How to keep eggplant seed

Eggplant planting in various places, after years of adaptation and planting, gradually adapt to the local environment and produce different taste quality, forming what we call local species. To plant local varieties, most of them need to keep their own seeds and plant them after raising seedlings. However, seed retention is not a simple thing, we need to consider various factors, correct operation, in order to ensure that this good seed, will not affect the planting in the coming year.

I. selection of species

To choose the remaining plants, we should choose the plants with strong, many roots, good growth ability and good tree potential. Can not choose weak plants to leave seeds, leaving seeds bad. Generally leave seed time in the middle of eggplant growth, growth, nutrition, tree potential prosperous period, when eggplant growth quality is good, seed will have stronger germination. If in the later stage, the tree tends to be weak and the nutrition is not enough, it will not be able to produce good eggplant, and the seed quality will decline naturally.

II. Management

After planting eggplant, observe the growth of eggplant, in the middle of eggplant fruiting, when the plant is exuberant. Choose some dark, shiny, large, pest-free eggplant to mark. Carry out special care alone to provide adequate fertilizer and water supply to promote the growth and development of eggplant. Spraying Bordeaux liquid to prevent bacterial damage, mainly preventing cotton blight and brown stripe, spraying 500,600 times of mancozeb wettable powder to control cotton blight, spraying 1500 times of hexazolol to control brown streak; in addition, to control the harm of cotton bollworm, insects eat eggplant, resulting in fruit loss.

III. Seed collection

Wait until the eggplant is fully ripe, then pick it off, gently dig it off, then shake it and take out all the seeds. Remove the empty, undiscolored and incomplete seeds and keep the full dark brown seeds. After taking out the seed, rinse the seed, remove some impurities and eggplant edible tissue, then soak the seed in running water for an hour, scrub the seed in clean water and remove the mucus from the seed surface. Can drain and spray some fungicides to disinfect, sun for half a day before storage.

IV. Storage

After drying, the seeds should be stored in a clean glass bottle, which is sealed and impervious, so that the seeds can maintain their only water content, keep them dry and will not be exposed to moisture. If the seeds are not breathable, they will not be exposed to oxygen and will be able to stay dormant. And the glass bottle is hard, so the worms will not harm the seeds. Large quantities of seeds can be stored in thick plastic bags. But the placement environment needs to be closed.

The above is the operation process of eggplant seed keeping, everything needs to be decided from the best and the good, but there may be more problems that need to be paid attention to in production, which should be combined with practice. If it is helpful to you, you are welcome to continue to follow the update.