How to plant strawberry seeds

Strawberry is a very popular fruit, not only because of its colorful appearance, people can not help but want to eat it, it also has high nutritional value, but also known as one of the top ten beauty foods. The main propagation methods of strawberry seeds and ramets, in the breeding base, most of them are propagated through ramet, only at the beginning of farmers, because there are not a large number of mother plants for ramet, they all use seeds to propagate, so how to plant strawberry seeds? Let's take a look.

1. Seed treatment

Strawberry seeds can be purchased directly, or high-quality seeds can be picked by themselves. in May-June of each year, the well-growing and fully ripe fruit is picked, the pericarp is peeled, washed and dried, and then the pericarp is crushed, and the pericarp and seeds are separated. in this way, in order to improve the germination rate before sowing, the seeds are usually soaked in clear water for 24 hours. Then refrigerate at 15 degrees in the refrigerator and keep the temperature at 0-3 degrees.

2. Sowing seeds

Sowing should choose a good seedbed, which is beneficial to the growth and development of strawberry seedlings. The seedbed should be slightly higher, the ground is flat, the light is sufficient, and the soil requires weak acid or neutral fertile soil with good drainage and rich organic matter. If it is a small area of planting, you can set up a small seedbed, if it is a large area, clean up the weeds in the field before planting and plough the loose soil. Due to the planting and watering of strawberries during sowing, it is necessary to choose fine soil to stir and sow on the seedbed. The seedbed should be watered sufficiently before sowing to make the soil moist and cover with a thin layer of soil.

3. Raising seedlings

After sowing, the temperature should be controlled at about 25 degrees. When the soil is slightly wet, seedlings can emerge in about 15-25 days. The management of seedling stage is extremely important, when strawberry grows 1-2 true leaves, it is necessary to time seedlings, control the distance between plants, make them emerge neatly, and then pull out weak seedlings and cultivate strong seedlings. In addition, the root system of strawberry is shallow, so it is necessary to weed and loosen the soil between seedlings, so as to prevent weeds from seizing the nutrients of the seedlings, loosening the soil is to make the root growth of strawberry more smoothly, and it is necessary to strengthen water management and keep the soil moist all the time.

4. Colonization

After the management of the seedling stage, when the seedlings grow for 3-4 months and there are a lot of young leaves and stolons, it is time to transplant. Before planting, the planting plot should be fertilized by soil preparation, so that it can have enough fertility for the growth and development of strawberries and lay a good foundation for high yield in the future. When planting, we should pay attention to directional transplanting, so that inflorescences grow in the same direction, and reasonable close planting. Generally, it is most suitable for weak seedlings to be about 8000 per mu, while strong seedlings to be 6000 per mu.

The above is the planting method of strawberry seeds. I hope it can help you. If you want to know more about strawberry planting, please follow us.