Wild fruits growing everywhere on the mountain are planted in flowerpots and raised in flowerpots. Ten thousand fruits are easy to raise and beautiful.

When I was a child, there was a kind of wild fruit growing everywhere on the mountain. We locally called it Yang Tsai. At that time, we did not know that it was firethorn. Firethorn trees blossomed in spring and summer and only bear fruit in autumn and winter. As the saying goes, there is "a firethorn ten thousand seed fruit". Looking at firethorn in winter, all the plants are covered with red fruit, which is particularly amazing.

Fire thorn fruit is not only very beautiful, but also edible. When it is red and full in winter, it is picked directly and put in the mouth. With one bite, it can bite a lot of small seeds inside. It tastes sweet and sour, but not much moisture. It is powdery and glutinous.

Now it is estimated that no one will eat it, but in the old days it was a life-saving food. in the era of lack of clothing and less food, the fire thorns picked on the mountain can be dried and ground into powder and can be eaten as rice. In the countryside, it is picked and eaten by children, which is a common snack for rural dolls when they are young.

Now firethorn is very famous and hot, because now it is planted in a flowerpot as a bonsai, many flowers do not blossom in winter, but firethorn is in the coldest winter, the fruit is red and bright, and the fruiting period is long, can be hung on the branches for several months, especially good-looking.

Hippophae rhamnoides pot cultivation is also very easy to maintain, Firethorn has strong adaptability, likes the sun warm and ventilated environment, is very resistant to drought and barren, can be directly planted with ordinary garden soil, does not need soil such as nutritious soil, and still grows well at minus 8-10 ℃.

Hippophae rhamnoides like to avoid waterlogging, watering generally need to keep the basin soil moist, not stagnant water is appropriate, the peak growth period needs frequent watering, summer needs to often spray water to the leaf surface, in order to facilitate evaporation and cooling. It is also very fond of fertilizer, fertilizing mainly in spring, applying thin cake fertilizer and water twice a month, not applying fertilizer in summer, and applying cake fertilizer and water once a month in autumn and winter.

If you want to have a good shape, do bonsai fire thorns should pay attention to pruning, such as overgrown branches and sprouting branches, the result will look better.