When is the best time to propagate golden plum cuttings?
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Golden plum (Scientific name: Armeniaca mume Sieb.) Alias: green plum, spring plum, dried branch plum, sour plum, black plum. It is a small tree of the Prunus mume genus in the Rosaceae family, rarely a shrub, 4-10 meters high.梅花 is native to southern China and has a cultivation history of more than 3,000 years, with many varieties for ornamental or fruit trees. Many types can not only be cultivated outdoors for ornamental purposes but can also be planted as potted plants to create plum tree trunks.
The bark of the golden plum tree is light gray or slightly green, smooth; the young branches are green and smooth without hair. The leaves are ovate or elliptical, with small sharp teeth on the edges, grayish green. The flowers are single or sometimes two in one bud, fragrant, and bloom before the leaves; the calyx is usually brownish red, but some varieties have green or green-purple calyces; the petals are obovate, white to pink. The fruit is nearly spherical, 2-3 cm in diameter, yellow or greenish white, covered with pubescence, and tastes sour; the flesh adheres to the stone; the stone is elliptical, slightly flattened on both sides. The flowering period is winter to spring, and the fruiting period is May to June.
Golden plum can be planted alone, in clusters, or in groups in gardens, green spaces, courtyards, and scenic spots; it can also be naturally planted in front of houses, on slopes, among rocks, and by roadsides. If evergreen trees or dark buildings are used as a background, they can set off the pure and icy beauty of the plum blossoms even more. Dotted among other plants in the garden green spaces, they not only enrich the landscape colors but also enliven the garden atmosphere. When planted with green tree species, they can enhance the beauty of the garden. Different flowering period varieties layered in configuration can extend the viewing period.
The fruit of golden plum is mainly used for processing or medicine, generally processed into various preserves and fruit jams; processed into black plum for medicinal use, it acts as an astringent, can treat dysentery, and has expectorant, antitussive, antipyretic, and insecticidal effects, and is also a raw material for extracting citric acid; the flower buds can improve appetite, relieve depression, promote saliva secretion, and detoxify blood; the roots ground into powder are effective for treating jaundice. This plant is sensitive to hydrogen fluoride pollution and can be used to monitor atmospheric fluoride pollution. Unripe fruits contain citric acid, malic acid, succinic acid, etc.; seeds contain amygdalin; flowers contain volatile oils, which contain benzaldehyde, benzoic acid, etc.
Golden plum can be propagated by播种 (seeding), layering, cuttings, or grafting, but grafting is commonly used. However, the grafting method requires a longer period to cultivate the rootstock, has many operational steps, requires high technical skills, and may cause the entire plant to be infected with a virus due to the scion carrying a virus. Using the open-source mass efficient rapid propagation technology for plants to carry out micro-material asexual rapid propagation of golden plum can achieve non-variant, short-cycle, large-scale, and industrialized rapid propagation. Moreover, it is not affected by the season and can cultivate seedlings all year round.
The plant non-tube efficient rapid propagation technology is a brand new plant cloning system, completely independent of laboratory conditions, with simple seedling raising facilities and much lower input costs than tissue culture rapid propagation, greatly saving on germplasm materials, with the amount of explant propagation unit material used being 3-8 times less than conventional seedling raising; the inoculation speed is very fast, 3-5 times that of tissue culture, with very high labor efficiency.
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