How to Cultivate Ginger Shoots? A Detailed Guide to the Latest Cultivation Methods
Ginger shoots are the young sprouts that grow after ginger is cultivated. Ginger shoots are tender and fresh, and can be stir-fried as a dish or made into pickles. There is now a certain scale of cultivation. How are they cultivated now, and what conditions are needed for cultivation? What methods are used for cultivation? How can high-yield cultivation be achieved? What should be noted during cultivation? These are all questions that growers care about. Once you learn how to cultivate them, you can actually grow them at home yourself. So next, the above questions will be answered one by one.
1. Preparing Seed Ginger
Choose ginger with good color, no disease, very thick flesh, many visible bud eyes, no mold, and good storage as seed ginger for cultivation. The selected seed ginger needs to be treated and disinfected. Soaking it in a 150-fold aqueous solution of 40% formaldehyde can eliminate pathogens. After that, wet sand is needed to promote sprouting. Wash fine sand clean, disinfect it, then bury the seed ginger in the sand. Keep it moist. Cover the outside tightly with plastic sheeting. Choose a greenhouse for this, and keep the temperature at 25°C. Sprouts will generally emerge in about 3 weeks.
2. Preparing the Seedbed
Before planting, prepare deep, loose sandy loam soil, and apply about 3000 jin of fermented and disinfected farmyard manure per mu. After burying it into the soil, finely prepare the land and make the seedbed. The seedbed should be about 1 m wide; it does not need to be too wide. It is worth noting that after the seedbed is made, you can first water it thoroughly, and also use plastic film to keep it warm. Sowing can only be done after the temperature rises above 15°C. Of course, you can also sow directly after the outside temperature stabilizes above 15°C, in which case no film covering is needed.
3. Planting Management
Ginger shoots use either soil culture or sand culture, but both are blanching cultivation, and the ginger shoots produced are yellow and tender. Sow in rows on the seedbed, with a plant spacing of about 5 cm. Open furrows about 10 cm wide directly in rows, with the depth adjusted according to the ginger pieces. After sowing, also cover with 5 cm of fine sand. Likewise, plastic film is needed to increase temperature, so sprouts grow much faster. When the ginger shoots are about to emerge from the soil, build a small arched shed, remove the plastic film, and cultivate with light blocked. When the ginger shoots grow to 5 cm, they can be harvested.
4. Precautions
When cultivation reaches about 5 cm, harvest promptly. If not harvested, they easily become old and tend to grow into plants. During cultivation, avoid high temperature and high humidity, as ginger pieces easily rot. Cultivate away from light and do not allow strong light. Note that if the price of cultivated ginger shoots is poor, you can also thin some out and continue cultivating them as ginger, but then light blocking is not needed.
Ginger shoots are a product of blanching cultivation and are somewhat similar to hotbed chives. Cultivation must follow the requirements so that the output quality is high. Generally, cultivating ginger shoots will not cause losses. They can continue to be converted.