Seed price and planting method of camellia

Camellia is a variety of camellia plants and horticultural varieties of the general term, because of its beautiful plant shape, leaves are dark green and luster, colorful flowers, and by the world horticultural community valued, ranked eighth in the "ten famous flowers", but also one of the world's precious flowers and trees, let's take a look at camellia seed prices and planting methods!

How much are camellia seeds?

The price of camellia seeds is about 0.5~1 yuan per seed, but the price varies greatly among different varieties. Camellia varieties are very many, there are different degrees of red, purple, white, yellow flower species, and even color striped camellia, and the highest flower can reach 4 meters. It has a warm and humid environment, and has a long flowering period, which usually blooms from October to May of the following year.

How do camellia seeds grow?

1. Seed harvesting: Camellia should be harvested immediately when the fruit is slightly cracked in autumn, placed in a cool and ventilated place to dry, and the seeds should be taken out after the fruit is naturally cracked. Seed should be sown immediately after harvest, or stratified sand storage can be treated.

2. Seed treatment: camellia seed coat is hard and needs to be treated to make seed germination rapid and orderly.

① You can cut the seed coat with a sharp knife.

② Soak seeds in warm water at 40~50℃ for half an hour, then soak them in water at 20~25℃ for 5~6 days, and take the bottom seeds for sowing.

③ can be soaked in 100 μ g/g gibberellin solution for one day and night.

3. Sowing method: When sowing camellia seeds, put the hilum to the side, cover with a layer of fine fertilizer soil, cover with a layer of plastic film, keep the soil moist, so that the seeds can germinate and emerge as soon as possible.

4, seedling management: camellia seed germination dew unearthed in cloudy days or evening to remove the film, a month after the monthly application of some organic fertilizer or chemical fertilizer, to be timely loose soil, should be shallow not deep.

How to grow camellias

1. Soil: Camellia has high requirements for soil, generally its soil contains high humus, PH value is between 5~6.5, slightly acidic, and its best soil configuration is 50% mountain soil, sawdust or edible mushroom residue 40%, cake fertilizer powder or livestock manure and phosphate powder 10%.

2, light: camellia avoid strong light, must pay attention to the sun when planting, spring and autumn when the light is sufficient, but summer must avoid direct sunlight, as long as it is exposed to strong light for too long, it is easy to die.

3, temperature: Camellia is not cold and not resistant to heat, its most suitable temperature is 18~25 degrees, so the environmental temperature should not be too high and too low, otherwise it will affect its growth, winter indoor temperature must be above 3 degrees, if lower than 0 degrees will be frostbite.

4, watering: Camellia likes a humid environment, not too dry, not too wet, can not be dry and wet, spring can be watered more, summer should be watered twice in the morning and evening, autumn and spring, winter is best before and after watering plants.

5, fertilization: camellia more like fertilizer, but fertilizer also has a degree, must not be too much, generally in the nearly half a year after flowering fertilization about 3 times, winter fertilization can be, in order to make the flowers more beautiful, the best fertilizer put more phosphorus.

6, pruning: Camellia pruning is very important, generally will affect the tree branches and disease, weak branches cut off, as well as flower bud finishing, once the flower buds are too dense, but also to comb, flowers wither after timely picking, can reduce nutrient consumption.

7, turn the pot: Camellia generally every two years to turn the pot once, change a large pot is conducive to its growth, turn the pot time is best in April, do not remove all the old soil, but also add a small amount of base fertilizer, and then water.

8, pests: Camellia is very easy to get sick, common mainly black mold, anthracnose two diseases, then only need to spray 0.5 degrees Bordeaux mixture, pests are mainly tea shoot moth, then the main cut off insects can be.