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Causes of Deformed Sweet Potato Storage Roots and How to Prevent Them
During the cultivation of sweet potatoes, we have all encountered the phenomenon of sweet potatoes forming some deformed storage roots. Some grow "misshapen," some are big at the head and small at the tail, forming burdock roots, some develop cracks, and some storage roots become hard, as if "red blood streaks" have grown inside them, and so on. These phenomena
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How to grow autumn sweet potatoes for high yield? Early planting is the key
Practice has proved that the yield of sweet potato is closely related to the growth of stems and leaves. Sweet potato is a warm-loving crop, and the hot and humid July to September is the golden season for cultivating autumn sweet potatoes. High-yield experience from various places has proved that timely early planting, extending the effective growth period, and increasing the effective accumulated
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Key Field Management Techniques for Growing Vegetable Sweet Potato
1. Checking seedlings and filling gaps: 5-7 days after planting, check the survival of the sweet potato vines and promptly replant strong seedlings in spots where plants are missing. 2. Topdressing: For spring sweet potatoes, 30-40 days after planting, after the vines spread and before the rows close; for summer sweet potatoes, 20-25 days after planting, open holes below the side of the ridge and apply topdressing, using 30 kg per mu of compound fertilizer (N:P:K=10:7:8); combine topdressing with loosening the soil between ridges and hoeing weeds.
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Main cultivation technical points for purple sweet potato planting
1. Land selection: Most purple sweet potatoes belong to mid-to-late maturing varieties, with tuber rapid expansion and yield formation occurring relatively late. The plot to be planted not only requires relatively high soil fertility, but the soil texture should be light loam or sandy loam, and the land levelness and drainage and irrigation conditions should be good. Purple sweet potato has
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Detailed Explanation of Foliar Fertilization Methods for Sweet Potato Cultivation
During its growth, the sweet potato can be divided into three types: weak seedlings, strong seedlings, and vigorous seedlings. Foliar fertilization must be carried out in a targeted manner according to the different growth appearances, in order to promote robust vines and high tuber yields. For weak seedlings in such fields, 0.5-1 kg of urea, 1-1.
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How to grow sweet potatoes for higher yields? These four methods are very practical
For inverted planting, first cut off the top 2-3 nodes of the sweet potato vine, then cut it into sections of 4 nodes each, remove the petioles and leaves of the upper two nodes of each section, keep the petioles and leaves of the lower two nodes, and plant them upside down on the ridge, so that one petiole base is left exposed above the ridge surface
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Detailed Explanation of Key Points for Virus-Free Sweet Potato Cultivation Techniques
Virus-free sweet potatoes differ from ordinary sweet potato varieties, and their cultivation techniques also differ. The cultivation techniques are introduced as follows: 1. Ridging and early planting. Virus-free sweet potatoes have strong drought tolerance and vigorous growth. After the wheat harvest, ridges should be made as early as possible to strive for early planting. 2. Formula fertilization. For dry and infertile land, apply 5000 kg of farmyard manure, 30-40 kg of ammonium bicarbonate, 15-20 kg of potassium sulfate, and 40-50 kg of superphosphate per mu; for medium to above-medium fertility fields, apply 3000-4000 kg of farmyard manure, 20-30 kg of ammonium bicarbonate, 20 kg of potassium sulfate, and 30 kg of superphosphate per mu. In addition to applying sufficient base fertilizer, it is also necessary to apply hole fertilizer, seedling-promoting fertilizer, tuber-promoting fertilizer, and later-stage foliar topdressing, etc.
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How to Prevent and Control Sweet Potato Stem Nematode Disease? Detailed Technical Methods
Sweet potato stem nematode disease is a devastating disease in sweet potato production. It is highly destructive and spreads quickly. It can infect and cause damage during the seedbed stage, field stage, and storage stage, but it mainly infects the tubers. Affected sweet potatoes have brown, bluish skin with cracked patterns, and the tubers are light. Some tubers show no external abnormalities, but are hollow and pithy inside. This disease not only affects the quality of sweet potatoes, but also severely affects sweet potato yield.
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What field management experience is there for sweet potatoes planted in June?
From early June, summer sweet potato planting in Huaibei of our province gradually comes to an end and enters the field management period, so field management of sweet potatoes should be strengthened. Checking seedlings and filling gaps Within one week after planting sweet potatoes, check seedlings and fill gaps to ensure a full stand. When filling gaps, select strong seedlings, water them thoroughly, and after they survive, apply extra fertilizer to the weaker seedlings.
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Five Key Points for Late-Stage Sweet Potato Management to Ensure a Bumper Harvest
After late August, summer sweet potatoes enter the critical period of tuber expansion. At this time, management should be strengthened. On one hand, the nutrients needed for tuber expansion should be met to the greatest extent possible; on the other hand, premature senescence of stems and leaves should be prevented, photosynthesis should be enhanced, and nutrient accumulation should be increased. Specific yield-boosting technical recommendations are as follows
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