How to plant Siraitia grosvenorii

Siraitia grosvenorii is a perennial vine fruit, although it belongs to fruit, but it has the effect of invigorating body and relieving thirst, it is one of the more common traditional Chinese medicine in life. With the functions of clearing heat and cooling blood, moistening intestines and detoxification, Siraitia grosvenorii has a wider and wider planting area, has a very high cultivation value, and is now one of the main projects to get rid of poverty and become rich. How to plant Siraitia grosvenorii? Let's take a look at it.

1. Land selection and preparation

The growth and development of Siraitia grosvenorii has certain requirements on climate and soil, and it is best to plant it on a sunny hillside at an altitude of about one kilometer. if it is about 400 meters above sea level, the garden should be built on a sunny hillside. The garden should be ploughed and raked in the first year of planting and ploughed again a week before planting after the wind has blown away. Let the soil become soft, build a field border with a height of about 20 centimeters, a width of about one meter, and a row spacing of 1.6 meters. The distance between each plant is at least one meter, and the soil is evenly mixed with farm manure in each hole and piled into a mound.

2. Pressure vine propagation

The production method of Siraitia grosvenorii is generally to use the method of vine propagation, in the beginning of each summer, when the plant is in peak fruiting period, the high-yielding plant is selected as the mother plant of the vine. The mother plant could not be allowed to bear fruit in the shed, so in September, some strong flowering vines were selected to press the vines. This practice can avoid non-flowering plants, the specific way to press the vine is to dig a hole in the ground near the plant, usually a hole of 16cm width and depth, and then press the vine into the pit, filling the hole, about 9cm above the ground.

3. Planting method

Siraitia grosvenorii is usually planted in early spring, but remember to separate male and female when digging seed potatoes, and one male for every 20 females. In this way, there will be enough pollen during artificial pollination, and the seed potato can not come into contact with fertilizer, so when planting the seed potato, you should first put fertilizer in the hole and then cover the soil and put the seed potato on it. There should be no more than two seed potatoes in each hole, and the bud head should be placed upward to expose the soil surface to facilitate later management.

4. Timely harvest

Siraitia grosvenorii ripens for only a year or so. In August, the fruit will slowly turn dark from light green, and the stalk will become withered and yellow. Gently squeezing it with your hands will make you feel hard and elastic. At this time, you can begin to harvest, do not pull it by hand, cut it gently with scissors, then put the cut fruit in a cool ventilated place indoors, wait until the moisture is dried and leave it for 1-2 weeks. wait until the dried water accounts for 15% of the weight of the fresh fruit, half of which has turned yellow.

The above is a brief introduction to the cultivation of Siraitia grosvenorii. Siraitia grosvenorii, as a fruit and traditional Chinese medicine with great benefits to the human body, is one of the most popular medicinal materials. The market demand is increasing, the planting area is also getting wider and wider, and the economic benefits are also getting higher and higher. therefore, if we want to plant Siraitia grosvenorii to make certain benefits, we must have a correct planting method. I hope this article will be helpful to you. I'll see you next time.