The method soon caught on throughout the district. Another popular technique involves covering the trees with black mosquito nets to improve yields. This reduces the amount of sunlight reaching the trees, causing nutrients from the leaves and branches to be diverted into producing fruit.
此外，蓮霧樹上蓋著黑蚊帳的「蓋網催花」技術縮短了日照時間，讓樹叢休眠；枝葉生長的養分被調節用於花果生殖，蓮霧花就被催趕出來傳宗接代。