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How should initial management be carried out after tea plants are planted?

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Tea seedlings sown directly or transplanted have a weak ability to resist natural disasters during the seedling stage, so careful and meticulous cultivation and management are required to ensure healthy growth of the tea seedlings, especially in the management of the first and second years. At the same time, the growth of tea plants continues for a considerable number of years. If early management is extensive, the seedlings grow poorly or the survival rate is low, and there are serious gaps where plants are missing, this will inevitably affect later growth and lead to low yield per unit area. Therefore, the focus of initial management lies in carefully protecting the seedlings and ensuring a full stand of strong seedlings. The tasks of the first year can be summarized as: drought resistance, freeze prevention, weeding and fertilization, and thinning and gap filling. In addition, direct

Tea seedlings sown directly or transplanted have a weak ability to resist natural disasters during the seedling stage, so careful and meticulous cultivation and management are required to ensure healthy growth of the tea seedlings, especially in the management of the first and second years. At the same time, the growth of tea plants continues for a considerable number of years. If early management is extensive, the seedlings grow poorly or the survival rate is low, and there are serious gaps where plants are missing, this will inevitably affect later growth and lead to low yield per unit area. Therefore, the focus of initial management lies in carefully protecting the seedlings and ensuring a full stand of strong seedlings. The tasks of the first year can be summarized as: drought resistance, freeze prevention, weeding and fertilization, and thinning and gap filling.

In addition, in direct-sown tea gardens, tea seeds are often exposed due to soil and water erosion. Or because sowing is too deep, seedlings cannot emerge from the soil; in some transplanted tea gardens, poor transplanting techniques, or soil and water erosion, cause the root system to be exposed and die from drought; or drought, freezing, and pests and diseases cause missing plants and missing planting holes in young tea gardens, which will seriously affect the future yield per mu of the tea garden. Gap filling must therefore be done in a timely manner. This is also an important measure for young tea gardens to strive for a full stand and ensure the density of tea bushes per unit area. Gap filling should be done early, generally preferably by replanting one-year-old tea seedlings in autumn, winter, or the second spring. Replanting should use tea seedlings of the same age and same variety to fill gaps, so that the tea seedlings grow uniformly. Direct sowing should be avoided as much as possible for gap filling. In order to be able to supply seedlings in time for gap filling, a nursery plot should be established when the garden is built.

In direct-sown tea gardens, due to mixed tea seeds or too many seeds sown per hole, tea seedlings with inconsistent varietal characteristics and poor growth appear. To cultivate a high-yield and high-quality tea garden, thinning must be carried out, keeping the superior and removing the inferior. When thinning, keep 2 to 3 good seedlings per hole.

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