The fruit of Rosa roxburghii Tratt for several years

Rosa roxburghii is the fruit of silk reeling flower of Rosaceae plant, also known as Ci pear and Mu pear. It is a nutritious and healthy fruit. So how many years does Rosa roxburghii bear fruit?

Rosa roxburghii fruits the following year after planting in the first year. The harvest period of Rosa roxburghii is less than 30 days. Rosa roxburghii is a wild shrub with pink, red or crimson flowers from April to June, summer flowers and autumn fruits.

Reproductive Techniques of Rosa roxburghii

There are two ways of seedling propagation of Rosa roxburghii: vegetative propagation and seed propagation. Vegetative propagation is to take advantage of the characteristics of Rosa roxburghii branches easy to produce adventitious roots, through the use of plant division, cuttage and layering and other propagation methods to carry out seedling; seed propagation mode, because Rosa roxburghii seeds have no obvious dormant period, so generally divided into autumn and spring sowing. The seeds can be collected and sown immediately after maturity in the first and middle September of autumn. The germination time reaches more than 90% in the middle and last ten days of October. The seeds can be transplanted to the nursery in March of the next year and can be sown at the end of the year. But in winter cold areas need to cover plastic film antifreeze. Spring sowing is from late February to early March every year. In order to improve the germination rate, warm water of 50℃-60℃ is prepared one day before sowing, and seeds are soaked for 12-24 hours, then washed and sown, so that the germination time of seeds can be advanced by 5 days. Generally, seedlings can be transplanted to nurseries in early April, May and early June.