When cultivating orange trees, they should be pruned every spring and autumn. When pruning orange trees in spring, the branches that grow too long should be cut short to promote the plants to sprout lateral branches, while when pruning orange trees in autumn, flowers and buds should be thinned for the plants to promote the rapid fruiting of orange trees.

How to Prune Orange Tree 1, Pruning Time

The best pruning time of orange trees is March-April every year or August-September in autumn. Pruning citrus reticulata in spring is beneficial to plant germination and make it flourish, while pruning citrus reticulata in autumn can concentrate its nutrition and promote citrus reticulata to blossom and bear fruit.

2, spring pruning

When cultivating orange trees in spring, we can cut off the overgrown branches, moth-eaten branches and diseased branches to promote the orange trees to grow strong new branches, and spray diluted potassium permanganate solution on the broken branches of orange trees for disinfection and sterilization, so as to make the orange trees grow healthily.

3, autumn pruning

When planting orange trees in autumn, flowers and buds must be thinned. The orange branches with excessive flowers can be cut off to avoid the loss of redundant nutrients, thus improving the fruit quality of citrus reticulata. In addition, compound fertilizers mainly containing phosphorus and potassium should be applied to orange trees to promote the vigorous growth of plants.

4. Maintenance methods

When maintaining orange trees, it is necessary to drain the accumulated water in the soil for plants in rainy season to avoid root rot of orange trees. When the environment is too dry, water the orange trees to keep the soil water content at 60-80%, and weed and loosen the soil in time to avoid affecting the growth of the orange trees.