Cultivation method (basic knowledge): the best breeding time: the cutting of fake apples can be carried out in spring and autumn. Sowing can be picked when the fruit is ripe and cracked.
The best growing soil: fake apples like loam, with deep and moist soil layer and rich organic matter.
Growth humidity requirements: fake apples like wet growth environment.
Optimum growth temperature: Pseudoapples like warm and humid weather, and are neither drought-tolerant nor cold-resistant.
Best growth light: fake apples like light, and the sunshine needs to be sufficient.
Matters needing attention in cultivating fake apples: fertilization:
Young trees of fake apple trees are generally fertilized 4 ~ 6 times a year, once every 2 ~ 3 months, and both organic fertilizer and chemical fertilizer can be used. Adult fruit trees need more nutrition. In order to prevent the tree from weakening, fertilization should be carried out more than twice a year. That is to say, it should be applied once in late winter and early spring, mainly with organic fertilizer, and each plant should be applied with 20 ~ 30 kg of organic fertilizer. The second time, after the fruit is picked in August-September, the post-fruit fertilizer is applied once. Mainly chemical fertilizer, 0.5 ~ 1 kg per plant, scattered in the plant root circle.
Water supply point:
Apple trees are waterlogged-tolerant but not drought-tolerant, and they need suitable soil moisture and atmospheric humidity during the flowering and young fruit period, commonly known as "sunny mango, rainy apple". Therefore, during flowering, in case of dry weather, water should be sprayed on the crown. Increase air humidity to promote flowering and fruiting.
Pruning points:
If the tree grows vigorously and bears few flowers and fruits, it must be trimmed and reshaped properly to facilitate ventilation and light transmission inside the crown, reduce psyllid and bituminous coal disease caused by it, and be beneficial to flowering and fruiting. That is, after the fruit is picked, some honey branches, weak branches and diseased branches are thinned. The main branches at the top of the tree should also be controlled. It can also be pruned in summer and autumn to promote spring flowering.
Breeding point:
Pseudo-apple mothers usually reproduce by sowing or cutting.
Sowing propagation
When the fake apple fruit is ripe and cracked, it can be picked and peeled with the fruit, which is not suitable for exposure in the sun; If you can't dehydrate, you should immediately harvest and sow, and the sand bed should not be too wet, so as not to affect the germination rate; The seeds can be sterilized by thiophanate-methyl or bactericide, sowed by drilling, and germinated after 1 week. Transplanting seeds into nutrient bags at the germination stage can improve the survival rate of transplanting and reduce management work.
cutting
Because the branches of fake apple trees are easy to take root, cutting propagation is often used, which is simple and easy to operate and grows rapidly. The semi-lignified branches of that year, the essence branches of two or three years, and even the old branches can be cut off in spring and autumn to survive. Cut the cuttings into a length of about 1.2 ~ 1.5m, and cut into the soil of about 0.3m: in the case of less materials, it can also be cut into 20 ~ 30 cm. It takes about 1 month to take root as long as the humidity of air and soil is kept.
Pest control:
In warm and rainy years, fake apple girls often suffer from anthracnose, which causes leaves to wither and fall off easily.
Prevention and control methods:
First of all, we should pay attention to rural hygiene, collect diseased leaves and burn them centrally to reduce the source of infection. For gardens or plants with serious diseases, on the basis of cleaning the gardens, 1 {BF} bordeaux solution or 30 {BF} copper oxychloride suspension can be sprayed for 600 times.
Secondly, spraying 600 times of 4 {BF} polysulfide suspension alternately and continuously at the beginning of the leaf-spreading period or at the beginning of the disease.
Expand knowledge-the value of fake apples: 1, economic value
The stem bark fiber of fake apple can be used as raw material for sacks and also for papermaking. Seeds can be eaten or pressed for oil.
False apple trees bear many fruits in autumn, with bright colors and high ornamental value. The skin on the branches can be used as raw material for woven bags.
2. Medicinal value
Roots and leaves: sweet, slightly warm. Relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, expelling wind and promoting blood circulation. Can be used for treating rheumatic pain, postpartum paralysis, traumatic injury, lumbago and leg pain, jaundice, and traumatic hemorrhage.
Pseudo-apple leaves have pungent, warm and liver meridians, which can dissipate blood stasis and relieve pain, and can treat blood stasis pain, traumatic injury, swelling and cyanosis.
Source: Leaves of purple sweet potato of Sterculiaceae.
Efficacy: removing blood stasis and relieving pain.
Indications: Treatment of traumatic injury, blood stasis pain, bruise and swelling.
Tropism of nature and taste: pungent and warm. Liver meridian.
3. Edible value
The stem fiber of fake apple can be used as raw material for weaving sacks; The fried seeds can be eaten or used to extract oil.