Re: Lychee
- To: Michael Mace
- Subject: Re: Lychee
- From: M* F*
- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 20:09:57 -1000 (HST)
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Michael Mace wrote:
Not too complicated. My kid brother did it once with fire. He was
burning the dropped leaves and branches and managed to burn an allmost
complete ring around the base of the tree. Let me tell you, did the tree
produce a huge crop of fruit that year. What the girdling does is allows
the branches to store sugars and prevents translocation to the roots (i.e.
blockage of the phloem). The sugars get storred inthe branches and this
promotes flower and fruit production the following season. May want to
avoid doing asomething as radical as my younger brother...
MTF
>
> I think some of the growers reported that they partially
> girdle branches (using a twisted wire) to increase fruit
> production. Sounded kind of complicated.
>
> Mike
> San Jose, CA (zone 9, min temp 20F)
>
