Nano calcium carbonate can promote wound healing after pruning in fruit trees.
Pruning is a crucial aspect of fruit tree cultivation, aimed at adjusting the tree’s growth through human intervention to achieve the following objectives:
- Maintaining Tree Structure and Promoting Airflow and Light Penetration
• Improving Photosynthesis: Pruning allows sunlight to penetrate more evenly into the tree canopy, increasing the photosynthetic area of the leaves and enhancing photosynthetic efficiency.
• Encouraging Flower Bud Differentiation: Adequate light promotes flower bud differentiation, increasing the number of flowers.
• Reducing Pests and Diseases: A well-ventilated canopy reduces the chances of pest and disease infestations, lowering the need for pesticide use.
- Regulating Tree Vigor and Balancing Vegetative and Reproductive Growth
• Controlling Vigorous Growth: Pruning can suppress excessive vegetative growth, promoting flower bud differentiation and increasing fruit production.
• Encouraging Branch Renewal: By pruning old, weak, and diseased branches, new growth is stimulated, helping to maintain tree vigor.
• Balancing Nutrient Distribution: Pruning adjusts the distribution of nutrients within the tree, directing more nutrients to the fruits, thereby improving fruit quality.
- Increasing Yield and Quality
• Increasing Fruiting Branches: Pruning can increase the number of fruit-bearing branches, thus boosting yield.
• Improving Fruit Quality: Through pruning, pest and disease damage can be reduced, enhancing the sugar content and flavor of the fruit.
- Extending Tree Longevity
• Tree Renewal: Regular pruning rejuvenates the tree, prolonging its lifespan.
- Facilitating Management
• Lowering Tree Height: Pruning can reduce tree height, making harvesting and management easier.
• Maintaining Aesthetic Shape: Pruning helps maintain the aesthetic form of the fruit tree.
Wound Issues and Treatment After Pruning
After pruning, the wounds on the fruit tree are open and susceptible to disease and pest attacks, leading to rot, infection, and even death. Proper post-pruning wound treatment is essential.
Why Should Pruning Wounds Be Treated?
• Preventing Disease Infections: Pruning wounds are entry points for pathogens. Without treatment, pathogens can easily enter through the wounds, causing branch rot and weakening the tree.
• Promoting Wound Healing: Timely wound treatment helps accelerate healing, reducing water and nutrient loss.
• Improving Disease Resistance: Treated wounds effectively block pathogens, increasing the tree's resistance to diseases.
Nano Calcium Carbonate with Water-Based Resin as a Wound Healing Agent for Fruit Trees
• Applying nano calcium carbonate to pruning wounds immediately after pruning can accelerate wound healing.
• It facilitates rapid energy transfer to the grafted part, encouraging bud development.
• Significantly increases grafting success rates.
Recommended Materials
•CaDeBug (Plant Protection Products That Are Exempted from Registration): Nano calcium carbonate suspension, useful for calcium supplementation, pest control, and wound dressing after pruning.
•DiaAgri-Sun Defender (Plant Protection Products That Are Exempted from Registration): Calcium carbonate powder, used as a sunscreen for crops such as citrus.