How to Plant Wild Sweet Potato? A Detailed Guide to Practical Cultivation Techniques
Wild sweet potato, also known as Digua pao, Diguo, and other names, is a deciduous creeping woody vine in the Moraceae family. Wild sweet potato was originally a wild fruit, but the entire plant can be used as medicine, with effects such as dispelling wind and unblocking meridians. It also has various uses including food, landscaping, and ornamental purposes, and its economic value is very high. So how do you plant wild sweet potato? Below, the editor brings you the cultivation techniques for wild sweet potato. Let's take a look!
1. Land Preparation and Seed Selection
First, select good planting soil. Wild sweet potato is suitable for growing in deep, loose soil with high fertility and good drainage and irrigation. Moreover, although wild sweet potato is a wild fruit with strong growth ability, it cannot be continuously cropped and requires at least three years of crop rotation. After selecting the land, deep plow and cultivate the soil, apply base fertilizer along with it, irrigate thoroughly, and then select varieties with good quality, high yield, and strong disease resistance. Use New High Lipid Film for seed dressing to improve the seeds' insect resistance, reduce pathogen infection, strengthen seed respiration, and increase the germination rate.
2. Timely Sowing
The growth period of wild sweet potato is very short. If planted in May, it will roughly mature in June, and if not harvested in time, wild sweet potato will gradually rot. Also, the wild sweet potato plant bears fruit only once a year, so when sowing, you should consider various factors such as market demand and weather to control the sowing time properly. If the market is poor, the planting benefits will drop sharply. After choosing the sowing time, control the sowing density and sow. After sowing, spray an appropriate amount of New High Lipid Film to disinfect the soil, improve the soil's moisture and fertilizer retention capacity, prevent soil compaction, and promote seedling emergence and breaking through the soil.
3. Water and Fertilizer Management
The growth of wild sweet potato requires a certain amount of water, so we should water appropriately during the cultivation process. Especially after the rows close, watering is needed about every 7 days to keep the soil moist and promote flowering and fruiting of wild sweet potato. Wild sweet potato has strong growth ability and a high demand for nutrients, so while watering, topdressing work should also be done well. Especially during the peak growth period, increase the proportion of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, and appropriately apply urea and compound fertilizer according to the growth of wild sweet potato and soil fertility conditions to promote plant growth.
4. Field Management
The plants of wild sweet potato are almost entirely creeping on the ground, and especially in the late growth stage, they will cover the entire orchard. Therefore, in the early growth stage, we should do a good job of weeding to prevent weeds from competing for the growth nutrients of wild sweet potato. In the later stage, weeding will become very difficult, so only by removing weeds thoroughly in the early stage can we ensure the growth of the plants in the later stage. The incidence of pests and diseases in wild sweet potato is relatively low, but leaf-eating pests and root rot and other pests and diseases occasionally occur. We should frequently observe the orchard, do good prevention work, disinfect regularly, and after disease occurs, remove the diseased plants together with the soil.
The above is a brief introduction to the cultivation techniques for wild sweet potato. It should be noted that although the market price of wild sweet potato is relatively high, the current planting benefits are not very good, because various factors such as the growing environment and cultivation techniques of wild sweet potato result in its yield not being high. If large-scale planting is to be carried out now, comprehensive development is needed; selling the fruit alone results in low planting benefits. That's all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. Thank you for reading and supporting!