Shaping and pruning Technology of Hawthorn Tree

Hawthorn is a very common fruit, and now there are a lot of hawthorn processed products on the market, such as ice-sugar gourd, hawthorn juice and so on. Hawthorn planting area in our country is also relatively large, but some fruit farmers will find that hawthorn yield is relatively low, in fact, it may be because there is no good shaping pruning work. So how should hawthorn trees be trimmed? The following small series brings the shaping and pruning technology of hawthorn tree. Let's have a look together!

1. Young tree pruning

Hawthorn saplings grow slowly and weakly, which is also the slow seedling stage of hawthorn trees. This is the stage of pruning work mainly to plastic, cultivate good backbone branches, adjust the growth direction and angle of the backbone branches, lay the foundation for the results. The young trees in the growth period of 3 years should be heavy and short, and the branches should not be thinned, so as to promote the hawthorn trees to have more robust branches, expand the crown, improve the flowering rate, and achieve the purpose of early fruiting. The main branches should be cut short properly, and the moderate branches with moderate growth should leave room for growth, increase the number of branches and fruit setting of fruit trees, and properly remove the branches that are too dense and will compete with the backbone branches for nutrients.

2. Pruning of early bearing fruit trees

At this stage of pruning, the tree shape for purchasing books should be determined, and various fruit branches should be cultivated. Improve fruit tree yield and prepare for the transition to high yield. Pruning direction is thinning inter-branches and cultivating fruiting branch group. If auxiliary branches rob main branches of nutrients, auxiliary branches should be thinned in time. When it cannot be completely removed, it should be retained, and the branches that are retained should be guided to gentle growth to promote fruit. Retract the branches bearing fruit for more than two years in time to prevent external fruit. The branches with sufficient growth space can be properly cultured into fruit branches, and the over-dense and long branches can be thinned.

3. Fruit tree pruning

The pruning direction of fruit trees is similar to that of primary fruit trees, mainly tree shape and cultured fruit mother branches. Control the number of leaves, adjust the surface of leaf curtain properly, renew the fruiting mother branch, and prevent the phenomenon of big and small years. Increase yield, ensure high yield and increase full fruit time. The main pruning methods are short cutting and retraction, etc., to control the proportion of fruit branches and vegetative branches. Thinning out peripheral branches, cutting short, thinning flowers and fruits, promoting the concentration of nutrients and promoting the development of vegetative branches. Cut off useless branches that are too long, too dense, overlapping, etc.

4. Update tree pruning

This period is the time when fruit trees renew and bear fruit mother branches, the growth speed of fruit trees will obviously decline, the backbone branches droop weakly, and the inner bore branches are seriously deciduous. There are a large number of overgrown branches, but the self-recovery ability of hawthorn trees is relatively strong. As long as water and fertilizer management is strengthened, cultivation and weeding are done well, and proper pruning is carried out, growth can be restored and the fruiting period can be prolonged. The pruning method is usually to retract the main branches at all levels every year and re-cultivate the fruiting branch group with excessive branches.

Hawthorn trees have different pruning methods at each growth stage, which everyone needs to learn carefully and must master. Hawthorn tree tree shape is relatively tall, if not pruned in time, orchard is too closed, permeability is very poor, inner bore branches insufficient light, resulting in flowering rate decreased, planting benefit is greatly affected. Today's introduction is here, this article is for reference only, thank you for reading and support.