How to Choose Spring Farming Seeds? This Identification Guide Helps You Avoid Common Pitfalls

After the Beginning of Spring, spring farming is at hand, and for growers the most important thing is choosing seeds and sowing, which is also the prerequisite for a good harvest. So how should spring farming seeds be chosen? Which pitfalls should be avoided? Please save this identification guide!

1. How to Choose Spring Farming Seeds: Corn

For corn seed selection, generally choose medium-to-late maturing varieties with high yield potential, dense-planting tolerance and compact growth, and large ears, ensuring relatively strong lodging resistance and good disease resistance. Varieties with strong lodging resistance have hard stems and well-developed root systems. Varieties with strong disease resistance can resist leaf blight under high plant populations, such as Zhengdan 958, Nongda 108, Denghai 9, and Ludan 981 grown in Dongshu Town. Choose good coated seeds, with seed purity above 96%, germination rate above 85%, and cleanliness above 98%. If single-seed precision sowing is practiced, the seed germination rate should be above 94%.

2. How to Choose Spring Farming Seeds: Soybean

High-quality soybean seeds have a yellow seed coat with luster, and the two cotyledons are fresh and bright yellow. After breathing on them, no water vapor adheres to the seed coat, and there is no special glossy sheen. Inferior seeds have a seed coat that turns dull or shows oily spots, and when bitten open the two cotyledons are dark yellow or brown, without luster, and the edge color of the cotyledons is especially obvious. When you breathe on the seed coat, water vapor adheres to it and a glossy sheen appears.

3. How to Choose Spring Farming Seeds: Peanut

High-quality peanut seeds are generally plump and full, with a sharp embryo tip and a protruding sprout disc, a pink seed coat, and a white hilum at the top. When rubbed by hand, the seed coat easily separates from the seed. Inferior peanut seeds have a shrunken surface, the seed coat turns yellow-brown or dark red, the hilum and cotyledons at the top show oily spots, and after soaking in water for 2 hours the seed coat has water-soaked spots and the cotyledons separate easily.

4. How to Choose Spring Farming Seeds: Cucumber

High-quality cucumber seeds have a milky white or white seed coat with luster, and the bristles at the end are relatively sharp. When you reach into the seed bag and pull your hand out, a large number of seeds tend to cling to it; the seed coat is relatively tough, and when peeled open the pieces stay connected, and the seed kernel pressed on paper becomes mushy and stains the paper with oil until it changes color. Inferior seeds have a lusterless seed coat with yellow spots, and the bristles at the end are relatively blunt. When you reach into the seed bag and pull your hand out, few seeds cling to it; the seed coat is relatively brittle, and when peeled it does not easily stay connected, and the seed kernel pressed on paper becomes flat and the paper does not easily change color from oil stains.

5. How to Choose Spring Farming Seeds: Tomato

There are many tomato varieties. The main cultivated varieties include Maofen 802, Yukang 4, Yukang 5, Qinfen No. 2, Xifen No. 2, Xifen No. 3, Ruby, Super Zaofeng, Zaokui, Qiangfeng, Taiwan Red, and Zhongshu No. 4. When selecting varieties, note that for early spring or late autumn delayed cultivation, early-maturing varieties should be chosen, while for main-season cultivation, medium-to-late maturing varieties should be chosen.

When buying seeds, farmer friends can use various methods to judge the quality of crop seeds, guard against being cheated, reduce unnecessary economic losses, and protect their legitimate rights and interests.