What are the key points for growing and managing canistel?
Canistel is a new type of fruit, also known as "immortal peach", and belongs to the Sapotaceae family as a perennial plant. The tree is relatively tall with a large canopy, and the fruit is round or oval, usually ripening at the end of each year. Few people grow it now, there is no mature cultivation technique, and everyone is not quite clear on how to manage canistel when growing it. Below, the editor brings you the key management points for canistel. Let's take a look!
1. Fertilizer and water management
Canistel has relatively high fertilizer and water requirements, and has different needs at different growth stages. For example, during the young tree stage, canistel needs more nutrients, but it must not be excessive each time; the main approach should be frequent light applications. It should be fertilized at least once every month, and then the fertilizer nutrients should be adjusted appropriately according to the growth age and the number of flowers and fruits. During the young tree stage, attention should be paid to watering to keep the soil moist so the fruit tree can grow and develop normally. The nutritional needs of mature trees are even greater, so not only should fertilizer application be strengthened, but foliar fertilizer should also be sprayed appropriately. However, watering should be controlled before flowering to promote flower bud differentiation.
2. Soil management
Canistel has relatively strict soil requirements. When planting, we should strengthen soil moisture, but note that waterlogging must not occur, to prevent root rot from soaking. Then, according to the growth condition of the canistel tree, appropriately expand the planting hole, improve the soil, and enhance the growing environment of the canistel tree. It should be noted that weed growth in the orchard should be controlled; a layer of ground cover can be laid on the soil to suppress weed growth. If weeds appear in the tree disk, manual weeding should be used, but care should be taken to avoid damaging the roots.
3. Training and pruning
Training and pruning should also use different methods according to the growth age of the canistel tree. For example, the purpose of training and pruning young trees is to advance the time of fruiting. During the growth of young trees, the main focus is cultivating the tree structure, and during the high-yield period of young trees, the principle of less thinning and more retention should be followed. When young trees begin flower bud differentiation, the flower buds should be removed in time to avoid reproductive growth competing with vegetative growth for nutrients. Pruning of mature trees should be carried out once after harvest as an intermediate pruning, replacing the fruiting mother branches, improving the fruit-setting rate, and cutting off dead branches, old branches, diseased branches, vigorous branches, and other branches to ensure the orchard's ventilation and light penetration.
4. Flower and fruit preservation
Around Qingming Festival each year is the flowering period of the canistel tree. During the flowering period, the number of flowers should be reasonably controlled according to the growth of new shoots, the number of flower buds, and the growth vigor. For example, for trees with strong growth vigor, flower control should be the main focus, cutting off excess, overly dense, and weak-growing flower branches in the inner canopy to ensure concentrated nutrients. Then, after young fruits are set, fruit-preserving agents should be sprayed in time to promote the growth of young fruits, improve disease resistance, and prevent pests and diseases or physiological fruit drop. Too many fruits should not be retained, and they must not exceed the tree's bearing capacity. Small fruits such as diseased fruits and weak fruits should be removed in time to ensure yield and high quality.
The above is a brief introduction to the key management points for canistel. Although canistel is not very common on the market now, its market demand is still quite good. So those who want to grow it can consider it! That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. If you want to learn more related information, please continue to follow us!