Introduction to lychee
Lychee, also known as Litchi, is a plant of the Sapindaceae and Lychee genus. It is about 10 meters high. The peel is bright red and purple, and the color is bright red when mature. The seeds are Wrapped with arils, the flowering period is in spring and the fruiting period is in summer. The flesh is delicious and cannot be stored well.
The main cultivated varieties of lychees are March Red, Round Branch, Black Leaf, Huaizhi, Guiwei, Nuomi Ci, Yuanhong, Lanzhu, Chenzi, Gualv, Crystal Ball, Feizixiao, and White Sugar Poppy Thirteen more.
Lychee planting conditions
Lychee likes an environment of high temperature and high humidity, and an environment with sufficient sunshine. The flower bud differentiation period requires relatively low temperatures, but the temperature is between minus 2 degrees to minus 4 degrees. It will suffer from frost damage. During the flowering period, sunny and warm weather, but not dry and hot weather, is most beneficial. Low temperatures and rainy seasons are not conducive to flowering and pollination.
Lychee is native to the Lingnan region of China and is distributed in southern, southwest and southeastern China. Currently, it is mainly grown in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hainan, Sichuan, Taiwan, and southern Fujian (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou Regions) and other production areas are more cultivated.
Lychee planting time
Lychee is suitable for sowing in April-June in spring and August-September in autumn. These two periods are when sowing lychee seeds have the highest germination rate and long growth. The best, but China has a vast territory, and the climate and soil conditions in various places will have some differences.
Lychee planting benefits
The cost of planting one acre of lychees consists of chemical fertilizers, labor, seedlings, etc. The overall cost is 1,500 yuan, and the output of one acre of land is about 400 kilograms. According to recent market conditions, excluding costs, the profit from one acre of lychees is around 2,500 yuan.