1, the color is different

Red carrots: fleshy root purple-red.

Yellow carrots: the outer skin and root flesh are orange-red, also known as red carrots, yellow carrots, tomato carrots, clove carrots, carrot gold, red coral, yellow root, sweet bamboo shoots, golden bamboo shoots, red beetroot (southern Fujianese, Hakka language) and so on.

Yellow carrots

Red carrots

2, different morphological characteristics

Red carrots: generally 11 to 14 leaves, fleshy roots purplish-red, into the soil part of the 84% or so, long cylindrical, the average root length of 15 centimeters, the longest 23 centimeters. The average transverse diameter of 4.2 centimeters, the thickest up to 6 centimeters. The average root weight is 188 grams, the heaviest up to 480 grams. Moisture, sweet flavor, tender flesh, raw and cooked can be eaten.

Yellow carrot: plant height of about 70 centimeters, large leaves, light green; root long conical, 16 to 17 centimeters long, skin and root meat are orange-red, single root weight 150 to 200 grams. Root flesh is brittle, moisture, taste is slightly light, medium quality, suitable for cooked food, heat resistance, disease resistance, more drought-resistant, poor storage.

3, cultivation is different

Red carrots: 5000 kilograms of rotted farmyard manure or 3000 kilograms of high-quality human urine per mu, 500 grams of seed per mu. Local spring sowing in mid and late April, summer sowing in early July. Mountain dry land planting, 30 days after the emergence of seedlings hoeing seedlings, 3 leaves when the second hoeing, according to 15 cm spacing seedlings, when the radish grows to chopstick thick, the third hoeing. Fertilizer can be ammonium carbonate or urea, not ammonium nitrate.

The earliest local market in mid-August, a large number of marketed in late September, generally 3,000 kilograms per mu, up to 4,000 kilograms. Drought-resistant, disease-resistant, resistant to storage.

Yellow carrots: open field direct broadcast in late June sowing, flat bed sowing or high ridge sowing can be. Mu seed amount of 1 ~ 1.25 kg, plant spacing flat bed sowing for 10 cm square, ridge sowing 10 cm × 50 cm (2 rows per ridge), late September to early October harvest, general mu yield 1500 ~ 2000 kg.

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