Where can I buy tea tree seeds? What are the methods of raising seedlings?

Tea tree is a kind of tree with high economic value in rural areas. the purpose of planting is to pick tea seeds and extract tea oil. Tea tree planting can buy tea seedlings, you can also buy their own tea seeds and fish fry, the second kind of cost is lower. So if you want to use tea seeds to raise seedlings, where can the seeds be sold? What are the methods of raising seedlings? Let's learn about it.

Where can I buy tea tree seeds?

There are many ways to buy tea seeds, which can be sold at local seed stores and farmers' markets. In addition, you can also choose to buy online, but if online shopping, to choose a good reputation, high reputation of the official website shops, such tea seed quality is more guaranteed, after-sales service is also more perfect. When buying seeds, we should choose seeds with full particles, high gloss and no insect eyes. High-quality seeds can increase the emergence rate and help to reduce costs and manpower and material resources.

What are the methods of raising tea seeds?

1. Sowing time

The suitable sowing time of tea seeds is mostly from November of that year to March of next year. Generally, sowing in winter, that is, from November to mid-December every year, is 10 to 20 days earlier than that in February to March in spring when tea seeds are unearthed. In general, winter sowing is recommended. It is said that if the time is postponed to sow after April, the emergence rate of tea seeds will be affected to a certain extent, the overall emergence rate is low, and the seedlings are easily affected by high temperature and heat damage, and the survival rate is low.

2. Soaking tea seeds

Soaking tea seeds is the key means to improve the emergence rate. First, soak the tea seeds in water for 2-3 days in a special container and change the water once a day. When soaking the seeds, the tea seeds floating on the surface should be removed and the fine tea seeds sunk under the water should be selected to sow. According to the experiment, the tea seed sowed by soaking can break the soil about 10 days earlier, and the emergence rate can be increased by about 12% and 13%.

3. Tea seed sprouting

After the seed soaking procedure, the seed can not be sowed immediately, but must go through another budding process. The specific operation step of sprouting is to select the fine river sand first, and after screening and washing, disinfect it with 0.1% potassium permanganate. Then the tea seeds after soaking the seeds are put on a sand table with a thickness of about 6cm to 10cm. Put it in a greenhouse or in a plastic shed. According to the weather conditions, heat up to 20-30 degrees and sprinkle with warm water once or twice a day.

If sprouting is carried out in winter, the time should be controlled at about 20-25 days. If sprouting is carried out in spring, the time should be controlled at about 15-20 days. Because the higher the temperature in spring, the faster the time of germination. From the perspective of germination rate, generally, about 50% of the tea seeds can be sown when the radicle is exposed. The budding rate of tea seeds sown by accelerating germination is more than 20% higher than that of tea seeds without accelerating germination.

4. Shallow sowing and secret sowing

When sowing tea seeds, the seeds germinate and the fat is converted into sugars by water, which requires plenty of oxygen. And tea seed cotyledons are relatively large, the ability to top soil is weak, so sowing can not cover thick soil, should be slightly shallow, the most suitable depth is about 3-5 cm.

In terms of sowing density of tea seeds, if it is direct seeding in the field, sow 3-5 tea seeds per hole. If it is a nursery to raise seedlings, then use hole sowing row spacing of 15cm to 20cm, spacing of about 10cm to sow, each hole 5 tea seeds. When sowing, the ditches and holes should be dug in advance according to the sowing depth, and the cover soil should be pressed properly after sowing. This can effectively improve the budding rate of tea seeds and the survival rate of seedlings after budding.

In short, tea seed breeding is a planting method that will be chosen in many areas. in order to effectively improve the seed germination rate in the planting process, we must do well the key points of the above methods. Do you have anything to add about tea seed breeding?

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