Grow a hawthorn tree on your balcony, branches full of fruit, pick and eat whenever you like, red berries and green leaves, lively and festive
Grow a hawthorn tree on your balcony. The method is simple and easy to learn, the branches hang full of fruit, pick and eat whenever you like, red berries and green leaves are lively and festive, well worth having!
First, choose a variety. You can buy hawthorn saplings directly, priced at around ten to several tens of yuan, and the survival rate is very high. Growing them is easy, and they generally bear fruit in the same year! You can also directly dig up small-crowned, beautifully shaped stumps from the wild!
Once the hawthorn sapling is sorted out, prepare the pot and soil. For the pot, a purple clay pot is recommended, and the soil should have a certain fertility. You can use vegetable garden soil plus leaf mold plus decomposed chicken manure.
After potting, first place it in a shady spot to acclimatize. Once it has fully resumed growth, move it to a sunny place, so that it can keep setting fruit!
During the peak growing season, pay attention to pruning. The hawthorn has strong apical dominance and few side branches, so you need to suppress the growth of the terminal buds to make it grow more side branches, which will produce more flowers and fruit!
Also, July and August are the flower bud differentiation period, so fertilizer and water management should be strengthened. When it blooms, apply organic fertilizer 2 to 3 times to increase fruit set and make the fruit larger. Also keep the soil moist.
Because the hawthorn has low fertilizer requirements, after entering autumn and winter, stop fertilizing, and gradually reduce watering as well. Also, in winter it should be moved indoors for care.
The hawthorn tree is most prone to powdery mildew, red spider mites and aphids. So, especially in summer when the weather is hot and stuffy with poor air circulation, ventilation and air exchange must be strengthened to reduce the occurrence of pests.
A potted hawthorn tree is very beautiful, and for friends who like sour fruit, growing a hawthorn tree is a sure win.
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