Why do mulberry trees need pruning? An analysis of the latest reasons
Mulberries are still very common in our daily lives. Mulberries not only have high edible value, but also have certain functional effects. When we grow mulberries, management work is very important. Especially the pruning of mulberry trees, rational pruning is very beneficial to the yield of mulberry trees and fruit quality. However, many people still do not know why pruning is needed when growing mulberries, so let us take a look together below!
1. Balancing tree vigor
When the mulberry tree is young, we can begin shaping and pruning work. Through annual pruning, the mulberry tree is allowed to gradually grow sturdy branches, ensuring that the branches are evenly distributed and have little difference in thickness, thereby improving the quality of the backbone framework. Within one or two years after planting, pruning techniques such as pinching and heading back are adopted to accelerate branch growth and promote the early formation of the tree canopy. Then methods such as renewal pruning and branch thinning are used to cultivate fruiting mother branches with suitable density. This ensures balanced tree growth and lays the foundation for high yields in the later stages of the fruit tree.
2. Enhancing air and light penetration
A pruned mulberry tree can create a good canopy, ensuring reasonable distribution of branches inside the canopy and even distribution of leaves. The main targets for pruning are various branches that are too dense, too long, weak and drooping, and so on. This ensures that branches inside the canopy can also receive light evenly, which can not only improve the quality of mulberry fruit, but also expand the light-receiving area of leaves, improve photosynthesis, and reduce useless leaves on the mulberry tree. It also provides sufficient nutrients for mulberry tree growth, flower bud differentiation, and so on, improving planting benefits.
3. Reducing nutrient consumption
Reasonable pruning work can prevent branches from excessively consuming nutrients, which would lead to increased planting costs. When pruning, the main task is to thin out some dense branches, as well as excessive flower clusters on the branches, and so on. It is also necessary to cut off some branches that have grown too long to prevent overly long branches from consuming too many nutrients. Concentrate nutrients on branches with strong fruiting ability, provide sufficient nutrients for branch flowering and fruiting, and improve the utilization rate of fertilizer nutrients.
4. Coordinating growth conflicts
Pruning work can also effectively coordinate the growth conflicts of mulberry trees. When pruning, we should fully understand the growth characteristics of mulberry trees and the tree age and growth vigor, and so on. If it is intensive close planting, then appropriate summer pruning must be carried out every year, and after summer pruning, branches must be set in time, and winter pruning naturally cannot be omitted either. Ensure that every year the mulberry tree can be provided with a suitable number of fruiting mother branches and a suitable leaf-to-fruit ratio, and so on. Avoid the alternate bearing phenomenon in mulberry trees, stabilize production, and thereby achieve the purpose of extending the full fruiting period of mulberry trees.
The above is a brief introduction to why mulberry trees need pruning. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only, and we hope it can help everyone!