Flowering management of pear trees

Pre-flowering care of pear trees

Topdressing before flowering

The pear tree needs to be fertilized before it blooms. Appropriate fertilization can improve the quality of flowering and provide the nutrients needed for flowering. This will result in more results.

Generally, you can apply compound fertilizer once half a month before the pear tree blooms, and apply fertilizer according to the needs of the plant.

Re-pruning before flowering

Before the pear tree blooms, it can be pruned again to make it bloom and bear fruit better. Generally, when there are more flowers left on the pear tree, you can thin it out and cut off thin branches or diseased and dead branches. Then you need to thin out the flower buds and keep the ones with better growth to make them bear better fruits.

Management of pear trees during flowering period

Flower thinning and pollination

When the pear tree blooms, there are usually many flowers on the inflorescence, which consumes a lot of nutrients. You can cut off the extra flowers and only keep the flowers that are going to bear fruit, so that the nutrients are more concentrated.

In addition, in order to increase the fruit setting rate, pollination can also be carried out by collecting pollen in advance.

Spray borax solution during flowering period

Boron can promote the plant to increase the fruit set rate. During the flowering period of the pear tree, you can spray some borax solution or potassium dihydrogen phosphate to increase the fruit set rate.

Freeze protection during flowering period

The pear tree blooms very early, and the temperature is not very high at this time, so frost protection is needed. You can water before flowering to delay the flowering period. Or you can paint the tree trunks white to slow down the temperature rise of the trees and delay the flowering period. You can also smoke directly to keep warm and moisturize. These measures are all anti-freeze.