How to plant pitaya seeds and when to plant them

Fire dragon fruit is a very common fruit, which is widely sold in our country at present. There are some black seeds in the dragon fruit, and this is its seed. Many people want to grow these seeds, but the exact method of planting is not very clear. Then let's take a look at it together.

How to plant dragon fruit seeds

1. Seedling emergence. Sprinkle the seeds evenly into a flowerpot with soil and sprinkle with some water. Be careful not to pour water directly. Then cover it with cling film. Remember to lift the cling film every other day and sprinkle it with a spray can. If you don't use it for a week, the seeds will begin to sprout, and then the cling film can be removed. When the seedlings are about the same, they begin to plant separately.

2. Planting methods: the dragon fruit can be planted in a variety of ways, such as climbing the wall or setting up a shed, but column cultivation is the most common, which has the advantages of low production cost and high land utilization rate.

3. Planting specification: the row spacing of dragon fruit with double-season column is 1.5 × 2 meters. According to the calculation of 4 seedlings planted around each column, 750 plants can be planted per mu. But pay attention not to deep planting, implant about 3 cm deep, the initial should keep the soil moist.

4. Reasonable interplanting: red dragon fruit has poor self-pollination compatibility, low rate of self-pollination, small fruit and poor marketability, which requires white meat dragon fruit pollination. Interplanting about 10% white meat type dragon fruit can significantly improve the seed setting rate.

When will the dragon fruit seeds be planted?

The dragon fruit can be planted all the year round, but it can not be deeply planted, it can be implanted about 3 times deep, and the soil should be kept moist at the initial stage. It began to blossom and bear fruit 12-14 months after planting, and the fruit-bearing period was from April to November. The fruit was ripe at 30-40 days after flowering, and the single fruit weighed 500kg / 1000g. It produced more than 20 fruits per column in the second year after planting, entered the full fruit stage in the third year, and the higher management level, the per unit yield could reach 2500 kg / mu.

How to fertilize dragon fruit

The main results are as follows: 1. The fertilization of dragon fruit should adhere to the principle of "high standard fertilization, frequent application and thin application", that is, fertilization should be applied a small number of times to prevent burning and rotting roots. After the dragon fruit germinates, the seedling height is about 10 cm. Thin human feces and urine should be applied to the planting hole, about 1 kg per plant, and then add 3 g / L urea and 1 g / L potassium chloride to each germination until the dragon fruit blossoms.

2. Fertilizing 6-8 times in the first year, mainly nitrogen fertilizer, combined with potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphate fertilizer, and once mature organic fertilizer in winter. The growth and harvest time of dragon fruit is long, so we should adhere to the balanced application of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizer and organic fertilizer, and pay special attention to fertilization three times a year, that is, pre-flowering fertilizer in April, strong fruit fertilizer in August and overwintering fertilizer in December, mainly rotten organic fertilizer and nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium ternary compound fertilizer.

3. During flowering and fruiting, potassium and magnesium fertilizer should be increased by 0.5 kg per plant, such as spraying 300 times potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution. When the last batch of fruit is harvested, 15 kg of organic fertilizer or 0.5 kg of ternary compound fertilizer should be re-applied to promote new shoots and increase yield in the coming year.

How to water dragon fruit

The main results are as follows: 1. The amount of water for one-time irrigation of dragon fruit should not be too large or too little, and it is suitable to soak through the soil of the main root distribution layer. In order to determine the amount of irrigation, the soil quality, the growth and development period of dragon fruit, fertilization and meteorological conditions should be taken into account.

2. It is generally believed that the minimum irrigation capacity is 60% of the maximum soil moisture capacity, and the ideal water capacity is 80% of the maximum water holding capacity. In addition, according to the long-term experience of fruit growers and technicians, it is considered that the irrigation is thoroughly, which is actually the most suitable amount of irrigation.

The seeds of dragon fruit can be planted all the year round, the method is very simple, first of all, the seeds should be cultivated and then planted. After planting, we also need to strengthen management, fertilizer and water work should be done in place, so as to ensure its growth.