What is the best season for planting girl fruit?

The best time to plant girl fruit

Girl fruit can be cultivated in spring and autumn. Spring open field cultivation can be selected in March and April. If early-maturing varieties are cultivated in a greenhouse, seedlings can be raised in January and February, and in autumn, they can be sown and seedled in June and July.

Planting methods and key points of girl fruit

1. Seed selection and processing

Before sowing the girl fruit, you can choose seeds with good quality and strong disease resistance, soak the seeds in warm water at 50℃, stirring while soaking. The soaking takes about 24 hours. Take out the seeds, mix them with sand, and then place them in an environment with a temperature of 20℃ to germinate.

2. Sowing and seedling raising

Before sowing the girl fruit, you can first prepare the sand bed for seedlings, fertilize the sand bed in advance, and shallowly turn the sand bed. After the water penetrates, you can sow the seeds. Evenly sow the seeds on the soil surface and cover them with a thin soil about 0.5 cm thick. The seedlings will emerge in about 10 days.

3. Planting

After the growth of the girl fruit seedlings is stable, they can be transplanted and cultivated. Choose the planting soil, apply decomposed organic fertilizer, deep plow and harrow the soil to make flat beds, take the seedlings out of the soil, and then plant them in the soil. After planting, water and fertilize in time, and pay attention to inter-row cultivation and weeding.

Points to note in daily management of girl fruit

1. Pruning

During the growth period of the girl fruit, many useless branches will grow, some old branches will absorb too many nutrients, and dense branches and leaves will also affect the growth of the fruit. Pruning is necessary. Generally, it is necessary to prune several times a year, mainly to cut off the dead and overly long branches and leaves, and thin out the dense branches.

2. Disease prevention

Common diseases and pests of girl fruit are powdery mildew and dipteran insects. It can be said that both occur frequently. When preventing them, special attention should be paid to some knowledge in this regard. If the disease is serious, it is best to clean up the diseased branches in time, remove the pathogens first, and then spray pesticides for prevention and control.