How to plant coconut trees

Coconut tree is a common tree in Hainan, Yunnan and other places, which integrates ornamental and edible. In particular, the fruit juice can be processed into a variety of food, which is very popular. How to grow coconut trees?

1. Digging holes

Coconut trees are generally planted in the rainy season, with a row spacing of 6 meters × 9 meters or 7 meters × 8 meters, planting 180 plants per hectare, planting holes of 60 cm × 70 cm × 80 cm, and applying 20-40 kg of organic fertilizer in the hole. It can also burn leaves in the hole, scorch the edge of the hole, and fill sand to prevent ants.

2. Transplanting

The seedlings should be planted with fruit seeds, more soil, less root damage, and planting with digging. The planting depth of coconut seedlings is that the rooting part of the base of the coconut seedlings can all be buried in the soil, so that the "deep planting and shallow cultivation of soil" should be achieved, and the soil should not be scattered into the leaf viscera. The growth of coconut trees planted properly is better than that of shallow planting, and the yield is higher than that of shallow planting. Wind resistance is also stronger than shallow planting.

3. Post-planting management technology

(1) shading: the management of coconut trees should be strengthened after planting, the initial stage of coconut trees should be properly shaded, water should be irrigated and moisturized, and the missing plants should be replanted in time.

(2) Intermediate ploughing and soil cultivation: coconut trees are cultivated twice a year, that is, coconut trees are cultivated once with fertilization from November to December, and once again from August to September. With the growth of the plant, the stem grows a large number of aerial roots to cultivate the soil and strengthen the tree. The coconut garden can be intercropped with short-term crops, such as peanuts and beans, which can cover the garden and improve the humidity in the garden, which is beneficial to the growth of young trees.

(3) rational fertilization: coconut trees need to apply total fertilizer, potassium fertilizer is the most, followed by nitrogen, phosphorus and chlorine fertilizer, but attention must be paid to balanced fertilization. Fertilization can be applied from April to May and November to December every year, and a fertilization ditch can be opened 1.5-2 meters away from the base of the tree, and the effect is better. If the sprinkling method is used, the weeds should be removed completely and the soil should be loosened before fertilization.

(4) pest control: during the growth of coconut trees, there will be diarrhea, red brown elephant, coconut garden scale, coconut rhinoceros and other diseases and insect pests, so prevention and control measures should be taken in advance. For diarrhea, 10% Bordeaux solution or coal tar can be applied. The red-brown elephant can be covered with tar or mud on the wound, and in severe cases it can be cut down and burned so as not to spread. Coconut garden scale can spray ammonium parathion, marathon, dibromophos and other pesticides, in addition, it can protect natural enemies for control. Coconut rhinoceros can use cow dung or rotten coconut stem to induce adults to lay eggs and kill them, and they can also use natural enemies such as soil bees and Beauveria bassiana to control rhinoceros larvae.