How many times a year should apple trees be fertilized? What fertilizer is good for 2-year-old apple trees, and in which month is it best to apply urea to apple trees

All management measures in an apple orchard serve yield and quality. Fertilizing apple trees also has its own particularities. Do you know how to fertilize apple trees so they grow delicious apples? Let's take a look below.

How many times a year should apple trees be fertilized? Four fertilizer applications: mainly fertilize before the fruit trees bud, applying nitrogen fertilizer; before flowering, apply flowering-stage fertilizer for nutritional needs, spraying the leaves with fertilizer containing medium and trace elements; apply fruit-swelling fertilizer to promote the rapid growth of young fruit, supplementing nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium; for fruit trees, base fertilizer is the main type, and the base fertilizer can be mainly farmyard manure.

What fertilizer is good for 2-year-old apple trees? You can mainly use organic fertilizer, biological fertilizer, biological organic-inorganic compound fertilizer, or organic-inorganic compound fertilizer, and pair it with an appropriate amount of potassium sulfate type compound fertilizer as base fertilizer and foundation fertilizer.

In which month is it best to apply urea to apple trees? Urea can be applied to apple trees from May to October. However, it is best to apply it together with phosphorus and potassium fertilizers, otherwise it easily causes excessive growth of new shoots, delays the fruit ripening period, and worsens the taste.