How to Dwarf a Lychee Tree? A Complete Guide to Practical Methods

Lychee is a very delicious fruit, distributed in southwestern, southern and southeastern China, and mostly cultivated in Guangdong and southern Fujian. Well, some lychee trees grow too vigorously, resulting in too many trunks that affect yield. Below, the editor will introduce to you how to dwarf a lychee tree.

1. Dig large planting holes and apply sufficient base fertilizer before planting

In order to create soil conditions suitable for the rapid growth of the root system of young lychee trees, so as to achieve rapid growth, thereby enhancing plant resistance and achieving dwarfing, early fruiting and high yield in lychee. Before planting, dig deep holes, 0.8m×1m×1m, and apply sufficient base fertilizer, with 40-50kg of garbage fertilizer, and 0.5kg each of peanut bran, superphosphate and lime per hole.

2. Select high-quality seedlings and use rational close planting to increase per-unit yield

Rational close planting and dwarf cultivation have long become an important technical reform in modern fruit tree production. It helps change extensive cultivation into intensive management, achieving the goals of early fruiting, high yield and high efficiency in fruit trees. It also achieves high and stable yield. In order to fully and rationally utilize land and light energy, increase early-stage yield, and achieve high yield and high efficiency. We adopted a spacing of 4m×5m between plants and rows, planting 35 trees per 667 sq m, changing the traditional cultivation habit of planting 20-25 trees per 667 sq m. We selected grafted seedlings of Feizixiao and Guiwei, which are suitable for local rapid growth, high quality, early fruiting and good yielding performance, as the planting stock, and planted them in April 2011. When planting, cut off the main root, retaining 12-15cm of the main root, appropriately prune the vertical large roots, and retain the horizontal root system. The purpose is to promote the formation of an early-fruiting, high-yielding tree root system with a shallow and small main root, many shallow fibrous roots, and wide root distribution. After planting, tidy the planting hole into a tree disc and keep the tree disc covered.

The dwarfing and high-yield cultivation technique for lychee trees mainly focuses on adjusting planting density and appropriately pruning seedlings. In addition, choosing good varieties is also very important.