How many years does it take for Schisandra to bear fruit after planting?

Schisandra is a medicinal herb, and the medicinal part is the dried ripe fruit of Schisandra chinensis or Schisandra sphenanthera, plants of the genus Schisandra in the family Magnoliaceae. In recent years, more people have been growing medicinal herbs, and Schisandra is one of them. So, how many years does Schisandra take to bear fruit after planting?

1. How many years does Schisandra take to bear fruit after planting?

If you buy seeds yourself and plant Schisandra, it takes 3-4 years of growing to bear fruit, and it only enters the full fruiting period in the 5th year. If you buy seedlings, a one-year-old seedling takes 2-3 years of growing to bear fruit, a three-year-old seedling can begin bearing fruit in the 2nd year, and enters the full fruiting period in the 3rd-4th year.

2. When does Schisandra bear fruit?

Schisandra is divided into northern Schisandra and southern Schisandra, and the quality of northern Schisandra is better than that of southern Schisandra.

The main production area of northern Schisandra is the Lesser Khingan Mountains and the Changbai Mountain area, mainly distributed in the three provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang in Northeast China, followed by Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Shandong, Inner Mongolia and other places, with the three northeastern provinces having the widest distribution range, the largest output and the best quality. The flowering period is May-June, and the fruiting period is August-September. The buds are single buds or mixed buds; a mixed bud contains 2-3 flowers, and sometimes 4-5 flowers; the flowers are milky white or pink; the fruit is an aggregate berry, nearly spherical, and bright red when ripe.

Southern Schisandra is produced in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan in China. Wild plants grow below an altitude of 1000 m, in mixed woods in mountainous areas, at forest edges or in thickets in mountain gullies, twining around other trees to grow. The flowering period is June-September, and the fruiting period is September-December. The flowers are solitary in leaf axils, white or pale yellow; the aggregate fruit is spherical, and the small berries are obovate.