Cultivation of oranges! What is the point of raising and the timing and method of pruning?

Speaking of the most popular among citrus fruits, is not it oranges? The time to enter the kotatsu, peel and enjoy sweet and sour taste makes me feel winter. It also contains vitamin C abundantly, can be expected to prevent a wide range of diseases such as colds and cancer. This time, regarding such cultivation of oranges,

What is the point of raising mandarin oranges?

Growing up in a sunny place, restricting the number of fruits by picking fruits is a trick to cultivate delicious oranges. If you do not pick out the fruits, the nutrition of the stock will be dispersed, the fruit will not sweetly mature. Also, if you hit the frost, it will weaken, so if you are going to plant the land, the area south of Kanto is better.

When and how do mandarin seedlings plant?

Oranges seedlings
In March and April we will plant oranges seedlings in bowls and the ground. Those that are originally potted can be raised as it is until the next transplant. Also, since it is often grafting seedlings, it is better to balance the trunk at about 40 cm above the place where you are in touch before planting.

Potted plant

Potted plants are planted by placing soil mixed with a proportion of Akadama soil (small grain) 7 to 8: mulberry 2 to 3 in a large pot larger than seedlings one by one. You can use commercially available cultivation soil for fruit trees.

Pot bottom net is laid, and a pot bottom stone is inserted
Put the soil from the bottom of the bowl to 1/3 ~ 1/2
Place the seedlings in the center of the pot
Put the soil around the seedlings and fill it with soil up to the bottom 2 to 3 cm from the edge of the pot
Popping with chopsticks, etc. to make root and soil adapt
Give plenty of water and complete
Ground planting

Choose a sunny and drainy place and dig a planting hole about 50 cm deep and wide
Dug soil 5: Mulch 3: Mix soil with proportion of Akadama soil (small grain) 2
Add fertilizer to the soil
Return the soil to a height of about 1/2 ~ 2/3 of the depth of the planting hole
Place the seedlings in the center of the planting hole and put the remaining soil
Give plenty of water and mix roots and soil
If it collapses, stand upright about 80 cm next to it and support it gently by asahi etc
How to give mandarin orange, fertilizer

Watering (1)
Watering

Spring – Summer fruit grows plenty of time when it grows, and fruits are maturing Late autumn ~ Winter it grows to dry. For potted plants, if the surface of the soil is dry please plenty of water. Especially in the summer, you should pay attention to drainage. Basically there is no need for watering on the ground, but when the dry day of the summer continues, it gets healthy when you give water.

How to give fertilizer

When applying chemical fertilizer to the soil at the timing of planting, the land plants will apply the same slow release fertilizer to stockers once in March, June and September. Potted plants should be given the same fertilizer even in November. Apart from this, when tree momentum is weakening, it is recommended to apply quick-acting liquid fertilizer.

 
What is the timing and method of oranges pruning?

Orange
Late February – March is the time to prune the oranges. Since the sprout is made in the end of April, if you let it in early March as much as possible, the need to worry about the fruit decreases.

Since the fruits are not attached to the branches that gave the fruit in the previous year, cut it to about 1/3. On the contrary, as there is a possibility that flowers will bloom and fruit on the branches that did not adhere to in the previous year, I will leave as much as possible. Besides this, we will cut off branches that stretch too much, withered branches, inward branches, etc from the base. In the end it is good to make it into a natural shape of eccentricity.

When and how do you re-plant oranges?

Potted plants will be rearranged once every 1 to 2 years and raised while watching the degree of growth. The timing and procedure are the same as when planting. Eventually it will grow up to about 2 meters, so switching to ground plantation will be one way when it becomes a certain size.

When and how will the oranges be harvested? Is the fruit necessary?

Orange
Fruiting

If the stock is too much fruit, it will put a burden on the stock and the taste will fall. For that reason, we will limit the number of ripe fruits that are not ripe yet, so that the nutrition of the stock will be successful. Let’s pick up blue fruit still by hands and scissors around July and August. If it is a potted plant 1-2 pieces on the branch, leaves on the leaves 20-30 pieces if the plant is planted, the color glossy is good, I will choose and leave the size of reasonable size.

harvest

Although the time of harvesting differs depending on the variety, it will be able to enjoy by harvesting fruit from around October. It is the timing to pick up when the whole real stains into orange.

What are diseases and pests that you care about cultivating oranges?

Mandarin orchard is a fruit tree with little worry of diseases and pests, but it suffers from damage of Ekkimushi, Chihiro and Scaraba. Especially evidence that when wood chips were coming out of the trunk, bamboo shoots gave birth to eggs in trees. Let’s remove it by stabbing a wire in a hole or spraying a nozzle type insecticide.

Let’s challenge the cultivation of oranges

Orange
Mandarin orange is one of the representative fruit trees in Japan and has been cultivated since ancient times. For that reason it is easy to raise, difficulty in fruit trees is low. In addition, it is the reason that it is a perfect reason for fruit tree introductory edition, with less concern of disease and pests. The leaves that are thick and dark green are evergreen, so you can enjoy it even if you grow up with the symbol tree of the garden.