Introduction to honey pomelo: Origin and morphological characteristics of honey pomelo

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Introduction of Pomelo

Honey pomelo has a thin and smooth orange-yellow skin with a strong fragrance. The flesh is crystal clear, juicy, crisp, without residue, without seeds or with few seeds. It is sweet and sour and has excellent quality. Honey pomelo won the Ministry of Agriculture's High-quality Agricultural Product Award in 1989 and the Gold Award at the Spark Program Science and Technology Achievement Award Expo during the "Seventh Five-Year Plan" in 1991.

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Name: Honey Pomelo

Scientific name: Guanxi pomelo

English name: Citrus grandis (L.) ()sbeck. cv

Latin name: Citrus grandis (L.) ()sbeck. cv

Family: Rutanceae

Morphological characteristics of honey pomelo

The fruit is large and thin-skinned, juicy and sweet, with a refreshing taste, small seeds and a jade-like color.

Honey pomelo is an evergreen fruit tree of the Rutaceae, Citrus subfamily, and Citrus genus. It is also known as frost pomelo, stinky orange, pomelo, and pomelo. There are many varieties of honey pomelo, such as pomelo, Shatian pomelo, Pingshan pomelo, four-season pomelo, and big red pomelo. Honey pomelo is mostly picked when the fruit is ripe in October and November. Honey pomelo is a must-have fruit for family gatherings and moon-watching during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Honey pomelo is a fairy fruit that symbolizes family reunion and a happy life.

Guanxi honey pomelo fruit is pear-shaped, large, single fruit weight 1.5-2.0 kg, the largest single fruit up to 5 kg. Thin and smooth skin, orange-yellow, rich fragrance, crystal clear flesh, juicy flesh, crispy, no residue, no seeds or few seeds, sweet and sour taste, excellent quality. Ripening period is late October to early November.

Distribution of honey pomelo production areas

Guanxi honey pomelo is native to Xilin and Lianxing in Xiaoxi Town, Pinghe County. It is a famous fine variety in ancient and modern times. According to the "Miscellaneous Notes of Fujian" in 1857, "After the Fuju orange, the Pinghe pomelo should be pushed. Those from other places have two layers of flesh, with vertical lines connecting the upper and lower parts, while those from Pinghe are horizontally and vertically embedded without layers, and the fragrance can rival that of lychee..." It can be seen that Pinghe honey pomelo has a cultivation history of more than 500 years. Honey pomelo has enjoyed a high reputation more than 100 years ago. Honey pomelo was used as a tribute in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Honey pomelo won the Ministry of Agriculture's High-quality Agricultural Products Award in 1989, and honey pomelo won the gold medal at the Spark Program Science and Technology Achievement Award Expo during the "Seventh Five-Year Plan" in 1991.

Guanxi honey pomelo is mainly distributed in various towns in Pinghe. Honey pomelo is widely planted in various parts of the province, and Hunan, Guangdong and other provinces have also introduced honey pomelo in large quantities.

Honey pomelo- cultivation tips

Under conditions of sufficient fertilizer and water, young trees can sprout 4-5 times a year, and the spring shoots are the fruit-bearing mother branches.

Key points for cultivation of honey pomelo

Honey pomelo grows in good ecological conditions and avoids shade. It is suitable for planting in low-altitude hilly mountains in the southeast with gentle terrain.

For young trees, sufficient fertilizer is mainly applied to promote shoot growth. For fruiting trees with a yield of more than 50 kg per plant, N: P2O5: K2O: CaO: MgO = 1: 0.54~0.59: 0.96~1.05: 1.33~1.37: 0.24~0.27 should be maintained throughout the year. In order to reduce fruit cracking, fertilizer and water management should be strengthened. 90% of the annual fertilizer application can be arranged from fruit picking to early summer, especially potassium fertilizer should be concentrated in summer. High-grafted Wenzhou mandarin oranges can bear fruit and mature early, improve cold resistance, and can bear fruit 2 years earlier than young trees.

Guanxi pomelo has strong dryness, so you can use thinning to make skylights on upright large branches, side windows on the upper periphery, and small windows on the lower fruiting branches. Pay attention to cutting off dense branches, upright branches, and vigorous branches. Young trees grow very vigorously, so they need to be properly girdled (peeled) to promote early production. The first girdling is from early November to mid-December, and the second girdling is when 2/3 of the flowers have faded, and the location is at the base of the main branches that have already bloomed.

Honey Pomelo- Scientific Value

This variety generally starts to produce in the third year and goes into production in the fourth year, with an output of more than 1,000 dry grams per mu. The fruit is rich in vitamins, proteins and other nutrients, and has the effects of lowering blood pressure and soothing the mind, removing phlegm and moistening the lungs, and helping digestion and relieving alcohol. It has a fitness effect on patients with cardiovascular disease, obesity and constipation, and the middle layer of the peel has medical value such as curing asthma.

The fruit contains 10 elements, including chlorine, magnesium, sodium, aluminum, calcium, titanium, manganese, copper, bromine, and vanadium. In particular, the content of magnesium, calcium, and copper is higher than that of other fruits. Therefore, its pulp has the effects of lowering blood pressure and soothing the mind, preventing cancer and cardiovascular diseases, removing phlegm and moistening the lungs, helping digestion and relieving alcohol, reducing internal heat and promoting urination, and has certain therapeutic effects on spondylitis, abscesses, obesity, constipation, diabetes, etc.