Summer pruning of fruit trees can improve fruit quality without using pruning shears

The quality of management during the fruit swelling stage of fruit trees is crucial to the fruit quality in the later stage. So what work should we fruit tree growers focus on to improve fruit quality? Let's take a look at what the senior agronomist suggests.

(1) Timely control of vegetative growth means pinching the tips of the newly growing shoots so that all the remaining nutrients are used for fruit growth. We call this "cutting off the flow."

(2) Increasing the source. Increasing the source means that at the current stage of rapid fruit swelling, timely topdressing with potassium-based fertilizer should be carried out. In this way, a higher potassium content in the leaves can improve photosynthetic efficiency and accumulate more nutrients, making the fruit larger and better colored, because pigments are also formed from sugar.

(3) Fruit tree management

The first thing is to be timely.

Summer pruning must be timely. Because summer pruning is meant to reduce nutrient consumption and promote reproductive growth, we must keep enough of the shoots that need to be kept. Any that do not need to be kept should be pruned away promptly once discovered, and this can be done in multiple rounds. Do not just finish summer pruning in one go; that is also not appropriate.

In addition, when we do summer pruning, the moment summer pruning is mentioned, everyone thinks of using pruning shears and hands-on work. We can adopt some chemical control methods. This means using some growth retardants or growth promoters/inhibitors, and the concentration used also differs depending on the crop. This can be flexibly adjusted according to the different crops.

The use of chemical control is also a new direction for summer pruning now. It not only saves labor and time but also has good results. Also, when we use pruning shears, we should not make heading cuts or cut back. Whether it is apples, pears, or these other main crops, directly thin them out. For unsuitable ones, thin them directly from the base without heading cuts or cutting back; otherwise, the stimulation will cause them to grow again, which instead increases nutrient consumption and also increases our workload.

The above is all the content on summer fruit tree management. If you have any questions about today's sharing, or if you have other questions when growing fruit trees, you can ask in the comment section below.