How to grow golden marbles and how to ensure flowering and fruiting?

Golden Ball is a relatively high-end potted plant. It is dioecious and only the female plant can bear fruit. What are the specific methods for cultivating Golden Ball and how to ensure flowering and fruiting? Let’s learn more about it below.

1. Determine the tree age

Is the age of the golden ball tree over 3 years? If it is, but the golden ball tree has not borne fruit, then consider other reasons. If not, then just wait patiently until the golden ball tree is 3 years old and then see if it will bear fruit.

2. Adequate nutrients

The branches and leaves of the golden ball plant remain evergreen all year round, and the fruit lasts for more than half a year. If you want to maintain the growth needs of the golden ball plant, you can fertilize it to provide sufficient nutrients. Apply some organic liquid fertilizer during the flowering and growing seasons, such as a small amount of edible nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers. The concentration requirement is very low. Add water and spray during watering to achieve a balanced nutrient balance, which can quickly promote the growth and development of the golden ball.

3. Do a good job of pruning

The golden marble bonsai is very resistant to pruning. Every year, we must seize the good opportunity of autumn pruning and combine it with coiling and shaping to ensure the beautiful appearance and prevent the branches from absorbing too much nutrients. This approach is more conducive to flower bud differentiation and the flowering and fruiting rate of the golden marble bonsai.

4. Maintain humidity

The golden marble bonsai should avoid sudden high or low humidity. Too great a contrast in humidity will not only seriously affect flowering and fruiting, but also requires maintaining a balanced humidity. In addition to keeping the potting soil moist at all times, you also need to increase the humidity of the air in a timely manner to ensure that the soil and air humidity always remain within the range required for the flowering and fruiting of the golden ball plant.

5. Artificial pollination

If you only have female golden marble plants at home and want them to bear fruit smoothly, you can ask other flower lovers nearby early to see if anyone has male plants. You can collect some nectar during the flowering period, come back for artificial pollination, and they will bear fruit. Artificial pollination is also very simple and does not require any technical skills. You only need to rub the pollen of the male flower into the center of the female flower.

6. Adequate lighting

The golden ball plant prefers an environment with sufficient light. After picking the fruits and pruning, it will immediately enter the stage of flower bud differentiation, so the lighting work needs to be done well. When caring for golden marbles in spring, the daily light hours should be maintained at more than 5 hours, so that more flower buds can differentiate, the quality of flowers can be high, and the fruit setting rate can be guaranteed. In addition, when there is sufficient light, the golden ball plant will sprout more new buds, and the buds will be strong, and they can easily grow into useful strong branches.

7. Do a good job of removing buds

In spring, if there is sufficient water and fertilizer, the golden ball will sprout more new shoots. During the maintenance process, pay attention to removing buds and promptly remove useless new buds from the roots and stems. At the same time, remove the buds on the branches that may affect the plant shape, grow too densely, or are too weak, so as to save nutrient consumption, maintain a good plant shape, and allow the remaining new buds to grow healthily.

That’s it