Pruning branches is needed after pitaya bears fruit, which can ensure the smooth fruit bearing in the second year and improve the fruit bearing efficiency. When pruning, keep 2/3 of the fruiting branches, cut off 1/3 flowers, cut off dead branches, tender branches and diseased branches on plants, dilute flowers and fruits, reduce unnecessary nutrient losses and promote photosynthesis.

Cut the fruiting branches of pitaya.

Prune the branches after the pitaya bears fruit, so as to ensure that the pitaya can bear fruit normally in the second year and improve the fruit setting rate in the second year. Before pruning, water should be cut off for pitaya, and the pruning tools should be disinfected and disinfected with potassium permanganate.

Each pitaya plant keeps 2/3 branches as new fruiting branches, removes flowers and leaves of other 1/3 branches, and even cuts off branches. It is necessary to divide the branches with more fruits into small branches to improve the probability of flowering and fruiting in the next year, prune the dead branches, weak branches and diseased branches on the plants and reduce the loss of water and nutrients.

Pruning method

The pruning in infancy is mainly plastic surgery, and the coring method is generally adopted. Every March, the plants are pruned when they enter flower bud differentiation, and more new branches are promoted to grow on the trunk by coring, which can accelerate the growth of fruiting branches.

Adult pruning is generally carried out after the end of the pitaya season, mainly pruning. Cut off the branches that are close to fruiting or bent by fruits, so as to avoid the old branches from consuming too much water and nutrients, so that the germinated new buds can grow and be rich in nutrients. When flowering and fruiting, the branches in the densely growing areas can be appropriately cut off to improve the ventilation and lighting environment.