How to prune longan trees

When to prune longan trees

Longan trees usually need to be pruned once in spring, which should be done in early spring.

When taking cuttings, choose one-year-old branches. After cutting them, place them in a windy place to dry. They will take root in about a week. Of course, sometimes the rooting speed will be slow for some reason, and it may take 20 days to wait.

Longan tree pruning

Before planting longan trees, the black and yellow branches and leaves need to be trimmed, leaving only the main branches.

When pruning, you need to trim away dense branches, overgrown branches, diseased and insect-infested branches, shaded branches, drooping branches, bent branches and other ineffective branches to ensure a certain degree of ventilation and light transmission. You can shape them according to your own needs. When the angle of the main branch is very small, you can increase the angle by stretching and other methods. When the angle of the main branch is too large, you can use bamboo to raise the height of the branch and reduce the angle.

Tips for Pruning Longan Trees

Pruning is mainly light cutting to maintain good permeability between branches so that its crown can grow well.

Prune the roots and branches, and cut off the old, weak, and sick ones. This can avoid the differentiation of nutrients and allow more nutrients to be supplied to the plants, which can promote the germination of more new buds, and make the leaves particularly green and full of vitality.

Longan tree pruning and flowering

When pruning in winter, you need to prune away diseased and insect-infested branches, drooping branches, and old and dead branches, and disinfect the wounds to prevent infection.

Longan tree pruning results in more

If there are too many fruits in summer, a considerable part of the fruit clusters should be thinned out, and the flowers and fruits should be thinned out in spring and summer to increase the light transmittance of the plant and promote the fruiting of longan.

Precautions for pruning longan trees

The growth focus of adult longan trees is on summer shoots, which serve as the basal branches of autumn shoots. When the flowers bloom vigorously in spring, it is necessary to thin the flowers to avoid excessive consumption of nutrients. At the same time, trim off ineffective branches and thin and incomplete spring shoots to promote the full development of new branches.