How many years does it take to plant a cherry tree to bear fruit?

How many years does it take to plant a cherry tree to bear fruit? As the saying goes, "it is difficult to plant a delicious cherry tree". In fact, it is not difficult to plant a tree, but it should be said that the fruit is difficult to pick. Cherry trees are so adaptable that they can grow in almost all kinds of soil. So, how many years does it take to plant cherry trees for the first time? What is the management of cherry trees?

How many years does the cherry tree bear fruit?

Big cherry from planting to the first fruit is usually three years, if the use of grafting this cycle will be greatly shortened, its body depends on the choice of rootstock.

Matters needing attention in planting cherry trees

1. Trial planting before development

Big cherry prefers warmth, cold tolerance, drought tolerance, waterlogging tolerance and fear of strong wind, so it is suitable for cultivation in areas with an annual average temperature of 10 ℃ ~ 15 ℃. Practice has proved that when the annual average temperature is higher than 15 ℃, big cherries tend to blossom more and set less fruit. The introduction and development of big cherries should not only depend on the local annual average temperature, precipitation, sunshine, frost-free period and other factors, but also carefully analyze the local microclimate characteristics, first trial planting, and then development.

2. Develop hard meat varieties resistant to storage and transportation.

At present, there are only more than a dozen excellent cherry varieties verified by cultivation, and each variety has some shortcomings. Such as the red light cultivated by our country, it has large fruit, bright color, juicy sweet taste, high and stable yield, but it enters the full fruit period late, the fruit skin is thin, the meat is soft, so it is not suitable for processing, storage and transportation, and is only suitable for small area planting. In the future, cherry varieties with beautiful appearance, hard pulp, good quality, light crack, resistance to storage and transportation, fresh food and processing should be selected.

3. Serious prevention of root cancer and virus diseases

The selection of excellent rootstocks suitable for local cultivation is the key to the success of cherry cultivation. The most important thing is to see whether the rootstock is resistant to root cancer and virus disease. In the old cherry producing areas, the development of big cherries must not use continuous cropping land, let alone use continuous cropping land to raise big cherry seedlings; in the newly developed cherry producing areas, under the premise of identifying improved varieties and rootstocks, we should strictly control root cancer and virus diseases.

4. Pollination and fruit thinning are required.

Most big cherry varieties do not bear fruit or have low seed setting rate, so they need cross-pollination. Some big cherry orchards with no high yield and suitable age for years and little fruit are not affected by freezing injury, but mainly due to unreasonable configuration of pollination trees, rare florescence and poor pollination. Pioneer and Rabins are all ideal pollination varieties. It is also necessary to timely remove the weaker fruit branches, remove the smaller flowers, and remove the small fruits and malformed fruits that are not in the right shape and position. It is appropriate to leave 2 or 3 fruits on each strong fruit branch.