Planting and Management of Apricot trees

Planting apricot trees on the upper slope or hilltop of sunny or semi-sunny slope can effectively prevent apricot trees from frost injury, covering plastic film on the tree plate, and promoting the growth and development of young trees. Orchard planting density should be controlled at 3 × 4m or 4 × 4m, timely pruning fruit trees to promote growth and development, rational fertilization and irrigation in the planting process to improve fruit quality and yield.

Apricot fruit has the effect of anti-cancer, rich in all kinds of vitamins and inorganic salts needed by human body, has extremely high nutritional value, apricot trees have strong adaptability to the growth environment, and they have strong drought resistance and cold tolerance, even if they are planted on barren land. it can also grow normally, and the market prospect and economic benefits of planting apricot trees are very good.

Technology of planting apricot trees

1. Covering plastic film

Mulching plastic film on the tree plate can not only promote the growth and development of young trees, but also increase the temperature and moisture of the soil, speed up the fruit of apricot trees, put them on the market earlier, and reduce the work of weeding, loosening soil and drainage.

2. Prevent frost

Apricot orchards are best planted on the upper or hilltop slopes of sunny or semi-sunny slopes, and it is best not to choose the trough ridges with closed basins or the middle and lower slopes of the ridges with smaller slopes, so as to avoid damage to apricot trees by frost sooner or later.

The selection of apricot varieties with strong frost resistance and late flowering can also reduce the exposure to frost. Suitable pollination varieties should be selected and multiple varieties with different flowering periods can be planted in the orchard.

3. Reasonable close planting

The tree shape of apricot is higher, and the planting density is best controlled at 3 × 4m or 4 × 4m. Strong seedlings with excellent varieties should be selected during planting, and during the growing period of seedlings, fruit trees should be pruned properly in summer and winter, artificial pollination should be carried out during flowering in spring, fruit trees should be thinned and diseases and insect pests should be prevented, and reasonable close planting and scientific planting should be promoted.

4. Pruning measures

In the first year of planting apricot trees, the main branches with 3-4 base angles of 60 degrees should be selected, cut at 45-50cm, cut at the 40cm of the backbone branches, and the rest of the branches should be laid slowly. When the growth of young trees stops slightly in spring, spraying 2000ppm β 9 can control the vigorous growth and facilitate flower bud differentiation to bear fruit earlier.

In the second year of planting, the branch was pulled twice and picked many times, and the first branch was pulled before development, and the second branch was pulled in the middle and late June, the lateral branches of each main branch were flattened, and all the overgrowing backbone branches and upbringing branches on the fruit trees were bent. Fruit trees should carry out coring many times in the growing season, and coring the primary and secondary branches of the main branch, the primary branch and the secondary branch of the dorsal branch, in order to control the germination of the dorsal branch of the third branch, the main branch of 20-40cm, and choose 40cm for coring.

In the third year of planting, the height of the fruit tree should be controlled during winter pruning, and the extension branch of the main branch should be cut short about 30-40cm. With the increase of the number of fruit on the fruit tree, the fruit branch should be pruned properly to achieve the combination of thinning and pruning to promote fruit growth and development.

5. Fertilizer and water management

Using fertilizer and water to promote flower bud differentiation, fruit setting, and improve fruit quality and yield. Scientific fertilization should be adhered to in the process of planting, 0.1% or 0.5% urea should be sprayed at flowering stage, water should be irrigated once before and after flowering, and irrigation and fertilization should be carried out in the orchard in mid-late May to promote fruit expansion and improve fruit quality.