How to grow grapefruit seeds?

Grapefruit generally refers to grapefruit, also known as Zhu Yu, flesh yellowish white or pink, juicy, slightly fragrant, after eating the seeds can also grow potted plants. So let's introduce how grapefruit seeds are planted.

How to plant grapefruit seeds?

First rinse the grapefruit seeds with clean water, and then soak them with clean water. After the skin is soft, remove the case with tweezers and be careful not to damage the meat in the seeds. Finally, find a suitable container to hold the wet soil, and then plant the treated seeds. After 2-3 days, spray water once, a week or so can germinate and survive.

Second, how to grow grapefruit?

1. Planting conditions

Loose, deep, fertile, neutral to slightly acidic soil is the most suitable; annual rainfall of more than 1000mm, no matter the weather is wet or dry can be planted; strong light and overcast weather can better grow and bear fruit.

two。 Planting time

The planting period of grapefruit is the low temperature period in winter. It is planted from November to December. The buds of grapefruit grow faster in the second year.

3. Planting method

The planting distance of grapefruit is usually 7m × 7m or 7m × 8m. When digging seedlings, it is best to bring soil balls or keep the roots moist. Planting holes should be pre-mixed with 10-20 kg of lime-polyphosphate mature organic fertilizer, fully mixed evenly and firmly, slightly higher than the original ground after planting. The area close to the plant should be covered, pay attention to irrigation and cover the plant with a little straw to avoid falling leaves and affect future growth.

4. Water and fertilizer management

In the young tree stage, it should be mainly to promote its growth and development, so nitrogen fertilizer should be slightly more than phosphorus and potassium fertilizer; in the adult tree stage, fertilization is mainly to protect the fruit of strong trees, not only the amount of fertilizer should be increased, but also the proportion of fertilization structure should be adjusted accordingly.

Grapefruit from seedling planting to survival generally takes about a month, in this period should pay special attention to watering, in order to keep the seedling roots moist, but can not cause stagnant water, prevent bad roots.

5. Reasonable pruning

In order to facilitate the management and control of the tree potential tree shape, grapefruit should be pruned with a natural round head, with a trunk height of 40-60 cm, with 2-3 main branches and 2-3 sub-main branches per main branch. When leaving the main branch or sub-main branch, pay attention to the relativity of branch growth angle and direction.

6. Pest control

The main diseases of grapefruit are Huanglong disease, canker disease, anthrax and so on. The main insect pests are red spider, aphid, red wax scale, grapefruit main diseases are Huanglong disease, canker, anthrax and so on. Precautions should be taken in advance and corresponding agents should be sprayed.