Key points of cultivation techniques of Flos Lonicerae

Honeysuckle, also known as honeysuckle, double flower, is a perennial vine shrub medicinal plant. One planting can benefit for decades. Honeysuckle has strong adaptability, waterlogging, drought, heat and cold resistance. It can be planted in saline-alkali sandy land, barren hills, barren slopes, roadsides, riverside embankments and forest and fruit rows.

I. colonization

Planting in spring and autumn, digging holes according to the row spacing of 130 cm × 160 cm and the depth of 30 cm. Cover the hole with a layer of fertilizer and cover with a layer of fine soil, then plant 3 plants in each hole, press it properly after covering the soil, and pour through the root water.

II. Field management

The main results are as follows: (1) loosening the soil and weeding to keep the flower stump free of weeds, loosening and cultivating the soil every year after the ground is thawed at the beginning of spring and before freezing in autumn and winter.

(2) topdressing in early spring and early winter, combined with loosening soil and weeding, open ring ditches around flower stumps, apply 5 kg of soil fertilizer and 200 grams of compound fertilizer per pier, and then cultivate soil 5 cm in the rhizosphere. Timely and appropriate topdressing is an important measure to increase the yield of Flos Lonicerae.

(3) pruning into winter or early spring, cut off the senile dry branches, the senescent branches, the over-dense branches and the overgrown branches to facilitate the concentration of nutrients. Cut off all the branches 20 centimeters above the ground and let them regenerate to form new flower branches.

III. Harvesting and processing

The main results are as follows: (1) the opening time of harvest honeysuckle is concentrated, about 15 days. Timely picking is the key to improve yield and quality. The first crop of flowers is usually picked in mid-and late May. A month later, another two or three stubble were picked one after another. The method is to pick the buds from the outside to the inside and from the bottom to the top before the buds open, otherwise the buds will open at 4: 00 to 5: 00 in the afternoon, affecting the quality. But it should not be picked prematurely, otherwise the buds are tender and turquoise, the yield is low and the quality is poor.

(2) the collected flowers should be evenly sprinkled on the Reed mat or cleaned ground to dry by hand. it should not be turned over, and can be accumulated when drying to 80% dry.

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Once dried honeysuckle, after a period of time will be dried again 1 ~ 3 times, after it does not contain moisture, put into a plastic bag for sale.