How many years does it take for a cherry tree to bloom and bear fruit
About the knowledge of how many years it takes for a cherry tree to bloom and bear fruit and the maintenance management of cherry trees as ornamental plants, the editor will introduce to everyone next.
Cherry is a relatively common fruit in our country's life, and it attracts many people's purchases every year when cherries come into season. Now there are many people who want to increase their economic income by planting cherry trees. Before planting, I believe everyone wants to have a comprehensive understanding of its planting and management methods.
Cherry Tree Planting and Management Techniques
I. Planting:
1. Growth habits: According to relevant information, cherry trees have relatively strong adaptability and should be planted in sunny, windward, fertile soil, non-heavy stubble, non-waterlogging, well-drained, and water-irrigated neutral loam or sandy loam soil, which is more conducive to the growth and development of cherry trees.
2. Planting time: Generally speaking, the best time to plant cherry trees is from November to the first ten days of March the following year. Planting during this period is more conducive to the growth and development of cherry trees, effectively increasing the fruiting amount, and facilitating the pruning and cleaning of the orchard in winter.
3. You can plant when the water in the planting trench has seeped into the ground and the soil is not sticky. Take the marked points as the planting holes, dig the planting holes, hold the main stem of the seedlings with your hand, place the seedlings in the middle of the pit, fill the soil to the root collar, gently pull up the seedlings with your hand to make the roots of the seedlings comfortable, then tread with your feet, and cover the soil flat on top. The grafting part after planting should be level with the ground or 5-10 cm higher than the ground.
II. Management Techniques:
1. Cherry trees should be applied with autumn base fertilizer before planting, and it should not be later than November. Dung, animal urine, and soil miscellaneous fertilizer can all be applied. Generally, for young cherry trees and trees in the initial fruiting stage, apply 30-60 kg of animal urine or 100 kg of dung per tree; for mature trees, apply 60-80 kg of animal urine or 200 kg of dung per tree.
2. Topdressing time for cherry trees is before flowering or during the first rapid growth period of fruits, mainly using fast-acting nitrogen fertilizer, which can increase the fruit-setting rate, promote the growth of branches and leaves, and lay a good foundation for flower bud differentiation. If you spray 1-2 times of 0.5% urea, 0.5% boron fertilizer, or 600 times potassium dihydrogen phosphate on the leaves at the early stage of full bloom, it can further increase the fruit-setting rate.
Cherry Tree Pruning Methods
1. Thinning branches: After harvesting the fruit, thin out the branches that are too high, too dense on the top, and some dense fruiting branches, open up the inside of the tree (pay attention to training small branches inside the tree and prevent the inside from being bare). Thin out temporary fruiting branches, drooping branches, weak branches, and dense branches on the periphery, leaving 2-3 branches on the whorled branches and thinning out the rest to open up the periphery, making the branches sparse outside and dense inside, evenly distributed, and well ventilated and lit.
2. Heading back: For fruiting branches that form bare legs, they should be cut back to the leaf buds to control the outward movement of the fruiting position.
3. Pinching: Continue to pinch the branches inside the tree that were retained in the early stage. If there is space, new shoots after pinching can be repeatedly pinched to a length of 5-15 cm to train small fruiting branch groups. When the new shoots on the periphery grow to about 40 cm, cut them back to 25 cm.
4. Wiping buds: Timely wipe off the new buds that have no space after thinning, heading back, and pinching.
The above is a comprehensive introduction to how many years it takes for a cherry tree to bloom and bear fruit and the maintenance management of cherry trees, hoping to bring some knowledge about ornamental plants to green plant enthusiasts.