Detailed Explanation of Soilless Cultivation Techniques for Golden Finger Citron
Soilless Cultivation of Golden Finger Citron
Soilless cultivation of golden finger citron is a cultivation technique successfully developed through recent experiments. It uses natural substrates (such as chopped straw, sawdust, peat, turf, sand, etc.) or artificial substrates (such as rock wool, perlite, etc.) to replace soil, or even uses no substrate at all, applying nutrient solution to directly soak or spray the plant roots. It is also called nutrient solution cultivation. Soilless cultivation of golden finger citron can completely break away from soil and, compared with traditional soil cultivation, has obvious advantages and very attractive broad development prospects. However, besides the advantages and potential of soilless cultivation of golden finger citron, it also has some unfavorable aspects. For example, soilless cultivation requires not only certain protective facility management, but also substrate selection, nutrient solution preparation, and so on. Among these, the various physical and chemical properties and biological characteristics of different substrates, as well as the proportions of various chemical elements in the nutrient solution, are much more complex than traditional soil cultivation, so ordinary farmers find it difficult to fully master and apply. Fortunately, Jinhua Jinlin Finger Citron Development Co., Ltd. has successfully developed an “organic ecological soilless cultivation technique.” This technique captures the advantages of soilless cultivation while being simple and practical. That is, on the premise of ensuring the advantages of soilless cultivation, it simplifies production technology, reduces production costs, and is easy to promote and apply. As long as planting is carried out according to the technical methods provided by Jinlin Finger Citron Company, success can be achieved.
(I) Advantages of Soilless Cultivation
1. Not limited by land conditions. Soilless cultivation has changed the traditional concept of dependence on land for survival, namely that “all things grow from soil,” as well as traditional soil farming methods. Crops can be cultivated in places unsuitable for farming, such as sandy and gravel areas and barren land. This can not only create economic benefits, but also beautify the environment and purify the air.
2. Low labor intensity and reduced water and fertilizer use. Soilless cultivation does not require the cumbersome steps of traditional cultivation such as intertillage, weeding, soil disinfection, and topdressing. The scale that a unit of labor can manage can be greatly increased, and labor intensity is significantly reduced.
3. Pests and diseases are significantly reduced. Soilless cultivation can prevent the occurrence of many serious diseases transmitted by soil-borne pathogens, cutting off a relatively important channel for the spread of pests and diseases. In addition, because the rhizosphere microenvironment is artificially improved, plants are promoted to grow robustly and their own disease resistance is enhanced, avoiding soil salinization and yield reduction from continuous cropping caused by years of salt accumulation and continuous cropping in soil cultivation.
4. High quality and high yield. Various environmental factors can be better controlled artificially. Therefore, the relationships between the aboveground and underground parts of the plant, and between vegetative growth and reproductive growth, can be better coordinated, making it easy to realize high-yield potential. Production and experiments have proved that soilless cultivation not only increases yield, but also significantly promotes the growth rate of golden finger citron, and the appearance quality and physicochemical properties of the product are also improved to varying degrees.
5. Convenient for factory-style production. Soilless cultivation fully demonstrates that agriculture can produce crops with mechanization and automation like industrial production, with plant growth completely controlled by humans.
(II) Advantages of Soilless Cultivation of Golden Finger Citron
1. Short production cycle, bearing fruit one year earlier than conventionally soil-cultivated finger citron; very high product profit, four times the value of conventionally soil-cultivated finger citron; high yield per unit area, four times the yield of conventionally soil-cultivated finger citron bonsai.
(I) Advantages of Soilless Cultivation
1. Not limited by land conditions. Soilless cultivation has changed the traditional concept of dependence on land for survival, namely that “all things grow from soil,” as well as traditional soil farming methods. Crops can be cultivated in places unsuitable for farming, such as sandy and gravel areas and barren land. This can not only create economic benefits, but also beautify the environment and purify the air.
2. Low labor intensity and reduced water and fertilizer use. Soilless cultivation does not require the cumbersome steps of traditional cultivation such as intertillage, weeding, soil disinfection, and topdressing. The scale that a unit of labor can manage can be greatly increased, and labor intensity is significantly reduced.
3. Pests and diseases are significantly reduced. Soilless cultivation can prevent the occurrence of many serious diseases transmitted by soil-borne pathogens, cutting off a relatively important channel for the spread of pests and diseases. In addition, because the rhizosphere microenvironment is artificially improved, plants are promoted to grow robustly and their own disease resistance is enhanced, avoiding soil salinization and yield reduction from continuous cropping caused by years of salt accumulation and continuous cropping in soil cultivation.
4. High quality and high yield. Various environmental factors can be better controlled artificially. Therefore, the relationships between the aboveground and underground parts of the plant, and between vegetative growth and reproductive growth, can be better coordinated, making it easy to realize high-yield potential. Production and experiments have proved that soilless cultivation not only increases yield, but also significantly promotes the growth rate of golden finger citron, and the appearance quality and physicochemical properties of the product are also improved to varying degrees.
5. Convenient for factory-style production. Soilless cultivation fully demonstrates that agriculture can produce crops with mechanization and automation like industrial production, with plant growth completely controlled by humans.
(II) Advantages of Soilless Cultivation of Golden Finger Citron
1. Short production cycle, bearing fruit one year earlier than conventionally soil-cultivated finger citron; very high product profit, four times the value of conventionally soil-cultivated finger citron; high yield per unit area, four times the yield of conventionally soil-cultivated finger citron bonsai.