How to Grow Maple Peas? Detailed Guide to Planting Methods and Key Techniques

Many young people may not be familiar with maple peas, but they are quite common among the older generation. So how do you grow maple peas? Let's take a look together!

How to Grow Maple Peas

1. First, soak the peas in cold water for a day and a night (some say warm water works too, but I used cold water, just to be on the safe side. Don't add too much water, just enough to barely cover them, otherwise the peas will suffocate).

2. Once you see the small white sprouts on the peas, you can bury them in the soil, burying them 3—5 cm deep. If buried too shallow, watering will wash the seeds out.

3. After burying them, it's time to water. The first watering must be thorough, meaning water should drip out of the hole at the bottom of the flower pot. After that, until harvest, water whenever you see the soil has dried out.

4. Then wait for them to sprout, which takes about 3—7 days. They look very cute. When the peas grow to about 20 cm, insert a bamboo stick beside them to guide them upward (because when peas grow tall they can't stand upright and will lean on the flower pot).

5. From this point on, water with fertilizer solution every ten days. Be sure to dilute it well, otherwise the bean seedlings will burn to death.

6. At this stage the bean seedlings change day by day. When they start forming flower buds, you can apply fertilizer solution more frequently. The exact interval depends on the condition of the seedlings.

7. After flowering, the blooming period generally lasts only about 2—3 days. Since peas are self-pollinating, there is no need to pollinate them by hand.

8. After the flowers fade, pods form. At this stage the peas are at their most delicate and need careful tending.

9. The podding stage takes quite a while; the exact duration depends on how the seedlings are developing. When the beans inside the pods are about the same size as the seeds, wait another week and they will be ready to harvest.

That's all we at Tuliu.com have summarized about growing maple peas for today. We hope it is helpful to you.