The latest notes on growing lemons

Lemon tastes sour and many people don't like it, but now lemon is mainly used for soaking water or squeezing juice as a drink and sometimes as a cooking seasoning for some chefs. And now the economic benefits of lemons are also gradually and steadily rising, and many friends are also attracted to develop lemon cultivation. But many novices don't know how to plant or what to pay attention to when planting lemons, so here's an editor to tell you what to pay attention to when growing lemons.

1. Fertilizer and water management

After the lemon tree is successfully planted, nitrogen fertilizer should be used as topdressing in the first two years, in order to promote the formation of lemon crown, but there is also an appropriate amount of nitrogen fertilizer control. Because excessive nitrogen fertilizer will cause the excessive growth of lemon trees, can not guarantee nutrition, excess nutrition will lead to early fruit ripening, resulting in the phenomenon of falling flowers and fruits. While using nitrogen fertilizer, we should also pay attention to the application of compound fertilizer such as calcium, magnesium and phosphorus. Organic fertilizer was used as the base fertilizer of lemon tree in autumn to provide sufficient nutrition for the tree and promote flower bud germination and flowering and fruiting. When applying fertilizer, we should pay special attention to the fruit expansion period and shoot stage. Farm manure can be used, but it should be fully mature, and more urea and phosphorus and potassium fertilizer should be applied. And lemon trees are extremely drought-intolerant fruits, so they must be watered and irrigated in time.

2. Ploughing and weeding

Weeding is an essential step in planting lemon trees. Intertillage is to make the soil softer, the roots can be better stretched, and at the same time enhance the permeability of the soil. Weeding is to prevent weeds from robbing young trees of nutrients, water, sunlight and other nutrients. Especially before the advent of the hot and dry season in summer, ploughing and loosening the soil ahead of time before drought makes the soil softer and has a certain effect on reducing water evaporation. Ploughing at least three times a year, at least ten centimeters each time, but be careful not to hurt the roots.

3. Pruning

The growth ability of young lemon trees is very strong, and the flowering rate is also high, and it is easy to grow branches in the places where the branches are bent and on the backbone branches, which affects the shape of the tree. So the pruning of the lemon tree needs to be hoisted with a rope so that the secondary main branch does not bend. Erase the sprouts on the backbone and promote the development of lemon. Lemon is a kind of fruit with exuberant growth, so it should not be overweight when pruning, leave more branches and leaves, and let sunlight through the crown of the tree. Cut off the heart in time to prevent the excessive growth of lemon, burn the diseased branches, dead branches and other waste branches.

4. Protect flowers and fruits

As mentioned earlier, the lemon tree has a very strong growth ability. in order to prevent it from growing and bearing much and low quality, it can be controlled by cutting off roots and controlling water on the fruiting branches. Multiple frustrations can be sprayed about three times in the early stage of growth to inhibit the growth of branches, and spraying before maturity in September can promote the formation of flower buds. If you encounter continuous rainy weather, especially in spring, you should shake the petals properly to make them fall, which can accelerate the turning green of lemons and prevent pests such as leaf roll moths from causing lemon trees to grow and develop normally.

These are the things to pay attention to when growing lemons, lemons are a very extreme food, known as the "king of sour fruit", like to eat sour lemons can not put down. Do not like to eat sour lemons to avoid, although many people do not like to eat, but its market does still have a very large demand, so the planting prospect is still good, we can consider according to their own conditions and changes in market demand!