A Detailed Guide to the Latest Methods for Flower and Fruit Retention in Mango

Mango is very popular in our daily lives. It is a representative tropical fruit, rich in protein, vitamins, as well as trace elements and minerals. For fruit growers, what they care about most is the yield and quality of the fruit. High yield and high quality also means higher economic returns. And high yield and high quality are inseparable from flower and fruit retention in mango. So when growing mango, how do you carry out flower and fruit retention? Let's take a look together below.

1. Flower and fruit thinning

Flower and fruit thinning is one of the most common and most practical ways to retain flowers and fruit. Generally, during the full bloom period of the mango tree, to avoid physiological flower drop causing a large number of mango flowers to fall off, we need to manually remove the weak-growing and overly dense flowers. Next, after the mango has set fruit, remove deformed mangoes, insect-damaged mangoes, diseased mangoes, and poorly growing mangoes, and keep the strong and robust fruit, so as to prevent the strong mangoes from dropping during physiological fruit drop and causing huge losses.

2. Scientific fertilization

To retain flowers and fruit for the mango tree, we can also achieve the desired effect by enhancing the resistance of the mango tree. Generally, during the period from mango flowering to fruit set, we can appropriately spread some lime in the orchard, which can improve the soil. Next, spray an appropriate amount of calcium chloride solution at flowering and at fruit set. And after the flowers fade, reasonably apply supplementary micro-fertilizers, usually zinc fertilizer and boron fertilizer, by foliar spraying. Finally, we should note that we should also reasonably apply quick-acting fertilizer, which can also reduce fruit drop.

3. Enhancing pollination

Why does flower and fruit retention in mango need to make use of enhanced pollination? In fact, when the pollination rate increases, the phenomenon of flower and fruit drop will also be reduced to a certain extent. So how do we enhance pollination? First, we can increase the pollination probability by reasonably matching mango pollinizer trees. Next, we can increase the pollination rate through artificial supplementary pollination, generally using methods such as artificial bee release and pollen collection.

4. Spraying chemicals

For flower and fruit retention in mango, in fact the most direct method is to use chemical agents to achieve the final goal. In fact, there are now many non-toxic chemical agents on the market that can be used to promote flowering and retain fruit. At present, the ones we most commonly use are gibberellin, fruit-retention hormone, borax, atonik, and other agents, and their flower and fruit retention effects are all very good.

The above is the editor's summary of methods for flower and fruit retention in mango cultivation. In fact, we can also carry out flower and fruit retention by selecting excellent varieties, covering with plastic film, bagging, spraying hormones, and other methods. If you are interested, you can also follow us and contact the editor to discuss together.