Kumquat tree maintenance are: watering, soil, temperature, pruning, fertilizer.

1, watering

Kumquat tree is generally seven days to ten days, watering once, kumquat tree like warm environment with a certain degree of humidity, potting soil should be kept moist, but the pots should not be waterlogged. Summer to early fall when the weather is hot, in addition to watering to the pot, but also to the pot around the site should be sprayed with water, winter should be less watering. Flowering and fruiting period should not be watered, stable fruit before normal watering, but the basin can not be waterlogged to avoid fruit drop.

2, soil

Kumquat tree choose soil, to use leafy soil and sandy soil, and then add a small amount of coarse sand and garden soil, the soil should be loose, to ensure that his drainage, to ensure that it is breathable and drainage, potting soil should be sterilized before cultivation.

3, temperature

Kumquat tree likes light, but he is afraid of strong light exposure. Too much light will burn the leaves. In summer, you can be placed in the shade under the breeding, or placed in the indoor semi-shade ventilated place breeding, especially to avoid the midday direct light. In late fall, when the temperature is lower than 10 ℃ should be moved indoors in time, the temperature is too low, is not conducive to its growth.

4, pruning

Kumquat tree air temperature rises after spring, kumquat tree grows faster must be pruned. In order to make the tree shape beautiful, more results, in the spring before the buds sprouting, cut off part of the previous year's branches, the robust stay 2 ~ 3 buds, each plant to stay 3 branches pruned 1 year old branches, is conducive to the spring sprouting, to be the new shoots grow to 15 ~ 20 cm when the heart, so that the branches are full.

5, fertilizer

Kumquat tree like fertilizer, potting time to choose the humus, sand, cake fertilizer 1 part of the mixture of formulated culture soil. At the time of potting, the bottom of the pot into the hoof pieces or rotted cake fertilizer as a base fertilizer. From the sprouting of new shoots until the flowering, you can fertilize once in 7~10 days, watering a few alum fertilizer water in between.