Detailed Explanation of Key Technical Points for Wax Apple Planting and Management
Orchard management after planting wax apple is quite important, as this stage directly affects subsequent returns. Wax apple orchard management is mainly carried out according to its growth stages. Let's learn below how to carry out planting management!
1. Flower and Fruit Thinning
The fruit that wax apple produces each year often exceeds what the tree can support, which easily leads to insufficient nutrients for the fruit on the whole tree, so flower and fruit thinning becomes a necessary measure. These mainly target relatively dense branches, while sparser ones on the contrary need little intervention, and this measure is generally also aimed at wax apple trees in full fruit period. Generally starting from the third year, it increases year by year, and from around the seventh year it begins to maintain balance. The specific data need to be tested according to everyone's own actual situation, maintaining a different quantity for each tree, and it is best to see which fruit tree gives the most ideal returns.
2. Production Period Regulation
Production period regulation of wax apple is something growers must gradually master. This is to reduce competition with others and further increase one's own returns, but this technique is quite demanding, so everyone should act according to their ability. Growers can basically determine the approximate time from flower to fruit. What needs to be done is to control flower bud differentiation well, and after calculating the time, regulate it, so that finally the fruit will mature at the market time one wants.
3. Pruning
Pruning of fruit trees is indispensable, and for wax apple trees, this is also the most commonly done management task. The growth vigor of wax apple trees is generally very active, and branches grow and differentiate quickly, which leads to many branches growing excessively, and many vigorously growing branches may even snatch resources from the main trunk, which seriously affects their normal growth. When pruning, one must be willing to be a bit ruthless, especially when facing these useless vigorously growing branches. Many people always cannot bring themselves to cut them, which makes their own returns less than ideal.
4. Bagging in Time
Wax apple during its growth process is very attractive to insects, and it is also very good for insects to hide in, so quite a few growers have suffered losses from insect pests. Nowadays wax apple bagging technology has spread widely, so even though bagging wax apple is very challenging, after all, a single wax apple tree has quite a lot of fruit. When bagging, be careful not to damage the branches, and also do not knock the fruit off directly while bagging. After bagging, the fruit has a good ability to resist external harm, which can greatly reduce planting risks.
The above are the wax apple planting and management techniques. Planting wax apple is quite troublesome, but the returns are still good, and the fruit yield of wax apple in full fruit period is truly abundant. Only by giving up can one gain; when thinning flowers and fruit, one must be able to harden their heart!