Purple leaf plum cultivation methods and precautions

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How to breed purple leaf plum

Precautions for cultivating purple leaf plum

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When raising purple-leaf plums, you need to use fertile, deep, well-drained clay soil. Always place it in a sunny place and keep it warm. During the growing season, water should be watered in time, and some well-decomposed organic fertilizer should be applied in a timely manner. During the rainy season, watering should be controlled.

How to breed purple leaf plum

Cultivation methods of purple-leaf plums

Temperature and light

Purple-leaf plums like a warm and humid climate, are not cold-tolerant, and like sunshine. They should be planted in a sunny place and should not be planted. In the shade and under big trees.

Soil

Purple leaf plum grows well in fertile, deep, well-drained, clayey, neutral or acidic soil. Generally, gravel soil is suitable, but clay soil is also acceptable.

Water and fertilize

Purple leaf plum likes a humid growing environment and needs to be fully watered during the growth period. Due to heavy rainfall in July and August, watering is not necessary, and drainage work must be done to prevent water accumulation and root rot. After entering autumn, watering must be controlled, otherwise excessive water will cause the branches to grow elongated, which will easily cause frost damage in winter.

Purple Leaf Plum thrives every year Before pouring frozen water, you can apply some farmyard manure to promote lush plant growth. However, although purple-leaf plums like fertilizer, they only need to be fertilized once a year in late autumn, because once too many times or too much fertilizer is applied, the color of the leaves will easily become darker and less bright, which will reduce the viewing ability. value.

Propagation methods

Three methods are generally adopted: cutting propagation, budding, and high-altitude layering.

Purple-leaf plum cultivation precautions

Pruning work

The best tree shape of purple-leaf plum is the "evacuated layered shape", you can also use " Naturally open-shaped.” When pruning the main branches at each layer, some side branches should be appropriately retained to achieve the effect of enriching the crown of the tree without being hollow. After the tree shape is basically formed, it only needs to be properly pruned every year, such as cutting off overly dense, drooping, overlapping and dead branches.

Pest and Disease Control

Pests mainly include red spider mites, thorn moths and bag moths

Common diseases are mainly bacterial perforation disease, which is common and serious. After the onset, it affects the normal growth and ornamental appearance of the plants, and even leads to death.

Precautions for cultivating purple leaf plum

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