Usually, the first flowers that bloom between October and November produce larger and better quality fruit, but are susceptible to frost damage and frostbite later in the season. The second flowers, which bloom between November and December, do not produce as much fruit as the first flowers, but have a high fruiting rate and are resistant to cold.
Loquat flowering in late fall and early winter, winter and spring low temperature will affect its flowering and fruiting. Temperature -6 ℃ on the flowering, -3 ℃ on the young fruit that produce frost damage; 10 ℃ above the pollen began to germinate, 20 ℃ around the pollen germination is most suitable.
Loquat is different from most fruit trees, flowering in the fall or early winter, fruit ripening in the spring to early summer, earlier than other fruits, so it is known as "fruit trees in the four seasons of the only one".
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Planting Techniques of Loquat
Loquat trees bloom in the same year. The loquat tree blossoms in one year and bears fruit in the following year, where it blooms once a year, in October-December, and bears fruit once a year, in May-June of the following year. A loquat tree from seeding, transplanting, grafting, planting takes three years, and then after four years of results, 10 to 40 years is the peak fruiting period, grafted seedlings are more likely to blossom and bear fruit than the live seedling, if the seed planted to more than 5 years, grafted seedlings to more than 3 years to blossom and bear fruit.
With irrigation conditions it is advisable to plant in February to March; without irrigation conditions should be planted in mid-June (early rainy season).
After the loquat matures, the tree's nutrition level is relatively low, after the fruit must be timely application of adequate fertilizer, requiring organic fertilizer and composite fertilizer application, the amount of fertilizer should account for about 50% of the year. Fertilizer to the canopy drip as a boundary ring ditch, must be a week after the fruit picking finished, and timely irrigation, in order to facilitate the root system to absorb nutrients, early promotion of the summer sprouting.
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