Detailed Explanation of Key Management Techniques for Plum Trees During the Flowering and Fruiting Period
Management of plums during the flowering and fruiting period: Plum trees flower easily and have a high fruit-setting rate, but the fruit is small. To improve fruit quality, in addition to strengthening soil and fertilizer management and adopting summer pruning to control vegetative growth, flower and fruit thinning management should be carried out. Thin flowers during the flower bud swelling stage (late March), leaving one flower cluster branch and removing the next; at 20 to 30 days after flowering...
Management of plums during the flowering and fruiting period: Plum trees flower easily and have a high fruit-setting rate, but the fruit is small. To improve fruit quality, in addition to strengthening soil and fertilizer management and adopting summer pruning to control vegetative growth, flower and fruit thinning management should be carried out. Thin flowers during the flower bud swelling stage (late March), leaving one flower cluster branch and removing the next; at 20 to 30 days after flowering (early to mid-May), thin fruits so that each flower cluster branch retains 1 to 2 fruits, with a fruit spacing of 4 to 8 cm for small and medium-sized fruits and 8 to 12 cm for large fruits. When thinning fruits, remove diseased, insect-damaged, injured, and deformed fruits.