2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Many people like the juicy heads of Peking cabbage with an unusual taste, delicate structure, lying on the shelf in the store in winter. I would like to grow the same ones on my site. For many years we have been purchasing ready-made seedlings from sellers in the spring, but the result is zero. Some yellow flowers adorn our beds. What is the reason for these failures?
Color factors
Peking cabbage turns into color under the following conditions:
1. Temperature drop during the night hours is significantly below 20 degrees at the seedling stage.
2. Long, daylight hours more than 10 hours.
3. Excess nitrogen with a lack of calcium.
4. Poor quality seeds.
5. Varieties resistant to flowering.
6. Location of culture.
7. Violation of the root system.
8. Incorrect sowing dates.
9. Lack of potassium-phosphorus nutrition.
10. Irregular watering.
11. Delay in cleaning dates.
There are many factors, failure to comply with at least one point leads to a "bouquet" instead of a head of cabbage. Let's analyze the reasons in more detail, combining them into groups.
Dates and place of landing
Unlike other types of cabbage, Peking cabbage requires a short daylight hours (no more than 10 hours). Planting near buildings, shrubs, fences that provide shade at the beginning or end of the day will reduce the likelihood of blooming. If this is not possible, then in the afternoon, cover the plants with newspapers fixed on a stick, buckets without a bottom, or a dark nonwoven fabric.
The optimal planting dates are considered to be very early in the spring (mid-April) under the film or in the second half of summer. Sowing on July 20 immediately in open ground to a permanent place will allow you to get a crop in early October. If there is a threat of frost, the plants are covered with non-woven material or film.
On the market, seedlings are sold from late May to mid-June. Buying such plants, you don't have to wait for heads of cabbage. Therefore, prepare the seedlings yourself according to your planting timing needs.
Sowing directly to a permanent place in a seedless way, growing young animals in separate cups or cassettes, avoids injury to the root system. Stay away from plants while loosening. Bury the tools in the soil a maximum of 2-3cm. Damage to the roots gives the cabbage a signal to accelerate the completion of the life cycle, the formation of offspring (seeds).
Timely harvesting will help you get a good harvest. When ready, the heads of cabbage are cut for consumption. In a mature state, the culture will stand for a maximum of a week.
Temperature, seeds
The selection of varieties designed for our growing conditions solves the global quality problem. Varieties of the Dutch and Russian selection (Manoko, Brokken, Kyustar, Severnaya Krasavitsa, Optico), resistant to flowering, come to the aid of amateur vegetable growers.
Equally, heat and cold negatively affect the formation of heads of cabbage. A stable temperature of about 20 degrees, especially at the initial stage of growing seedlings, saves the situation. Later, when the head of cabbage has already begun to form, lowering to 12 degrees does not matter.
If desired, during the cultivation of Chinese cabbage, the spunbond can be left on, maintaining a constant temperature for the plants. Water containers placed in greenhouses take away excess heat during the day, giving it back to plants at night.
Food, watering
2 weeks before planting in the ground, seedlings fill the soil with well-decomposed humus, adding 1 square meter to a tablespoon of potassium sulfate, superphosphate.
In the process of growth, a tablespoon of a tablespoon for a bucket of liquid is fed with a complex fertilizer "Zdraven for Cabbage". It contains, in addition to the basic set, additional trace elements necessary for plant nutrition.
Try to water the cabbage evenly without creating additional stress for long breaks. If it is impossible to come to the country house in the middle of the week, install automatic drip irrigation.
Observing agricultural techniques, satisfying all the needs of plants, it is possible to obtain juicy, tender-structured heads of Peking cabbage in any zone except the Far North. Armed with knowledge, feel free to start sowing this culture, valuable in all respects.
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