How to Grow Goldenrain Tree: Planting Techniques and Precautions

There are a great many plants used for landscaping, and today we will take a look at one of them, called the goldenrain tree. The goldenrain tree is a fairly common plant, mostly used for street tree cultivation, and it can often be seen along roadsides. In spring, the goldenrain tree's leaves are tender red, and in summer they turn dark green again, giving it very high ornamental value and making it deeply loved by everyone.

How to Grow Goldenrain Tree

1. Seed collection: The goldenrain tree's fruit ripens from September to October. Select well-grown, straight-trunked, broad-crowned, plump-fruited superior individual trees in their prime age as mother trees for seed collection, and collect promptly when the fruit shows reddish-brown or orange-yellow color but the capsule has not yet split open.

2. Fruit processing: After the fruit is collected, it should be dried in the sun or spread out in the shade promptly, and once the capsule splits open, beat it to thresh out the seeds, then clean the seed by sieving.

3. Seed germination: The seed coat of the goldenrain tree seed is hard and not easily permeable to water, so if sown in spring of the following year without germination treatment, it often fails to sprout or has a very low germination rate. Therefore, it is best to sow in autumn of the same year, letting the seed complete the germination stage in the soil, which can save the steps of seed storage and germination, and in the coming spring the seedlings emerge early and uniformly and grow robustly.

4. Sowing: The goldenrain tree is generally raised by field seedling cultivation. The sowing site should have loose, breathable soil, good water retention and drainage, a certain level of fertility, and no underground pests or pathogens. Spring-sown

Goldenrain Tree Planting Techniques and Precautions

I. Planting Techniques

1. Soil

When growing the goldenrain tree, attention should be paid to the soil. It can tolerate barren and dry conditions, but it prefers to grow in calcareous soil.

2. Temperature

The goldenrain tree is quite adaptable to temperature, and can even endure more than 20 degrees below zero.

3. Watering

The goldenrain tree is relatively drought-tolerant but not waterlogging-tolerant, so special attention must be paid when watering.

4. Fertilizing

During the peak growth period, quick-acting fertilizer mainly of nitrogen should be applied to promote the plant's vegetative growth. In early autumn, nitrogen fertilizer should be stopped and phosphorus and potassium fertilizers increased to raise the plant's degree of lignification and improve the seedlings' cold resistance. In winter, farmyard organic fertilizer should be applied as base fertilizer, which both provides sustained nutrients for seedling growth and serves to keep warm and improve the soil.

II. Precautions

1. The goldenrain tree is a sun-loving tree species that likes light and a humid climate, and has no strict requirements for soil. It can be transplanted in both the north and the south. When transplanting the goldenrain tree, a sandy loam site with good drainage and loose soil must be chosen; never plant it in clay soil. When transplanting the goldenrain tree, choose an overcast day or the evening, keep the soil ball, and water thoroughly in time to avoid the seedling lacking water.

2. Besides applying sufficient base fertilizer when transplanting, topdressing should also be carried out during its growth period. Generally speaking, in the early winter of the planting year, along with watering against frost, some decomposed and fermented cow or horse manure or sesame paste residue can be applied. After flowering the next year, some nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium compound fertilizer can also be applied, and once more farmyard manure in early winter; subsequent management can follow this method.

Seedling Stage Management Methods for Goldenrain Tree

1. Shading

When growing young seedlings, be sure to provide shade, but the specific shading method should still be determined according to the growing environment; generally it is to protect the seedlings from sunburn. Wait until the light is not so intense, then gradually expose them to light.

2. Daily management

When growing goldenrain tree seedlings, be sure to loosen the soil frequently to keep the soil loose, and water reasonably to keep the soil moist, which is beneficial to its growth. Observe the growth of the seedlings and thin or fill in seedlings appropriately to ensure the plants are in the best growing state.

Goldenrain Tree Cutting Propagation Methods

1. Collecting cuttings

For the goldenrain tree, after the trees shed their leaves in autumn, the trunks can be collected as stock wood, or the goldenrain tree's water sprouts can be collected as stock wood, and the stock wood should be buried with wet sand or wet soil to keep its moisture.

2. Cutting the slips

Take out the buried stock wood, cut it into stem segments of equal length, and make the lower cut at a slant to facilitate cutting propagation.

3. Winter storage of slips

Choose a shady spot that does not easily accumulate water for winter storage, place the slips in a dug sand trench, then cover with half a meter's thickness of wet sand.

4. Cutting the slips

Choose loamy soil rich in humus, loose and breathable, with good water retention, apply a sufficient amount of decomposed organic fertilizer as base fertilizer, and during cutting, part of the slip should be left exposed above the ground.

5. Management after cutting

Keep the soil with sufficient moisture, apply an appropriate amount of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer, and during the seedling's hardening period control water and fertilizer to raise the seedling's degree of lignification.

Relatively speaking, the goldenrain tree is not difficult to grow. It is itself a plant that likes sufficient light and tolerates cold, and its adaptability to the environment is also very strong. But this plant differs in one respect: it is not tolerant of waterlogging, so mastering its watering method is very important.