Introduction to the price of early-ripening red pear saplings and their planting time

The early-ripening red pear is an early-maturing bud variety of the early-ripening pear, and the fruit it bears comes in a great many colors, including yellow, red, green and brown, making it very showy, which is also why everyone likes to eat it. This kind of pear has relatively low yields but excellent quality, and its price on the market is not cheap. So how much do early-ripening red pear saplings cost? When are they generally planted?

1. How much do early-ripening red pear saplings cost?

Early-ripening red pear saplings with a trunk diameter of 0.8 cm, a height of 80 cm, a crown width of 3 cm and a ground diameter of 0.8 cm cost three yuan each. Prices vary from place to place, and if you buy in large quantities the price may be somewhat cheaper.

The early-ripening red pear is like an ordinary pear, medium in size, with red skin and crisp flesh and especially abundant juice; one bite and the juice fairly spurts out, sweet and sour and pleasant to the taste. Because it grows in remote mountain primeval forests and absorbs the essence of sun and moon, it has a distinctive flavor with a rich honey aroma.

2. When are early-ripening red pear saplings generally planted?

Early-ripening red pear saplings generally have their flower buds swell in early March, bloom from late March to early April, and their fruit ripens in late July; the fruit development period is about 90 days, and they shed their leaves from late November to early December.

1. Planting

For dense cultivation of the early-ripening red pear, the spacing between plants and rows is 2×3 or 2✘4, and the fruit-setting rate with self-pollination is high

The early-ripening red pear has wide adaptability, and it is cultivated in every province across the country. But on thin mountain land and coarse sandy land the fruit often shows nutrient deficiency symptoms, so during cultivation the soil should be improved and its fertility built up to make the trees vigorous and high-yielding. It can reach full production in 4 years.

2. Management under the tree

Soil management mainly consists of mulching the tree with grass during the growing season, loosening the soil and hoeing weeds. Combined with applying organic fertilizer in late autumn, deepen and expand the planting holes outward year by year, so that the soil becomes loose and breathable, which is conducive to the growth and development of the root system. Fertilize a total of 4 times throughout the year. The base fertilizer is generally applied in late October to early November; in the first year apply 50 kg of farmyard manure per tree or 20 kg of decomposed chicken manure, increasing year by year thereafter. Apply a nitrogen fertilizer once before sprouting and once after flowering, and apply a compound fertilizer in mid-June. Combined with pest and disease control, spray 0.3% urea on the leaves 2 to 3 times in the early part of the growing season, and after June spray 0.2% monopotassium phosphate 2 to 3 times, to supplement the tree's nutrients and strengthen its vigor. The principle for watering is to promote early and control later, carried out in conjunction with each fertilization, and be careful to water before the freeze. In years with heavy rainfall, attention should be paid to drainage. Pay attention to the use of boron fertilizer.

3. Flower and fruit thinning and bagging

The early-ripening red pear readily forms flowers and has a high fruit-setting rate, so flowers and fruits should be thinned in good time. Combined with winter pruning, remove some of the excess flower buds. Begin thinning flowers after the flower buds separate, leaving 2 side flowers per inflorescence. After fruit set, set the fruit: for young vigorous trees, leave 1 fruit per 25 to 30 leaves, and keep only a single fruit per inflorescence.

After fruit thinning, bagging can also be done to improve fruit quality, reduce damage from pests and diseases, reduce the amount of pesticide used and lessen pesticide contamination.

4. Training and pruning

The tree shape can adopt a double-layer open-center form or a spindle form. For the double-layer open-center form, the trunk height is 60 to 70 cm, with 3 to 5 main branches left on the first layer and 2 to 3 main branches on the second layer, the spacing between layers being 1 m, with no secondary branches, and fruiting branch groups borne directly on the main branches. Large, medium and small branch groups are arranged in a staggered manner, and the tree height is about 2.5 m, not exceeding 3 m. For the spindle form, the trunk height is 60 cm, with one main branch left every 20 cm, the main branches rising in a spiral, the main branches longer between rows and smaller between plants, with fruiting branch groups borne directly on the main branches, and a tree height of 2.5 m. When pruning, pay attention to opening the angle of the branches; leave slanted long branches unpruned, and on upright long branches make a ring cut from the base upward about every 20 cm, making continuous ring cuts up to the tip, so that the following year 3 to 7 medium and short branches and many leafy cluster branches sprout. The early-ripening red pear has slightly poorer renewal and rejuvenation ability, so attention should be paid to keeping the load light to maintain vigorous trees and to leaving more cut branches.