A Detailed Guide to Plantain Planting Time and Growth Cycle
Does anyone want to grow plantain? Then do you know the planting time and growth cycle of plantain? If you do not know, how can you grow it? So let the editor explain it to everyone. In order to answer your questions, the editor collected various related materials online and organized them into the following points for your reference. Let's learn together.
Plantain Planting Time
1. What mainly affects plantain planting is the regional environment. Different regions have relatively large climate differences, so the sowing season is not fixed, and the local actual conditions should prevail. At present, there are many methods online about plantain planting techniques. You can look at them, but you cannot apply them blindly. What suits them may not suit your area.
2. In northern China, because the climate is rather cold, spring sowing is slightly later, generally not until late April or even early May, while in southern China the climate warms up relatively quickly, so sowing can generally be done in early April. This is the difference.
3. The sowing time for plantain seeds is mainly in the two seasons of spring and autumn, but you should also note that climate conditions differ from place to place, so the corresponding specific times will differ somewhat.
Plantain Growth Cycle
1. After emergence, plantain grows slowly and is easily suppressed by weeds, so weeds should be removed promptly during the seedling stage. Weeding should be combined with loosening the soil, generally 3 to 4 times a year for loosening the soil and weeding. When the seedlings are 3 to 5 cm high, thin them. For drilling, keep seedlings at a plant spacing of 10 to 15 cm. Plantain likes fertilizer. After fertilizing, the leaves grow more, the plants are vigorous and their resistance is enhanced, the spikes are numerous and long, and the yield is high.
2. The first fertilization is in May, applying 22500 kg of light human and livestock manure water per hectare to enhance its growth; the second is in early July. At this time, plantain enters the young spike differentiation stage, and some young spikes emerge from the leaf axils. Nitrogen should be controlled while phosphorus, potassium, boron fertilizer, hormones, and so on should be supplemented to create conditions for flowering and seed setting.
When to Harvest Plantain for the Best Medicinal Effect
1. For medicinal plantain seed, in summer and autumn several flower stems emerge from the leaf cluster, and there are many light green small flowers on the stems, which bear fruit after flowering. Plantain has a relatively long heading stage, so it must be harvested in batches multiple times, harvesting one batch when it matures. When the grains on the spike stems turn dark brown, they can be harvested.
1. Plantain seeds can be used as medicine. When the seed is used as medicine, cut the fruit spikes when they are mature, dry them in the sun, rub out the seeds, and winnow away impurities. This is generally done in summer and autumn when the seeds mature, harvesting the fruit spikes.
2. For medicinal use, the whole plant of plantain is generally harvested when the whole plant is growing luxuriantly and flower buds have appeared but the flowers have not opened, or when the flowers are in full bloom. Then for this plantain, it should be around the summer solstice, when growth is luxuriant, harvested before it opens, and dried in the sun for medicinal use.
3. For use as a vegetable, the seedlings and tender stems of plantain can be eaten. After the seedlings emerge, 35 to 40 days later, when the plant height is 15 to 20 cm, the leaf color is dark green, and the leaf buds are tender, before the flower stems have been produced, they can be harvested. When harvesting, they can be pulled up with the roots, or cut from the root crown, washed clean with clear water, and then processed for eating. Eating methods include: cold dressing by blanching in boiling water, pickling as sour vegetables, stir-frying, stewing, and so on.
What Is the Difference Between Plantain Herb and Plantain Seed
1. Plantain seed: medicinal plantain seed is the dried mature seed of the Plantaginaceae plant Plantago asiatica or Plantago depressa. This product is sweet and cold in nature and flavor, enters the kidney, bladder, liver, and lung meridians, and functions to promote diuresis and treat strangury, exude dampness and stop diarrhea, clear the liver and improve vision, and clear heat and resolve phlegm. It is a commonly used medicinal material.
2. Plantain herb: a Chinese medicine for promoting diuresis and exuding dampness. Main indications: mainly difficult urination, strangury turbidity and vaginal discharge, edema and fullness, summerheat-dampness diarrhea and dysentery, red eyes and eye obstruction, and phlegm-heat cough and asthma. The effects of these two medicines are generally the same, and clinically they can substitute for each other, but note the difference in dosage.
3. Plantain seed is also known as plantain fruit, toad clothing seed, pig ear spike seed, and phoenix eye kernel. The medicinal name plantain seed is the dried mature seed of the Plantaginaceae plant Plantago asiatica or Plantago depressa. Plantago asiatica is also known as plantain herb, wheel grass, and so on. It is a biennial or perennial herb. It has many fibrous roots. The rhizome is short and slightly thick. The leaves are basal and rosette-shaped, lying flat, spreading obliquely, or upright; the leaf blades are thinly papery or papery, broadly ovate to broadly elliptic.
After reading the above materials, I believe everyone has some understanding of the planting time and growth cycle of plantain. If you want to grow plantain, you must not do it blindly. You must first understand its planting methods. Therefore, I hope that after reading the above introduction, everyone can act according to their ability.