When is the right time for apples to be bagged?

Apples must be bagged after fruit, in order to protect the fruit from being eaten by insects, or can not be harmed by disease. After bagging, you can also feel more at ease to use pesticides to control diseases and insect pests. But there is time for bagging and time for bagging. When the bag is good for the growth of the fruit, if you need to take the bag, you can take the bag.

1. Bag pick-up period

The time to pick up the bag will vary according to the variety of the apple, and the time to pick up the bag will be determined according to the bag used. For example, red varieties use single-layer bags a month before harvest, can tear the bag into an umbrella to block the fruit and avoid sunburn. It can be completely removed in more than a week. If you use a double-layer bag in red, remove the outer layer one month before harvest and remove the inner bag on a sunny day in a week. Yellowish green varieties, which use single-layer bags, can be removed at harvest.

2. Bag pick-up time

The exact time to pick up the bag is before 11:00 in the morning, but when the dew is dry. As the sun slows down in the afternoon, you can also pick up the bag. Can not take the bag at noon, direct exposure to strong light, do not adapt to the light, easy to burn. Lead to a decline in quality. Take early the fruit color is dark, not only clean, take too late, the fruit color is light.

3. The method of picking up bags

Hold the fruit, untie the wire with the right hand, hold the mouth of the bag with the other hand, remove the outer bag with the right hand, keep the inner bag, and attach the fruit to the fruit. Remove the outer bag a week later and then go to the inner bag, in order to avoid the fruit temperature is too different from the external temperature, gradually adapt to the temperature, otherwise it is easy to cause sunburn. If you don't take the inner bag on cloudy and rainy days, the leaves will be green and the fruit color will not look good. For single-layer bags, open the bottom for ventilation first and remove all of them a week later.

4. Points for attention

Before taking out the bag, the fruit should be irrigated once to prevent the loss of water, and the time to take the bag should be neither early nor late to avoid affecting the quality of the fruit. Taking the bag can prune the dead branches nearby to prevent the fruit from getting hurt. Pick up the bag on a cloudy day instead of on a rainy day. The removed bags should be collected and taken out of the orchard to avoid pollution.

General apple bag picking time should be considered, as far as possible after the bag will not affect the growth and quality of the fruit. Do not take the bag at will, otherwise it is easy to cause sunburn.