Cultivation and Management techniques of Peach

Green peach is a small tree of the genus Prunus of Rosaceae, which is widely used in gardens. It can be planted to form peach forest, or it can be planted alone in the lawn, and it can also be planted with flowering shrubs such as Begonia. The cultivation and management techniques are introduced as follows.

I. requirements of planting site and soil

Bitao likes a dry and sunny environment, so it is necessary to choose a site with higher terrain and no shade, not at the edge of ditches and ponds, nor next to trees with larger crowns, so as not to affect its ventilation and light. Bitao likes fertile, permeable, neutral or slightly alkaline sandy loam, which is planted in heavy clay soil or heavy saline-alkali soil, not only the plant can not blossom, but also the tree is not flourishing, and the diseases and insect pests are serious.

II. Water and fertilizer management

Bitao is resistant to drought and afraid of water wetness, so it is generally not watered in other seasons except that it is watered once in early spring and at the end of autumn. However, in the hot summer weather, in case of continuous drought, proper watering is very necessary. In rainy days, drainage should also be done to prevent large rotten roots from causing plant death.

Bitao like fertilizer, but should not be too much, can use mature fermented cow and horse manure as base fertilizer, apply some sesame sauce dregs before winter every year, such as 1 to 2 times of available phosphorus and potassium fertilizer from June to July, can promote flower bud differentiation.

3. Pruning

Peaches are usually pruned after flowering. Combined with shaping, the disease and insect branches, drooping branches, bore branches, dead branches, weak branches and long branches should be cut off, and the flowering branches should be cut short, leaving only 2 or 3 buds at the base. When these branches grow to 30 centimeters, you should pick out the heart in time to promote the fullness of axillary buds and facilitate flower bud differentiation.

IV. Pest control

Peach diseases and insect pests often occur in summer and autumn, the main diseases are: perforation, anthrax, gum disease, leaf shrinkage disease. If it occurs, it can be sprayed with 1000 times of thiophanate methyl, or alternately with chlorothalonil. The main pests are aphids, red spiders, shell insects, red-necked longicorn beetles, and so on. If it occurs, 1000 times of omethoate milk can be used to spray aphids, red spiders and shell insects. The adults of red-necked longicorn beetles can be killed artificially, and the larvae can be injected into the wormhole with pesticides such as dichlorvos, and the hole is sealed with mud. Painting white on the trunk and stout branches in winter has a good effect on the control of longicorn beetle breeding larvae.