Artificial factors for Stimulation of Flowering
Last Updated on June 30, 2018 by Naeem Javid Muhammad Hassani
Artificial factors for stimulation of flowering
Since flowering is mainly concerned with carbohydrates (C-H-O), therefore, treatments which prevent the movement of carbohydrates from the top also produces early flowering:
These treatments are:
- Root pruning: (injury to roots)
- Girdling: (removing of bark in a circular section)
- Strangulation (to restrict the flow of something) by wire or metal band.
- Inverting of a ring of bark:
- Tying a knot in a young tree/ branch
- Planting at an angle of 45 degrees. (less food transportation)
- Grafting on dwarf root stack
- Training the branches to horizontal position
- Fertilization, esp. phosphorus.
- Sickly trees sometimes produce an abundant crop of small fruit as a last effort before dying.
- Similarly, heavily tapped pines also produce abundant flowers.
- Diseased trees or trees in adverse conditions will produce more flowers to establish their regeneration
- Dominant trees produce more flowers as they receive more light which means more food while a suppress tree does not produce more flowers.
A single tree produces more flowers because max exposure to sunlight results in more photosynthesis hence more food accumulation.
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NJMH is working as Deputy Conservator of Forests in Balochistan Forest & Wildlife Department (BFWD). He is the CEO of Tech Urdu (techurdu.net) Forestrypedia (forestrypedia.com), Majestic Pakistan (majesticpakistan.pk), All Pak Notifications (allpaknotifications.com), Essayspedia, etc & their YouTube Channels). He is an Environmentalist, Blogger, YouTuber, Developer & Vlogger.
