Culture methods and matters needing attention of sage

Cultivation: Sandy loam or deep loam with sufficient sunshine and good ventilation and good drainage is better, which is beneficial to growth. Seed direct seeding, 3-5 seeds per hole, sparse seedlings after germination-weeks or when the plant is as high as 5-10 cm. The spacing is 20-30 centimeters. After the adult plant can be thinned again, increase the distance, the growth is more exuberant. Different varieties of sage need different light intensity, which needs to be confirmed and understood before cultivation.

Reproduction method

Seed propagation or cutting propagation.

① seed propagation

Seeds can be sown in spring and early autumn. Before sowing, in order to improve the seedling emergence rate and early emergence, the seeds can be soaked in warm water of 50 degrees Celsius. When the temperature drops to 30 degrees Celsius, rinse with clean water several times, and then germinate at a constant temperature of 25 degrees 30 degrees Celsius or soak in water for 24 hours before sowing. Direct seeding or seedling transplanting can be done. As the seeds of sage are small, they should be sown shallowly. Cover thin soil after sowing and drink regularly to keep the soil moist.

② cuttage propagation

From May to June, the tip, which is not very tender at the top of the branch, is 5 cm long and 8 cm long, cut off at the bottom of the stem node, pick the basal 2 cm 3 leaves, according to the row spacing of 5 cm × 5 cm, and insert it into the seedbed with a depth of 2.5 cm. After planting and watering, and covered with plastic film to moisturize, the new roots were sent out after 20-30 days, and then planted according to the density of (45-50) cm × (25-30) cm.

Field management

After planting, the soil should be loosened and weeded in time, irrigated properly in case of drought, and drained in time after rain. In the growing season, topdressing 2 to 3 times according to the situation, each time can recover about 5 kg of urea per mu. To the north of the Yangtze River, soil needs to be cultivated in winter to survive the winter. it is common to cultivate 20 cm-high soil after harvest and irrigation before freezing in winter, and then dig up the soil and water it after frost in the next spring to make the buds grow. South China can survive the winter safely without coverage.

1. Name

A bibliography of famous doctors of sage, Compendium of Materia Medica, Collection of Plant names, compilation of Animal and Plant terms, Chinese Plant Atlas, Chinese Journal of Botany, Volume 3, New Notes on Materia Medica. 2. Morphological characteristics.

Sage is an annual herb with dense fibrous roots. Stem erect, 40-60 cm tall, obtusely quadrangular, sulcate, sparsely villous or subglabrous along periphery.

The lower leaf of the stem is bipinnately compound, the petiole is 7-9 cm long, the abdomen is concave and convex, sparsely villous or glabrous, the leaf blade is 6-10 cm long and 5-9 cm wide, and the upper leaf of the stem is a pinnately compound leaf with a short handle, the terminal leaflet lanceolate or rhombic, up to 10 cm long and 3.5 cm wide, apex acuminate or caudate acuminate, base long cuneate, margin obtusely serrate, sparsely pilose or both surfaces glabrous, herbaceous. Lateral leaflets ovoid-lanceolate, 1.5-5 cm long and 0.8-2.5 cm wide, apex acute or shortly acuminate

The base is oblique suborbicular, the rest is the same as the terminal leaflet, subsessile.

Verticillum 2-6-flowered, forming elongated racemes or branches to form raceme panicles, inflorescences terminal.

Bracts and bracteoles lanceolate, 2-5 mm long, 0.5-1 mm wide, entire, apex acuminate, base cuneate, both surfaces glabrous.

Pedicel 1-1.5 mm long, pubescent; inflorescence rachis densely glandular or glandular sparsely pilose.

Calyx tube-shaped, 4-6 mm long, outside sparsely glandular sparsely pilose, inner face with white hirsute ring at throat, 2-lipped, cleft lip up to calyx 1 × 3 in length, upper lip triangular or subsemicircular, ca. 2 mm long, 3 mm wide, entire, apex with 3 small pointed heads, lower lip nearly as long as upper lip, ca. 3 mm wide, cleft into 2 teeth, teeth long triangular, long acuminate.

Corolla reddish, lavender, light blue to white, ca. 12 mm, outside densely villous, inner face 2.5-4 mm from base with oblique sparse hair ring, crown tube straight, tube, ca. 9 mm, extension, base wide 2 mm, widening upward to throat width 3.5 mm, limb 2-lipped, upper lip elliptic or ovoid, 2.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, apex emarginate, lower lip 3 mm long 4 mm wide, 3-lobed, middle lobe larger, obcordate, margin crenulate, lateral lobes ovoid, smaller.

Fertile stamens 2, protruding, filaments ca. 1 mm, connective ca. 6 mm, straight or slightly curved, upper arm long, second lower arm thin, sterile, separated.

Style extended, apex unequally 2-lobed, anterior lobe longer.

The disk is enlarged in front of the strategy.

Nutlets elliptic, ca. 1.7 mm, 0.5 mm in diam., brown, smooth. The florescence is from June to September.

3. Geographical distribution

Domestic distribution: mainly growing in Zhejiang, southern Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hubei, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places; foreign distribution: Japan also has. The type specimens were collected from Japan.

Growth environment: born on hillside, roadside, shady grass, waterside and under shade, 220Mel 1100 m above sea level.

Flora of China: 66PUR 179

Lowest altitude: 500 m

Highest altitude: 1600 m

How to raise sage, how to cultivate sage and matters needing attention / sufficient sunshine

Sage is a kind of flower plant native to southern Europe and Mediterranean coastal areas, and then introduced to China. Nowadays, there are many people raising it in our country, but it is not an easy thing to raise it well, and there are many places that need to pay attention to. About how to raise sage? What are the breeding methods and matters needing attention of sage? Next, the editor will take you to learn about it.

First, how to raise sage and understand its habits

If we want to know how to raise sage, we must first understand its growth habits. this plant likes an environment with plenty of light and good ventilation, so we should keep enough light and ventilation when we breed it, so that it can grow more healthily.

2. Culture methods and matters needing attention of sage

1. Soil, neutral or slightly alkaline

Before we cultivate sage, we first need to choose the soil. Only if we let it grow in the right soil, it will grow better. Generally, it is best to choose loose and fertile neutral or slightly alkaline soil, so that the drainage of the soil will be better, but also can better absorb nutrients.

two。 Temperature, 20-25 ℃

It is necessary to maintain a certain growth temperature during the growth period of sage, which should not be too high or too low. If the temperature is too low, the leaves of sage will turn yellow, and if the temperature is too high, the leaflets of sage flowers will be small, and the plant will grow poorly or even stagnate. Its suitable temperature is between 20-25 ℃. We can pay attention to it when we breed it.

3. Fertilizing, liquid fertilizer once every half a month

Fertilizer is one of the main nutrients in the growth process of sage, especially after entering the growth period, its demand for fertilizer is very high, and it needs to be fertilized once in less than half a month. in the choice of fertilizer, we can choose ammonium sulfate diluted 1500 times, do not apply urea at low temperature.

4. Moisture, avoid stagnant water

Watering is an indispensable part of the growth of sage, but it has different needs for water according to different climates. if it is a dry climate, we should water it frequently, and in the season, we should drain water in time to avoid stagnant water.

5. Light, avoid strong light

Sage prefers a sunny environment, and only with sufficient light can it grow well, so we can put it outside all day to receive light when the light is more suitable in spring and autumn, but when the light is strong in summer, we still need shade to avoid strong light to burn the plant.

6. Trim, pick out the heart

In order to make sage grow better, we have to prune its heart regularly during its growth, which can promote the development of new branches, and we have to prune its flower branches after sage blossoms. so it will blossom again in autumn.

7. Timely treatment of diseases and insect pests

When we breed sage, if we are not careful enough, it is easy to let diseases and insect pests enter while we are not careful. this kind of problem is very harmful to the plant, and we must deal with it in time when it is found. the specific treatment methods are introduced in detail in the article on the prevention and control of diseases and insect pests of sage, which you can understand.