During the New Year, many people like to buy potted kumquats at home, yellow and clear oranges, rich and gorgeous, with a good meaning, and are auspicious New Year flowers for the New Year. So after the end of the pot, how should the potted kumquat be maintained?
After the end of the year, many people's kumquats have not been picked, and they have been hanging on the trees. In fact, this is quite a nutrient consumption, in the spring, kumquats have begun to grow for the second round, flowering, must be well maintained.
First of all, in accordance with the law of the growth and flowering of kumquats, first pick off its fruits, generally ripe after the Spring Festival, let it be carried again is not necessary, pick it off,
After picking off the fruit, it should be pruned, at this time it can be re-cut, generally the temperature should be stable at more than 15 degrees, and the pot can be pruned and changed.
After the pruning of the fruit, we must re-prune the main, the long branches, too long branches are shortened, retain the two or three pairs of nodes of the branches, that is, two or three pairs of leaves can be.
The intersecting branches inside were also pruned, the weaker branches were also pruned, and the malnourished branches were all pruned. Only some stout, old branches are retained. The whole potted bonsai plant type to it pruned out, the plant type is good-looking, so that it grows and blossoms more beautifully, high ornamental value,
In the spring potted kumquat will grow new shoots and shoots, fertilizer must not be lacking, first apply a multi-element fertilizer. Let it replenish these nutrients consumed by flowering and fruiting, and can be used to spend more than 1 or organic fertilizer or dried sheep manure and other multi-element fertilizers.
Before the new branches turn green and do not form lignification, it is necessary to properly control the water, increase the application of phosphorus and potassium fertilizers, and promote the maturity of the branches and the differentiation of flower buds
When the new branches grow to about 15 cm, the core is removed. Make the plant plump and round. Additional application of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer can be applied 1 to 2 times a month to promote the differentiation of flower buds. Excess flowers should be groomed when flowering. If you raise kumquats indoors after flowering, pollinate.
When the young fruit grows to about one centimeter, it can be thinned. Each branch can retain 2 to 3 fruits, and the weak branches retain one fruit, so that the fruit of the whole plant is more uniform, the ornamental value is high, and there are enough nutrients for them to grow.
Kumquat grows fruit on the side, and new shoots grow on the side, and the new shoots should not be retained, but also pruned in time to save nutrients, which is conducive to the maturity of the size of the fruit type and improving the ornamental value.
Kumquats are more fertile, usually growing period, to supplement the fertilizer two or three times a month. Maintenance for one or two years, you can also change the pot when the temperature is stable above 15 degrees, you can use saprophyll soil, coarse river sand, pastoral soil in the ratio of 1:1:1 configuration, the bottom of the pot plus a little cake fertilizer.
Potted kumquat, after hanging fruit, you should always use phosphorus and potassium fertilizer, which is conducive to the expansion of the fruit and increase the sweetness of the fruit. During the maintenance period, it is necessary to bask in more sun, and it is best to maintain the whole sun, which is conducive to the ripening of the fruit.
Potted kumquat watering should pay attention to, the surface of the potting soil dried down two or three centimeters and then watered, too much watering may be stuffy roots, falling flowers, falling fruits, see dry and wet, to prevent water rotten roots. If the air is relatively dry, you can moisturize the foliar spray every day, but the flowers should avoid flowers to prevent flower buds from falling.
If you happen to have potted kumquats at home and don't know how to raise them, then trim and maintain them like this.