Where is the best place to plant seabuckthorn?

Introduction to Seabuckthorn

Sea buckthorn is a general term for plants and their fruits. Its roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits, especially sea buckthorn fruits, are rich in nutrients. Sea buckthorn is also called vinegar willow, yellow sour thorn, sour thorn willow, black thorn, and sour thorn. According to their uses, sea buckthorn varieties can be divided into fruit-producing types, pastoral types (fodder forests), ornamental types, ecological types (protective forests), energy types (firewood and charcoal forests), and various dual-purpose types.

Seabuckthorn planting conditions

Sea buckthorn prefers an environment with plenty of sunlight, has strong adaptability to the environment, is relatively cold-resistant, heat-resistant, windy and sandy, and drought-resistant, and is suitable for planting in loose, fertile soil.

Seabuckthorn planting climate and temperature

Sea buckthorn has a wide adaptability to temperature. The lowest temperature it can tolerate is minus 50 degrees Celsius, and it can also tolerate a high temperature of 50 degrees Celsius. The annual sunshine hours are 1500-300 hours. Sea buckthorn is extremely resistant to drought, barrenness, and cold and heat.

Suitable areas for sea buckthorn planting

Sea buckthorn is distributed in Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, and western Sichuan in China. It often grows in sunny areas at an altitude of 800-3600 meters. It is commonly found on ridges, valleys, dry riverbeds or hillsides. It is widely planted on the Loess Plateau of China.

Sea buckthorn planting time

Sea buckthorn can be planted in spring and autumn, usually in April-May in spring and in October-November in autumn, after the trees shed their leaves and before the soil freezes.

Seabuckthorn Planting Benefits

Sea buckthorn has good economic benefits. The national planting area is 22.5 million mu, and the yield per mu is about 50 kilograms. The total national output is 1.125 million tons. According to the added value of sea buckthorn products developed by domestic and foreign companies, the market value of one ton of sea buckthorn fruit is 100,000 yuan, and the national sea buckthorn forest will create a production value of 100 billion yuan.