The difference between crunchy kumquat and common kumquat is different origin and different taste.

1, different places of origin

Crispy kumquats are produced in Yangshuo, Guilin, and ordinary kumquats are produced in Rong'an, Guangxi.

2, the taste is different

Crispy kumquat fruit skin is relatively soft, can be cleaned and eaten with the skin, sweet and sour taste. Ordinary kumquat fruit skin is harder, the taste is sweeter.

Brief introduction of kumquat:

Kumquat belongs to Rutaceae? Citrus subfamily kumquat genus kumquat bullet species of an excellent variety. Evergreen small trees or shrubs, leaves broad lanceolate or broadly elliptic, stems and branch tips with thorns, fruit inverted ovate-ellipsoid, smooth rind, golden yellow, oil cells small and densely populated, edible. Kumquat skin is tender and crispy, when you bite through the skin of the oil ejected fragrance stimulation, one can not help but think of the famous Song Dynasty writer Su Shi's tangerine words, "Fragrant mist out of the mouth of the people surprised by the half-broken, Qingquan flow of teeth afraid of the first taste. Wu Ji's hand still smells good after three days."

The kumquat with slippery skin is a new variety of kumquat discovered and successfully bred by the agricultural scientists of Rong'an County, Guangxi, in 1981 in the town of Dagong, and began to popularize the cultivation in 1984. After more than twenty years of cultivation observation, this variety has stable traits, good productivity, good quality, and easy to cultivate, but insect pests are more than ordinary kumquats. Therefore, kumquat is one of the famous agricultural by-products in Rongan.

I, kumquat cultivation methods

The use of sparse cultivation methods, plant spacing 2.3 meters × 3 meters, mu planted 80 ~ 100 plants. Seedlings before planting, pruning to lift the grafting mouth film, mainly spring planting, generally early February to mid-March planting.

Two, kumquat fertilization method

Digging ditches in the canopy drip line Shi, general ring ditch depth 15 ~ 20 cm, 30 cm wide, radial ditch fertilization, it is appropriate to open a shallow ditch outward from the near-trunk, and gradually deepen outward. Organic fertilizer digging deep, wide 30 cm above the ditch. Mastering the principle of shallow root shallow application, deep root deep application, spring and summer shallow application, autumn and winter deep application, deep application of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer .