How to plant mandarin seeds so they sprout and survive

The orange originated in China, and its several thousand years of cultivation history has already made its specific location clear. Today I will tell you how to plant mandarin seeds?

1. How to plant mandarin seeds

Put the seeds in clean water to soak, changing the water once a day. After soaking for about a week, remove the thin skin outside the seeds, then sow them into the soil, and they will sprout faster.

2. How to choose mandarins

1. Look at size and color

A medium-sized mandarin is best; ones that are too large have thick peel and poor sweetness. Look at the leaves on the mandarin's stem; the fresher the leaves, the better the mandarin.

2. Feel the smoothness

Mandarins with a moderate sweet-and-sour taste mostly have smooth skin, and the oil gland dots on the surface are relatively fine and dense.

3. Test the elasticity

Mandarins with thin peel, thick flesh and plenty of juice will all have good elasticity. When you squeeze them with your hand, the flesh feels firm but not hard, and as soon as you let go, it immediately springs back to its original shape.

3. Morphological characteristics of the mandarin

Leaves

Unifoliolate compound leaves. The winged petiole is usually narrow, or only a trace remains, and the leaf blade is lanceolate. Oval or broadly ovate, with relatively large variation in size. The apex often has a notch, the midrib branches in a forked shape from the base to near the notch, and the leaf margin usually has blunt or rounded teeth at least on the upper half, rarely entire.

Flowers

Citrus flowers are mixed flowers, having organs such as shoots, leaves and flowers after sprouting. Flowers occur as solitary flowers and as inflorescences: red mandarin, Satsuma mandarin and others have solitary flowers, while sweet orange, lemon, grapefruit and others have inflorescences in addition to solitary flowers, and pomelo mainly has inflorescences. Citrus usually needs pollination and fertilization before it sets fruit, but Satsuma mandarin, navel orange and others can set fruit without fertilization; this is parthenocarpy, also called parthenocarpic fruiting.

Fruit

The fruit shape is usually oblate to nearly spherical, and the peel is very thin and smooth, or thick and rough, pale yellow, vermilion or dark red, very easy or somewhat easy to peel, with very many or relatively few segment membranes, in a net-like pattern, easy to separate, usually tender, and the central column is large and often hollow, rarely solid.

Generally, mandarins are native, but hybrid citrus are crossbred varieties, usually hybrids of mandarin and orange, and some also have pomelo genes.