For what reasons Peking cabbage bloomed
Peking cabbage is a crop that not everyone knows about the benefits of growing. This vegetable comes from China. It is rich in vitamins, has a high yield and good cold resistance. Very short growing season. Among all the pluses, there is one small minus. During cultivation, you may encounter the fact that Chinese cabbage has bloomed.
Causes of flowering Chinese cabbage
Plant characteristic
To understand why Peking cabbage blooms, consider the characteristics of the culture.
This vegetable has several names: Peking, salad or Petsai. It is a close relative of ordinary Chinese cabbage (mustard or Pakcha).
The culture is ancient. Simple growing technology. Seedling and seedling methods are suitable. Not whimsical to the climate. It can be grown even in the harsh northern regions. There is a large selection of varieties.
It has sessile, tender, whole leaves, the plate is wrinkled and slightly swollen. Height 15-35 cm. The type of head depends on the variety: a rosette or a head of cabbage of different density, formed from leaves.
Flowering reasons
If Chinese cabbage blooms en masse, then you can not count on a good harvest. It is important to know why this is happening. There may be several reasons:
- the landing site was not chosen correctly;
- untimely sowing dates;
- the variety was selected without taking into account climatic features;
- the root system is injured;
- there is not enough phosphorus and potassium in the soil;
- lack of moisture.
How to prevent Chinese cabbage from blooming
To understand why Chinese cabbage bloomed, you need to study several factors.
Lighting
Young Peking cabbage often blooms because it does not like the abundance of the sun. Enough 12 hours of non-bright lighting. If the seeds are sown in early spring or in August, the long daylight season can be avoided. It can be planted closer to a building or fence, so that there is a shade for the normal development of the plant. If this is not possible, you need to cover the beds with a special covering material.
Temperature regime
Temperature changes after planting contribute to the formation of flower buds. Therefore, it should be planted when there is no frost or constant overheating of the soil. The most optimal temperature is 12 ° C to 20 ° C. When the harvest is late, the vegetables go into the flower arrows.
Transfer
In order not to damage the root system of plants, it should be planted very carefully in the soil. This applies to the seedling growing method. Care should also be taken when loosening row spacings. If part of the roots is lost, it forms flowers and fruits at an accelerated rate, completing its life cycle.
Watering
Maintaining soil moisture is important
To avoid flowering Chinese cabbage, it is important to monitor soil moisture throughout the season. If the moisture is gone due to weather conditions, watering and fertilization should be carried out. Lack of moisture adversely affects the quality of cabbage.
Fertilizer
Flowering also occurs when there is a lack of the necessary minerals in the soil. The development of the head of cabbage will be slow. The soil, previously prepared in autumn, prevents shooing. To do this, in the fall, you need to add organic fertilizers (humus or compost), mineral impurities. And in the spring, just level the soil. Plants will not starve and shoot.
Variety selection
The wrong cultivar choice has a special place in such flowering reasons. Therefore, you should select it carefully.
The variety should be selected taking into account the climate of the region. The best will be cabbage seeds that are resistant to flowering. Dutch varieties are recommended. They are more resistant to flowering and are well adapted to our climate. The most popular ones are:
- Russian size - resistant to unfavorable weather conditions, matures in 80 days with proper care, weighing up to 4 kg;
- Cha-Cha is a mid-season variety, the first harvest can be obtained in 50 days, a head of cabbage of average weight up to 2.9 kg;
- The orange tangerine is an early ripening variety that is planted all summer. Harvest in 40 days. Resistant to frost. Head of cabbage weight about 1 kg;
- Vorozheya is a half-cabbage variety, goes like a salad;
- Nika is a hybrid of early ripening, yellow in section, wrinkled and with a waxy coating;
- Vesnyanka - refers to early ripening varieties, the harvest ripens after 35 days, salad sweet culture;
- Glass is a mid-season variety, the harvest is obtained after 75 days, is characterized by dense leaves, yellowish-green hue;
- unpretentious, resistant to flowering varieties Manoko, Taranko, Bilko.
Only original hybrids have cold resistance and flowering properties. It is impossible to get a high-quality harvest with self-collection and harvesting of seeds.
It is important to buy seed only from trusted specialized stores. In order not to get a fake, the product must be certified.
Flowering actions
Unfortunately, if Beijing is blooming, then the situation can no longer be corrected. However, there are options for its use:
- pull out and dispose of in a compost heap. (It has a delicate structure and will soon turn into fertile compost);
- dispose of, making room for other crops;
- use as pet food;
- use for food.
There are not so many vitamins in flowering heads of cabbage than in ordinary ones. But if you want to, you can benefit from them. Leaf veins accumulate milky juice and become bitter. Therefore, fresh are not suitable for use. To prepare culinary dishes, you must first soak them in salted water. All the bitterness will come out. And after that you can cook stuffed cabbage rolls, summer soups and other culinary delights.
If Chinese cabbage has bloomed, then there are not many options for using the crop. Therefore, all causes of flowering should be excluded, and the care and cultivation of this vegetable should be approached with all responsibility.
Conclusion
To prevent flowering, strict adherence to the preparatory technology and cultivation technology is necessary. In the future, it is impossible to remedy the situation without this knowledge. It is necessary to take care of the plantings in accordance with the needs of the variety, otherwise, instead of a garden with vegetables, you will get a blooming flower bed.