Pruning methods of orange trees include: cutting short, draining, removing core, retracting, putting buds on tender branches, supporting branches, pulling branches, hanging and tying branches, and twisting tips.

1, shortcut

This method is to cut off a part of the front end of the branch and keep the base segment of 1. This can promote branching and stimulate 2 ~ 3 buds to sprout branches below the incision, which is beneficial to the vegetative growth of the tree.

2, refinement

This method is to cut off all branches from the base. Generally used to cut off redundant dense weak branches, clustered branches, long branches, etc. Thinning can improve the light and nutrient distribution of the remaining branches, make the trees ventilate and grow healthily, which is beneficial to flowering and fruiting.

Step 3: Choose your heart.

This step is to remove the front part of the new branch and keep the required length before the new branch germinates and stops growing. Similar to short cut, but different-coring can limit the length of new shoots, promote their thickening growth, promote rapid aging and enrich the development of branch tissues. When young trees rapidly expand their crown, coring operation is often used.

Step 4 take it back

Retraction is to cut off the top of perennial branches, which is often used to update the big branches of the crown or compress the crown to prevent the big branches from closing each other.

Step 5 wipe the bud and put the tip

When new shoots germinate to 1-3cm, erasing the buds can stimulate the growth of new shoots. Because citrus is a compound bud, erasing sporadic main buds can stimulate the germination of secondary buds and other nearby buds and extract more new buds.

6. Hold, pull, hang and tie branches

During the shaping period of young trees, the growth direction of main branches and lateral branches can be changed by methods such as rope pulling, bamboo pole supporting and stone hanging.

7. Twist and knead the tip

During semi-lignification, hold the newly sprouted upright branches, competitive branches or temporary branches growing inward with your fingers at the base 3-5 cm, and rotate 180, damaging the symmetrical twisted tips of xylem and cortex. Rubbing the new buds from the base to the top by hand only hurts the cambium, not the xylem.

The application of pruning technology has great influence on the yield and quality of citrus, especially for some special varieties. Learn the practical skills of citrus pruning, and the orange tree will be full of oranges.