Can traditional Chinese medicine loquat be planted artificially? Explain the planting technology of loquat!

Loquat, also known as ground fruit and wild sweet potato, is a relatively scarce traditional Chinese medicine in the market. Loquat is widely distributed in the Yangtze River basin and subtropical provinces, such as Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan and southern Shaanxi. So can loquat be planted artificially? What are the key points of planting techniques of loquat?

Can loquat be planted artificially?

Wild loquat likes warm and humid climate and grows naturally on hillsides, ridges, ditches and thickets in low mountainous areas.

At present, loquat can be planted artificially, but the artificial planting of loquat is not too much, and now most of it belongs to wild, if it can be transplanted to imitate wild planting, it should not be bad.

In the past, the price of loquat was not too high, but it can be sold for about 20 yuan per jin in the past two years. If it can be planted successfully, the benefit is still OK.

The cost of planting loquat is relatively low, and it has strong adaptability to the environment. At the same time, it does not need very fertile land, and it is relatively simple to grow. The cost of one mu of loquat is about two thousand yuan.

However, the yield of loquat is not very high, with a maximum of 600 jin per mu of land, but if calculated according to the market price of 20 yuan per jin, the benefit is OK, with a profit of about 12000.

Second, what are the key points of planting techniques of loquat?

The main results are as follows: 1. Loquat management is extensive and easy to propagate. in actual production, cutting propagation can achieve the purpose of rapid propagation. Its cultivation technique is simple, as long as the climate, soil and water are suitable, it is planted in the rainy season, and the survival rate is as high as 90%. Taking Guilin as an example, it is generally the best time for cutting propagation after the temperature rises from early March to early April. Cut one-year-old branches, grow 10~15cm, cutting medium is not limited, fine sand or loam can be.

If it does not need to grow quickly, it can also be cut directly in the place where greening is needed, and the row spacing is 15cm × 15cm. It can be cut in March and sealed at the end of May. At the same time, the cutting experiment shows that the stem segment with one node is likely to develop into a population, because of the rooting characteristics of the node, it is easy to grow new plants.

2. According to many years' cultivation experience, after planting loquat, attention should be paid to watering and pulling out weeds at seedling stage, and watering should be done once a week after row closure. In the vegetative growth season, there is a great demand for N and P. According to their growth and site conditions, urea and compound fertilizer with higher N and P content can be applied on rainy days to promote seedling growth.

3. Loquat has strong stress resistance and is suitable for extensive management. there is no need for frequent replacement and manual pruning after planting. There are few other weeds in the community, and there are occasional leaf-eating pests, such as bamboo locust, skull, diamondback moth and so on, which need to be controlled early.