Duration of dragon fruit pruning
During the growth period of dragon fruit to go through a number of pruning, there is no specific time, for example, the seedling period to prune the lateral branches as well as useless branches, to reduce the consumption of nutrients, to promote the normal results, each time the fruit should be pruned after the fruit, to cut off the long, fruiting branches, not only beautiful but also can make the nutrients more adequate.
The dragon fruit pruning method
1, seedling pruning
The dragon fruit needs to be pruned from the seedling period, mainly to get rid of the excess branches, to reduce the consumption of water and nutrients, to avoid to the flowering period can not be formed when the flower buds, can not bear fruit, in the pruning, can be retained in a more robust, thick branches, the rest can be cut off. When pruning, you can keep the more robust, thick branches, the rest can be cut off, the pruning of seedlings about every 10 days.
2, centering pruning
When the dragon fruit seedlings grow 10 cm high, you can top centering, with a sharp knife at the top of the plant flat cut, to ensure that the incision is smooth, centering the position of the best selection of plants in the 5 centimeters to 6 centimeters, it is not recommended to break directly with the hand, which will cause unnecessary damage to the plant. Unnecessary injury to the plant.
3, branch pruning
The branch refers to the plant flowering branches, stay in the flowering better, the branch is stronger, the rest to be pruned, at this time many people will worry about pruning the number of fruits, but at this time do not pruning will lead to a decline in the quality of all the fruits.