Gardenia, also known as gardenia and gardenia, can generally grow in hilly areas and distribute in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou and other provinces. Gardenia jasminoides Ellis is an excellent Chinese herbal medicine with fruit and root as medicine. It has the functions of purging fire and detoxifying, clearing heat and promoting diuresis, cooling blood and removing blood stasis, and can also be used as a yellow edible plant and a good ornamental plant.

1, seed collection: Gardenia fruit ripens in 10 ~ 1 1 month. There are two cultivated varieties, big and small. Gardenia jasminoides Ellis should be selected for cultivation. Because the germination rate of gardenia seeds is not high, we should choose fresh fruits with full color and deep red, and even the shells should be dried to half-dry. Before sowing, peel off the peel, take out the seeds, soak them in clear water for 2-3 hours, then knead them to remove impurities floating on the water surface and shriveled seeds, take out the full seeds that sink to the bottom of the water, dry them slightly, and mix them with fine sand to sow.

2. Seedling raising: select fertile nursery land, plow and harrow, and make the bed after applying sufficient base fertilizer. Because the seeds are fine, plant ash or fine fertile soil should be mixed for sowing or drilling, and thin soil and grass should be covered after sowing. Sowing from February to March in 65438. After unearthed, timely weed, weed, wet the seedbed, and apply thin fertilizer water. The amount of seeds used per mu is 4 to 6 kilograms, and the seedlings can leave the nursery if they are more than 30 centimeters high.

3. Soil preparation: Choose sloping fields and mountain nests with fertile soil and abundant sunshine. Because gardenia is a shrub, in order to facilitate fruit picking and management, fertilization and other management measures, after full reclamation and land preparation, a horizontal belt has been made with a bandwidth of 80 to 100 cm per 1.5 m area, so you'd better take a hole. Apply 0.5- 1 kg organic fertilizer or garbage fertilizer to each hole, and fill it into the hole after mixing.

4. Planting: from February 6, 2008 to March of the following year, the seedlings were planted before they germinated. If the temperature is high, cut off the upper branches and leaves properly.

5. Management: Weeding and tending 1 ~ 2 times from April to June after afforestation, and strengthening pest control. After that, weeding and loosening the soil should be done every year, and phosphorus and nitrogen-based fertilizers or compound fertilizers should be applied, and short crops or medicinal materials such as peanuts can be interplanted.

6. Pest control: the main diseases are leaf blight; Anthracnose harms branches. Prevention and control methods: (1) Cutting off dead branches and burning can reduce the source of disease; (2) Spraying 50% carbendazim 800- 1000 times solution or 70% thiophanate 1000- 1500 times solution or bordeaux1:100 times solution at the initial stage of the disease. The main pests are aphids and coffee moths, which feed on leaves, tender buds and buds with larvae, and can spray 40% dimethoate 2000 times.