How to Improve Peach Quality in Cultivation? A Detailed Guide to the Latest Techniques
Peaches come in many varieties, such as nectarines and yellow peaches, and peaches of all varieties are favored by many people. More and more people are growing peaches, so the market competition for growing peaches is also growing. Many friends want to promote early ripening when growing them so they can go to market as soon as possible. In fact, improving peach quality during cultivation is also one of the ways to strengthen your own competitiveness. So how should we improve peach quality? Let's take a look together below!
1. Reasonable fertilization
Fertilization is an essential task in peach cultivation, but fertilization also involves certain techniques, and you cannot apply fertilizer in a one-sided or excessive way. Many people, in order to increase peach yield and growth speed, apply excessive nitrogen fertilizer, which lowers the sugar content of the peaches and makes the proportion of nutrients in the peaches unbalanced. This seriously affects peach quality, for example causing the peaches to have no sweetness, failing to color, reducing storage time, and causing fruit rot. Therefore, the nutrient content in the fertilizer must be reasonably controlled to ensure fruit quality.
2. Provide light
Peach trees have a great demand for light, especially during the fruit coloring stage, when insufficient light leads to poor peach coloring. Therefore, the fruit trees should be pruned appropriately to improve the air and light penetration of the tree canopy in the orchard. Remove overly long, overly dense, aging and some thin, weak branches to prevent them from blocking sunlight. During the maturity stage, ensuring 16-17 hours of light time can effectively improve fruit coloring, taste and appearance.
3. Moderate watering
Peach trees cannot grow without water and have a very large demand for it. Once they lack water during the growth process, branch growth becomes extremely slow. Moreover, immediately watering at that point can also cause large-scale leaf drop, so we must manage water well. Especially in the later stage of peach tree growth, during flowering and fruiting, the peach trees must not be left in a drought state, and water must be replenished in time, but not excessively.
4. Ensure leaf area
Leaves are organs on the tree body and are also key to the tree's photosynthesis. Without enough leaf area, the tree's photosynthetic capacity declines, nutrient accumulation is insufficient, sugar content decreases, and the taste of the fruit is affected. The main cause of reduced leaf area is pests and diseases, so we must strengthen pest and disease control work, reduce leaf drop, and improve photosynthetic capacity, so as to effectively increase fruit sugar content and promote coloring.
5. Adjust the pH value
The final quality of the fruit is closely related to the pH value in the soil. Proper acidity and alkalinity directly determine the fruit's coloring, taste, sweetness and so on. However, many friends overlook this point in cultivation, resulting in very poor fruit quality. The most suitable growth pH value for peach trees is between 5.5-7.5, and being below or above this range will have a great impact on fruit coloring. Therefore, the pH value in the soil must be reasonably controlled
to further improve fruit quality.
The above are the main methods for improving peach fruit quality. You can also bag the fruit during the young fruit stage, as bagging can help the fruit color and improve its appearance. Also pay special attention to the pH value in the soil, because coloring is mainly based on anthocyanins, and anthocyanins change with changes in pH value. Changes in anthocyanins have a direct impact on the sugar content of the fruit. This article is for reference only, and we hope it is helpful to everyone.