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A Detailed Guide to Propagation Techniques Every Pomegranate Grower Must Read
Pomegranate propagation methods include sowing, cuttings, root division, grafting and layering, but cuttings and sowing are the main methods. 1 Cuttings propagation Nursery site preparation The seedling site should be chosen in a place with convenient transportation, capable of irrigation and drainage, deep soil layer, loose texture, and good water and fertilizer retention, in light loam or sandy loam. Level the ground, make a seedbed, and set aside for use.
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What to do when bagged apples develop shriveling and cracking
Bagged apples tend to develop micro-cracks and shriveled skin after the bags are removed. This phenomenon falls into two cases: first, the fruit has already developed shriveling and cracking inside the bag, and once the bag is torn off it becomes even more severe; second, there is no abnormality when the bag is torn off, but soon after coloring, micro-cracks, shriveled skin, softening and other undesirable phenomena occur.
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What should be noted before and after bagging apples?
Bagging fruit can make the fruit surface fine and smooth, with bright and beautiful color, prevent pests and diseases, reduce pollution from pesticides and dust, produce pollution-free high-quality premium fruit, and effectively enhance the commercial value of the fruit. However, some fruit growers' bagging techniques are not standardized, and measures are not fully implemented,
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How to prevent and control weevil infestation when growing mangoes?
1. The mango leaf-cutting weevil is widely distributed. Adults feed on young mango leaves, causing the leaves to dry up; or the female lays eggs on young leaves and bites the young leaves off at the base, affecting plant growth. Control methods: ① During the growth period of young shoots, pick up the bitten
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How to prevent and control root-knot nematode disease when growing citrus?
Citrus root-knot nematode disease damages the citrus root system, causing root galls of various sizes to form on the roots, and fibrous roots to clump together into a cake-like mass, which hinders the root system's ability to absorb nutrients and reduces the number of absorbing roots. When citrus is first infected and damaged by root-knot nematodes, the decline is not very obvious in the canopy
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How to prevent and control peach leaf curl? Those growing peach trees should know early
1. Symptoms and damage. This disease occurs from time to time in the south. When severe, it causes branch dieback and affects ornamental value. The disease mainly damages leaves. When leaves unfold in early spring, the leaf margins curl downward. Part of or the entire diseased leaf becomes blistered and enlarged, the leaf becomes thicker, brittle in texture, and yellow or red, and the leaves
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How to Control the Alternate Bearing of Plum Trees? Practical Cultivation and Management Methods
1. Reasonable pruning to regulate tree vigor. On-year trees should be pruned early (before the onset of winter) and heavily. Remove dead branches, residual branches, slender branches, scorched-tip branches, diseased and pest-infested branches, and excessively dense, crossing branches. Do more heading back to stimulate shoot growth; for vigorous branches and competing branches, cut back hard, removing 2/3 to 3/4 of the branch or leaving only 3 to 5 buds. Thin flower buds early, prune away excess flowering branches, and reduce the fruit load. Off-year trees should be pruned late (around the beginning of spring), keeping flowering branches and thinning out non-flowering vegetative branches. Leave branches unpruned or bend them down to moderate tree vigor, retain as many flowers and fruits as possible, and increase the fruit set.
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Plum tree training and pruning methods and key technical points
① Training. The tree form can be natural open-center, multi-main-branch natural form, or Y-shape. For young trees, the trunk height is set at 30-50 cm. After sprouting, keep 5-6 buds as main branches; when the main branches are 50-60 cm long, leave 40 cm and pinch off the tips. In August, keep 2-3 permanent main branches, and pull the extra 2-3 main branches apart to make them droop, so they can bloom and bear fruit the following year. Later, as appropriate, train them into medium-to-large fruiting branch groups.
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How to prevent frost damage in plum trees? Key technical points for frost prevention when growing plum trees
Frost injury and freeze damage refer to the phenomenon in which the soil and plant surface temperatures drop to 0°C or below 0°C for a short time at night during the growing season, or when frost occurs, causing damage to the young and tender parts of fruit trees. In China, the average annual area affected by frost damage reaches 340,000 km2, and in the worst year it reached 7
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Practical experience sharing on growing plums in greenhouses
In order to explore the early fruiting and early high-yield techniques of cultivating plums in greenhouses, our station conducted experimental research from 1997 to 2000. The greenhouse was covered in the winter of the second year after planting, and in 2000 a 4-fen plot greenhouse produced 1000 kg of plums. The output value was more than 10,000 yuan, and the maturity period was about 60 days earlier than open-field cultivation. Through the experiment
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