What is the planting technology of white lotus?

White lotus is an excellent health food shared by medicine and food. it has the characteristics of white color, large grain, sweet fragrance, rich nutrition, high medicinal value, easy to rot stew, clear meat in soup and so on. as a "treasure of lotus", it has been sold well at home and abroad. The following is to introduce the planting technology of white lotus.

1. Choose Liantian

First of all, lotus fields should be selected for planting white lotus, and loam fields with deep soil layer, middle and upper fertility, sufficient sunshine and good water sources should be selected. White lotus throughout the growing period of long-term stagnant water, should take into account the permeability of the soil, soil preparation should generally master two ploughs and a rake as well.

2. Choose lotus root

Plant lotus root should choose lotus root fat and stout, there are three nodes with seed lotus root whip, with sun lotus root is better, the number of buds of lotus root should at least have one main bud and two lateral buds of mother lotus root as seed. The first thing to dig lotus root is to consider the varieties of the previous year and the yield of the field, whether there are diseases or not. If there was a disease in the field last year, no matter how good the variety is.

3. Transplanting lotus root

Before and after the Spring Equinox, the field was first sprinkled with 50 kilograms of quicklime per mu and retted. Before and after the Qingming Festival, transplant lotus root. The planting density is generally 120 plants per mu, the row spacing is 2.3 × 2.6 meters, and there are 4 buds per plant. The planting lotus root is generally in the shape of plum blossoms, and all the terminal buds around the field are facing the middle of the field. The terminal buds are buried in the mud for 8 cm, and then they are raised 10 cm from the water surface at an angle of 40 °. After transplanting, fill the gap with shallow water.

4. Weeding in the field

Weeding in the field can be carried out when two or three standing leaves appear on the main stem of the white lotus. Drain the field before you cultivate it and keep the muddy water. Pull out the weeds around the lotus tree clean, and then plough the field, generally cultivate the field twice, and then only pull the grass, not ploughing the field, after ploughing the field should be covered with shallow water.

5. Lotus field irrigation

Irrigation 3-6 cm before flowering, 10-12 cm in prosperous period, 12 cm or more in late July, and keep thin water layer after lotus seed harvest.

6. Fertilization in lotus field

In addition to applying sufficient basic fertilizer when preparing the soil, topdressing should also be applied in the later stage. When the white lotus appears two or three standing leaves, the seedling fertilizer is applied lightly, and the water is about 5 cm after fertilization. When the white lotus blossoms, the first flower fertilizer should be applied, and the water should be rewatered 6-7 cm after fertilization. When the white lotus began to pick lotus, re-apply canopy fertilizer, and then apply fertilizer according to the situation of the seedling. When fertilizing, apply more organic matter fertilizer, less chemical fertilizer, appropriate amount of alkaline fertilizer, less acidic chemical fertilizer, less excessive fertilization, mixed application of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur and boron and other trace elements.

7. Prevention and control of diseases and pests

The main diseases of white lotus are lotus root rot, lotus leaf blight, lotus brown spot and so on, and the pests are lotus armyworm, lotus aphid, lotus thrips and so on.