Tea light pruning

Light pruning is a kind of shaping and pruning on the basis of stereotyped pruning in order to continue to cultivate tea tree crown and picking noodles. The cutting position is generally increased by 4cm to 8cm over the previous year. Spring tea leaves to pick, leave spring shoots, cut off summer and autumn shoots. Spring tea leaves no leaves but summer tea leaves to pick, cut off the summer and autumn shoots left above the true leaf tip. If the leaves of spring and summer tea are picked, then the net increase in the height of the crown shall prevail for pruning, and it is not advisable to leave the pile too high. Light trimming should be trimmed horizontally once and the cut should be smooth. Light pruning should be carried out in the dormant period of tea trees in late autumn or early spring. After pruning, the fertilizer management of tea garden should be strengthened. Light pruning every other year or more than two years and picking leaves of spring tea can advance the mining of spring tea, increase the output of spring tea and improve the economic benefit.