How to plant orange seeds so they bear fruit? A detailed guide to the planting method

The orange is a common fruit in daily life, and because it can be eaten in many ways and tastes sweet, it is deeply loved by people. The leftover seeds can also be grown into potted plants, so how do you plant orange seeds so they bear fruit?

1. How to plant orange seeds so they bear fruit?

Wash the pulp and impurities off the orange seeds, put them in clean water and soak them for about a week, changing the water once a day during this period. After a week, take the seeds out, remove the thin skin on the surface, and sow the seeds into the soil. They will sprout in about 3 weeks.

2. How do you grow an orange tree?

1. Planting seedlings: When planting an orange seedling, prune the root system moderately, then place it in the center of the planting hole, spread out the roots, hold it upright, and while filling in soil, gently lift the seedling upward and firm the soil. Water thoroughly to settle the roots, make a 1-meter tree basin around the sapling, and cover it with rice husks. After planting the orange seedling, do a good job of deep digging and expanding the hole and ripening the soil. Do not plant tall-stemmed plants such as corn and wheat in the orchard, and do a good job of reasonable intercropping in the orchard and of cultivating and weeding.

2. Fertilizer and water management: The orange tree should fully satisfy the blood orange's needs for various nutrient elements. It is advocated to apply more organic fertilizer and to apply inorganic fertilizer and compound fertilizer reasonably, and to guide fertilization according to leaf analysis results, orchard soil analysis results, the blood orange phenological period, and so on. Soil fertilization is the main method, combined with foliar fertilization. Methods such as ring-shaped trench application, strip trench application, hole application, and broadcasting fertilizer on the soil surface are used. Irrigate when the soil is dry, and drain when there is standing water.

3. Reasonable fertilization: The orange tree should be fertilized frequently and lightly, mainly with nitrogen fertilizer, combined with phosphorus and potassium fertilizers, and fertilized 5 to 6 times during the sprouting periods of spring, summer, and autumn shoots. For adult trees, apply four good rounds of fertilizer, namely bud fertilizer, fruit-preserving fertilizer, fruit-sizing fertilizer, and post-harvest fertilizer. Bud fertilizer: 2 to 3 jin of chemical fertilizer and one load of manure water; fruit-preserving fertilizer: 1 to 2 jin of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer and 1 jin of chemical fertilizer; fruit-sizing fertilizer: 1 to 2 jin of chemical fertilizer and 2 jin of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer; post-harvest fertilizer: 50 to 100 jin of organic fertilizer and 2 jin of chemical fertilizer per tree.

4. Pruning techniques: In the young tree stage, after selecting the central leader-like extension shoot and the extension shoots of each main branch and sub-main branch, carry out moderate or even heavy heading back on them, and regulate the balance of growth among the main branches through the degree of heading back and the direction of the bud at the cut. In the fruiting stage, continue to choose heading back to treat the extension shoots at all levels of the framework, remove summer shoots, and promote the growth of vigorous autumn shoots. In autumn, for vigorously growing trees, use measures such as ringing, root cutting, and water control to promote flowering.