When Is the Best Time to Plant Daylily (Huanghuacai)? A Detailed Guide to Prices and Yield Per Mu
Daylily, also known as golden needle vegetable or "forget-your-worries grass," is a fairly common plant widely grown for its anti-inflammatory, hemostatic and eyesight-improving properties. At present, the daylily from Qidong, Hunan, China is quite well known. So when is the best time to plant daylily? How much is it per jin? About how many jin does one mu yield?
Planting time for daylily:
1. Spring and autumn are the best seasons for planting daylily. Keep the greenhouse temperature at 25 degrees during the day and no lower than 12-15 degrees at night; seedlings emerge in 1 week. After emergence, gradually lower the greenhouse temperature so the plants adapt to the outside climate and the seedlings do not grow leggy.
2. There are two most suitable seasons for transplanting daylily: one is early autumn, that is, the period from after the flower buds are all picked to before the autumn shoots sprout; the other is the winter dormant period, from after the autumn shoots wither following winter frost to before the spring shoots sprout the following year.
Latest daylily prices in 2018
Fresh daylily currently costs around 5 yuan per jin.
Dried daylily costs around 20 yuan per kilogram. Dried daylily is not a hard-to-obtain ingredient, so its price is fairly affordable. Generally speaking, dried daylily costs around 20 yuan per kilogram, and rehydrated dried daylily yields a good amount, so one jin of dried daylily can be eaten over several meals.
About how many jin does one mu yield? How much money can you make?
Planting one mu of daylily can produce about 150 kilograms of dried daylily. At the current market price, it sells for about 40 yuan per jin, giving an income of roughly 12,000 yuan per mu.
Daylily cultivation techniques attached:
1. Reasonable close planting: Close planting of daylily can give full play to population advantages, increase the number of tillers, bolts and flower buds, and thereby raise yields. Generally, wide-and-narrow row cultivation is mostly used: wide rows 60-75 cm, narrow rows 30-45 cm, hill spacing 9-15 cm, with 2-3 plants per hill, planting 45,000-75,000 plants per hectare, reaching 1.5 million-2.25 million plants per hectare at peak production.
2. Appropriately deep planting: The root mass of daylily grows from around the shortened stem and has the characteristic of one layer per year, with the rooting position moving upward year by year from bottom to top. Therefore, appropriately deep planting helps the plants survive and thrive, and the suitable planting depth is 10-15 cm. After planting, water to settle the roots, and keep the soil moist regularly before the autumn shoots emerge to favor the growth of new shoots.
3. Intertillage and earthing up: Daylily has a fleshy root system and needs a fertile, loose soil environment to favor the growth and development of the root mass. During the growing period, carry out intertillage 3-4 times according to growth and soil compaction: the 1st time when the seedlings are just emerging, and the 2nd to 4th times during the bolting stage together with earthing up.