When Do Dodder Seeds Mature? A Guide to Harvest Time

You may not be very familiar with dodder (Cuscuta). It is also known as chanzhen, bean parasite, bean king of hell, yellow silk, yellow silk vine, golden silk vine, and so on. So when do dodder seeds mature? Let's take a look together!

1. When Do Dodder Seeds Mature

Dodder matures around July each year. Dodder is generally interplanted with leguminous plants, and the planting time must take the growth of the leguminous plants into account; it is recommended to sow soybeans first, then sow dodder.

2. Control Methods

Dodder control should combine manual removal with chemical control, and the following points should be carried out well.

Strengthen cultivation management: in combination with nursery and flower garden management, carry out deep plowing and burying before dodder seeds germinate, so that they cannot sprout and emerge (generally, if buried below 3 cm, they have difficulty emerging);

Manual removal: inspect nurseries and flower gardens in late spring and early summer, and remove immediately once found, or cut off together with the parasitized and damaged parts. Because its broken stems have the ability to develop into new plants, cutting must be thorough, and the cut stem segments must not be discarded at will; they should be sun-dried and burned to avoid further spread. In places where dodder occurs commonly, it should be thoroughly pulled out before the seeds mature, so as to avoid mature seeds falling to the ground and increasing the source of infection the following year.

Spray control: during the 5-10 month growth period of dodder, spray the tree canopy with a 200-250 times dilution of 6% glyphosate aqueous solution (use a 200 times dilution from May to August, and a 250 times dilution from September to October when temperatures are lower); application should preferably be carried out before dodder flowers and sets seed. Dichlobenil at 0.25 kg/mu, or Lubao No. 1 at 1.5-2.5 kg/mu, or 3% sodium pentachlorophenate, or 3% dinitrophenol can also be used for control. It is best to spray twice, with 10 days between sprays. 

That is all Tuliu.com has summarized and organized today regarding questions related to dodder. We hope this article is helpful to you.