Key Technical Points for Soil, Fertilizer and Water Management of the "Sacred Fruit" Fig

My awareness of figs came from a snack I ate as a child. Actually, that snack contained shredded radish, not real figs. In fact, figs have low soil requirements, are easy to propagate, have few pests and diseases, and their cultivation and management techniques are relatively simple. They can serve as trees for suburban green food bases and high-nutrition, high-health fresh fruit bases, and can also be used as trees for developing sandy wasteland and saline-alkali land and establishing processing bases. At the same time, they are also very good landscaping trees for courtyards and roadsides. Now, let the editor introduce this amazing soil, fertilizer and water management techniques for figs!

Soil, Fertilizer and Water Management Techniques for Figs

I. Fertilization

1. Base fertilizer

The base fertilizer for figs has a specific season——autumn. Moreover, it is applied under fig trees that have already been planted, not applied to the soil before planting. Generally, farmyard manure is the main type, such as humic acid fertilizers, compost, urine fertilizer, barnyard manure, dung, fish fertilizer, compound fertilizer, and green manure, crop straw, weeds and branches and leaves, etc., so that they gradually decompose and continuously supply the macroelements and trace elements absorbed by figs.

2. Topdressing

Topdressing for figs should be done in early spring, before the new shoots grow vigorously. It is best to do it before the spring, summer and autumn fruits rapidly expand. It is best to regulate nitrogen, phosphorus pentoxide and potassium oxide in proportion. Topdressing can be carried out together with watering; apply topdressing before watering, and watering must be done after application.

II. Irrigation and Drainage

1. Irrigation

Irrigation is essential for fig trees to overwinter. In fact, figs are relatively drought-tolerant fruit trees. After leaf fall, carrying out water storage irrigation in combination with applying base fertilizer and winter plowing can enhance their overwintering ability.

2. Drainage

Our country has a vast territory, which also leads to very large differences in rainfall between north and south and east and west. Moreover, the distribution of rainfall and the periods when it is concentrated also differ.

(1) South

Generally, orchards in the south have more and more frequent drainage times than orchards in the north, and drainage is especially important during the plum rain season.

(2) North

Autumn in the north often has excessive waterlogging, which is the main season for drainage. The drainage system of fig orchards on flat land clearly consists of open ditches and covered ditches. At present, foreign countries use open ditches to drain waterlogging, covered ditches to drain soil moisture, and well drainage to regulate the regional groundwater level, forming a comprehensive drainage system. In developing fig orchards on coastal tidal flats and saline-alkali land in our country, the above drainage system is worth adopting.

Figs have strong drought resistance and weak waterlogging tolerance. According to experiments, when figs are soaked in oxygen-deficient stagnant water for 2 days, their branches and leaves wither. Therefore, drainage in fig orchards is very important.

Alright, the above is the soil, fertilizer and water management techniques for figs brought to you by the editor of Tuliu.com. I hope it can be helpful to everyone after reading. Friends who like it can forward and follow.