Seed identification

Seed

You should look carefully. The seed is black, looks very smooth and round. It is a small dark purple ball like a black pearl. This is the seed of real jasmine. It is easy to seed in Guangzhou and the south of China and can be used for sowing

Purple jasmine seed

The seeds in the following pictures are the common and always cheated seeds of purple jasmine. Purple jasmine is not jasmine. It is a plant of Oleaceae, and purple jasmine is a plant of purple jasmine, which is completely different. Moreover, purple jasmine is also called mine flower. You can know the origin of the name of this flower by looking at its seed like a small mine~

So when you buy seeds on Taobao, you must pay attention. It is very likely that what you buy is the seeds of landmine flowers~

Preservation of seeds

Jasmine seeds can be stored under low temperature and dry conditions

Generally, it can be maintained for 1 ~ 2 years, which should not be too long. If the time is too long, Xiaobian doesn't know whether it can reproduce jasmine~

Seed planting

Prepare

First of all, prepare a breeding plate with loose soil and air permeability

Soak the seeds in warm water for several hours until the hard shell is broken

Sow

Then take out the seeds and sow them in the breeding tray

After sowing the seeds, cover the surface with a layer of 0.5 ~ 1 cm thick floating soil

Water & amp; Ventilation

Spray wet with a watering can, and cover the surface with a layer of plastic cloth for moisturizing and heat preservation. The germination will be faster if the temperature is controlled around 20 degrees. During the day, you can lift the plastic cloth for a period of time to ventilate and keep the soil moist, but don't pour too much water, it will soak the seeds

Then wait quietly for jasmine to bloom ~ however, due to the rare Jasmine seeds and the high technical requirements for sowing and reproduction, most of them are cuttings~