Growing Guide Acerola

IMPORTANT!
Acerola sawing strait away! Very fresh seed! Is very short germ powerful!
Seeds and
Plants get right out of packaging to prevent mold!

The seeds:
Remove the seeds from the package, as to prevent them from going moldy. Keep it not too long in
an open container in a cool dry place (refrigerator may also). Acerola seeds are only a limited time
germ powerful, depending on, temperature(low) and humidity(high). The period can range from 2
weeks to 2 months. For certainty count on 2 weeks. The seeds have a (light) brown skin and a light
or dark green core. This skin can become detached (drying) from the shrinking core, this is very
normal. Is this core dark brown, or the seeds go moldy, than they are generally not germing anny
more. There fore it is important to Sow the seeds quickly.
Sowing:
Place the seeds about 1 cm deep in moist soil. Temperature around 22 degrees Celcius. The soil
must be humid, not dry and not too wet. Too much water is worse than too little. Take a bit of soil
between your fingers and press it together, there may be no water out.
Initially you will see no growth, but after about a month, there are small dark spots apearing above
the ground. The cotyledons stay under the ground! If you see after 6 weeks nothing, than you can
lift 1 seed very carefully to see what is going on. Usually you see a very long root out the core and a
thin blade that goes to the top. They break very quickly so be very careful. If the first leaf apears the
temperature may go down, but not less than 15 degrees, 20 is better.

(Did you receive plants, get them out of the bottle and put the plant into a larger pot)
Plants or replanting
This pot may be significantly greater. The bigger the pot the faster is the plant growing. Now it is
allowed to lower the temperature to 4 degrees at night while during daytime it has to be above 10
degrees. But 20 degrees day and nicht is better. The soil must be humid, not dry and not too wet.
Take a bit of soil between your fingers and press it together, there may be no water coming out.

It is a plant that is originally from the West, many light and heat is no problem. It will do with less,
even a long time in the shade and a few degrees above zero the bush will survive. A mature plant
tolerates light frost and snow, but will lose thier leaves. Later in Spring it wil turn out and blossom.
In southern Spain, it bears fruit from March to December. In the winter (2004-2005) with snow in
Africa (January), the adult Acerola shrub, leaves were dropped. In March, which began to bloom at
the end of March and came back to browse.
Young plants only to bring out well after the last frost, around the end of May.
Keep the plant the first year in a large bowl on a hot spot in the garden or terrace. In the winter in a
frost-free place and with little water. Leaf normally will drop. The next year you can plant here in
the garden in a sheltered place. Good cover in winter and a plastic greenhouse can build around.
With an anti-frost heating. Secure the plant to overwinter in a greenhouse or a frost-fired
greenhouse. In the second or third year, you will see then the first fruits. Each year there are more to
come. After 5 years, the plant is mature and has a size of 3 meters in diameter. I knew someone who
had him in a 50 liter tank on the balcony, and in the autumn when the leaf cases, overwinterd in a
frost-free, low-ventilated and lighted basement weak until the end of April.