The difference between real and falling cactus
Let's explain in detail the introduction of the succulent plant cactus for netizens. Let's take a look at the difference between real and falling cactus!
The conceptual relationship between reality and implementation is not a symmetrical relationship, and there are also differences in the definition angles. Therefore, in practice, the scope of their concepts is uncertain, so there will be ambiguity in communication.
The distinction between actual production and implementation only has theoretical significance. In reality, due to various factors such as planting methods, technology, and variety characteristics, there is no absolutely reliable way to distinguish the two. It mainly relies on its own experience in practice. To experience it, that is, it can only be understood but not expressed in words.
In actual planting, it is only necessary to distinguish between self-rooted roots, i.e. real roots and rootstock roots. At the same time, it becomes a basis for bargaining under the conditions that it is possible to successfully judge whether it is born or born.
As long as you play with cactus plants, you will definitely encounter such a series of problems. What is a living ball? What is a graft ball? What is falling to earth? Why are real balls so expensive? What is the difference between a real sphere and a falling earth? Unless they are rich and spendthrift, ordinary enthusiasts will go through a process of switching between living on the earth and landing on the earth. Since the current understanding of the real sphere and the landing on the earth has a process of development and change, it is still a bit long-winded to thoroughly explain the seemingly simple question. Therefore, based on my own understanding, I organized the evolution of these two concepts, so that new enthusiasts can fully understand these two seemingly simple issues.
To understand these issues, we must first define the concepts of real sphere, grafted sphere and falling to the earth. Generally speaking, a seedling ball refers to a cactus plant that is sown and cultivated by seeds; a grafted ball refers to a cactus plant that is grafted on a rootstock; and a falling earth refers to a cactus plant directly planted in the soil after the grafted ball is separated from the rootstock.
On the surface of the definition, it seems easy to distinguish, especially the grafted ball, which can be seen at a glance; landing on the earth is actually a bit difficult to judge after the fact. This is the focus of the following discussion. From the definition, it is also very clear that at least we can know such a logic-it must be a grafted ball before landing on the earth. However, the problem is that in reality, living balls and falling earth are often regarded as opposing differences, but the division standards between them are not uniform. At the same time, some special planting techniques mainly refer to the influence passed from Japan, so the direct distinction between living balls and falling earth is still somewhat complicated. Therefore, we still need to further clarify the relationship.
1. Real life.
The word "seed" can be understood as "fruit and seed growth", which means that it is an act of sexual reproduction. That is to say, as long as a seed is sown, it must be "seed". Therefore, there is no doubt that the ball where "the seeds grow and the seeds grow" must be the seed ball.
2. Landing.
It can be known from the above that since the predecessor of falling to the earth must be a grafted ball, the meaning of "falling to the earth" can be understood as that the grafted ball has finally returned to the soil to grow. Therefore, in a purely literal sense, there should be no doubt that any grafted ball will fall to the earth after it leaves the rootstock. However, the problem lies in the criterion for distinguishing live and live. That is to say,"live" is fundamentally related to the sexual reproduction of plants. To put it deeper, it is a genetic problem, while "live" is completely a horticultural planting method. This classification directly leads to a cross-product judgment problem, that is, whether the seedlings that fall after early grafting are considered to be seedlings or landing?
Some friends may say that this is artificial chaos and unification. As long as it is grafted and landed, it will fall to the earth, and what grows completely from seeds will be a real ball. Isn't it very simple and clear? Why make it so complicated? I also agreed with this question in the past. However, since the current domestic technology, methods and concepts of growing cactus are too influenced by Japan, it is reasonable to think about some of Japan's theories and practices in cactus planting, hereinafter referred to as the Japanese system. Therefore, it is necessary to further discuss, and not make such a hasty distinction.
Before continuing to discuss the distinction between survival and landing, we must first talk about the relationship between sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction.
As we all know, asexual reproduction is a cloning technology that can increase the reproduction coefficient in horticulture and maintain its original characteristics. Therefore, the homogenization of varieties is very serious. In the reproduction of Earthfall, the vast majority of cases mainly refers to the domestic ones. There has been no research abroad, and we dare not easily draw conclusions. They are all promoted by repeatedly destroying the growth point of the cactus, that is, beheading and exploding the cubs, and then taking them. Excess reproduction is obtained over a period of time in the form of grafting and promoting growth. Therefore, in a sense, Earthfall grafting has become synonymous with the descendants of N generations of asexual reproduction. Due to the result of long-term asexual reproduction, the quality of cactus has declined, including resistance to stress, appearance, flowering ability, and difficulty in falling to the ground and developing solid roots, which have all declined to varying degrees. On the contrary, sexually reproducing individuals will be better than obtaining landing balls through repeated asexual reproduction. The reason is very simple, because sexual reproduction is the fundamental way to continue the race.
Having said this, I think everyone can understand why it is not too simple to distinguish between living balls and falling on the earth. The core is the judgment of early grafting and landing on the seedlings. Obviously, such balls cannot be simply classified as falling on the earth. The concept of "living on the earth" is expressed below. Because in this case, as long as you successfully fall to the ground and grow your own roots, its quality is not significantly different from that of the native seedball. The essence is to use the power of the rootstock to accelerate its growth rate so that it can take shape as soon as possible. Therefore, to put it bluntly, assuming that the real earth is sold at the price of an ordinary real earth, I am willing to accept it unconditionally and give up buying high-priced native real earth balls, especially the Japanese cactus. It is said that the Japanese call real earth balls.
Therefore, it should be acceptable to expand the scope of the real-life sphere to the real-life earth. In this way, the so-called Earth landing is the descendants of asexual reproduction, that is, a large number of cactus with exactly the same genes can be found.
According to the explanation in the previous chapter, can we distinguish between a real sphere and a falling earth in this way? In fact, I personally think that not only is it impossible to distinguish unless genetic identification is done, but the above explanation has no important significance at all in practice. The main purpose of writing so many things is to systematically understand the concepts of reality and implementation in the market. Otherwise, it would be easy to not buy a reality ball with joy. In fact, it is not a home-grown reality ball. In any case, according to Marx's theory of value, because the real life on the earth grows rapidly, under the same conditions, it should be sold cheaper than the home-grown ones. As for general earth-landing, it should be cheaper, which is why the price of a real sphere is often several to dozens of times more expensive than that of a earth-landing.
Here, I would like to put forward my own point: When buying cactus, the key point should be to distinguish whether it is the self-rooted root, that is, the solid root, or the rootstock root. Since practice has proved that there is no absolutely reliable way to distinguish between green balls and falling on the earth, most cases can only rely on empirical judgment. Therefore, distinguishing whether a cactus is a solid root not only meets the needs of planting, but also is easy to distinguish.
Before explaining the reasons, we still have to dwell on the question of "real roots". The real root is the root of the cactus itself. For a native born ball, this is certain and becomes an important criterion for judging a born ball. However, falling to the earth is different. There is a difference between a solid root and a rootstock root.
The roots of rootstocks often refer to the ruler of the sky. The roots commonly known as the "triangle" retain a section of the rootstock-the "triangle" wood core when falling to the ground. The roots produced from this section of wood core all grow on the wood core, rather than from the sphere. The reason why this root-raising method is used is because Triangle, a rootstock, is easy to root. Therefore, when large-scale breeding is carried out, this method will be used to grow roots slowly. Moreover, due to the consequences of long-term asexual reproduction, it is really impossible to achieve it. It is something that growers are unwilling to see and lazy to practice. The biggest difference between the root and the real root of a rootstock is that the root life of a rootstock is short and long. If the cactus cannot grow a real root before the root of the rootstock dies, it will easily affect the growth of the cactus. Even rot and die. Therefore, there will be a huge difference between falling on the earth and whether there is a real root. This is also the reason why I emphasized the real root when I described the actual birth and falling on the earth.
It is very easy to distinguish when the roots of the rootstock fall to the earth. As long as the flower friends are not lazy, they must dig out the balls planted in the soil and have a look. The wood core of the rootstock is the best proof. However, this so-called root can easily be used by merchants to confuse the public. Therefore, many times flower friends go to buy so-called cactus with roots, but they are actually the roots of rootstocks. Of course, it is not entirely wrong for merchants to say this. At least such cactus can still be fed for a while, but it still violates consumers 'right to know in the end.
Finally, we will focus on the situation of real roots landing on the earth. This is also the difference between real balls and falling on the earth that many flower friends are most concerned about.
At present, the main basis for distinguishing the seedling ball and the solid root falling to the earth is the shape of the solid root. It is generally believed that the seedling ball will have an obvious thick main root, which is closely consistent with the sphere. It looks very smooth and has no obvious boundary; On the other hand, the solid root falling to the earth generally has no obvious main root, and it is often composed of several relatively thin fleshy roots, and obvious cuts at the bottom of the ball can be seen, and there will be obvious boundaries between the root and the sphere. However, practice has proved that this judgment method is not only useful for balls of individual varieties that have landed within one year, such as species of the genus Corpus, but cannot make a positive judgment on balls of most other varieties. There are two main reasons to illustrate this problem, and photos related to comparison will be added in the future: First, individual differences. For example, the taproots of some varieties are not particularly obvious, so there is no significant difference between the shape of the real roots and the roots of the seed-ball after landing, such as Planetary, Gymnocalyx, Chrysanthemum, etc.; There are also some varieties that can indeed grow perfect taproots, that is, almost the same as the roots of the seed-ball, such as Wuyukyu, Apophylla, etc.
The second is the Japanese "root-cutting and planting method", which makes the real seedling ball lose its iconic main root shape, so that it is completely impossible to use the root shape to prove that the seedling has still landed.
In addition, as long as the ball is self-rooted, the planting method, self-perception, etc. are similar. Since it is almost impossible for the descendants of the N generation to grow solid roots, even the descendants of the asexual reproduction should be relatively healthy in the first few generations and have good quality. To put it bluntly, as long as it is a solid ball, whether it is born or grounded is not very important. Therefore, for enthusiasts, in the end, only the difference between the solid root ball and the rootstock root ball is the most meaningful.
The specific introduction of the differences between real and landing cactus shared above is for netizens to refer to.