Cultivation and management of Chinese wolfberry

Lycium barbarum belongs to the genus Lycium barbarum of Solanaceae, with deciduous trailing shrubs, slender spiny branches and five-petaled purple florets. There are Chinese wolfberry, Ningxia Chinese wolfberry, yellow agate Chinese wolfberry, beeswax Chinese wolfberry. The front and back can be used as potted plants to make bonsai.

First, reproduction: sowing, cutting, ramet can be used.

For seed reproduction, the dried fruit can be soaked for 1 to 2 days. After softening, the seeds are selected to dry, and the seeds with full seeds and free of diseases and insect pests are selected. The seeds are sown in late March of the next spring, and then transplanted in the following spring.

Cuttings are carried out before the germination of adult plants, and one-year-old strong branches are selected and cut into 12cm-15cm segments as cuttings, which are cut in the basin to keep the soil moist and can survive 100%. A small amount of flowers and fruits can be seen in a well-managed year, otherwise flowers and fruits can only be seen the following year.

When the ramet turns the basin, the root tiller, stem tiller, rhizome and so on grown from the mother are divided into a complete plant. This method grows fast, and flowers and fruits can be seen in the same year.

2. Preparation of potted soil:

(1) four parts of gardening, two parts of coarse sand, two parts of rice chaff ash and two parts of mature organic fertilizer.

(2) five parts of garden soil, three parts of rotten leaf soil and two parts of mature organic fertilizer.

(3) five parts of peat soil (black soil), three parts of rotten metasequoia leaves and two parts of rotten organic fertilizer.

The pH value of Lycium barbarum culture soil is not strictly required. The above three soil preparation methods are all suitable for the cultivation of potted Chinese wolfberry. The former is slightly alkaline soil, the middle is neutral soil, and the latter is slightly acidic soil.

Third, the location: the medlar pile scene should be placed in a well-ventilated and sunny place; in the sunny place, the light is insufficient, the branches are frail, the flowers and fruits are scarce, and even do not blossom and bear fruit.

Dormancy management: Chinese wolfberry dormancy twice a year, respectively in cold winter and hot summer. Winter dormant leaves all fall, put outside or in the balcony toward the sun, can safely pass the winter. When the temperature rose to about 10 ℃ the following year, Chinese wolfberry began to sprout and branch; before and after growing to the Summer Solstice (late June), it went into dormancy or semi-dormancy again, and the full leaves gradually fell or there were rare leaves, and Chinese wolfberry could be placed under the shade shed or facing north balcony to spend the dormancy period.

Fifth, pruning and picking leaves: before Chinese wolfberry sprouts, fruit picking and re-pruning will be carried out at the same time next spring. The Beginning of Autumn's former Chinese wolfberry summer dormancy will be over and will be pruned again, the same as in spring. Chinese wolfberry leaves are picked twice a year, first, in early summer (late June), all Chinese wolfberry leaves are cut off with scissors (cut off in the middle of the petiole, do not hurt the bud eye). Chinese wolfberry recovers about two weeks after the Beginning of Autumn and will soon grow green buds from the bud point. The second is to pick leaves in early autumn (late August) so that buds and leaves sprout at the same time.

Sixth, watering and fertilization: in summer dormancy, potted workers should be kept moist without stagnant water, and watering in late August should be dry and wet, dry and thoroughly, but the principle of not being dry to irreversible should be mastered, which is conducive to flower bud differentiation. Keep potted workers moist when blooming and hanging fruit, otherwise it is easy to cause falling flowers and stiff fruits. After the fruit is all red and yellow, the amount of water should be reduced appropriately, and the water is easy to drop fruit. The fertilization of Chinese wolfberry began in April and the mature organic fertilizer based on nitrogen fertilizer was applied once a week to facilitate the accumulation of more nutrients and lay a good foundation for later flowering and fruiting. Fertilizer application was stopped from May to July. New buds germinated at the beginning of September and mature organic manure dominated by phosphate fertilizer was applied every 10 days to promote the reproductive growth of Lycium barbarum. Stop fertilizing as soon as the buds show color. When hanging the fruit, the retting grass juice fertilizer was applied 2 times and 3 times every 10 days.

Seventh, insect prevention and bird prevention: Chinese wolfberry is mainly caused by aphids. Dig up the basin soil around the edge of the basin in spring, bury about 5 grams of carbofuran granules and cover it well. The drug has the effects of contact, poison, internal inhalation, etc., the rate of killing aphids is up to 100%, and the validity period is as long as 50-60 days. When the fruit is ripe in autumn, you should move it into the balcony and keep it in a sunny place to prevent the pulsatilla from pecking Chinese wolfberry fruit. Carbofuran is toxic and has a long residual life of pesticides, so it is not suitable for multi-use. )

Through the above careful cultivation, Chinese wolfberry fruit in mid-late September, mature in late October, in the green new leaves, red fruit, yellow fruit dotted, like thousands of rubies or onyx hanging branches.