How flowering and fruiting occurs in litchi?

After four to five years, flowers and fruits start coming in the litchi plants prepared by air layering. It has been seen from experiment that by stopping irrigation in plants about three months before the expected time of flowering the scene is very good.

There are three types of flowers in litchi plants. In litchi, the fruit develops only in bisexual female flowers. In these flowers, the stamens are below the ovary so pollination is needed by insects so for more fruiting female flowers should be properly pollinated and insecticides should not be sprayed at the time of pollination, otherwise the fruit is affected.