How to bag loquat?

Loquat bagging can not only keep the fruit in good appearance, reduce disease, but also avoid being eaten by birds and prevent sunburn. How to bag the loquat? What is the bagging technology of loquat?

At the beginning of January, the young fruit of precocious loquat is as big as thumb and can be bagged. Generally speaking, Fujian Province and some areas of Guangdong Province are relatively early, but if there is frost in the area, bagging can be done earlier to reduce the loss caused by frost injury.

Before bagging, remove a part of the ear branches that are too much, usually keep 2-3 branches in each ear, then remove disease and insect fruit, frostbite fruit or mechanically damaged fruit, and then remove small fruit and dense fruit, and retain the swollen fruit in the middle.

Trees with strong trees, strong fruiting branches, more leaves, and more leaves in the middle and lower parts of the crown, on the contrary, leave less. After thinning fruit must be sprayed once, with a mixture of germicides and insecticides.

Wait for the potion to dry after spraying before bagging. The principle of handling with care should be followed from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside. Do not touch the young fruit with your hands to prevent the formation of fruit, do not hurt the fruit and prevent fruit drop.

Fully open the mouth of the bag, hold the bottom of the bag by hand, and put the young fruit into the bag in a proper position to prevent the fruit from touching the surface of the bag to reduce sunburn. After the base of the bag is tightened, it is fastened with nylon thread, or it can be clamped with staples. Each batch of bags should be marked on the bag to distinguish the maturity sooner or later, so that it can be identified at the time of harvest. If the paper bag is damaged midway, it should be mended in time. Tear the bag when picking fruit.

The bagging of loquat is usually carried out before the last fruit thinning and the occurrence of diseases and insect pests. Loquat bagging fruit bags are generally made of old newspapers and can also be made of strong and durable sulfuric acid paper. The shape and size of the bag depends on the size of the fruit, generally rectangular, the size of 20 cm × 13 cm, a newspaper can do 8; the size of 30 cm × 20 cm, a newspaper can do 4. Waste magazine paper can also be used as a bag, one page of magazine paper can be made into a bag, the top of the bag is cut at two corners to facilitate ventilation and observation. When bagging, you should start from the top of the tree. The mouth of the bag can be tied with a string or clip with a paper clip, and be sure to bulge the bag to prevent the paper bag from touching the fruit directly.

Loquat fruits at different ripening stages should have different marks on the bags so that they can be harvested in stages and batches when they are ripe. A large fruit variety, a long fruit stalk covers a small bag, and a short fruit stalk covers a large bag.