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The Mopan jujube is an ornamental tree suitable for courtyard planting
Aliases: Mozi jujube, Hulu jujube (Hebei), Yaohulu jujube (Gansu). It is fairly widely distributed; it is cultivated in places such as Dali in Shaanxi; Qingyang in Gansu; Jiaohe, Qingxian, Xianxian, Quyang, Daming and Weixian in Hebei; and Leling, Wudi and Xiajin in Shandong, but the quantity is very small, mostly planted scattered around the four sides [of homes and fields]. It has a long history of cultivation. The tree is vigorous, relatively large, with medium-strong trunk dominance; the crown is a natural semicircle and the tree posture is open. A 23-year-old tree: trunk height 1.1 m, trunk circumference 60 cm, tree height 7.35 m, crown diameter about 7 m. The main trunk is grayish brown, with deep bark cracks
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What tree shapes are suitable for almond? Key points of training and pruning techniques
According to the light-loving characteristics of almond, adopting a tree shape with an open canopy and good ventilation and light penetration makes it easy to obtain high yields. Suitable tree shapes include the round-headed shape, the tiered shape, the cup shape and the natural open-center shape, among which the natural open-center shape is used more often. After the young seedlings are planted, the trunk is headed at 60-100 cm. If the planted seedlings already have branches but these cannot be used as main branches, keep a few buds at the base of these branches and carry out relatively heavy renewal pruning; in the spring of the 2nd year, when the new shoots reach about 10 cm in length, select and retain 3
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