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Garlic Virus-Free Propagation Technology: Using Aerial Bulbils as Seed
Garlic is usually propagated asexually through cloves (underground bulbs). Cloves are modified lateral buds and are part of the mother plant. Long-term asexual reproduction inevitably leads to the accumulation of viruses within the plant as well as the buildup of other undesirable traits, causing degeneration of garlic seed stock. However, the aerial bulbils produced by sexual reproduction of garlic undergo a natural virus-elimination process during the alternation of generations between sporophyte and gametophyte. According to many years of production practice, using garlic aerial bulbils (garlic beads) as seed can accelerate the propagation of elite varieties and has the effect of reducing virus accumulation and improving seed vigor
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Detailed Introduction to Fengsuan No.1, a New Dual-Purpose Garlic Variety
“Fengsuan No.1” garlic has characteristics such as early maturity, vigorous growth, cold tolerance, disease resistance, early bolting, large bulbs, high yield and good quality. It is an ideal variety for autumn planting of dual-purpose (bolt and bulb) garlic in the Huang-Huai River basin. The plant height is 60-70 cm, the pseudostem height is about 25 cm, and the pseudostem diameter is 1.5-2 cm; each plant has 80-100 fibrous roots, 20-48 cm long and 0.07-0.18 cm thick, with about 2/3 of the fibrous roots branching; the whole growth period has 12-14 leaves, and 6-7 leaves at overwintering.
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How to Grow Six-Clove White Garlic? A Detailed Guide to High-Efficiency Cultivation Techniques
Garlic is a traditional export vegetable in China and has now become the vegetable product with the highest single-item foreign exchange earnings. With the rapid development of production, processing, and export, the international market has increasingly high requirements for the appearance and quality of garlic. In 2001, Laiyang City, Shandong Province, introduced Japanese six-clove white garlic and successively conducted trial plantings and promotion in multiple locations within the province, including Yantai, Qingdao, Jinan, and Liaocheng. In 2002, the planting area exceeded 15 hm2. Comparative introduction trials and promotion efforts over several years have shown that six-clove white garlic is an excellent variety mainly grown for garlic bulbs, with good marketability, great potential in domestic and international markets, and high planting returns.
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Garlic as a green feed additive offers many benefits
Garlic is a feed additive for mold prevention in summer and for producing green food that is hygienic and safe, and it is the preferred plant for controlling drug residues as a green feed additive with wide sources and low price. Its characteristics are introduced as follows: 1. Biological characteristics of garlic: 1.1 Garlic (ALLiumsativum), also known as hu garlic or single-clove garlic, with a solid bulb shaped like a crescent according to the color of the outer skin membrane, is a natural perennial herbaceous cultivated vegetable type, with a strong garlic odor and medicinal value similar to antibiotics, but without the side effects of antibiotic drug residues
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Key Technical Points for High-Yield Cultivation of Green Food Garlic
1 Site Conditions for Green Food Garlic The green food garlic base should be far from cities, industrial and mining areas, and main traffic lines, and there should be no "three wastes" (waste gas, wastewater, and industrial residue) discharging enterprises in the base area and its surroundings. The farmland atmospheric environment should be good, and the irrigation water quality and soil environmental quality should both comply with the "Environmental Quality Standard for Green Food Production Areas." Soil suitable for garlic growth should have a deep plow layer and fertile texture, with organic matter content above 1.0%, and loam is best. 2 Planting of Green Food Garlic 2.1 Land Preparation The plowing depth is generally about 20 cm, and the soil should be finely cultivated,
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Detailed Explanation of High-Yield Cultivation Techniques for American Boltless Garlic
In 1998, Dawangzhuang Village, Yaogezhuang Town, Gaomi City, together with Weifang Changjiang Agricultural Products Development Co., Ltd., jointly introduced American boltless garlic and conducted high-yield, high-quality cultivation trials. Through 4a of production practice, they developed a set of high-yield, high-quality cultivation techniques suited to this variety. I. Characteristics: American boltless garlic does not bolt, or the bolt is extremely thin and weak. Plant height is 68.4cm, stem diameter 1.8cm, leaf length 47.2cm, leaf width 3.9cm, with a total of 11 leaves. The bulb has a total of 15 cloves and belongs to
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How should garlic be stored to keep it fresh? These methods are very practical
1. High-temperature storage. Keeping garlic in a relatively high temperature environment between 28-32°C can keep it from sprouting, thereby extending its storage time, but this method is only suitable for shorter-term storage, because the garlic bulbs are prone to losing water, becoming spongy, and shrinking. 2. Low-humidity storage. Use mechanical refrigeration (constant-temperature warehouse storage) to lower the temperature, inhibit its life activities, and control the sprouting of the cloves. This method is currently widely used. 3. Controlled-atmosphere storage. By using the inhibitory effect of the gaseous environment on life activities, under suitable low-temperature conditions, adjust
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Detailed Explanation of Garlic Storage Methods and Technical Points
The key to garlic storage is creating suitable environmental conditions for dormancy, inhibiting sprouting and rot. The ideal environmental conditions for garlic storage are: low temperature, low humidity, and ventilation. The most suitable temperature is around 0°C, and the relative humidity is 70-80%. Its simple fresh storage requires no special or complex process equipment, and even more so no fixed storage site; it adapts to local conditions, uses local materials, has a simple process, and is low in cost. The storage time can reach 7-8 months. Storage methods include hanging storage, rack storage, and pit storage. 1. Hanging storage: After harvest, the garlic must
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Detailed Explanation of Key Control Techniques for Major Garlic Diseases
Garlic often cannot be controlled promptly and correctly because of differences in disease symptom expression, which leads to severe outbreaks and relatively large losses. Garlic growers are reminded to carry out control of the following diseases: 1. Purple blotch: In the field, the disease mostly begins at the leaf tip or the middle of the flower stalk, and after a few days spreads to the lower part. Initially it appears as slightly sunken small white spots with a slightly purple center; after enlargement, the lesions become yellow-brown, spindle-shaped or oval. When humidity is high, black mold-like material is produced on the diseased area, namely the pathogen's conidiophores and conidia. The lesions mostly have concentric rings and tend to break off from the diseased area. During storage, infected bulbs show the neck becoming dark yellow or reddish-brown soft rot. In the early stage of the disease, spray 75% chlorothalonil wettable powder at 500-600 times dilution, or 64% oxadixyl mancozeb wettable powder at 500 times dilution, 40% dimethomorph wettable powder at 500 times dilution, 58% metalaxyl mancozeb wettable powder at 500 times dilution, or 50% iprodione wettable powder at 1500 times dilution, once every 7-10 days, for 3-4 consecutive applications, all with relatively good results.
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Four Major Pests to Focus on Preventing and Controlling in Garlic Cultivation
Garlic has medicinal properties and generally does not contract diseases, so it rarely develops illness, which is already widely known. However, garlic can only suppress the occurrence of certain diseases; it cannot suppress the harm caused by pests. For pests such as aphids, seed maggots, thrips, and leafminers, careful prevention and control should be carried out to ensure garlic quality and improve cultivation benefits: 1. Aphids The aphids that mainly harm garlic include: turnip aphid, cotton aphid, green peach aphid, and mustard aphid, appearing respectively in yellow, green, yellow-green, and some in cherry red. When temperatures are higher, they are more favorable for continued reproduction and
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