How to Grow Papaya? Latest Planting Methods and Management Key Points
Papaya counts as a kind of fruit, distributed throughout various parts of our country, and is also a popular fruit. The nutritional value of papaya is relatively high, with effects such as clearing heat and enhancing breast development, and now the market is also continuously expanding every year. More and more people are growing it, so how should papaya be grown? How should papaya be managed during cultivation? Below, the editor brings you the planting methods and management of papaya, let's take a look!
1. Seed Selection and Planting
First, we need to choose a superior variety, selecting one suitable for growth according to the local environment, and ensuring it has the ability to cross-pollinate. After selecting the seeds, choose sandy soil with a thick, loose soil layer and normal drainage and irrigation for planting. Control the plant and row spacing well, and dig the planting holes properly. Then apply about 10kg of farmyard manure into each planting hole. Seedlings should mainly be about two years old, and the cultivation time should preferably be chosen in spring and autumn. Usually autumn is preferred, because with autumn cultivation, the healing speed is fast and there is a higher survival rate. Keep the seedling height at about 120 cm, with intact roots, do the watering work well after planting, and then cover with plastic film.
2. Fertilizer and Water Management
Every year in September, when deep plowing the soil, apply sufficient base fertilizer at the same time, mainly farmyard manure, mixed with an appropriate amount of chemical fertilizer. Apply about 20kg for young trees and about 40kg for large trees. Before the trees sprout, apply about 130g of urea and an appropriate amount of compound fertilizer in holes for each tree. Then during the flowering period, pay attention to spraying an appropriate amount of foliar fertilizer to promote fruit growth and increase the fruit-setting rate. After each harvest, pay attention to applying an appropriate amount of nitrogen fertilizer to help the tree body recover its growth. Then before the flower buds sprout, water once heavily; after entering the fruit expansion period and new shoot growth period, water appropriately as well, and water thoroughly for winter protection to help the papaya trees overwinter. When there is too much water, drain it promptly.
3. Shaping and Pruning
The shaping method for papaya trees is mainly the natural round-headed type, with the trunk set at about 75 cm, selecting about 3 new shoots to reserve as main branches, and the growth directions of the main branches must not be the same. Keep the distance between each main branch at about 15 cm. Then do the summer pruning work well; summer pruning mainly consists of bud removal, branch pulling and pinching, to improve canopy ventilation and promote the growth of summer shoots. Winter pruning should also be carried out, mainly to expand the tree canopy. Shorten the main branches reserved in the first year, retaining about 35 cm. Young trees must not be heavily pruned; mainly remove overly dense, overly long, crossing and overlapping branches.
4. Flower and Fruit Management
When planting papaya trees, in order to increase papaya yield and ensure stable production, when establishing a papaya orchard, pay attention to planting an appropriate amount of pollinator trees. Control the ratio of planting varieties to pollinator varieties at about 4:1. So after this, we must do the flower and fruit management work well, and during the flowering period, thin flowers and fruits appropriately, especially in an on-year. The targets for fruit thinning are mainly poor fruits such as branch-tip fruits and deformed fruits. Keep the fruits at the base and middle part of the branches. Keep the distance between fruits at 20cm to improve fruit yield and quality.
The above is a brief introduction to papaya planting methods and management. Growing papaya is actually not difficult; as long as the usual basic management work is done well, a certain yield can be maintained. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only, and I hope it can help everyone!