How to grow snow pears to increase yield? Latest methods shared
The snow pear is both a fruit that everyone eats daily and an item with medicinal effects. Friends who have a dry constitution year-round experience even more obvious benefits after eating it. Of course, using it for cooking is also a good choice. Its uses can be said to be quite wide, so there are relatively many friends growing it. So how can its yield be increased?
1. Choose a sunny location
Sunlight is one of the elements the snow pear extremely needs during its growth process. Long-term light exposure is beneficial to improving the quality of snow pears and will also accelerate the increase in the number of its fruits. Therefore, when planting snow pears, an open area is the ideal choice. Of course, if the local area is mostly hillside terrain, then a sunny slope should be given priority. The planting density should be relatively loose, so that the snow pear trees can fully enjoy sunlight exposure.
2. Fertilizer and water management during the flowering period
The flowering period determines the number of fruits the snow pear tree sets later. If nutrients cannot keep up at this time, it will lead to fewer fruits. Natural fertility alone cannot fully meet the nutritional needs of snow pear trees, so the application of fertilizer and water at this time becomes a catalyst for high yield. Before flowering, fertilizer needs to be applied once, accompanied by watering. The fertilizer can be scattered and buried partly around its root system to ensure sufficient nutrients. In the later stage of the flowering period, when fruit is about to set, the snow pear tree will need much more energy. Depending on the situation, choose a second round of topdressing, during which watering should be controlled to once every 2 weeks.
3. Pest and disease prevention
Pests and diseases have always been the natural enemies of fruit trees, affecting their high yield over the long term, so doing a good job in pest and disease prevention is one key point for increasing their yield. Pear aphids and pear fruit borers, as several common pests that harm snow pears, are relatively serious. Before flowering, fenpropathrin can be used to clean the snow pear trees and eliminate their larvae, with the timing controlled to once a week for 2 consecutive weeks. For fungal diseases such as pear rust, a low-concentration solution of triadimefon can be sprayed after fruit set for prevention. Growers need to selectively spray pesticides according to the common local diseases in their area.
4. Fruit tree pruning
After the pear tree has set fruit, in order to ensure high yield, branches and leaves must be trimmed to ensure the nutrient supply for the snow pears, so that they do not drop fruit and a high yield is ensured. The branches and trunks pruned are mainly those that have not set fruit. After removal, nutrients will be concentrated on the branches and trunks that have set fruit. This can be regarded as a later compensatory measure to ensure high yield.
When ensuring high yield of snow pears, growers should not adopt some stimulating yield-increasing methods, as this will damage the later fruit-bearing capacity of the fruit trees, and the loss will outweigh the gain.