The Latest Cultivation Techniques and Method Tutorial for Red Chives

Chives are a common vegetable, and generally the rhizome part is white, but in Shouguang City, Shandong Province, there is a type of red-rooted chive. This chive is single-rooted and is a local specialty. It has the advantages of strong growth vigor, good yield, and strong resistance, so it is loved by people. However, as long as the environment is suitable, it can also be cultivated outside the local area. Next, let's talk about how to cultivate it.

1. Seed and Site Selection

Choose varieties with good cold resistance, strong adaptability, good disease resistance, strong growth vigor, and strong reproductive capacity for planting. The planting site must have an unpolluted environment, clean soil free of pests and diseases, and it is best to plant on a sunny hillside, with a clean water source nearby. The soil must be fertile and must not be barren or saline-alkali land.

2. Sowing and Seedling Raising

Sow directly in the field by making beds and opening furrows. The furrow depth is 3 cm; it does not need to be that precise, roughly digging the furrow is enough. The row spacing is about 15 cm, cover with 2 cm of soil, water after covering with soil, and irrigate thoroughly with sprinkler irrigation. After that, water about once every two to three days to ensure the moisture needed for sprouting. For raising seedlings, make a seedbed 1.2 m wide. After applying fertilizer and watering thoroughly, sow evenly by broadcasting directly, then cover with about 1 cm of soil. Then keep it moist. After the seedlings emerge and grow 4 true leaves, they can be transplanted. Water before transplanting to avoid damaging the roots. The planting row spacing is 15 cm, and the plant spacing is 8 cm.

3. Field Management

After direct sowing and emergence, promptly check the number of emerged seedlings and whether any have not emerged. Replant any that have not emerged in time. For seedlings raised in a seedbed, once emergence is uniform, thin them out, removing weak seedlings, diseased seedlings, and poorly growing young seedlings. After direct sowing and emergence, reduce water to prevent disease. After transplanting seedlings raised in a seedbed, apply fertilizer and water to help them recover as quickly as possible. Remove weeds promptly when found. After the seedling stage, apply additional fertilizer separately according to the growth stage.

The main disease is gray mold, which produces white-gray lesions on the leaves. Eventually the lesions spread, and after rotting, the plant dries up and dies. Use disease-resistant fertilizer, and after the disease occurs, use 70% carbendazim or 70% thiophanate-methyl wettable powder spray for treatment, spraying 2 times with an interval of 3 days. The main pest is root maggots, which are also the larvae of the delayed-eye fungus gnat. They gather under the root system and gnaw at the rhizome, eventually causing root necrosis.

Red chives are a Shouguang specialty, but they can also be planted in other regions. Apart from the relatively high environmental requirements, the other cultivation methods are similar. During cultivation, the key point is to pay attention to pest and disease control. In this way, the issues to note throughout cultivation are mostly covered.