CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to grow cicada fungus? Can it be grown indoors? What is the price?

1. How to plant cicada fungus? Can it be planted indoors? What is the price?

The planting method of golden cicada flower is as follows:

1. Breeding cicadas

The cicada flower is the larva of the cicada. It is a fungus that grows from the larva. Therefore, if you want to grow the cicada flower, you must first breed the cicada. The cicada likes to live in some woodlands and suck the sap of trees for a living. If you want to breed it, you can do it in some mountain forests.

2. The formation of golden cicada flower

The formation of the golden cicada flower is very unique. It is a special pathological surface of the golden cicada larvae, a special combination of insects and fungi. It will burrow into the soil every autumn and then slowly turn into a pupa, but before it emerges, it is parasitized by Cordyceps sinensis. When the external environment reaches certain conditions, it will form mycelium.

3. Growth of Golden Cicada Flower

After the mycelium is formed, it will slowly absorb the nutrients in the cicada larvae. In the end, the worm body will be completely occupied by the mycelium with only a shell left. When spring comes, all things will become multifilamentous, and mycelium will begin to generate. Branches will appear at the top when it enters the sexual stage, and slowly flowers will bloom at the top. This is the cicada flower, which can be harvested and dried and used as medicine.

2. In what forests are golden cicada flowers planted?

In the deep forests of Maoshan and Mopanshan, the unique, rare and exotic golden cicada flowers are quietly blooming! It is a pure natural organism with both animal and plant characteristics. Experts from the Institute of Soil Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences call it "the Cordyceps sinensis of the South".

3. In what forests are cicada flowers planted?

In the apple grove

4. Can Golden Cicada Flower be grown indoors?

Golden cicada flowers cannot be grown indoors, and the cultivation technology for golden cicada flowers is not yet fully mature. Currently, artificial cultivation is all done in greenhouses.

Golden cicada breeding is an emerging specialty breeding industry. Many technical links are still in the exploratory stage. Artificial breeding has great risks. The new technology of greenhouse breeding of golden cicadas is introduced as follows:

1. Selecting and breeding trees

Dwarf fruit trees such as apricot trees, peach trees, apple trees or other waxy dwarf shrubs are good trees for cicada breeding. Pay attention to timely pruning of high branches to facilitate breeding management, interplant fruit tree seedlings in the gaps between trees to increase the branches for cicadas to lay eggs, and plant cicada eggs under the trees. Refer to "New Technology for Cicada Breeding" for methods.

2. Construction of breeding greenhouse

Before the cicadas are about to emerge, build breeding greenhouses, with an area of ​​1 mu each. Use cement columns or bamboo sticks to build fences around the breeding area, with a row spacing of 5 meters. Use bamboo poles to build a frame in the middle, and then pull iron wire to fix it, and then cover it with nylon window screens. For breeding, choose high and dry land with convenient drainage and irrigation. Avoid building breeding greenhouses in low-lying land that is prone to water accumulation.

3. Pest management and epidemic prevention

After the cicadas emerge from the ground, they have a strong tendency to move towards light. In the early stage, they should be waited until they have emerged as adults before entering the greenhouse. When catching them, the emerging cicadas will fly around and bump into the light, causing the seed insects to die. Therefore, all the cicadas that have emerged from the ground within the first week can be caught, and they can be allowed to naturally emerge and lay eggs after a week. The seed density is about 10,000 per mu, with males and females accounting for about 50% each. Each female cicada can lay 500-1500 eggs. Each greenhouse can provide seeds for about 20 mu of cicadas. The cicadas can mate and lay eggs about 20 days after emerging. When laying eggs, the cicadas pierce the epidermis of the branches and lay eggs in the wood. Try not to walk around or make noise in the greenhouse during the mating and egg-laying period of the cicadas to avoid adverse effects on the cicadas.

Since there are many natural enemies of nymphs (cicada turtles) after they emerge from the soil and adults after they emerge from the molt, such as toads, sparrows and mantises, protection work should be done in the greenhouse. In addition, the screens should be checked frequently to see if they are damaged to prevent the golden cicada from escaping. Microorganisms such as Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopliae and Entomogenetic algae (cicadae) can cause parasitic damage to the golden cicada seed insects, so protection should be strengthened during breeding. During the period when mature nymphs emerge from the soil, the egg stage under the tree and the period when cicada ants occur, the main natural enemies of the golden cicada are ants and red flower bugs, which must be strictly prevented. Strong ammonia can be used for soil treatment.

4. Collect and store the eggs

Early to late September is the best season for harvesting cicada eggs in the breeding greenhouse. You can use fruit branch shears or a long pole with a hook on the top to cut off the 1-2 year old thin, dry and incomplete surface of the tree, and the subcutaneous wood with a large number of milky white long oval eggs, which are cicada eggs. Cut off the excess eggless dead branches above the egg-laying nest, leave 5-10 cm eggless branches below the egg-laying nest, and bundle 50-100 branches into a small bundle, put them in a plastic bag or stack them flat in the hatching room, and then use them for seed after natural treatment.

5. How to grow Golden Cicada Flower

The Sichuan-produced spring orchid, the Golden Cicada, comes down from the mountain and blooms for the first time in Qionglai. The flowers are large golden yellow flowers with cicada art. After two days of blooming, the flowers turn from green to golden yellow. They bloom again many times, and the color and cicada art are very stable.

It is a kind of spring orchid, and the method of growing it is similar to that of orchids.

6. What kind of soil and climate are suitable for Golden Cicada Flower?

It is suitable for slightly acidic fertile soil and a warm climate without severe cold in winter.