How to Plant Wild Chrysanthemum? The Latest Technical Method Tutorial
Wild chrysanthemum is a perennial herbaceous plant in the Asteraceae family, similar in appearance to chrysanthemum, with extremely high ornamental value, and it is distributed throughout China. Wild chrysanthemum also has various functions such as dispersing wind-heat and reducing swelling and detoxifying, and its medicinal value is also very high. Due to its relatively high nutritional value, artificial cultivation has gradually begun in China in recent years. So how should wild chrysanthemum be planted? Below, the editor brings you the cultivation techniques for wild chrysanthemum, let's take a look!
1. Site Selection and Land Preparation
Wild chrysanthemum has strong growth ability and can quickly adapt to various soils and grow normally, but different soils will have different effects on wild chrysanthemum. Poor soil quality will reduce the stress resistance of wild chrysanthemum plants, and the flowering rate will also decline. Therefore, in order to ensure the benefits of artificial cultivation, when planting wild chrysanthemum we should try to choose soil with sufficient fertility, loose and well-aerated texture, and strong fertilizer-retention capacity. After selecting the soil, deep plow it at least 25 cm, disinfect it, improve soil fertility, eliminate diseased and pest microorganisms, and then apply sufficient decomposed farmyard manure as base fertilizer.
2. Propagation Methods
⟦NL>The propagation of wild chrysanthemum is mainly based on cutting propagation. Around mid-May each year, select young shoot tips about 5 cm long from robustly growing old plants. Then remove about 2/3 of the leaves on the shoot tips, and place the cutting base in potassium permanganate for about a quarter of an hour for disinfection. A rooting agent may also be applied appropriately; if unavailable, it can be omitted. Then insert the shoot tips vertically into the seedbed, with a depth of about half of the shoot tip. After cutting, keep the soil moist, appropriately spray Xinhgaozhimo to avoid excessive water evaporation, reduce the incidence of pests and diseases, and then do a good job of shading. They will take root in about 2 weeks.
3. Field Management
After the cuttings survive, do a good job of management, control the timing and transplant at the appropriate time. After transplanting, water thoroughly to set the roots, combining with diluted manure water, paying attention to the amount; the amount of diluted manure water is about 1600 kg/mu. In the later period, after each harvest, one round of watering and fertilizing is needed, if it is continuous cultivation. Then in winter, after the aboveground part withers, promptly cut off the stems, apply sufficient overwintering fertilizer, and do a good job of hilling soil. Help wild chrysanthemum successfully overwinter and promote spring sprouting. Then pay attention to pest and disease control, intertillage and weeding, and other work to ensure the growing environment of wild chrysanthemum.
4. Reasonable Seed Retention
When planting, appropriately reserve a portion of the plants for seed production. In summer, they should not be harvested; let them grow freely, and when necessary, appropriately topdress fertilizer to increase the flowering and seed-setting rate of the plants and increase seed yield. When the seeds mature in winter, cut off the plant flowers. Then dry the flowers and take out the seeds. The harvested plants should not be disposed of; let them overwinter in the soil. In early spring of the second year, the newly sprouted tender shoot tips can be harvested and sold on the market.
The above is a brief introduction to the cultivation techniques for wild chrysanthemum. Wild chrysanthemum is actually very simple to grow; during planting, it is enough to do the basic management work well. Moreover, the incidence of pests and diseases in wild chrysanthemum is not high, so management is not troublesome either. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only, and I hope it can help everyone!