Matters needing attention during pineapple harvest

Pineapple is one of the four famous tropical and subtropical fruits in China. It is generally planted in Hainan, Taiwan and Guangdong. Summer is the peak season for pineapple listing. Do you know how pineapple is harvested? What should I pay attention to when harvesting? Let's get to know each other.

1. Timely harvest

Pineapple to harvest time once to be appropriate, too early or too late will affect the quality of the fruit, harvest time depends on the progress of the fruit, and the maturity of the fruit can be judged according to its peel color, finger sound. If it is exported to other places, it is suitable for harvesting when the fruit is seven or eight minutes mature. At this time, the small fruit at the base of the fruit begins to turn yellow, the surface of the fruit changes from green to yellow, the white powder falls off, and the flesh begins to soften. When the flesh color changes from white to yellow, it is suitable for long-distance transportation and harvesting. If it is sold locally or short-distance, the maturity can be slightly higher.

2. Harvest time

Pineapple should be harvested in the morning after dew drying, not in rainy days, so as to avoid rainwater infiltration of fruit, fruit rot occurs during transportation or storage, affecting fruit quality and income, causing huge losses. Light spinning should be carried out during harvest to avoid mechanical loss, so as to give the disease a chance to take advantage of it. After harvest, the pineapple should be graded according to the size of the pineapple, and the fruits suffering from diseases and insect pests and mechanical damage should be removed. The fruits should be randomly turned to cool and ventilated, and the graded packaging should be carried out after a little drying.

3. Fertilization after fruit picking

After fertilization winter fruit harvest, clean the garden and fertilize in time, burn or fertilize the weeds and fallen leaves in the garden, and then apply fertilizer to restore the tree vigor. With high-quality organic fertilizer and nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium compound fertilizer as the main fertilizer, properly increasing the proportion of potassium fertilizer can enhance the cold resistance ability through the nutrition level of the plant, so as to avoid freezing injury, and at the same time, it can increase the accumulation of nutrients, promote the restoration of tree vigor as soon as possible, and make the plant grow as soon as possible when spring comes.

4. Storage work

Can adopt paraffin coating bee storage hair, wait for fruit seven or eight minutes mature, select the fruit without damage for storage, put paraffin into the pot to boil, after a little air condensation, pineapple into wax liquid, immediately take out, so that the fruit surface evenly coated with wax once, stored in a suitable environment. The method can keep pineapple fresh for more than 45 days at normal temperature, keep fresh peel and keep original color and fragrance.

The above is an introduction to the precautions for pineapple harvest. I hope it can help you. If you want to know more about it, please pay attention to us.