Propagation techniques of planting West Indian Cherry

West Indian cherry is an evergreen shrub or can be pruned to form a trunk to form a small tree. 10-12-year-old plants can be up to 4.5m tall, with opposite leaves, smooth leathery, Obovate to long oval, entire, long 3--10cm, petiole very short, and their shape, size and petiole are very short. The inflorescences are scattered, flowers are small and 5-petaled, usually pink, red and white, the fruit is a berry, similar to cherry. However, there are three shallow grooves slightly into three petals, orange-red or even purplish red at maturity, its skin is thin and easily damaged, with three nuclei each containing one seed.

Methods of reproduction:

1. Real-life method

After the West Indian cherry is harvested, cut the peel and pulp to remove the core, wash the pulp with clean water, and then leave it in a cool place to dry for 1 minute-2 days before sowing. The kernels were sowed directly in a shallow basin when sowing, and germinated about 10 times after sowing. Wait for the seedling to grow to 5murmur10cm, then transplant it into a plastic soft basin. West Indian cherry seeds germinate easily, but they do not germinate neatly, and the seeds produced by some plants often lack viable embryos, and the germination rate is often less than 30%.

2. Cutting method

During the growth period of Chunxia, select semi-mature sturdy branches with a diameter of 0.7Muth1.2 cm, a length of 15Muth20cm in each segment, and 6 epiphytic leaves, which are inserted into river sand, vermiculite or peat soil or several mixtures are suitable for cooperative nursery bed medium, especially cuttings should be kept moist and shaded. Rooting agent (iba) can be used to promote hairy roots. After cuttage, about 1.5 Mel rooting took place for 2 months, and then transplanted after the vigorous growth of the root group. If the cuttage method is managed face-to-face, the survival rate will be 60% and 90%.

3. Strip pressing method

In the use of horticultural techniques, striping is a method of rapid cultivation in trees, but the effect of West Indian cherry varieties is very different. During the spring of last year, aiming at the existing sour and sweet varieties in this field, the author used the method of ring peeling and then wrapped them with water moss, wrapped them with plastic cloth, and applied them tightly up and down. The results showed that the sour species had a rooting rate of 80% one month after being treated with pressing, while the sweet species only showed no significant occurrence of healing tissue after 3 months of trial.

The above main propagation methods of West Indian cherry are introduced. Although the air striping method is easy to take root, the effect of air striping method is easy to take root, but the effect is different among varieties and the procedures for mass propagation are more complicated, and it is seldom used at ordinary times. the fruit age of the seedling method is relatively late, and the quality variation among seedlings is large, so the cutting method is generally adopted, which is the simplest and easiest to succeed.