Red Oil Chinese Mahogany (Toona sinensis) Cultivation Techniques and Key Points for High-Yield Management
Growing Red Oil Chinese Mahogany is a fairly popular topic right now, because Chinese mahogany shoots fetch a relatively high price, and many friends want to get some return from it. Today let's take a look together at Red Oil Chinese Mahogany cultivation techniques!
1. Red Oil Chinese Mahogany cultivation techniques
To grow Red Oil Chinese Mahogany, you need to select new seeds from the current year for sprouting; when 40% of the seeds have sprouted, they can be sown. Apply enough base fertilizer, then prepare the beds and plant the seedlings, with beds generally 60-100 cm wide. Seedlings emerge about 7 days after sowing; when 4-6 true leaves have grown, thin and finalize the seedlings. Later, do a good job with humidity control, water and fertilizer management, and so on.
2. Main Chinese Mahogany cultivation models
1. High-yield cultivation model of Chinese Mahogany in a solar greenhouse. Choose dwarf, high-quality, high-yield varieties, raise strong seedlings as required, and carry out greenhouse cultivation each year in autumn or spring; a greenhouse with an area of 200 sq m can plant about 1,200 seedlings. Keep the greenhouse temperature at 18-25°C, and generally one crop of mahogany shoots can be produced every 15-20 days. If the cultivated variety is excellent, and water, fertilizer, air and temperature are properly controlled, and some special production and pest and disease control techniques are used, the harvested yield of mahogany shoots can reach 3-4 kg per sq m, especially for marketing in winter and spring. The economic benefit per mu can reach as high as 40,000 yuan.
2. Intercropping and relay intercropping model of Chinese Mahogany with grain crops. Because the Chinese Mahogany tree is tall and is grown for picking tender shoots, its shading and light blocking are reduced, making it suitable for planting on field ridges and borders, forming an intercropping and relay intercropping model with field crops. When Chinese Mahogany is sparsely planted, it can be intercropped and relay intercropped with many crops, such as wheat, rapeseed, broad beans, potatoes, etc., but in densely planted vegetable-type Chinese Mahogany, it is generally only intercropped with shade-tolerant, short, short-growth-period vegetables. While harvesting the crop yield, Chinese Mahogany shoots can also be harvested, and after the trees mature they can also be used as timber or sold, achieving both money and grain income.
3. Courtyard economy Chinese Mahogany production model. Farmers have a long history of the habit of planting Chinese Mahogany trees around their houses, and the Chinese Mahogany tree is a component of the courtyard economy. Carefully summarizing farmers' production experience, selecting suitable varieties, rationally laying them out, and comprehensively developing them can not only enrich the types of courtyard economy but also increase economic benefits, while also producing certain ecological benefits.
4. Chinese Mahogany planting model for returning farmland to forest. Choose sloped farmland being converted from cultivation with rainfall above 450 mm and a relatively humid climate that is suitable for planting Chinese Mahogany trees, or arid areas with irrigation conditions, to develop Chinese Mahogany plantations of an appropriate scale, and build Chinese Mahogany production bases that balance ecology and economy, in order to produce Chinese Mahogany shoots and cultivate timber forests.