Can you grow snow cones in the north?

Snow lotus fruit, also known as chrysanthemum potato, snow lotus potato, ginseng fruit, is a kind of plant adapted to grow on sandy soil between 1000 and 2300m above sea level. Can it be planted in the north? How do you plant it?

Can snow lotus fruit be planted in the north?

Snow lotus fruit can be planted in the north. But it is generally planted in the south, because the snow lotus fruit requires high temperature in the growth process, and it is not cold-resistant, once it is less than 15 ℃, it will no longer grow, so it is suitable to grow in Yunnan, Fujian and Hainan, which are warm for four seasons in China.

How to grow snow lotus fruit?

1. Seed selection and soil preparation

Good seeds and seedlings should be selected and purchased, and the buds should be full and intact, and the seedlings should be oil-green and robust, without disease and damage. In the year before planting, turn about 30 cm deep in winter, sunburn, open deep trenches for beds, make wide beds in plots with good drainage, and make narrow or high beds in plots with poor drainage.

two。 Sowing seeds

The planting time strives to sow early at the right time, and it is best to use a nutrition bowl to raise seedlings and transplant. Direct seeding should be in early April, and sowing with plastic film mulching should be at the end of March. If there are conditions to build a small arch shed, the time can be advanced. Seedling raising in nutrition bowl should be carried out in the first and middle of March, and after entering the frost-breaking period, it should be transplanted to the field and watered in time. The earlier you plant, the higher the yield.

3. Watering

Watering and drainage snow lotus fruit should be watered in time according to soil moisture in the early and middle stages of growth. When it is high in summer, the soil moisture should be kept above 80%, and the surface temperature should be below 40 ℃. Rain Water more years or low-lying plots should pay attention to drainage and waterlogging prevention. Snow lotus fruit growth late should pay attention to the moisture is not too large, in order to prevent fruit cracking.

4. Fertilizer application

It is best to apply bottom fertilizer with fully mature human, animal and poultry manure, 2000 kg per mu, plus 20 kg compound fertilizer. It can also apply 100 kg of high-quality phosphate fertilizer, 30 kg of potash fertilizer, 20 kg of compound fertilizer and 10 kg of multi-element minerals per mu, which has a good effect on increasing yield and marketability.

5. Prune and pick the heart

When the stem of Saussurea involucrata grows to 1 meter high, there will be some tillering branches, and too many branches should be removed; overgrown plants need to be coring to control the growth of the aboveground parts and promote the expansion of tuber roots.

When the snow lotus fruit blossoms from November to December, the branches and leaves can be harvested after yellow flowers.