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How to prune vigorous apple trees? These methods you need to master
How to prune vigorous apple trees? Please explain the methods. Vigorous apple trees are mostly young trees up to the early fruiting stage. To moderate tree vigor and promote flowering and fruit set, pruning should be done as follows: 1. Open the angle of the scaffold branches. Use propping, pulling, pressing and other methods to open the angle of the scaffold branches. For perennial and strongly vigorous scaffold branches, the multiple-saw method can be used to force the angle open and moderate tree vigor.
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Proper Methods for Fertilizing and Bending Branches of Apple Trees
How do you fertilize and bend the branches of apple trees? Please explain in detail. 1. Fertilizing apple trees. (1) From the outer edge of the canopy outward, dig a ring-shaped trench 30 cm wide and 40 cm deep (for young trees) in the ground for fertilizing; for large trees, dig a ring-shaped trench 50 cm wide and 60 cm deep. (2) Mature orchards can use the method of digging trenches along the rows...
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How to plant apple trees? Master the cultivation techniques for better growth
How to plant apple trees well? Please give guidance. The following methods can be referenced for apple tree planting: 1. Seedling cultivation techniques; new orchards should all adopt new rootstocks and new varieties. It is recommended to use the wild sweet tea rootstock unique to the Yimeng Mountains for apple seedlings, locally known as (sweet tea has a high degree of wildness, strong soil adaptability, resistance to disease, drought and waterlogging, adaptability to a wide range of temperature conditions, and long lifespan). To improve the quality of new orchards, strictly prepare the land, apply sufficient base fertilizer, and before planting dig planting holes according to the required density, with a specification of 0.6m x 0.6m and a depth of 0.6m. Keep subsoil and topsoil separate. Apply base fertilizer per mu (organic fertilizer) 1500kg-2000kg. According to local soil conditions, more organic fertilizer containing fine sandy soil can be applied, (a small amount of nitrogen fertilizer 0.1kg per tree, potassium fertilizer 0.2km, compound fertilizer 0.2kg can be added) and mixed with topsoil and backfilled to 15cm from ground level, then trampled firm. Make full use of land resources, with a plant-row spacing of 2m x 2m. Planting trenches of 0.6m x 0.6m can also be dug. Irrigate the holes 3-4 days before planting. Before planting, soak in a solution prepared with 700 times thiophanate-methyl or 500 times carbendazim for a full day and night, so that the seedlings fully absorb water and are disinfected. Dip the root system of the soaked seedlings in mud mixed with rooting powder, then plant. After planting, water promptly, cover with soil and plastic film to retain moisture, and drain promptly when waterlogged to prevent the seedlings from turning yellow and loss of manure water.
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What are the key points to note when winter pruning apple trees?
What should be noted when winter pruning apple trees? Please advise: when winter pruning apple trees, note the following points: ① Look at tree age: for young trees and trees just beginning to bear fruit, the pruning amount should be small and the pruning severity should be light, with attention to developing the tree shape and fruiting branch groups; for trees in full bearing period, prune moderately heavily and pay attention to rotating fruiting branch groups; for trees in the aging period, prune heavily to renew fruiting branch groups....
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How to prune apple trees in summer? A full analysis of methods and techniques
How to prune apple trees in summer? Please give guidance. Summer pruning of apple fruit trees is also called growth-period pruning. Pruning during the growth period cuts off branches with leaves, which has a relatively large impact on fruit tree growth, so it should be kept as light as possible. In addition, summer pruning is auxiliary work to winter pruning. It promptly keeps the superior and removes the inferior among newly sprouted shoots, regulates the growth and development of the retained new shoots, and corrects their growth posture and direction. In this way, winter pruning can avoid heavy cutting and chopping, which would cause more damage to the tree body. The specific pruning techniques include the following:
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What is the difference between pruning methods for pear trees and apple trees
Post-bloom management of pear trees is a critical period in the whole year's management. Whether the comprehensive management measures during this period are appropriate directly affects the fruit set rate and fruit quality. The key points of pear tree management during this period are: 1. Pollination Pear flowers generally open after 8 o'clock in the morning. Flowers that open on the same day can be pollinated, and pollination is best 1 to 2 days after the flowers open...
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The Best Time and Method for Bending Apple Tree Branches: A Detailed Guide
Apple Tree Branch Bending Time and Methods. Branch bending is an important technical step in apple tree production management, playing a decisive role in developing a good tree shape and solving ventilation and light penetration problems. 1 The importance of branch bending. Branch bending, as...
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How can young apple trees be made to bear fruit earlier?
In current production, some orchards have relatively good soil conditions and fairly adequate fertilizer and water, but the planting density is too high, and management after planting cannot keep up. In particular, pruning techniques are not correctly applied to promote early flower bud formation and fruiting, resulting in overcrowded populations with a canopy coverage rate of 90%, or even 110%, and a canopy intersection rate greater than 20%, with branches per mu...
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Key summer management techniques after reshaping apple trees
After reshaping, most tree forms in the Weibei area became open-center trunk forms. The open-center trunk form has only 3-5 main branches, a great reduction compared with the large branch count before reshaping, but because the root system below is still fully functional, in the year of reshaping the trees generally (except weak trees) produce vigorous shoots. Therefore we must pay attention to reshaping...
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