Detailed Explanation of the Key Points of Wild Chrysanthemum Planting Techniques
Wild chrysanthemum is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family. It looks similar to chrysanthemum and has extremely high ornamental value, and it is distributed throughout various regions of China. In addition, wild chrysanthemum also has various effects such as dispersing wind-heat and reducing swelling and detoxifying, and its medicinal value is also very high. Because of its relatively high nutritional value, artificial cultivation has gradually begun in China in recent years. So how should wild chrysanthemum be planted? Below, the editor brings you the planting techniques for wild chrysanthemum. Let's take a look together!
1. Site Selection and Land Preparation
Wild chrysanthemum has strong growth ability and can quickly adapt to various soils and grow normally, but different soils will have different effects on wild chrysanthemum. If soil quality is poor, it will reduce the stress resistance of wild chrysanthemum plants, and the flowering rate will also decline to some extent. Therefore, in order to ensure the benefits of artificial cultivation, when planting wild chrysanthemum we should try to choose soil with sufficient fertility, loose and permeable texture, and strong fertilizer retention capacity. After selecting the soil, plow it deeply at least 25 cm, disinfect it, improve soil fertility, eliminate insect pests and disease bacteria, and then apply sufficient decomposed farmyard manure as base fertilizer.
2. Propagation Methods
The propagation method of wild chrysanthemum is mainly cutting propagation. Around the middle of May each year, select young branch tips about 5 cm long from robustly growing old plants. Then remove about 2/3 of the leaves on the branch tips, and put the base of the cuttings into potassium permanganate for about a quarter of an hour to disinfect. A rooting agent can also be applied appropriately; if there is none, it does not have to be applied. Then insert the branch tips vertically into the seedbed, with a depth of about half of the branch tip. After cutting, keep the soil moist, appropriately spray New High Lipid Film to avoid excessive water evaporation, reduce the incidence of pests and diseases, and then do a good job of shading. They will survive in about 2 weeks.
3. Field Management
After the cuttings survive, do a good job of management, control the time and transplant at the right time. After transplanting, water thoroughly to set the roots, combining with diluted manure water, and pay attention to the amount; the amount of diluted manure water is about 1600 kg/mu. Also, in the later period, after each harvest, one round of water and fertilizer work is needed, if it is continuous cultivation. Then in winter, after the aboveground part withers, promptly cut off the stems, apply sufficient winter fertilizer, and do a good job of earthing up. This helps wild chrysanthemum successfully overwinter and promotes spring sprouting. Then pay attention to pest and disease control, intertillage and weeding, and other work to ensure the growing environment of wild chrysanthemum.
4. Reasonable Seed Reservation
When planting, appropriately keep a portion of the plants for seed production. In summer, they should not be harvested; let them grow freely, and when necessary, appropriately apply additional fertilizer to increase the flowering and seed-setting rate of the plants and increase seed yield. When the seeds mature in winter, cut off the plant flowers. Then dry the flowers, take out the seeds, and do not handle the harvested plants; let them overwinter in the soil. In early spring of the second year, the newly sprouted tender tips can be harvested and sold on the market.
The above is a brief introduction to wild chrysanthemum planting techniques. Wild chrysanthemum is actually very simple to plant; during planting, it is enough to do the basic management work well. Moreover, the incidence of pests and diseases in wild chrysanthemum is not high, so management is not troublesome either. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only, and I hope it can help everyone!