The growth of Hippophae rhamnoides can be divided into four stages: seedling stage, fruiting stage, flourishing fruit stage and declining stage. In the two years after colonization, underground growth dominated, while the overground part grew slowly.

It grows vigorously in 3-4 years and begins to blossom and bear fruit. Adult Hippophae rhamnoides L. is 2-2.5 meters high and its crown width is 1.5-2 meters. In the fifth year, it entered the full fruit period. Due to the different soil conditions and management, the time to enter the decline period is also different, and the tree entered the decline period after 15 years.

When seabuckthorn grows to 2-2.5 meters high, cut the top. The key points of pruning are: poor cross-cutting, old and new, pruning dense parts, retaining empty branches, cutting off the bottom, pruning the crown well, and high yield.

The ripening of seabuckthorn fruit is marked by its unique color and fruit size, and the harvesting time is determined accordingly. Varieties introduced from high latitudes such as Russia and Mongolia are early-maturing.

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Growth habit

Seabuckthorn likes light, cold, heat, sand and dry climate. Strong adaptability to soil.

Hippophae rhamnoides is a positive tree species, which likes light and can grow under sparse forests, but it can't adapt to forest areas with large canopy density. Seabuckthorn is not strict with soil, and it is distributed in millet calcareous soil, limestone calcareous soil, brown calcareous soil, meadow soil and black soil.

Seabuckthorn has certain requirements for precipitation, and the annual precipitation should be above 400 mm If the precipitation is less than 400 mm, it can grow in floodplains, hills and valleys, but it doesn't like stagnant water.