperature, but it will take 80-85% air humidity and high lighting. Welcome regular spraying plant.

Perfect placefayaho wintering is a glazed aparth balcony.

Diseases, pests and Faja Treatment

Pestaffecting the plant: ,. Young shoots harm red. To help the plant, it is recommended to use a Celtan solution in a proportion of 1 liter of water: 2 grams of spraying substance that is better carried out in the evening.

When exposed Sunny rays solution can burn facey leaves. The validity period of the solution for more than a month, therefore, to get rid of the pest is sufficiently single processing.

Brown fuddle appears on the glossy section of the sheet along the central vein. Carbofos will help in the struggle with the pest, which is required to dissolve in 1 liter of water (5-6 grams of the drug).

For improvement Plant states It is necessary to carry out a full spraying of the fairya and repeat the procedure 3 times with the gap per week.

Most Frequently found problems when growing Feichoa: Spotted leaves, from which you can cope with the help of a spraying of bordeaux liquid; Gray rot on the leaves.

Faicho. - The original plant with non-allergenic delicious fruits suitable for consumption and adults, and children from which many delicious dishes can be prepared.

And the most curious, we suggest familiarizing with the video about Feichoa

Magnification variety - up to two meters high in the open soil, evergreen and at the same time decorative and fruit plant. The grade of the magnification of the self-free does not need a pollinator, not so much to soil and conditions of content. The fruits are very large and large, fragrant, with a juicy sweet pulp. Similar to taste a mixture of pineapple, kiwi and strawberries. Stored for a very long time, while not only without losing its taste, but on the contrary, reinforcing them. The fruits of this variety are well transferred to long distances.

Fairoa - a subtropical plant, a thermal-loving plant, so in the gardens of the middle band you will not meet. The fruits of this tree appear in the winter, of which they prepare a very tasty, fragrant jam, which has a lot of useful properties. You can simply cut the berries with sugar, and you can also use fresh. Fakes are used and in the wine industry.

Location. Feichoa is a light-loving culture, so it is best to place it in the southern or south-east window. In the autumn-winter period, the plant resets quite a lot of leaves. To exclude this phenomenon, you need to read.

Temperature. Adult plants withstand temperatures up to -12 ° C, resistant against drought. In winter, the plant is best maintained in a cool light room with a temperature of 8-12 ° C. In the summer, it is good to endure in the garden or on the balcony.

The soil. To soil conditions, the plant is undemandingly, an ordinary floral substrate is suitable.

In the first 2-3 years due to the active growth of the root system, the transplant should be carried out annually. When transplanting, it is necessary to preserve the soil com and the plant does not shuffle. Subsequently, the transplant is made once every 3 years.

Watering. Feichoa is a moisture-loving plant. Church of the Earth Koma leads to the loss of leaves, drying the branches and parts of the root system. After watering, the water accumulated in the pallet is not removed - after a while it is absorbed in the earthen com. In winter, when the air humidity in the house is low, when leaving the face, the plant is useful to spray slightly warm water. In the summer, a rich watering is recommended, in winter - moderate.

Feeding. Feichoa is very demanding of the feeding during the flowering period and the tie of fruits. During the year, Feichoa feed every 15 days, alternating nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Use horse manure (1:10), superphosphate and ash hood. Superphosphate is poorly dissolved in water, so first 1 teaspoon of fertilizer should be boiled in 1 liter of water. The cold solution is bred by water in a 1: 1 ratio. To obtain a potash fertilizer 1 tablespoon of deciduous rocks insist 1 week in 1 liter of water. Before feeding the plant is watered with ordinary water.

Transfer. In the first 2-3 years, Feichoa needs to replant annually in a fresh nutritious substrate. Adult plants roll into large dishes, filling out the fresh substrate only the space between the pots of the pot and the root lump. The roots leaving the drainage hole should be trimmed.