What is the prospect of honeysuckle cultivation?
This article provides a detailed explanation of the prospects and techniques of honeysuckle cultivation, as well as information about green plants and flowers. Here is an introduction for you.
Honeysuckle has been renowned since ancient times as an excellent herb for clearing heat and detoxifying. It has a sweet and cold nature with a fragrant aroma. Its sweet coldness clears heat without harming the stomach, and its fragrant aroma can dispel evil. Below is an introduction to the cultivation techniques of honeysuckle.
Honeysuckle is a semi-evergreen twining shrub that flowers from May to July and bears fruit from August to October. The seeds start to produce flowers in the second year after sowing, with a flowering period of over 20 years. It is strong and robust, preferring sunlight but also tolerating shade, drought, waterlogging, and cold. It can grow in acidic or alkaline soils, thriving better in moist, fertile, and deep sandy loam soil with a well-developed root system and high yield.
Cultivation can take place on sunny wasteland slopes, edges of terraced fields, and beside rivers and streams. Apply 2-3 kilograms of organic fertilizer per mu before plowing and preparing the land. Make holes at a spacing of 0.75 meters by 0.75 meters, and add some decomposed organic fertilizer to each hole before sowing. There are two methods:
1. Honeysuckle seed cultivation. Seeds are harvested in autumn when ripe, peeled, dried in the shade, and stored. The following spring, soak the seeds in warm water at 35°C-40°C for 24 hours, then sow in furrows 25 cm apart on the prepared seedbed, cover with 1 cm of soil, and then cover the ridge surface with a thin layer of straw and water to moisten. Seedlings emerge in half a month and are transplanted on a cloudy day in the spring. Seedlings need to be transplanted with soil to ensure survival, with 2 plants per hole.
2. Honeysuckle cutting cultivation. Cutting periods are in spring and autumn, with spring being before new buds have sprouted and autumn from late August to mid-October. Choose 1-2-year-old healthy branches as cuttings, 25-30 cm long, with two types of propagation: cutting seedlings and direct planting. For cutting seedlings, the seedbed should be raised, 1-1.5 meters wide, with furrows 20 cm apart. Insert cuttings diagonally into the沟 (gou) at a spacing of 5 cm, cover with soil, press down, and leave 2/5 of the cutting above the ground. Water during severe drought. Roots start to grow after half a month, and the following spring or autumn is for planting, similar to the method above. For direct planting, insert 5-6 cuttings per hole to ensure full growth.
3. Honeysuckle root division cultivation. Dig up the mother plant and then separate for planting. This method affects flowering the following year, is short of seed sources, and is suitable for ornamental purposes.
By the fifth year, the plants have grown strong. Remove one plant from every alternate row and plant it elsewhere to maintain rapid and high-yielding growth while doubling the harvesting area.
The information provided above on the prospects of honeysuckle cultivation and detailed cultivation techniques, have you understood it?