Selection and Treatment of Garlic Seed for Garlic Cultivation

Autumn is a good time to grow garlic, and the selection and seed treatment of garlic before planting is very important, so as to ensure the normal growth of garlic and improve the yield of garlic. So how to choose and deal with garlic? Come and have a look with the editor.

1. Seed selection

Before sowing, it is best to put the garlic in the sun for 2-3 days, so that the cloves are loose, easy to break, and promote the germination of garlic seeds. After harvest and drying, before storage, farmers should select garlic, and choose large garlic, few and neat cloves, white color, hypertrophy of terminal buds, disease-free and injury-free garlic, which should be stored separately. Before sowing, select again, remove rotten, moth-eaten, retting root garlic, to ensure the quality of growing garlic.

2. Bye garlic

The purpose of breaking garlic is to remove the heel, remove the damaged cloves and peel off the garlic skin, this is because the garlic skin and heel will affect the water absorption of garlic in varying degrees, thus affecting the normal emergence of seedlings, so garlic skin and heel before sowing are beneficial to seedling rooting and leaping when emerging. If it is cultivated in saline-alkali soil, garlic skin and heel can be avoided in order to prevent the corrosion of garlic by alkali.

3. Sow seeds according to stages

The size of garlic seed has a great effect on the yield. The larger the mother lobe is, the more shaped the plant will grow, the larger the garlic will be, and the higher the yield will be. Therefore, when planting, farmers should not only choose large garlic cloves, but also choose large garlic cloves. After breaking the cloves, they should be divided into three grades: large, medium, and small. When planting, they should choose primary and secondary cloves. Because of their weak growth ability and low yield, they should be sown according to grade.

4. Sprouting of garlic seed

When sowing in autumn, if the garlic seed of the current year is used and does not pass the dormancy period, it is necessary to deal with the garlic seed, remove the heel and not peel off the garlic, put it in a certain container, spray water while stirring, make the garlic skin wet, and sow the seed after 3-4 days. Or half a month before sowing, soak in water after getting rid of the heel, put it in the cellar and spread it on the wetland, turn it every 3-4 days, so that the garlic seeds are evenly damp, the temperature is about 11-16, the air relative humidity is 83%, and about half a month later, the seeds can be sowed when white roots occur.

The above is the introduction of garlic planting selection and treatment methods. I hope it can help you. If you want to know more about it, please follow us.