The latest seed price and planting method of Notopterygium

Notopterygium is also known as Qiang messenger, Hu Wang messenger, wind messenger, etc. It is a perennial herb belonging to Notopterygium of Umbelliferae family, distributed in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, Xizang and other places in China. Its rhizome is used as medicine to relieve cold, dispel wind and relieve pain. Let's take a look at the seed price and planting method of Notopterygium.

How much is a pound of notopterygium seeds?

The price of notopterygium seeds is about 40~60 yuan a catty, but the price varies greatly due to the quality, variety, origin and market of seeds. Notopterygium likes cool and humid climate, cold resistance, slightly shade resistance, suitable for deep soil layer, loose, good drainage, rich in humus sandy loam cultivation, not suitable for planting in low humidity areas, production can be used seed reproduction or rhizome reproduction.

Sowing method of notopterygium root

1. Seed treatment: Notopterygium seeds have embryos and ripeness like ginseng seeds. The newly harvested seeds are dried and stored at low temperature or in refrigerator until May to June of the next year. They are taken out for wet sand storage. They are stored in outdoor shade until early spring March of the next year.

2. Sowing method: Notopterygium root can be directly seeded in field or transplanted from seedlings.

(1) Field direct seeding: sow in early spring in March, open holes according to the hole spacing of 50×40 cm and the depth of about 6 cm, sow more than 10 seeds in each hole, use 0.5 kg seed per mu, cover compost or fire ash 0.6~1 cm thick, keep moist, and sprout in April.

(2) Seedling transplanting: sowing in early spring in March, sowing in shallow grooves according to row spacing of 10 cm on the whole seedbed, covering soil 0.5~1 cm, seedling emergence in April, strengthening management after seedling emergence, transplanting in rainy days.

The planting method of notopterygium root

1. Soil preparation and fertilization: Notopterygium root planting should select high-lying and well-drained fields, cultivate intensively, apply 3000 kg of soil fertilizer, 20 kg of urea and 50 kg of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer per mu, and then wait for sowing or transplanting rhizomes.

2. Intertillage and weeding: after Notopterygium root seedlings, attention should be paid to intertillage and weeding, watering in dry weather to preserve soil moisture, and timely drainage in rainy weather.

3. Reasonable fertilization: topdressing Notopterygium root once before and after the beginning of autumn, topdressing urea 10 kg and potassium dihydrogen phosphate 10 kg per mu, and spreading a layer of soil fertilizer after cleaning the countryside in winter.

4. Flower picking and bud removal: Notopterygium root should remove flower buds after bud emergence except for seed plants to prevent nutrient consumption.

5, pest control: Notopterygium disease is less, if found according to conventional methods of control, pests are mainly yellow butterfly larvae bite leaves, control with chrysanthemum ester pesticides to kill, underground pests with phoxim to kill.

6. Harvest and processing: Notopterygium root is generally harvested in autumn 2~3 years after sowing. After the stems and leaves on the ground wither, the underground rhizomes of Notopterygium root are removed from the reed head and soil, dried or dried, and can be sold as medicine. The yield per mu is about 300 kg.