Snow lotus fruit mature in the fall;

To around October, the plant stem tip of the bunch of flowers began to wither, the leaves began to yellow that began to dig the fruit, the South can be left in the ground over the winter, digging at any time to sell;

North should be dug before the frost into the cellar storage, as if the sweet potatoes to save, the stem can be made of high-quality fodder, the leaves and flowers have a very high nutritional value, can be dried to make tea or processed for reuse. Can be dried and brewed tea or processed and reused, generally 3 kilograms of fruit per plant, the highest plant yield 10 kilograms, mu yield of 3000-4000 kilograms.

Snow lotus fruit digging, the fruit of the upper part of the seed ball cut off, the wound cool dry, with 100 times the potassium permanganate solution soaked for 3 minutes, fished out of the wet sand buried in the cellar or frost-free indoor, the next spring can be used for seed.

Expanded information:

Snow lotus fruit is particularly adapted to grow in the altitude of 1000 ~ 2300m between the sandy soil, like light, like moist soil, the growth period About 200 days, the growth temperature in 20 ~ 30 ℃, in 15 ℃ below the growth of stagnation, intolerance of cold, frost stem death.

Soil drought should be watered, after the rain should be timely drainage, such as growth caused by field depression can be broken off the tiller branches, the growth of the average can be appropriate to choose to stay 1-2 tiller growth, in order to expand the propagation of the broken off the tiller branches can be used as propagation material for cuttings.

Native to the Andes Mountains in South America, Peru, Argentina, China Yunnan, Taiwan and other places are planted, has been introduced in Yunnan, Fujian, Hainan, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Shandong, Henan, Hebei cultivation success.