Planting and maintenance management techniques of rich trees

The rich tree, also known as melon chestnut and Malaba chestnut, belongs to the small evergreen tree of the kapok family. It is native to Mexico and Costa Rica and is now widely planted in the south of China. Because the name of "Wealth Tree" represents good luck, coupled with its beautiful shape, bright green leaves and easy management, it is suitable for indoor decoration and beautification after potted planting, and most hotels, restaurants and citizens purchase each other during the holidays, so, the rich tree has developed rapidly in China's flower market in recent years. The cultivation of rich trees has become a good project for the vast number of growers to get rich. Today we will introduce to you the cultivation techniques of rich trees.

Biological characteristics of Rich Tree

1. The morphological characteristics of the rich tree: the rich tree is an evergreen tree with an upright trunk, with a maximum height of about 10 meters. It has a fleshy root system, an inflated stem base, a smooth green bark of the young stem, and can be braided; the leaves of the rich tree are palmately compound leaves with a petiole of 10 cm and 9 leaflets. The fruit of the rich tree is a hard capsule. When the fruit is ripe, the pericarp changes from turquoise to yellowish brown, each fruit has 10-20 seeds, the seed coat is light brown, and there are navel marks on the abdomen; the flowers of the rich tree are yellowish, the filaments are slender, and there are 2-3 bracteoles on it.

2. The growth habit of the wealth tree: the wealth tree is light-loving and shade-tolerant, and can grow in full sunshine, half-day or shade, but the long-term lack of light will weaken its growth. The suitable temperature for the growth of rich trees is 20mur30 degrees Celsius, which can grow below 10 degrees Celsius, but less than 5 degrees Celsius is prone to disease, causing defoliation in light cases and death in heavy ones. The rich tree has inflated roots and stem base, which can store a lot of water, so it is more drought-resistant, while too much moisture in the soil will lead to succulent root rot. The cultivation of rich trees is not too strict on the soil, as long as the drainage is good, it can grow normally.

3, the shape of the wealth tree: the shape of the wealth tree can be divided into single pole modeling and braiding modeling, braiding modeling is more traditional, there are "three dragons", "five dragons", "seven dragons" and other common on the market, it has the feminine beauty of twining branches, graceful and elegant. The single pole shape, natural beauty, strong vitality, and can grow into a spectacular stump, very magnificent, become a new darling in the market, for growers, the two cultivation techniques are basically the same.

The reproduction of the rich tree

The reproduction of rich trees can be divided into two types: seed propagation and cutting propagation. Because the head stem is not inflated and the seedling stalk is not beautiful in cutting propagation, it is rarely used in horticultural production. Seed sowing and seedling propagation has the characteristics of uniform emergence, straight roots, easy braiding and lovely "radish head", which has become a common breeding method adopted by most flower growers. The specific methods are as follows:

1. Seed collection and selection: the rich tree blossoms twice a year, and the seeds can also be harvested twice. the first time blossoms from April to May, the fruit ripens from July to August, the second blossoms from September to October, and the fruit ripens in December. Growers should choose mature and full seeds and remove dried, cracked and moldy seeds. Do not use seeds from inferior trees or trees with obvious diseases.

2. Sowing: the soil should be raked deeply before sowing, and the seedbed suitable for seed growth should be divided. At both ends of the seedbed, we pull a rope, insert a bamboo stick every 0.3 meters to set the row spacing, and draw a straight shallow trench with bamboo sticks on both sides of the plank. in this shallow ditch, one seed is planted according to the plant spacing of 0.1 meters, and about 10,000 seedlings can be raised in an acre of land. When planting seeds, you should pay attention to planting navel down, so that the rich tree will be straight and straight. The thickness of the seed cover is about 2mi 3cm, which should not be too thick, so as not to affect the emergence of rich trees. After covering the soil, we should also pay attention to cover the seedbed with a black sunshade net to prevent the seeds from being burned by the scorching sun until the seeds germinate.

3. Daily management of seedling stage: after 4 days, seedlings can be emerged. the following management should be done after emergence.

① watering: after removing the sunshade net, water should be watered once every 2 days. Sprinklers should be installed before the water pipe, not directly watered with faucets. Watering should be done until the surface of the soil is fully moist, and should be watered every 5 days after finishing the seedlings, and appropriate amount of water should be watered according to the weather and temperature after 2 months.

② fertilization: the whole seedling period can be fertilized 5 times, the first time after the seedlings, can use compound fertilizer, about 2.5kg per mu, using artificial sprinkling method, because the root area of a single seedling is very small, so it is very important to spread fertilizer evenly on the soil, which requires fertilizers to be particularly experienced, hand swinging speed and walking speed should be uniform. After fertilization, wash the leaves with water so that the fertilizer can be absorbed quickly. After fertilizing every 1-2 months, the amount of fertilizer used gradually increased, and the amount of fertilizer used per mu was between 2.5ml and 7.5kg.

③ weeding: due to the high growth density of seedlings, need a lot of nutrients, if there are too many weeds in the seedbed, it will affect the growth and development of seedlings, so growers should pull out the weeds on the seedbed in time.