How to grow Chinese toon (Toona sinensis)? The latest planting techniques and methods tutorial

Chinese toon (Toona sinensis) is a perennial deciduous tree, and the tree can reach over ten meters tall. Although it is a tree, its newly grown leaf buds are an excellent vegetable, rich in nutrients, and also have excellent medicinal food effects, mainly treating wind-cold, rheumatism, stomach pain, dysentery, etc. Chinese toon is extremely popular on the market, and its market price is also relatively high. In some regions it sells for over ten yuan per jin, so how should it be planted? Come take a look at QinNong Net.

1. Seed selection and pregermination

Select seeds from the current year. The seeds must be plump and red-yellow in color. After selecting the seeds, pregermination treatment should be carried out to increase the germination rate and make the seedlings emerge uniformly. First place the seeds in warm water at about 40 degrees and soak for 5-8 minutes, stirring constantly while soaking. After soaking, remove them and place them in room-temperature water to soak for one day. After the seeds have fully absorbed water, remove them and drain the water. Then spread the seeds on a cool mat. The spreading thickness should not exceed 3cm, so as to avoid heat accumulation causing damage to the seeds. After spreading, cover with a towel, then place in an environment of 20-25 degrees for pregermination. During pregermination, turn the seeds occasionally, and also rinse them with clean water at the same temperature as the pregermination environment. After draining the water, continue pregermination. When one third of the seeds begin to sprout, they can be sown.

2. Sowing and raising seedlings

Choose flat terrain, sufficient sunlight, convenient drainage and irrigation, and fertile, loose sandy soil as the seedbed. Rake the soil fine and level it, apply some fertilizer for the planted seedlings to emerge. When applying fertilizer, spread it evenly and then deep plow. Open furrows for sowing, with a furrow width of 5-6cm, a furrow depth of 5cm, and a row spacing of 1 meter between furrows. Evenly scatter the pregerminated seeds, cover with a layer of fine soil, control the temperature at 20-23 degrees, weed regularly, and maintain soil moisture and air humidity. They will germinate and emerge within one week. During the seedling stage, strengthen fertilizer and water management to promote seedling growth. When the seedlings emerge and grow 4-6 true leaves, thin and finalize the seedlings in time. When the plants grow to 50cm, carry out dwarfing to increase yield. This can be combined with spraying paclobutrazol and pinching to increase the number of branches on the plants.

3. Field planting

After the plant dwarfing measures are done, field planting can be carried out. For field planting, choose greenhouse cultivation. Generally, a greenhouse environment is created through plastic tunnel technology. Before field planting, first prepare the land and apply fertilizer. Each mu requires about 5000kg of suitable organic fertilizer, along with some other fertilizers. Spread evenly and deep plow, then make beds and plant seedlings. Generally the bed width is about 1 meter. After the early work is done, field planting can proceed. When planting, keep the roots with soil, mainly to avoid damaging the root system. The planting density is about 30,000 plants per mu, with a plant and row spacing of 15×15cm.

4. Harvesting

After field planting, strengthen management and pay attention to factors such as temperature, light, and moisture. The optimal growth temperature for Chinese toon is 20-25 degrees. It likes light and is not tolerant of shade, but avoids strong light exposure, so pay attention to the duration of light. On cloudy and rainy days, artificial supplementary lighting can be carried out, and during strong light, shade in time. It likes moisture but avoids waterlogging. Water in time during drought, and in rainy seasons carry out drainage and waterlogging prevention measures. Maintained in this environment, Chinese toon will sprout at an extremely fast rate, but it can be harvested when the toon seedlings grow to 15-20 and emerge.

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