Orange trees usually bear fruit in a few years.

Orange tree, that is, orange tree, evergreen shrub, about 3 meters high. Branchlets slender, glabrous, usually spiny. It blossoms in spring and the fruit is ripe from October to December. So how many years can an orange tree live? How many years of planting can it blossom and bear fruit?

Generally, grafted seedlings begin to bear fruit 3-4 years after planting, reach full fruiting period after 5 years, and have a long economic life of 40-50 years. The growth process of orange tree goes through six stages: seedling stage, growth stage, flowering stage, fruit drop stage, fruit expansion stage and ripening stage. However, in recent years, dwarfing and dense planting techniques have been used in various places, which can bear fruit earlier and enter the full fruit period ahead of time, but its economic life is also shortened accordingly.

Cultivation techniques of orange trees

1. Orchard planning

It is required that the soil layer is deep (60 degrees) and fertile, the soil ph value is 5.5-7.0, and the slope of the orchard is less than 25 degrees. When planning the garden, there shall be necessary roads, drainage and irrigation, water storage and ancillary construction facilities. In specific planning, we should concentrate as much as possible and build gardens in places with good transportation and water sources.

2. Time

It is generally planted after autumn shoots mature from September to November or before spring shoots sprout from February to March.

3. Density

The density of plant spacing 3m × row spacing 4m was used to plant 55-60 plants per mu.

4. Planting technology

Soil digging planting holes: drawing wire and fixed distance, digging planting holes, each 80cm of depth and width, then pressing green manure 50cm deep, backfill soil 40cm high planting; field ridge planting: 8 meters with trench (groove width 60-80 60cm, depth 40-30cm), 2 ridges per box (ridge width 1.5 m, ridge center distance 4 m, ridge height 20-30cm). When planting, the root system of the seedling is appropriately trimmed and placed in the center of the planting hole to stretch the root system and straighten it. While filling the soil, the seedling is raised gently and firmly, so that the root system is closely connected with the soil. Pour enough water on the roots, make a 1m plate around the seedlings and cover it with bran shells.