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Characteristics and Main Varieties of Water Dropwort
Water dropwort is also called Chu kui. It is cultivated more extensively south of the Yangtze River. The tender stems and leaf stalks are used as food, with a rather good flavor, and it is a high-yielding aquatic vegetable that can be marketed in large quantities during the spring off-season. Characteristics and traits: Water dropwort has wide adaptability to environmental conditions and strong cold resistance; after frost it can very well maintain green leaves, and cases of death from low temperatures are few. The suitable temperature for cultivation is around 20°C. Below 10°C, the stems and leaves stop growing. In summer high temperatures, growth ages, but it remains evergreen all year round. The growth and development of water dropwort are affected by day length; in autumn and winter the daylight
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Recommended Guangdong pepper varieties: two excellent varieties for growers' reference
Yuejiao No. 1 has a thick horn-shaped fruit with a broad top, green in color, fruit length 15 cm, transverse diameter 3.6 cm, average single fruit weight 46 g, mildly spicy, early maturing, about 90 days from sowing to first harvest, suitable sowing periods in the Guangzhou area are 11-1 for spring planting, 7-8 for autumn planting, and 9-11 for winter planting, with a yield of about 4500 kg per 667 sq m (1 mu). It is relatively resistant to bacterial wilt and anthracnose. Yuejiao No. 10 has a thick goat-horn-shaped fruit. It has strong growth vigor, fruit length 20 cm, transverse diameter 2.8-3.0 cm, a small fruit cavity, thick flesh, single fruit weight 60
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Introduction to the New Varieties Longjiao No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 6
Variety Introduction 1. Longjiao No. 1: Strong growth vigor, strong fruit-setting ability, and a high number of fruits per plant. The fruit is ox-horn shaped, green, with a smooth and glossy surface, fruit length 22-23 cm, shoulder width 2.0-2.5 cm, flesh thickness 0.25 cm, single fruit weight 30-45 g, good fruit marketability, tolerant of storage and transport, spicy taste, good quality, generally yielding about 4000 kg per mu, resistant to viral disease, and highly cold tolerant. The main characteristics of this variety are strong disease resistance, high yield, long fruit, large fruit, and good fruit marketability, making it suitable for
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Introduction to Unique Pepper Varieties: Two Distinctive Pepper Cultivars
1. Pumpkin Pepper. Pumpkin pepper is an annual plant of the Solanaceae family. The stems and leaves of seedlings are purple, gradually turning from purple to dark green as they grow. A single flower grows at each leaf axil, rarely two. The flowers are purple, and after flowering they produce purple fruits that turn from purple to red. What is even more unusual is that the fruit is shaped like a pumpkin, which is why it is called pumpkin pepper. Plant height is 45-60 cm in pots and can reach 1.3 m when grown in fields. Individual fruits generally weigh 3-6 grams, and each plant bears 30-50 fruits. Pumpkin pepper is edible and has an extremely strong spicy flavor, and it can also be grown as a potted plant.
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Introduction to Specialty Rice Varieties: Getting to Know Common Types of Specialty Rice
In recent years, the Department of Agronomy at South China Agricultural University has bred several specialty rice varieties, mainly including fragrant rice, fragrant black rice, red zhan rice and others. Their varietal characteristics and key cultivation points are briefly introduced as follows: 1. Wanxianxiangzhan No. 1: Wanxianxiangzhan is a variety bred by crossing Wanlixiang with Jingxian 89, and is an early-season, medium-maturity, high-quality fragrant rice. When planted in the Guangzhou area in the early season, the whole growth period is about 125 days, plant height is 90 cm, plant type is moderately compact and spreading, tillering ability is medium, each panicle has 150-200 grains, it has a certain fragrance, good eating quality, and good late-stage ripening color.
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Introduction to the Characteristics and Cultivation Techniques of Laiwu Sliced Ginger Varieties
An excellent variety from Laiwu City, Shandong Province. It has strong growth vigor, generally 70-80 cm tall, with taller plants reaching over 1 m. The leaves are emerald green, and it has strong branching ability; usually each plant has 10-15 branches, and vigorous ones can have over 20. The rhizome has yellow skin and flesh, with relatively numerous ginger balls arranged tightly; the ginger balls have many nodes and short internodes, and the upper 5 scales are pale red. The rhizome flesh is tender, with a strong pungent aroma and excellent quality; it is tolerant and suitable for transport. Generally a single rhizome weighs 200-400 g, and heavy ones can reach about 750 g. Cultivated in the ginger regions of Shandong, sown in early May and harvested in mid-to-late October, generally yielding 2000-2500 kg per 57 sq m, with high yields reaching 3000-4000 kg.
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Is japonica rice hybrid rice? Recommended high-quality japonica rice varieties
The author recently learned from the Bokun Agricultural Research Institute in Yixing City, Jiangsu Province: the institute, in cooperation with the National Rice Improvement Center of the China National Rice Research Institute and other units, has achieved a breakthrough in the work of "breeding new multi-resistant, high-yield, high-quality japonica rice varieties," successfully breeding a batch of new high-yield, high-quality japonica rice lines such as 4701 and 4714 that are resistant to pests and diseases including brown planthopper and rice blast. It is reported that the bred new high-yield, high-quality japonica rice lines combine genes for resistance to brown planthopper, white-backed planthopper, rice blast, and stripe leaf blight, as well as high-yield and high-quality
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New bamboo-rice varieties successfully bred at the Meizhou research base
Recently, the author learned from the bamboo-rice research base of the Meizhou Agricultural School in Meizhou City, Guangdong Province that various experiments on drought resistance, disease resistance and ratooning ability of bamboo rice will be carried out here this year, and scientific research on new varieties such as the special bamboo rice "bamboo purple rice" will also be launched. At the same time, bamboo rice 966 and bamboo rice 989 will continue regional trials across the province. Meizhou City has also set up 6 sites in Jiaoling, Meixian, Xingning and Wuhua counties and cities, totaling 300 mu, for trial demonstration planting of bamboo-rice cultivation techniques. The agricultural school has opened a test base to conduct drought-resistance tests on bamboo rice 966 and disease-resistance tests on bamboo rice 989.
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Introduction to 2 sweet potato varieties, for growers' reference
1. Zheshu 13 Registration number: Zherenshu 2005002 Breeding unit: Institute of Crop and Nuclear Technology Utilization, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences Variety source: Zhe 3481 x Zhe 255 Yield performance: According to multi-year, multi-site trials, the average fresh tuber yield per mu is about 2500 kg, more than 10% higher than the control Xushu 18. Characteristics: It is a mid-to-late maturing variety, with a whole growth period of about 135 days under open-field cultivation, and tends to bud and flower in autumn. Long vines, strong growth vigor, relatively large leaves,
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Introduction to the Characteristics and Cultivation Techniques of Taiwan Small Tomato Varieties
Taiwan small tomato varieties include "Yasu No. 2" and "Ruby No. 1", which are cold-tolerant and resistant to high temperatures, growing normally at temperatures between 0°C and 35°C. These varieties have a long growth cycle and generally continue to bear fruit for 1.5 to 2 years. They fruit in clusters, with about 30 fruits per cluster. The fruit is heart-shaped, bright red in color, smooth and attractive. Experimental planting has shown that each plant yields more than 10 kg, with a yield of up to 20,000 kg per mu and an income of up to 80,000 yuan per mu.
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