The pleasure of picking oranges.

The fun of picking oranges is a good word. Picking oranges is really a wonderful enjoyment. When you hold scissors in the orchard and cut out oranges, the sense of accomplishment is really unspeakable.

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Oranges are fruits of orange trees belonging to Rutaceae and Citrus, also known as Guo Huang, Citrus, Jinhuan and Liu Ding. Its native plant, the orange tree, is an evergreen tree with oval toothed leaves. The fruit of an orange is round or rectangular, slightly flat from top to bottom.

The color of the peel is orange and there are many lenticels on the surface, which makes the skin feel rough. Mature pericarp is red and yellow, which can be used as medicine; Wood can be used as utensils, and the fruit generally ripens in winter, which is one of the four famous fruits in the world.

Oranges, native to southeastern China, are mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei and other places, and distributed in tropical fruit areas all over the world. Like warm environment, not cold-resistant, more shade-resistant, requiring loose and fertile soil, deep water permeability and air permeability. Generally, breeding methods such as sowing, grafting, cutting and air layering are used for breeding.

Knowledge expansion:

Oranges like warm environment, not cold-resistant, more shade-tolerant, requiring deep soil layer, loose soil, fertile soil, good water permeability and air permeability. Oranges are native to southeast China, mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei and other places, and distributed in tropical fruit areas all over the world.

It is necessary to dig holes and solidify soil, prohibit planting tall plants such as corn and wheat in the garden, and do a good job in rational intercropping and intertillage weeding in the orchard. It is necessary to fully meet the demand of citrus for various nutrient elements, advocate the application of more organic fertilizers, and rationally apply inorganic fertilizers and formula fertilizers. According to the results of leaf analysis, orchard soil analysis and blood orange phenology, fertilization is guided.

According to the maturity, use and market demand of citrus fruits, the harvest time is determined. It is not suitable to pick fruits in rainy days and when the dew on the fruit surface is not dry. People who pick fruit should wear gloves, cut the fruit together with the fruit handle with a round-headed fruit scissors, then cut the fruit pedicle flat and handle it gently.

Pick fruits from outside to inside and from top to bottom. The inner wall of all fruit containers should be smooth, and the harvested fruits should be transported to the packaging yard or storage warehouse in time. Avoid sun and rain.