How to plant lotus seeds

Speaking of lotus fog, everyone should be no stranger! The lotus mist tastes crisp and delicious. But what will you do with the lotus seeds after eating the lotus seeds? If there is any suggestion to stay, I would like to share with you how to grow lotus seeds.

In general, lotus flower reproduction mainly chooses air striping, cutting and sowing methods, and then pruning, fertilizer and water management after planting. The detailed steps are as follows:

1. Sowing seeds

First select the fat female fruit, leave the middle seeds after eating the flesh; then wash the seeds, soak the seeds in water for 3 days to crack and germinate, and change water once a day; wait for the seeds to germinate, and the temperature should be above 20 degrees Celsius. Generally, it can be germinated in about half a month.

2. Reproduction

Cuttings: choose 2-3-year-old branches, 15mur20cm long, insert sand bed 2gambit 3, pay attention to shading and moisturizing, 1Mel takes root in 2 months. It can be planted in spring from February to April or autumn from August to September. It can also be planted in areas with high temperature from November to December, with initial row spacing of 4x5 meters and thinning to 8x8 meters several years later.

3. Shaping and pruning

Leave a trunk after planting, cut off the upper end at the 60cm off the ground, and remove all except a few as auxiliary branches. If winter and spring fruits are to be produced, the leaves, diseased branches, withered branches, overdense branches and overgrown branches must be cut off every February, leaving only two-year-old branches. If it is a half-cut, shading treatment must be taken.

4. Fertilizer and water management

Lotus flower needs a large amount of fertilizer, apply more phosphorus and potassium fertilizer in the early stage, do not apply more nitrogen fertilizer during flower bud differentiation, and re-apply phosphorus and potassium fertilizer after small fruit. Located in some coastal areas, the soil salt content is too high, the use of fresh water to wash salt, reduce soil salt content and promote normal plant growth.