For commercial cultivation of litchi, only the plant prepared by Air layering should be used. Due to lack of parental qualities in seed plants good fruits do not come and fruiting is also delayed in them. To prepare this in the month of May-June choose a healthy and straight branch 40-50 cm from the top of the branch.
Make a 2 cm wide ring in the circle near a knot at the bottom. Applying a paste of 1000 ppm cover the honeycomb with moist moss and wrap a piece of white polythene of 400 gauge and tie it tightly with twine.
The roots are fully developed within about 2 months of tying the layering. Therefore, at this time about half the leaves of the branch were removed and cut from the main back and planted in a partially shady place in the nursery. There must be hardening required in the shed net for such type of plant.
