What are the basic conditions required for growing hawthorn?
Hawthorn is a fruit belonging to the Rosaceae family, and is now mostly used to make hawthorn slices, hawthorn tea, and other products for people to consume. Hawthorn can promote digestion, lower blood lipids, and also has an antibacterial effect that inhibits pathogens. It is currently a relatively popular crop, and what follows is an introduction to the basic conditions required for growing hawthorn.
1. Environment
Hawthorn has strong adaptability to the environment and prefers cool, humid places. Its cold resistance and drought resistance are both relatively strong. It can survive at temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees and as high as 30 degrees. It is mainly distributed on hillsides at mid-slope, sunny slopes, and other slopes with an incline of about 20 degrees. It is drought-tolerant, and when humidity is too high, its branches will grow longer. Although it has few requirements for soil, it grows relatively quickly in fertile, weakly acidic soil with good drainage.
2. Light
Hawthorn is a light-loving crop, but as mentioned, its adaptability is relatively strong, so it can also grow under weak light conditions, just at a slower rate. From sowing to maturity, as long as the light conditions for hawthorn are met, hawthorn will increase its own yield and quality, with plump, fleshy fruit, bright and vivid skin color, and greater accumulation of nutrients. Therefore, in the process of growing hawthorn, if you want to increase yield and quality, you must provide the hawthorn trees with sufficient light.
3. Humidity
Although hawthorn is relatively drought-tolerant and waterlogging-tolerant, expert research has found that the safety level of soil water content is 9.34-11.66%, the wilting level is 7.28-9.13%, and the lethal level is 5.8-8.6%. Therefore, as long as the soil water content is maintained above 14 percent, hawthorn can grow well, and as long as it can be watered evenly, high yields can also be achieved. Although it is relatively waterlogging-tolerant, it is also not suitable to be planted in soil with a high water table or poor drainage, otherwise it may lead to poor development.
4. Temperature
Hawthorn prefers warmth, but it cannot develop normally in high-temperature areas; some varieties are also extremely cold-tolerant and can develop normally at 7-14 degrees. Experiments have shown that the lowest temperature hawthorn can adapt to reaches minus 34 degrees, and it can still develop normally. However, hawthorn under such low-temperature climates may suffer freezing damage. The temperature mainly depends on your planting region; the optimal temperature is around 12-30 degrees, and such temperatures can ensure the yield and quality of hawthorn.
In summary, we can see that hawthorn is a relatively easy crop to grow. Moreover, market demand for hawthorn is currently relatively high. Although hawthorn has few requirements for surrounding conditions, if you want to improve quality and yield, proper management is still needed. After all, there is also the issue of diseases, and only by managing diseases well can you achieve a better harvest.