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

Eagle tea is one of the traditional drinks in Bashu area. Although its name is tea, but its raw material plant is not tea family, eagle tea is a woody plant of Lauraceae, belonging to evergreen trees. After picking its tender twigs and leaves to dry, it can be used as tea to drink, locally known as eagle tea, also known as old tea. It is reported that Eagle Tea has been drunk among the people for hundreds of years, and it has become one of the important poverty alleviation planting industries in Bashu area. So where can I buy eagle tea seeds? What are the methods of raising seedlings? Let's take a look.

Where can I buy eagle tea seeds?

Eagle tea is mainly distributed in some counties, cities and villages in Wushan mountain area. most of the seeds are picked by yourself. if you want to buy it, you can go to these producing areas for consultation. Of course, some online platforms also have the sale of eagle tea seeds, pay attention to the normality of the platform, identify high-quality eagle tea seeds.

What are the methods of raising seedlings?

1. Construction of tea garden

In order to adapt measures to local conditions, tea garden construction generally chooses places with an altitude of 1200-1800 meters, concentrated land, deep and fertile soil, good surrounding vegetation, mild climate, moderate slope and convenient traffic as the site for tea garden construction.

2. Breeding of improved varieties

Generally, short-spike cuttage and tea seed direct seeding are two methods. Short-spike cuttings use annual branches of half-tree as cuttings, ear length is 5 cm, with one leaf and one axillary bud, seedbed adopts yellow soil, seedbed is kept moist and shaded, cuttings are cut from June to November, and one-year-old tea seedlings are planted in the nursery.

3. Sowing management

Dig planting ditch 80 cm deep, 60 cm wide, apply sufficient base fertilizer, generally apply farm manure 2000 kg or 100kg compound fertilizer, using single plant planting method, about 2000 pigs per mu.

4. Tea age management of seedlings.

Regular ploughing, hoe and soil cultivation, prevention and control of livestock trampling, prevention and control of diseases and insect pests, replacement of missing plants and ponds, guarantee of whole seedlings, stereotyped pruning, and cultivation of ideal tea canopies.

5. Picking

From March to June, pick a single bud to one bud and three leaves. It is strictly forbidden to pick Rain Water dew bud leaves, purple bud leaves, disease and insect buds.

Generally speaking, Eagle Tea is an ancient tea peculiar to the folk in southwest China. This kind of pure wild ecological tea does not look good, but it has a very peculiar fragrance. Moreover, the Compendium of Materia Medica also has records such as "relieving cough, expectorant, relieving asthma, relieving summer heat and thirst". Its wild species are found all over the mountains of the provinces south of the Yangtze River in China.

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