The date tree doesn't live? Maybe the first step was wrong: the date tree, though it was a “cracker crop”, wanted it to take root in the yard and produce sweet fruit, not just to dig a pit and bury it. Today a system of ground-based cultivation is shared, ranging from seedling selection to trimping, with hands to teach you to avoid pits that are often stepped by new hands。
Step 1: selection is key to location and variety
And the date-palms are resistant to infertileness, but they seek to bring them forth early and extra fruit, and they shall choose a land which is full of sunlight and safe from the wind. The sandy soil is ideal and the adhesive land can live, but the saline land needs to be noted — the soil is not more than 0. 3% salt. In the case of the mountains of the north, remember the sun slopes, which are ill-lighted and affect the flowering fruit. The selection of varieties depends on the use of: fresh food recommends sweet and juicy, such as the king of precious creams, date-making and rosy dates, and hormonal viewing allows for the unusual shape of grinding dates and twilight dates。
Step two: there's a door to the tree. Province
Don't rush to plant the trees, check the roots first. The main root is 15-20 centimetres flat, the side root is 8-10 centimetres flat, and the rotting roots and cracks are all cut off. Three hours with a powdered solution, three hours to plant. - 1 gram of root to 20 kilos of water, just enough to soak 1,000 seedlings. In the case of home-grown seedlings, it would be preferable to carry the mother-grained seedlings, with new roots protected and a half-duration reduction in the duration of the nursery。
Step three: the planting time is right
The northern friends remember, "spring stands for life, autumn stands for luck." areas where the average temperature is below 8°c in january must wait until late april to return to the cold in mid-april; both springs and autumns in the south can be planted, but when the fall falls fall, the ground must be protected from cold, otherwise the young branches are prone to freezing. There's a cold knowledge that rain-planted trees are more likely to rot, and it's better to choose the day after the sun, and the soil is just as wet。
Step four: plantation skills determine life and death
Do not search the pits, 60 cm deep, 1 m wide is the basis, decomposed goat dung on the ground floor + grass ash for base fat, and small earth bags in the middle. When seedlings are seeded, the roots fall naturally, and the soil is filled with seedlings to ensure that there are no gaps in the roots. Remember the mouthpiece, “twice and step on a seedling”: first fill the root of the surface, then step on it lightly; then fill the heart, and then step on it again; and finally, the seedling flattens the neck. Once planted, the ground is watered, the membranes are laid and the trunk is covered with grass tan - this combination of punches can germinate for six months。
Step 5: day-to-day management
The first three years are the golden period. Pre-spring urea + phosphorus fertilizers are applied to pre-sprouts, pre-sprouts are filled with boron sand solution pre-sprout flowers; agricultural + calcium fertilizers are buried at the end of the autumn to help the branches get warmer. The water is “pre-stimulant”: spring is more growth-enhancing and july is less fissure in august. And weeds grow as long as 10 centimetres in the earth, but do not use herbicides – the roots of the dates are shallow, and the pharmacological effects are on them。
Step six: we need to trim it early
Up to 1 metre high, the saplings peaked and the side branches left 3-4 in the umbrella distribution. In the following year, the main branch was stretched to 45 degrees and fixed with a bamboo pole, which was both ventilation and easy to harvest. And when you find the cross branches and the down branches, cut them off, and don't hurt. The tree results are mainly on the secondary branches, the old branches are not trimmed, and there is no space for new buds。
Step 7: insects cannot stop
At the end of may, the red spiders were on the back of the leaf, sprayed with yellow dots, and at the beginning of june, the date-protected stickers were more environmentally friendly than the drugs. There's a little trick: the trunk is covered with lime sulfur, both insect and sunburn. If dates are found to be missing before they are red, they are mostly potassium-deficient, which is quickly replenished by potassium foliage。
Wide and secret planting is now prevalent, with a line of 4 metres and a capacity of 1. 5 metres, combined with a drip irrigation system, and can produce a kilo of acre in three years. If there is a yard in the house, try planting mints or vitro under the date tree, the deworming effect is more effective than the pesticide. Remember, the date trees are afraid to accumulate water and are not afraid of drought, and during the rainy season they have to dig drains or else the roots are not negotiable。
Growing a tree is like raising a child -- for the first three years, for the next three decades. Following these hands-on techniques, even beginners grow trees full of red lanterns. The next time a date tree is seen, it only blooms, so let's not start with strange varieties. It's probably an inappropriate cut or fertilizing imbalance. By the way, did your date tree get fat this year
