Most times old trees don’t bear fruits again, many factors will make an old tree stop bearing fruits such as lack of appropriate nutrients in the soil to help boost fruit production, pests, and diseases, and also too many dead branches. Here are steps to revive an old tree and get to fruit again.
Steps to take
- First, you have to trim off dead wood and branches. Use a pruning shear or pruning scissors to cut the dead and old branches, you can also make use of a cutlass to cut bigger branches.
- You have to prune the excess branches the get the tree to a smaller maintainable size which also helps the tree to get more sunlight.
- Apply a chemical like fruit pest which supplies the soil with the nutrients necessary for fruit production. Dig the ground till getting to the root and pour in the chemicals.
- Also, add manure to help replenish the soil and boost the growth of the tree. Pour in compost or farmyard manure, water it, and now cover the root with soil.
- Check if the tree has diseases and pests attacking it. Spray the tree with a mixture of insecticide and fungicide to kill the pest and prevent the spread of the disease and pest on the tree.
After doing the following, you should be checking on the tree from time to time. It should be able to start bearing fruits again in the next 3 to 6 months depending on the fruiting season.
