Planting techniques of dodder

Dodder, also known as Zen Zhen and bean parasite, is a common plant. Wild dodder is commonly found in plains, wastelands, roadsides, legumes, onions and other crops. Its vitality is extremely strong, once the buds are wrapped around the host plant and grow vigorously, let's take a look at its planting technology with Xiaobian.

1. Land selection and preparation

Dodder does not have high requirements for soil, but it is appropriate to choose sandy loam soil with loose soil, fertile soil and good drainage, which is beneficial to seed germination and seedling emergence and rapid growth. Before planting or after the previous harvest, ploughing the land in time, applying base fertilizer, ploughing once before sowing, raking fine and leveling, making a high border, irrigating and moistening the border before sowing, and so on, after the water is infiltrated, the soil is suitable for sowing soybean and other crops as parasitic plants, and then sowing dodder.

2. Seed treatment

In the middle and late ten days of October, when the capsule is about to mature, but the lid is not split, harvest the fruit in time, dry and thresh, put the seeds in a cloth bag and hang them outside, but avoid wind and rain. It can also be refrigerated in the refrigerator, because dodder is a low-temperature plant, so the seeds go through the low temperature in winter and can not germinate normally until the next year.

3. Sowing seeds

The sowing time is usually in June, first sowing soybean parasitic plants, sowing dodder, now sowing soybeans in trenches on the border according to row spacing 30cm. After soybean emergence, we should do a good job of cultivation management to ensure that the seedlings are complete. When the soybean grows to 20-25cm, dodder can be sown. Do not sow early, so as not to cause dodder to die. When sowing, sow next to the root system of soybean, as close as possible, open a ditch next to the soybean plant, mix dodder seeds with fine sand and sprinkle them into the ditch to cover a layer of fertile soil. After sowing, water several times to keep the soil. Yes, seedlings can emerge in about a week.

4. Field management

After the emergence of soybean seedlings, ploughing and weeding should be done in time, and shallow ploughing should be done so as not to harm the root system, and hoe as soon as the grass is seen in the growing period, while after dodder emerges, the thin stems begin to be wrapped around soybean plants, which can reduce the frequency and frequency of weeding, or no weeding. This is also because dodder is a kind of weed, and its vitality is strong, so there are few weeds and no herbicides.

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