How to Increase Lychee Yield? The Latest Practical Growing Tips

Lychee tastes really good. I remember that when I was in elementary school, there was a lesson in the Chinese textbook that described lychee, and that was when I fell in love with eating lychees. Thinking of how delicate and translucent it is, like a beauty just out of the bath. At the same time, there is also a well-known allusion: a rider raises dust as the imperial concubine smiles, no one knows it is the lychees that arrive. This also shows that lychees are very popular; even the emperor's concubine liked to eat them. But do not be greedy, because eating too many can still cause internal heat. So today let us learn how to increase lychee yield.

1. Pollination Methods

There are two ways to pollinate lychee: one is flower-to-flower pollination by insects, and the other is artificial pollination. Pollination by natural insects sometimes also has errors and causes reduced yield, so we sometimes also place enough pollinating bees in the lychee orchard to pollinate, so that at least most of the flowers can be pollinated. Artificial pollination can be further divided into the pollen-removal method, the dipping method, and the manual picking method. Here we mainly talk about the dipping method. It mainly involves dragging a wet towel or cloth, etc., over the divided male flowers, then rinsing the dipped divided flowers with water, and finally spraying them onto the female flowers.

2. Fruit Retention Techniques

We generally carry out fruit retention through chemicals. Generally, fruit retention is divided into the flowering period and the post-flowering period. During the flowering period, about ten to fifteen days, we need to spray the female flowers with a fruit-retention agent (for specific agents, please consult). This is beneficial for increasing the chance of fruit set. After the flowers fade, it needs to be sprayed once in Jingxing. If it is not sprayed, then many of the fruits that have already set will also drop, so this is mainly to ensure the fruiting rate.

3. Shaping and Pruning

Our shaping and pruning of lychee trees is generally divided into three stages. The first stage is when they are still seedlings. At this time, the main purpose is to let the lychee tree grow to a certain extent, so it only needs to spread out. Therefore, the more messy lower branches are usually cut off, and at the same time the branches and leaves that are not growing well are cut off. Finally, places that are growing too luxuriantly need thinning. The second stage is the fruiting lychee tree. We mainly do this to prevent the branches and leaves from growing too long, blocking sunlight and causing insufficient light, so we try as much as possible to ensure there are certain gaps. The third stage is after fruit harvest. Sometimes during harvesting some branches and leaves are damaged, so we need to remove the already damaged branches and leaves. Next, branches with a poor fruiting rate are cut off, and the best branches are retained, so that they will grow new and possibly better branches.

4. Planting Density

Generally, we do not let lychee trees grow very tall, so they develop horizontally. That means the spacing of each plant must be scientific, otherwise it will cause problems such as insufficient light and insufficient nutrients. Therefore, the best density for lychee planting is at least four meters or five meters between each plant. Only by planting at such a density can high yield be achieved, and the quality of the lychees will also improve somewhat.

5. Disease and Pest Control

The main diseases of lychee include downy blight and anthracnose; pests include stink bugs, fruit borers, inchworms, caterpillars, etc. The most basic control method is to clean the orchard once every year after harvesting lychees, cut off diseased or withered branches and leaves, remove all weeds in the orchard, and finally spray a layer of chemicals for protection. This can prevent diseases in the coming year. If these diseases and pests appear during the fruiting period, then treat them with chemicals according to the different symptoms.

The growing environment for lychee is generally in relatively warm areas. In China's Guangzhou region, there is large-scale lychee cultivation, so the lychee growing environment is also a crucial factor. The above are the methods taught by Qinnongwang to everyone for increasing lychee yield. Of course, there are more methods for increasing yield than these, so if you want to learn more information, please continue to follow us.