How many years does Dongkui bayberry bear fruit?

Introduction to Planting Dongkui Bayberry

Dongkui bayberry grows vigorously, has a wide adaptability to the environment, has a certain degree of cold resistance, can grow on gravel hills, requires extensive cultivation and management, can produce a bumper yield every year, can be planted in autumn and winter, and is best planted in early spring from late February to mid-March.

Dongkui bayberry is mainly distributed in Zhejiang area and has a long history of cultivation. Hangzhou, Zhuji, Lishui, Wencheng and other places have also introduced it. Dongkui bayberry is an artificially cultivated variety and there are no other varieties.

Dongkui bayberry has been planted for several years and has produced fruit

If Dongkui bayberry is managed properly, it will generally bear fruit in 4-5 years. It can be densely planted during the seedling period, which can obtain higher economic benefits early, and then it can be transplanted.

Dongkui bayberry cannot tolerate strong sunlight exposure. During the hot and sunny period from August to September, shade work must be done. For high-yield forests, fertilization should be done after fruit harvesting, in order to promote rapid recovery of the tree, promote summer shoots, and facilitate flower bud differentiation.

Grafted Dongkui bayberry blossoms and bears fruit

It usually takes about 3 years for grafted Dongkui bayberry to bear fruit, and it takes about 3-5 years for potted Dongkui bayberry to bloom and bear fruit.

Why doesn't Dongkui bayberry bear fruit?

The excessive growth of young Dongkui Bayberry trees will affect fruiting and may even lead to no fruiting. If the crown diameter exceeds 2 meters and has not yet borne fruit, you can control the shoots as early as possible to promote flowering.

It is important to avoid applying phosphorus fertilizer to adult trees, because after applying phosphorus fertilizer, too many fruits will be set, which will seriously affect the development of young fruits, making the fruits have no edible value and causing the trees to become weak and die.

Key points for planting Dongkui bayberry

In order to improve the fruit quality of Dongkui bayberry, measures need to be taken to thin out the flowers and fruits. There are two methods of thinning flowers and fruits: one is to use chemicals to thin out the flowers, and the other is to manually thin out the young fruits after the first fruit drop in late May. Depending on the length of the fruit branches, 1-2 fruits should be retained on each branch.