A Detailed Guide to Selecting Loquat Seeds and Raising Seedlings

When summer arrives, many fruits ripen, and the loquat is one of them. Friends who have eaten it probably know its taste is quite good, and its sales in the market are also decent. Some farmer friends even grow loquats themselves to eat, so how should loquat seeds be selected? What seedling raising methods are there? If you want to know, just read the following and you will understand!

1. How should loquat seeds be selected?

1. Loquat seeds have no dormancy period. Before sowing, the loquat pits should be screened, removing the smaller and abnormally developed loquat seeds, and selecting plump, large loquat seeds that can be sown after being washed clean and dried.

2. In order to ensure stable and high yields of loquats after planting, when selecting seeds during loquat cultivation, we should choose those varieties that are themselves large in size, sufficiently sweet, and free of pests and diseases as the best choice for propagation.

2. Seedling raising methods for loquat seeds

1. Seedbed selection

The nursery plot should be chosen in a shaded, wind-sheltered location with loose soil, rich in organic matter, medium fertility, and good fertilizer and water retention, preferably sandy soil. Half a month before sowing (early to mid-May), apply an appropriate amount of decomposed compost, farmyard manure, pig manure, or spread 50 kg of compound fertilizer per mu as base fertilizer. Then plow the soil, harrow it fine, level it, and make beds, each bed 1.2 m wide with a 30 cm ditch between beds. Where there are underground pests, the soil should be disinfected with carbofuran before land preparation to kill the underground pests.

2. Sowing

The sowing period is from late May to early June. There are 2 sowing methods: broadcasting or drilling (drilling is generally used). For drilling, the row spacing is 20-25 cm and the plant spacing is 10-12 cm. Depending on the seed germination rate, sow 1-3 seeds per hole. When sowing, press lightly to push half of the seed into the soil, then thinly scatter a layer of fine ashed soil, preferably so that the loquat seeds are not visible. If sown too deep, it is difficult for them to emerge and it can also cause rot; if too shallow, they will not take root. After sowing, immediately water the seedbed thoroughly, and thinly cover the soil surface with moisture-retaining materials such as rice straw or fresh pigpen straw, so as to keep the soil surface from crusting and help seedling emergence.

3. Management after sowing

Before the young seedlings emerge, the seedbed should maintain a certain humidity, not too dry or too wet, and the mulch should be removed after emergence. Because loquat seedlings like shade, their leaves are easily scorched by strong sunlight. Therefore, before emergence after sowing, a shade shed should be built with shade netting, with the shed 50-60 cm high. After full emergence, promptly thin out weak seedlings, overly dense seedlings, and diseased seedlings, leaving one strong seedling according to the plant spacing. When the seedlings grow 3-4 true leaves, they can be watered with dilute human feces and urine or compound fertilizer once every half month, and weeds should be removed promptly. When the seedlings reach 20 cm in height, remove the top 1-2 tender leaves to promote thickening of the lower stem, and at the same time do a good job in pest and disease control. The shade netting is removed at the end of August and early September. In the spring of the 2nd year, when the rootstock seedlings reach a diameter of more than 0.6 cm, they can be grafted; those that do not meet the standard can be transplanted and cultivated further until grafting the following year.

All right, the above is all the content that the editor wants to share with you today. Although this fruit loquat is a bit more expensive, its taste is indeed quite good. Farmer friends who want to grow it to eat also need to pay more attention to the method of selecting seeds, and it is best to choose large-sized varieties. If you do not know how to raise seedlings with loquat seeds, you can refer to the methods above. I hope this article can help everyone.

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