Detailed Explanation of the Key Technical Points for Growing Chicken-Heart Wampee

Chicken-heart wampee is a high-quality wampee variety with a shape like a chicken heart and a slightly sweet taste. It is highly favored by consumers in daily life and is also a variety grown by many growers. Below is a detailed introduction to the growing techniques for chicken-heart wampee, which growers can learn from as appropriate!

I. Site Selection and Land Preparation

The chicken-heart wampee tree has strong growth capacity, but to ensure high and stable yields, you can choose paddy fields with good drainage and irrigation, or hillside or gentle slope land with rich organic matter content, deep soil layers, convenient drainage and irrigation, and good water source conditions. Dig planting holes according to the specification of 1m x 1m x 0.8m. After the planting holes are dug, apply base fertilizer (green manure, chicken manure, mushroom compost, lime, phosphate powder) to the land in a concentrated manner. After fertilizing, mix evenly with the soil and backfill into the planting holes. The backfilled soil should be 20cm above the ground.

II. Timely Planting

The planting time for chicken-heart wampee can be chosen in spring and autumn, with spring planting as the main season, preferably from March to April each year. The planting spacing for chicken-heart wampee is generally 3m×4m or 4m×5m. There are two planting methods for chicken-heart wampee, namely planting with soil and planting without soil. If planting without soil, dip the roots in mud slurry before planting. This planting method can ensure rapid rooting after planting. After planting, water thoroughly to set the roots, thereby improving the survival rate.

III. Mid-Stage Management

1. Proper Earthing Up

After the seedlings are planted, proper earthing up can increase soil nutrients and water absorption rate and promote root growth. To improve the utilization rate of land resources, during the young stage of chicken-heart wampee, short-stem crops such as peanuts and soybeans can be planted between the rows. Intercropping crops can increase air humidity, inhibit the growth of weeds in the grove, prevent rainwater from eroding the soil, and improve the physical and chemical properties of the soil.

2. Deep Plowing to Improve Soil

For mature orchards, radial or strip deep plowing can be carried out outside the canopy projection. The width and depth of deep plowing should be maintained at 0.6m, with layered fertilization. Generally, apply 0.5kg of superphosphate, 0.5kg of lime, 50kg of farmyard manure, and 0.5kg of soybean cake per tree. Mix the fertilizer evenly with the topsoil and apply it into the pit.

3. Scientific Irrigation

Wampee has shallow roots. In dry weather, watering once every 15-20 days is sufficient to ensure the needs of normal growth and development.

4. Rational Fertilization

After entering the fruiting stage, attention should be paid to the application of flower-promoting fertilizer, fruit-strengthening fertilizer, and post-harvest fertilizer, generally depending on the size of the tree and the fruiting situation. Apply 1-2.5kg of Norwegian compound fertilizer each time. In addition, in winter each year, an additional 10-15kg of organic fertilizer can be applied to ensure the nutritional needs for flowering and fruiting the following year.

IV. Plant Management

1. Pruning of Young Fruit Trees

During the young stage, methods such as bud removal and shoot control can be used to promote new shoots on young fruit trees, and then keep healthy branches on each new shoot.

2. Pruning of Fruiting Fruit Trees

Pruning of fruiting fruit trees is generally carried out after fruit harvest, mainly thinning out crossing branches, declining fruiting branches, pest- and disease-damaged branches, weak branches, and dead branches. During pruning, attention should also be paid to the cultivation of autumn shoots. After entering the flower bud differentiation period from December of the current year to January of the following year, measures such as heading back, pinching, and bud removal should be used to promote autumn shoot growth and cultivate healthy fruiting branch groups.

3. Flower and Fruit Thinning

If the amount of flowers and fruits on the fruit tree is too large, it will increase the nutritional consumption of the tree, inhibit new shoot growth, and easily cause alternate bearing.

V. Pest and Disease Control

The main pests and diseases of chicken-heart wampee include anthracnose, downy mildew, and red spider mites. Scientific control should be carried out against these pests and diseases.

Chicken-heart wampee has excellent nutritional and medicinal value, and its growing prospects are also relatively optimistic. The above is the sharing of growing techniques for chicken-heart wampee. We hope it is helpful to growers.