Apricot planting techniques

Not too picky apricot tree cultivation. Evidence shows that soil types, sandy soil, mixed clay, alluvial soil, basalt red soil, even gravel and soils . can still be planted tomorrow. As long as the soil is not dead soil, the soil is too poor and nutrients cannot grow the plants.

1. General characteristics

- Mai is a ornamental flower that is easy to live, strong and considered the most easily grown tree.

- Not too picky apricot tree cultivation. Evidence shows that soil types, sandy soil, mixed clay, alluvial soil, basalt red soil, even gravel and soils . can still be planted tomorrow. As long as the soil is not dead soil, the soil is too poor and nutrients cannot grow the plants.

- Landslide is waterlogged, soil is often flooded, because the roots of tomorrow are very long, so the water will grow to rot and cause the tree to wilt and die gradually.

Apricot (Photo: comp)

In addition to the roots, apricot trees also have countless roots growing around the neck, which are responsible for absorbing nutrients in the surface soil to feed the plants. The roots of rotten or broken roots are not able to grow long, but the roots of the roots are different, they are broken and they grow, so the root system of the roots also plays an important role for the growth and development of apricot blossom. .

- For ornamental apricot trees, the main factor is tree shape and flowering control in time. If branches are too good, inhibit flowering, if stunted, the number of flowers is small and not beautiful. Due to growing in pots, the amount of soil is limited, so fertilizing and caring for the apricot trees is more necessary than the apricot blossom planted directly on the garden soil.

- Apricot trees suitable for areas with hot and humid climate, from 25o-30o is best, apricot can withstand higher temperatures for days, even months, but in cool climates Under 10o, tomorrow will grow poorly.

- Apricot plants prefer sunshine, but drought tolerance is only relative. Mai is suitable for areas with two distinct rainy and sunny seasons. During the rainy season, it rains a lot, the dry season coincides with the season when the leaves are replaced with leaves and flowers. Evidence is that in the South, the year when the year-end weather changes like heavy rain or cold, apricot trees also bloom in the wrong day.

2. Planting and caring techniques for tomorrow:

Each variety has its own way of growing. There are varieties that require growing with high technology, which means planting the right technique for a new high yielding plant. But there is also a plant that has a simple way of planting, simple planting of apricot trees. But it is a way of growing apricot trees to live and flower. Also planted in the way of grafting, bending so that there are ancient ornamental apricot trees, multicolored apricot apricot trees, or beautiful bonsai apricot trees is another thing.

It requires growers to have the technique.

* Lying and draining ditches:

Because apricot trees do not fit into lowland areas, the groundwater is too high, the soil is frequent or the rainy season is flooded. If apricot growing in the land like the above, it must be upright, normally the width of the ridge only needs to be 1-1.2m wide to grow the baby (when growing up in a pot).

Between two snails close to each other, there should be ditches and ditches to drain water to avoid flooding for apricot orchards.

* Method of propagation:

a.Sexual propagation: By planting with seeds. Advantage: the number of shells is large, not expensive, it does not take much effort. Disadvantages: Apricot trees often do not bring good characteristics of mother trees (small flowers, less branches, colors may differ from mother trees .).

b.Asexual propagation: By extracting branches, grafting or cuttings. Advantages: Seedlings retain the full characteristics of the mother plant, but cannot produce massively in large quantities.

- Seed extraction: Choose a small branch of apricot mother tree, cut a shell of about 3-4 stools, try to avoid cutting into the wood inside, peel it off. Then, use a mixture of soil and manure to make a dough and then tighten it around the cut, use thick cloth or burlap or coconut fiber to tighten. Every day, it is necessary to water the soil so that it can be moist until a few months later. When the soil is filled with many rootlets, it is the time to cut that branch away from the mother tree.

- Grafting (branch tower, tree tower): using branches of the mother tree to transplant into other apricot trees to create new apricot trees bearing the characteristics of apricot mother trees.

There is another way of grafting is the eye transplant, which is to take the leaf eye, the young shoots from the mother tree to transplant to another tree as a rootstock.

- Triangle: Take an apricot tree as a rootstock, choose a spot on the tree to graft or transplant the eye, use a sharp tip to slash a small triangle equivalent to the corn grain and peel off that shell.

Use a sharp knife to split a small bud or a leaf eye of the apricot tree to apply to the newly peeled triangle of the rootstock. After that, use the cloth wire or tape to tape the eyes together. After a few weeks, seeing a green shoot or grafting eye means success.

A rootstock can transplant many shoots or multiple grafted eyes. We see a grafted tree with many different flower colors is due to this grafting.

- Jointing wedge: Using a wedge-shaped knife on the scion and hole shape on the rootstock (or vice versa) and then assemble the two parts together. It is required that graft and rootstock must have equal or nearly equal diameter and that both plants must be of equal good age.

Put 2 tight ties together, we use a rubber band or nylon cord tightly wrapped outside for sure.

Trees should be grafted in the rainy season, because this is a season of abundant energy. At the rootstock, choose the lush bark to create a graft, so new grafted eyes hope to achieve success, because the place of raw plastic is good. The grafting must be done as quickly as possible, so that the plastic will dry, the graft will not work.

* Take care of tomorrow

- Watering: Apricot trees are drought tolerant but do not mean high drought tolerance. In the dry season, we should take care of watering. With apricot blossom growing in the garden, every day or every other day, watering is good. Water straight into the root and spray water with small rays all over the canopy. Watering in the early morning (before 9 am) or watering in the cool afternoon.

In the rainy season, apricot trees can be planted in the garden without irrigation, except for prolonged days of intense sunlight, water must be irrigated to keep the soil moist. Ornamental plants grown in pots often dry up because the soil in the pots is too small to keep them moist for long. Therefore, ornamental plants grown in pots must water every day, twice a day (morning, afternoon).

Attention must be paid to the drawdown of each pot, if there is a situation of waterlogging, it is necessary to use a small stick immediately.

- Fertilizing: Maize must be fertilized, especially for potted plants, after pruning for shape, we need to apply fertilizer for good growth tomorrow.

At this time, protein and phosphorus are more required, less potassium is possible. Can use fertilizer First Buffalo NPK 20-20-15TE, cultivate the soil to fertilize, fill up the soil. The amount of fertilizer applied each time is not much: about 40-50 g / pot contains 50-60kg of soil (for plants in addition to fertilizing soil similar to the pot but applying far from the tree, about the outer edge of the canopy), watering enough regular water (during the dry season). Every month, apply 2-3 times, observe the tree leaves, the leaves are luxuriant. If you see the leaves are too dark, reduce the amount as well as the number of times you apply.

In the rainy season from May 6-10, use NPK Head of 13-13-13TE to apply, each time apply 40-50g / pot containing 50-60kg of soil, 15-20 days once. Applying the above fertilizers provides a full range of micro and micro nutrients for tomorrow. However, when replacing the soil or after 3-4 months since the replacement of soil, it is possible to apply manure: cow, pig, duck chicken manure carefully combined with rice husk ash is also very good.

At the end of the rainy season: around the middle of November. Conduct a review of the shape of the tree, the leaves are satisfied. Can be trimmed again and watered only.

- Kill weeds, catch worms: Weeds compete to eat the fertilizer of manure that is applied to the soil, so it must be destroyed immediately. Should kill the grass before the annual rainy season. In terms of pests and diseases, apricot trees have high disease resistance properties, so they are less damaged by pests, but not without. We should observe, if we find pests, we should destroy them immediately. Some pests and aphids damage apricot trees: stem borer, cotton plant hopper, silkworm worm, and sow worm.

* Falling (falling) apricot leaves:

It is a job that greatly affects the right flowering of Tet holiday. Time to sprout apricot leaves is not much, resolving in a good day, if it lasts, tomorrow will bloom in the wrong day.

There are 2 ways to sprinkle apricot leaves: Holding leaves to bounce backwards, has the advantage of low energy, fast but has drawbacks that easily entails a long section of tree branches damaging flower buds and flowers; The second way is to hold the leaf in the direction of the leaf, the advantage of having a tough stalk is not scratched, but it takes a lot of energy, for the buds it is easy to be broken due to excessive pulling.

If you want the tree to grow wrong, you must clean all the young leaves and old leaves, as long as you don't break the branches.

3. To make the flowers bloom right on Tet

Apricot pots are sold in Tet
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From tomorrow to the end of all leaves (usually from the fifteenth day of the lunar month) on the apricot branches, there appear small flower buds with half the size of rice, these flower buds are usually from the leaf axils. Each of these buds grows up into a big flower called a female flower with a silk shell that covers the outside. In female flowers are many small buds.

Calculated from the day the silk shell of apricot blossom appeared until hatching was 7 days. Thus, if the weather in the last days of the year is warm, but the silk shell of the flower opens on December 23, then it is hoped that the New Year's Eve will start blooming.

Determine the date of the apricot leaf: If you want to bloom in the right New Year, you must carefully calculate the leaves on any day:

* Calculation of weather: From December 10 we should pay attention to the following:

- If you know before the second half of the sunny year, it will be good, when it is warm, it will surely bloom soon. We will give you a late payment.

- If you know that before the second half of the year, there will be heavy rain or cold air, then it will bloom late that year. We have to pay back the leaves early.

* Observe the flower buds on the tree: It is necessary to observe the flower buds that appear on the tree before returning leaves to determine the correct date of leaves:

- If you see the flower buds are small, with 5-wing yellow apricot leaves to sprinkle leaves on December 13.

- If you see a big flower bud, with 5-pointed yellow apricot, you must sprout leaves on the full moon or December 16.

- If you see that the flowers are big, 3-4 days later, the silk peels will be inflated, so it will delay the date of the fall to 18, 19 or 20 December.

In summary, from December 10, we should observe how the apricot blossom buds grow and grow and then combine them with the weather to calculate the date when the apricot leaves are carried out. The calculation so that the right day "Take him to heaven" (December 23), the flowers can be covered with silk.

With a variety of winged apricot flowers, after carefully calculating in the above way, we should pay leaves before the 5-petal flower period about 1 week. It should be noted that after the maturity date, we should monitor the changes of the weather outside: If we see the possibility of late tomorrow, we should promote tomorrow by diluting NPK (10 liters of water for 1 tablespoon of manure) water the plants to encourage early flowering. In contrast, the sun is drought and pouring showers, apricot blossom will bloom soon, limit the number of watering days, only watering with a moderate amount of lunch. At the same time, having sun again, we should bring tomorrow to the sun to stop them from hatching early.