Good seed and high yield! Introduction to the cultivation techniques of herbs and fruits of traditional Chinese Medicine for both Medicine and Food

Grass fruit is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine for both medicine and food, which has pungent taste and warm nature. It has the function of dryness and dampness, invigorating the spleen, eliminating phlegm and intercepting malaria, and is an important cooking seasoning. In addition to harvesting wild resources, China still imports from abroad. Grass fruits are mainly distributed in Vietnam and Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other areas in China (Wenshan, Tengchong, Lijiang, Nujiang). The cultivation techniques of grass and fruit are introduced as follows:

First, how to select land for land preparation?

Choose fertile valleys or streams, cut down too many trees, control shade at 50%, remove weeds, and turn the ground to crumble soil.

Second, what is the method of grass-fruit reproduction?

Propagate with seeds and separate plants. The mother plant with strong growth and high yield was selected for seed propagation and harvested when the pericarp was purplish red and the fruit was fully ripe. Peel off the recovered fruit, soak the seeds for about 10 hours, rub with coarse sand to wipe off the colloid layer on the surface, and then sow the seeds. The one-year-old rhizomes with buds can also be taken from the mother plant for ramet propagation.

III. The importance of shading and weeding

The grass and fruit should be opened immediately after emergence, and if the canopy density is not enough, a simple shade can be set up to cover the shade. After planting, the weeding will be done once each year from April to June, and the old and diseased plants will be cut off when weeding is done once after shooting.

Fourth, what should you pay attention to when topdressing at the right time?

The conditional producing areas are fertilized many times every year. In early spring, plant ash is mixed with fine chicken manure and scattered around the plant. When blooming in summer, plant ash is sprinkled on the leaf surface before the dew is dry in the early morning to make extra-root topdressing. After fruit harvest in early winter, stables and burning soil are used to cover the roots. It can also be combined with ploughing and weeding, opening annular ditches and applying topdressing.

Fifth, how to cultivate strong buds?

After planting the grass and fruit before flowering, it is necessary to cultivate the soil to make the buds grow healthily. After flowering, it is not appropriate to cultivate the soil, so as not to hurt the buds and cause rot and failure to bear fruit. Every time when weeding, if you find the exposed fibrous root, you can cultivate a small amount of humus soil at the fibrous root to facilitate the root to absorb nutrients.

VI. Key points of drainage and irrigation

When the root shows a spherical bud in case of drought, it should be irrigated in time; Rain Water should pay attention to drainage when there are too many, so as not to hurt the bud, and at the same time remove the sundries around the bud to make it ventilated and transparent, so as to avoid falling flowers and rotten fruit.

7. Adjust the density of canopy

The grass fruit needs some shade during the whole growth and development stage. when the tree growth causes insufficient transmittance in the forest, it should be thinned or pruned properly to control the canopy density at 50% Mel 60%, so as to facilitate the growth of new plants.

8. How to maintain after planting?

After field management and planting, it is dry and weeded 2-3 times a year in autumn. In autumn weeding, cut off withered plants, diseased plants and fruiting old plants, ploughing and weeding combined with topdressing, using annular ditch to apply green manure, compost and phosphate fertilizer. Cultivate the soil before flowering to promote the growth of buds.

9. Picking and drying

The grass fruit begins to mature from October to November and is harvested when it turns reddish brown and does not crack, dried in the sun or dried over a low fire.