How to plant yolk fruit seeds

Yolk fruit is a perennial plant of the genus Euphorbiaceae, which is called yolk fruit because of its yolk-like texture and aroma, so how to plant yolk fruit seeds?

1. Growth habits of yolk fruit

Yolk fruit likes warm and humid climate, and the average annual temperature is 24-27.5 ℃. Can withstand short-term high temperature and cold, 40 ℃ or 1-2 ℃ short-term plants will not be damaged. The flower falls seriously in the overcast and rainy high temperature in the flowering stage, the low temperature is avoided in the fruit ripening stage, and the fruit hardens at low temperature in winter, which is quite resistant to drought and has strong adaptability to soil, and sandy loam soil grows best.

Egg yolk fruit is native to Cuba and tropical North America, mainly distributed in Central and South America, northeastern India, northern Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and southern China. It was introduced into China in the 1930s and cultivated in Guangzhou in the 1950s. China's Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan and Fujian and other tropical and sub-tropical areas have sporadic cultivation.

Egg yolk fruit is a tropical fruit with 29.1-30.5% sugar, 5.6-8.1% starch, 1-1.14% crude fat and 24.3 mg vitamin C24.3 per 100g pulp. In addition to raw food, fruit can be made into jam, iced cream, beverage or fruit wine. Cosmetic effect of Hainan egg yolk fruit: egg yolk fruit is rich in nutrients such as phosphorus, iron, calcium, vitamin C, carotenoids and 17 kinds of amino acids necessary for the human body. it has the functions of helping digestion, resolving phlegm, tonifying the kidney, refreshing the brain, promoting blood circulation and strengthening the body, calming and relieving pain, decompression and lipid reduction.

Second, how to plant yolk fruit seeds?

Choose harmless and healthy yolk fruit seeds, then wash them clean, cut off some of the outer skin of the yolk fruit seeds, and soak them in clean water for about 3 days. After the seeds germinate, they can be transplanted to the soil, and then watered on time.

Among them, the germination of yolk fruit seeds can be accomplished with the help of water moss, usually the soaked seeds are placed on the water moss with the bud mouth facing down. During this period, pay attention to maintain the humidity of the water moss to ensure that the seeds can germinate quickly and smoothly.

The specific steps of transplanting are as follows:

Pour the culture soil into the prepared bowl, about seven minutes full, and then place the germinated yolk fruit seeds in the culture soil. Pay attention to the need to put the bud in the culture soil, and then water it once. After that, you only need to observe the dry and wet state of the cultivated soil and keep it moist regularly.