Wax Apple Benefits, Effects and Cultivation Techniques Explained

Wax apple, also known as water pomegranate, nianwu, lianwu, and Java rose apple, looks like a pomegranate flower bud from the outside, and is a fruit with very rich nutrition. Wax apple is native to the Malay Archipelago and is commonly cultivated in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan, China. It is a fruit that mainly grows in the tropics. So what are the benefits and effects of wax apple? Cultivation techniques attached.

I. What are the benefits and effects of wax apple?

Wax apple, praised as a “natural dust collector”, is a tropical fruit. Many people in daily life may not know much about this fruit, but in fact eating wax apple regularly is very beneficial. Wax apple contains a lot of water, so it has the effects of calming the mind and soothing the nerves, clearing heat, and promoting urination. It can treat many diseases and is a rare nutritious fruit; it can moisten the lungs and cool the blood, reduce phlegm and relieve cough, and is a good fruit for reducing fever.

Wax apple has a beauty and skin-care effect and is very suitable for women to eat, because wax apple is rich in vitamin C, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, calcium, magnesium, boron, manganese, iron, copper, zinc, molybdenum and other trace elements. Wax apple has a high water content, which is good for the skin.

Wax apple has the dual effects of being delicious and helping to sober one up, and is a frequent guest at banquets.

The carbohydrates in wax apple can supplement glucose to the brain, relieve brain fatigue, dizziness, difficulty sleeping, forgetfulness, dry mouth and tongue and other symptoms, and play a role in calming the mind and soothing the nerves and helping sleep.

Wax apple helps digestion. It has a relatively high water content, so it can also quench thirst and has the effect of promoting body fluid production and quenching thirst.

II. Wax apple cultivation techniques

1. Pruning

Properly pruning wax apple trees can help them maintain a better tree shape. The best tree shape for wax apple is round-headed, and the trunk height is about 60 cm. On the upper part of the trunk, 3 to 4 branches need to be left as main branches, and then side branches should be selected and kept at appropriate positions on each main branch to form fruit-bearing branches.

After the wax apple tree begins producing, the fruit-bearing branches should also be pruned, mainly by thinning out diseased branches, dead branches and excessively vigorous branches. This allows ventilation and light penetration in the lower part of the tree, thereby reducing the occurrence of diseases and promoting fruit bearing.

2. Thinning flowers and fruits

Wax apple flowers especially abundantly, and the pollination rate is also very high, so after each flowering period, a large number of young fruits remain. However, if there are too many young fruits, it is easy for the wax apples produced to be too small and not good enough in taste. Therefore, fruit growers must do a good job of thinning flowers and fruits during the flowering period and the early fruit-setting stage. Usually, keeping 1 to 2 pairs of flower spikes on each fruit-bearing branch is sufficient.

3. Fertilizer management

During wax apple cultivation, in addition to sufficient necessary base fertilizer, fertilizer should also be supplemented reasonably according to the growth of the wax apple trees. Usually, during the flowering and fruiting period, flowering and the growth of young fruits both require large amounts of phosphorus and potassium as well as some trace nutrients, so related fertilizers should also be applied as supplements during this period.

4. Disease control

Friends who have grown wax apple should know that wax apple is not very tolerant of pesticides, so for disease control, the use of pesticides should be avoided as much as possible. It is recommended that fruit growers frequently spray the tree body with high-lipid film, which can provide a certain protective effect.