Tea tree likes cold and wet environment, is not resistant to high temperature and has wide adaptability to soil. The loose and moist sandy soil is more suitable and not tolerant to shade. It is distributed in some cold areas of a few provinces and counties in southern China, and the best planting time is June-August. Common varieties are: common camellia, Baihua Nanshan tea, multi-tooth camellia, camellia and so on.

Tea tree fruit planted for many years

From emergence to fruiting, seedlings need to be maintained for 7-8 years before fruiting, cutting seedlings can bloom after 2-3 years, and grafted seedlings can bloom after 2 years.

Grafted tea trees blossom and bear fruit.

Tea trees are suitable for grafting in May-June in spring. If the new shoots are semi-qualitative, the survival rate is the highest, and they can germinate soon after grafting, and generally bloom and bear fruit in two years.

Potted mountain tea tree hanging fruit

If you want to choose camellia with vigorous growth and no pests and diseases, you'd better choose potted camellia with no yellow leaves, no scorched edges, no eggs, no diseased leaves, smooth branches and complete peel, which generally blooms and bears fruit in 7-8 years.

Why doesn't camellia bear fruit?

The failure of tea trees may be due to vigorous vegetative growth, which leads to only long branches and leaves and is difficult to blossom and bear fruit. We can change pots, trim roots to control nutrient growth, and apply base fertilizer at the bottom of pots to adjust soil pH.

Key points of tea planting

Before planting tea trees, it is best to choose a suitable plot, preferably on a slope that is conducive to drainage and irrigation. The soil is sandy soil with good drainage. More than 20 days before spring sowing, seeds can be soaked in clear water for 2-3 days, and sand beds can germinate for about 20 days before sowing in nurseries.

The plant spacing of tea trees should be well controlled, and the plant spacing should be 10-20cm. After sowing, a thin layer of soil should be lightly covered to suppress it. When the seedlings grow to 10cm, nitrogen fertilizer should be applied once. When the seedlings grow to about three leaves, the main roots should be obliquely cut to a depth of 10cm.