How to Promote Flowering and Fruiting in Pomelo? Latest Methods Shared

Promoting Flowering

If you want fruit trees to bloom early, you must, in the year before fruiting, control the vegetative growth of the tree's vigor and shift its growth center toward reproductive growth, thereby promoting flower bud differentiation, so as to achieve the goal of early blooming in fruit trees:

1. Control the vigorous vertical root growth of the fruit tree and cultivate more lateral roots and parallel roots; the massive growth of lateral roots and parallel roots will promote flower bud differentiation;

2. Use the methods of propping, pulling and weighting down on branches to increase the angle between branches and trunk, thereby weakening vegetative growth and promoting flower bud differentiation;

3. For vigorously growing young trees, carry out 1-2 rings of girdling on the lateral branches in September-October;

4. In autumn, pay attention to drainage and water control, and cut off part of the root system to create a condition of physiological drought in the plant, thereby promoting flower bud differentiation.

Preserving Fruit

1. After flowering, increase the tree's nutrition, strengthen fertilizer and water management, retain leaves as much as possible, and prevent abnormal leaf drop;

2. Pay attention to controlling the amount of flowers; do not assume that the more flowers bloom the better. Thin out deformed flowers and overly dense, excessive flowers;

3. Regulate spring shoots and remove summer shoots. Excessive spring shoot growth consumes too many nutrients and will worsen fruit drop, so spring shoots should be regulated after buds become visible. Mainly remove the vigorous spring shoots (vegetative branches) on the upper part of the canopy, flower branches with more than 5 leaves, and late spring shoots; when summer shoots sprout new buds, remove the tender shoots multiple times until after fruit set in mid-July, then begin to let shoots grow;

4. Prevent and control pests and diseases: common pests and diseases of pomelo trees include red and yellow spiders, leaf roller moths and gummosis, etc. In summer, special attention should be paid to controlling these diseases and pests to prevent them from affecting fruit quality;

5. Spray plant hormones on fruit trees at the appropriate time: such as kinetin, Zhibaosu, Jinyunda-120, etc.