Expert Advisory Details

PAU Advisory for Horticultural

HORTICULTURAL:

• It is optimum time for the planting of ever green fruit plants like mango, sweet orange, mandarin, lime, lemon, litchi, guava, aonla, loquat and papaya as the atmospheric temperature cools down considerably and there is enough moisture in the soil and air.
• The newly planted fruit plants are very tender and therefore, operations like irrigation,removal of sprouts stock, training, staking and plant protection measures should be undertaken with extreme care.
• For checking pre-harvest fruit drop in citrus, spray the trees with 2,4-D sodium salt of horticulture grade (5 gm) in 500 litre of water during mid September.
• In citrus, leaf miner can be checked by spraying 200 ml Crocodile/Confidor 17.8 SL (imidaclorid) and citrus psylla can be checked by spraying 200 ml Crocodile/Confidor 17.8 SL or 160g Actara/Dotara 25. To check withertip or die back, anthracnose or stem-end rot diseases, spray the plants with Bordeaux mixture 2 : 2 : 250.
• In grapes for the control of anthracnose disease, spray the vines with Bordeaux Mixture in the middle of September and again in end-September for the control of downy mildew.
• To full grown Loquat tree apply 50 kg FYM alongwith 2 kg Single Superphosphate and 1.5 kg Muriate of Potash in this month.
• Apply supplemental dose of urea @ 500 g to full grown plants of Punjab Beauty pear in this month in addition to recommended dose of fertilizers.
• Apply 500 g urea, 1250g S.S.P. and 750g Muirate of Potash to full grown guava trees as second installment of in organic fertilizers.