Techniques of thinning flowers and fruits in peach trees

Peach tree is a common fruit tree species in China, which has a very large planting area in China. The growth rate of peach trees is fast, the forming time is early and the income is relatively high. When planting peach trees, thinning flowers and fruits is indispensable. It directly affects the yield and fruit quality of peach trees, so how should we do it? The following editor brings you the peach tree flower and fruit thinning technology, let's have a look!

1. Thinning buds

First of all, we need to remove too many buds, the main purpose is to prevent the consumption of too much nutrients. Avoid the heavy work of fruit thinning in the later stage, and promote the growth of fruit and shoots. The time to remove buds is very important, usually during the period of flower bud expansion, and stops when all buds bloom. When thinning buds, we should pay attention to remove the buds at the base and the buds growing longitudinally, and retain the buds growing horizontally. In this way, it is easy to improve the fruit rate and prevent too much fruit beyond the bearing range of peach trees.

2. Reasonable flower thinning

After thinning flower buds, we should also pay attention to flower thinning, mainly in order to improve the nutrition accumulation and fruit setting rate of peach trees. It can obviously promote the growth of branches and fruits. It begins at the early stage of flowering after thinning the buds, but lasts until the flower falls. When thinning flowers, it is necessary to keep the side flowers and remove other redundant flowers. Then we should also do a good job of flower thinning according to the position and growth of fruit branches. The longer fruit branches can be thinned less, on the contrary, they should be more sparse, and the nutrition should be concentrated on the fruit. For prosperous and long fruit branches, it can basically be non-sparse.

3. Keep the fruit properly

The next step is fruit thinning. The purpose of fruit thinning is to control the number of fruits and prevent them from bearing too much fruit, leading to undernutrition. Ensure that the number of fruits is within the growth range of peach trees, promote the expansion of retained fruits and enhance the growth ability. When the core of the fruit gradually hardens and the size of the fruit can be distinguished by the naked eye. Fruit thinning time is very important, fruit thinning too early will lead to fruit instability, the emergence of fruit drop phenomenon. If the fruit is thinned too late, the nutrition will be consumed too much, which will hinder the fruit growth and reduce the yield.

4. Pruning

Pruning is also very important. We should adjust the pruning methods according to the specific conditions of fruit trees, and flexibly use retraction, truncation, sprouting and other methods to control the growth of peach trees. Reasonable pruning in the planting process can effectively reduce the work of thinning flowers and fruits in the middle and later stage. The main pruning objects are long branches, over-long and dense branches, overlapping branches and so on. The flower and fruit quantity of these branches is not only insufficient, but also consumes too much nutrition, resulting in a decline in fruit setting rate and reduced planting efficiency.

The above is a brief introduction of peach tree flower thinning and fruit thinning technology. The work of thinning flowers and fruits in peach trees is very important. If it is not done well, it will have a serious impact on its yield and quality, so we must pay more attention to it. That's all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. Thank you for your reading and support.