Can lychee be grown in Henan? An analysis of suitable conditions
Lychee is a southern fruit and has been very popular since ancient times. But it is very difficult to eat fresh lychee in the north, so some people want to grow it in Henan. So can lychee be grown in Henan?
1. Can lychee be grown in Henan?
Lychee trees can survive being grown in Henan, but they cannot bear lychee fruit. Lychee trees like high temperature and high humidity, and like light and sun. Their heredity requires relatively low temperatures during the flower bud differentiation stage, but a minimum temperature of -2 to -4°C will cause freeze damage; during the flowering stage, clear and warm weather that is not dry and hot is most favorable. Too low humidity, continuous cloudy and rainy weather, dry and hot weather, or strong north winds are all unfavorable for flowering and pollination. If the flowering and fruiting stage encounters unfavorable disastrous weather, it will cause flower and fruit drop, and even total crop failure.
2. Where is lychee grown?
Lychee is mainly grown in the southwest, south and southeast, with the most extensive cultivation in Guangdong and southern Fujian, and it is also grown in Guangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, China, Hainan and other places. If you want to grow lychee, it is best to choose to grow it in the south.
3. The benefits of lychee
Lychee is rich in nutrients, containing glucose, sucrose, protein, fat, and vitamins A, B, C, etc., as well as various nutrients such as folic acid, arginine, and tryptophan, and is very beneficial to human health. Lychee has the effects of strengthening the spleen and promoting body fluid production, and regulating qi and relieving pain. It is suitable for symptoms such as physical weakness, insufficient body fluids after illness, stomach cold pain, and hernia pain. Modern research has found that lychee has the effect of nourishing brain cells, can improve symptoms such as insomnia, forgetfulness, and frequent dreaming, and can promote skin metabolism and delay aging. However, eating excessive amounts of lychee or eating lychee by people with certain special constitutions may both lead to accidents.
Lychee is a southern fruit. If friends in the north want to eat lychee, there is only frozen lychee, and the taste will decline. There are also some canned lychees, which have been soaked in sugar water, affecting the taste of the lychee,