How many years after planting does the miracle fruit bear fruit?

Miracle fruit is a very magical fruit. The fruit is sweet and sour and tasty. After eating it, if you then eat other acidic foods, such as lemons, the sour taste can be turned into sweetness. At present, miracle fruit is being planted in many places, so how many years does miracle fruit take to bear fruit?

1. How many years does miracle fruit take to bear fruit?

Miracle fruit grows slowly. Generally, it only flowers and bears fruit 3-4 years after planting. With vegetative propagation, it can bear fruit 1-2 years earlier, and the tree shape can be dwarfed to improve its ornamental value. The flesh is sour and astringent, and contains rich and unusual glycoproteins, vitamin C, KI, citric acid, succinic acid, oxalic acid, etc. It can make sour bread become sweet and tasty, and make sour palm wine and beer become sweet. After eating sour, spicy, bitter, or salty foods, chewing a few miracle fruits will immediately turn the taste sweet.

2. Miracle fruit planting techniques

1. Planting: Miracle fruit does not have high soil requirements, but the planting site should be chosen as gently sloping land with deep soil and good drainage and aeration. Planting should be carried out in the rainy season. Because cuttings and air-layered plants are vegetatively propagated, their main roots are not well developed, and the tree body and crown width are smaller than those of seedlings grown from seed. The spacing between plants and rows should be 1.5 m × 2 m, while for seedlings it should be slightly larger, at 2 m × 3 m. One month before planting, dig the planting holes and apply enough base fertilizer, placing 2 kg of decomposed farmyard manure + 0.2 kg of superphosphate in each hole. Mix the base fertilizer and topsoil well and backfill it into the holes. For cuttings and air-layered plants, more base fertilizer should be applied when planting.

As an ornamental landscaping tree species, miracle fruit can also be grown in pots. The potting nutrient soil is generally prepared by mixing 70-80% relatively fertile soil, 10-15% coarse sand, and 10-15% coconut coir. The best time for transplanting into pots is spring. The size of the flower pot or nutrient bag (pot) depends on the size of the seedling.

2. Tending: After the seedlings are planted and have recovered, regularly carry out slashing of weeds, weeding, loosening the soil, and topdressing on the planting site. Small shrubs and other plants on the planting site should be cut away in time. At the same time, carry out hole-shaped tending for the seedlings. Combined with loosening the soil, add 100 grams of compound fertilizer when the rainy season comes, and spray the leaves with 0.2‰ potassium dihydrogen phosphate + 0.1% urea to ensure the seedlings have sufficient nutrients. During the new shoot growth period, the fruiting mother plants can be sprayed with a mixture of 40% ethephon and 500-fold B9, which can inhibit new shoot growth, promote flower bud differentiation, and help produce more fruit. Spraying 0.5% borax once during full bloom can greatly increase the fruit-setting rate.

Miracle fruit has a very strong sweetening effect. The dry powder made through concentration and processing can be made into chewable foods; miracle fruit essence can also be used as an appetite-suppressing drug and can be developed for weight-loss drugs and appetite-suppressing drugs. Its planting prospects are very good.