The Latest Wild Sweet Potato Growing Techniques and Methods Tutorial
Wild sweet potato is also called sweet potato bubble, ground fruit, etc. It is a deciduous creeping woody vine plant of the Moraceae family. Wild sweet potato was originally a wild fruit, but the whole plant can be used as medicine, with effects such as dispelling wind and unblocking meridians. It also has various uses such as food, landscaping and ornamental, and its economic value is very high. So how should wild sweet potato be grown? Below, the editor brings you the growing techniques for wild sweet potato, let's take a look!
1. Land preparation and seed selection
First, you must choose good planting soil. Wild sweet potato is suitable for growing in deep, loose soil with high fertility and good drainage and irrigation. And although wild sweet potato is a wild fruit with strong growth ability, it cannot be continuously cropped, and at least more than three years of crop rotation must be carried out. After selecting the land, deep plow and till the soil, apply base fertilizer together, irrigate enough water, and then select varieties with excellent quality, high yield and strong disease resistance. Use new high-fat film to dress the seeds, improve the insect resistance of the seeds, reduce bacterial infection, strengthen seed respiration, and increase the germination rate.
2. Timely sowing
The growth period of wild sweet potato is very short. If planted in May, it will roughly mature in June, and if not harvested in time, the wild sweet potato will gradually rot. Moreover, the wild sweet potato plant bears fruit only once a year, so when sowing, everyone should take various factors such as market demand and weather into consideration and control the sowing time well. If the market is bad, the planting benefit will drop sharply. After choosing the sowing time, control the sowing density and sow. After sowing, an appropriate amount of new high-fat film can be sprayed to disinfect the soil, improve the soil's ability to retain moisture and fertilizer, prevent soil compaction, and promote the seedlings to emerge and break through the soil.
3. Water and fertilizer management
The growth of wild sweet potato requires a certain amount of water, so we should water properly during the growing process. Especially after the rows close, water about once every 7 days to keep the soil moist and promote flowering and fruiting of the wild sweet potato. Wild sweet potato has strong growth ability and a relatively large demand for nutrients, so while watering, topdressing work must also be done well. Especially during the peak growth period, increase the proportion of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, and properly apply urea and compound fertilizer according to the growth condition of the wild sweet potato and the soil fertility condition, etc., to promote plant growth.
4. Field management
The plants of wild sweet potato are almost entirely creeping on the ground, and especially in the later growth stage, they will cover the whole orchard. Therefore, in the early growth stage, we must do a good job of weeding to prevent weeds from competing for the growth nutrients of the wild sweet potato, and by the later stage weeding will become very difficult. Only by removing weeds thoroughly in the early stage can the growth of the plants in the later stage be ensured. The incidence of pests and diseases in wild sweet potato is relatively low, but leaf-eating pests and root rot and other pests and diseases occasionally occur. We should often observe the orchard, do a good job of prevention, disinfect regularly, and after disease occurs, remove the diseased plants together with the soil.
The above is a brief introduction to the growing techniques of wild sweet potato. It should be noted that although the market price of wild sweet potato is relatively high, the current planting benefit is not very good, because various factors such as the growing environment and planting techniques of wild sweet potato lead to its yield not being high. If large-scale planting is to be carried out now, comprehensive development must be carried out; if the fruit is sold alone, the planting benefit will be low. That's all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. Thank you all for reading and supporting!