How to grow Chinese cabbage from stalks at home

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Peking cabbage has recently become a part of our daily menu. Its loose green-white oblong heads, which we usually use instead of salad, do not wither or become rough for a very long time.

The green top of the head of cabbage is eaten raw in salads, the lower white part goes into borscht. The bottom of the head of cabbage is usually thrown away. Few people know that you can grow Chinese cabbage from the stalk.

Description of culture

Chinese and Chinese cabbage grow in China. Chinese cabbage is an oval-shaped head of cabbage, consisting of leaves tightly adjacent to each other, which are formed into a rosette. It has greenish-yellow leaves, they are somewhat corrugated and have wavy edges. Cabbage is cut and placed in salads, stewed, and boiled. It has been grown in China for over 5,000 years. It belongs to the cruciferous family.

If you constantly eat Chinese cabbage, it has a beneficial effect on the body in diseases of the heart and blood vessels, as well as stomach ulcers. Chinese cabbage contains: 3.5% protein, 2.4% sugar, 42.9 micrograms phylloquinone (vitamin K), 27 mg ascorbic acid, 79 mcg folate (vitamin B9), 0.232 mg pyridoxine (vitamin B6), and other vitamins and microelements. But it is low in calories, it has a beneficial effect on the activity of the stomach and intestines, and is used in a variety of diets. Due to its composition, it will cure vitamin deficiency and anemia, and reduce the risk of cancer.

Chinese cabbage is a very tenacious crop; if you buy it in a store and use its leaves, you can grow a new head of cabbage from the remaining stalk. Peking cabbage from the stalk, growing at home is becoming quite common among the population. This is also possible because Chinese cabbage is a biennial crop, although it is grown as an annual.

Don't eat cabbage stalks!

Any cabbage contains an extremely high amount of medicinal substances and vitamins. It is no coincidence that cabbage pickle is popular as a tonic drink. The same brine and fresh cabbage juice also contain vitamin U, which promotes the healing of ulcers.

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Sauerkraut contains substances that inhibit the development of putrefactive bacteria. Cabbage pickle is useful for hemorrhoids with constipation and bleeding. It is advisable to eat more cabbage if you have cardiovascular diseases. Its leaves contain compounds that strengthen the walls of blood vessels and increase their elasticity, and also contain potassium salts that improve heart function.

In addition, tartronic acid, which is found in cabbage leaves, normalizes fat metabolism, and fiber helps remove excess cholesterol from the body. This is why cabbage is useful for atherosclerosis and diabetes. (By the way, tartronic acid is destroyed during cooking, but is preserved during fermentation.)

In case of urolithiasis with the formation of phosphate stones, sauerkraut juice helps dissolve and remove the stones. And fresh cabbage juice with sugar acts as an expectorant and emollient for bronchitis.

Cabbage leaves have the ability to destroy Staphylococcus aureus, tubercle bacilli and some other microorganisms. In folk medicine, this property of cabbage is used to treat skin ulcers, burns, purulent wounds, weeping eczema: cabbage leaves, well washed with hot boiled water, are kneaded until juice appears and applied to sore spots. The same softened leaves are smeared with honey and secured with bandages on joints for arthritis and gout, as well as for bruises and phlebitis. For headaches, cabbage leaves are applied to the temples and forehead.

In a word, cabbage is healthy, but... not for everyone. Thus, fresh white and red cabbage is contraindicated in case of increased acidity of the stomach, acute enterocolitis, exacerbation of gastric and duodenal ulcers, pancreatitis, gastrointestinal bleeding, with a tendency to intestinal colic and increased intestinal motility. In the diet of older people, it is advisable to replace fresh cabbage with sauerkraut.

And for hyperacid gastritis (with high acidity), hypertension and kidney disease, rinse sauerkraut in water before eating. It is also important to remember that eating fresh cabbage interferes with the absorption of iodine and reduces thyroid function. Cauliflower should not be eaten if you have gout or uric acid diathesis. It is also unacceptable to eat cabbage stalks: they absorb nitrate nitrogen.

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Growing technology

The larger the stalk, the larger the head of cabbage will grow. Inspect it carefully; the leaves should be clean, without spots or specks.

Important! Select the freshest head of cabbage; the fresher it is, the greater the likelihood that it will take root and produce roots and leaves.

How to grow Chinese cabbage from a stalk? It is required to correctly cut off the part from the head of cabbage. Measure 6 cm from the very bottom of the head of cabbage and cut, separating the top part of the head of cabbage from the bottom. If the resulting part is less than 6 cm, then you will not grow a good head of cabbage from it.

Next, rinse the resulting stalk under water. You can use the top part - put it in salads, soups, stew.

Select a bowl large enough to hold the stalk, pour 1/3 of the water into it and place the stalk. Only the bottom of the stalk should be in the water.

Attention! Place the bowl with the culture in the coolest place in the house.

A window sill on the north side of the house is best. If the temperature outside is above zero, then you can put the bowl on the loggia. You cannot put the bowl in the refrigerator. Within 2–3 days, the Chinese cabbage will begin to have its first roots. She takes root very quickly in any conditions.

Let your stalk sit in a bowl of water for a week. Add water from time to time. During this time, the stump will grow roots and small leaves. You can already cut the leaves and eat them, put them in salads. Or you can continue to grow cabbage until a full head of cabbage is formed by transplanting it into a pot of soil.

Important! If a flower shoot grows, cut it off, otherwise the growing leaves will be small and tasteless.

Harvesting and storage

Even at the stage of planting seeds, save the packages from them: they always indicate the growing season of the variety, so you can determine the approximate date of harvesting. For cleaning, choose a dry autumn day. At this time, the street thermometer readings should fluctuate between +2...+8°C during the day and up to -3°C at night. If, due to constant rains, it is not possible to choose a good day for harvesting cabbage, first dry the crop under a canopy or in a barn and only then transfer it to the cellar.

A little frost will make the cabbage sweeter

If you want to keep the heads of cabbage fresh longer, pull them out by the roots. Thoroughly clear the soil, cut off the cover leaves, leaving 3-4 pieces, and then use twine or wire to hang it upside down in the cellar to a crossbar.

Forks intended for fermentation are cut off with a sharp knife, leaving a stalk 4-5 cm long. Several cover leaves are also left on them, and then laid out in the cellar with the stalks up on a dry wooden flooring so that they do not touch each other.

In the next video you can see the process of harvesting and preparing for storage of different varieties of cabbage. It was prepared by our regular author Tatyana (Tula region).

White cabbage is unlikely to get along next to a lazy or equally obstinate summer resident who does not want to constantly please his green guest. But a hardworking and caring owner will certainly receive gratitude from the garden mistress and, at the end of the season, will reap an excellent harvest of large, fat-bellied heads of cabbage, to the envy of everyone.

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Growing cabbage

How to plant Chinese cabbage from a stalk? After a week, transplant the stalk into a pot with soil. The pot must have holes for drainage. The soil should not have acidic characteristics. Cabbage prefers neutral soil. You can buy ready-made soil in the store.

Litmus paper will help determine the acidity of the soil; this is paper into which various indicator compounds are poured. Pour soil into a clean cloth, tie the cloth and place it in a glass of clean distilled water. After 10–15 minutes, place litmus paper in the glass for literally 3 seconds. If the paper turns yellow, orange, or red, then the soil is acidic. If the paper is blue or blue, then it is neutral soil, that is, just the kind you need. If the soil is acidic, add dolomite flour to reduce the acidity.

Plant the stalk in the ground very carefully and carefully, since the grown roots are too brittle and tender. Place the stalk in the pot and cover it with soil on top. The soil should be moist. But ½ of the head of cabbage should not be covered with soil.

Watering, lighting, air temperature

Then do not water the stalk for 2-3 days. When new leaves grow, resume watering. Water the stalk with warm, settled water when the surface of the earth dries out. If you overwater it and you end up with a “swamp” in the pot, it will rot.

If the plant is illuminated for 12–15 hours, it will throw out a flower arrow. Therefore, cover the stalk with a black bag for 10–12 hours. The air temperature in the room should be +12–20 °C. At temperatures below +12 °C, cabbage stops growing, and at temperatures above 24 °C, its leaves stop growing and it produces a flower arrow.

You can wait until you have full-fledged seedlings. And then transplant the cabbage into a plot or into a greenhouse, or you can leave it to grow at home. If you decide to transplant it to the site, then stop watering 2-3 days before.

Transplanting a head of cabbage to a plot

You should not plant stalks in the place where radishes and other cruciferous crops previously grew. It’s better to choose a place where garlic, carrots, onions, and cucumbers grew. Plant stalks on the site very early in spring or late in autumn, otherwise the plant will soon produce a flower arrow.

The culture prefers light soil. First, dig holes. Pour 10 g of ash and 0.5 kg of compost into each. Mix the earth. Plant the stalks, keeping a distance of 25-30 cm. And between the rows, keep a distance of 50 cm.

Care

After 2 weeks, mulch the soil with chopped straw and peat. This will protect it from weeds and water drying out too quickly. When the leaves begin to form a head, tie the top leaves with a rope or place the neck of a plastic bottle on them.

The crop loves watering, but does not tolerate stagnant moisture. Because of this, constantly water it deeply, but do this as soon as the top layer of soil dries out. That is, water the cabbage about once a week, early in the morning or late in the evening. After watering, sometimes loosen the soil a little.

In hot weather, it is better to cover the crop with something. You can plant cucumber seedlings between the plants, then the cucumbers will provide the cabbage with the shade it needs.

You can feed cabbage by diluting 1 kg of mullein in a ten-liter bucket of water. Pour 1 liter of fertilizer under 1 bush. You can also fertilize by spraying the leaves. Pour 2 g of boric acid into 1 liter of boiled hot water. Pour this solution into a 10 liter bucket of water. Spray the leaves in the evening.

You can also watch a video that talks about growing Chinese cabbage from stalks:

Agricultural technology of Chinese cabbage

Gardeners love to grow Chinese cabbage. You can get two harvests from it per season. Leaf varieties should be planted in the spring, and cabbage varieties should be planted in the fall. In the spring it is planted in greenhouses or greenhouses in March-April, in the fall - in early September.

To get an early harvest, it is enough to plant a few seeds per seedling. How to grow Chinese cabbage is no secret. Cultivating Pekinka is no different from caring for other types of vegetable crops.

"Beijing", like ordinary varieties, germinates at low temperatures - from +5 degrees. But it likes to grow in warmer times. Comfortable growth temperature for young cabbage is 18-22 degrees. When the temperature rises above the above norm, the cabbage produces a flower shoot, the leaves become coarse and dry.

It is best to grow seedlings in individual cups or peat tablets. Then, during transplantation, the roots are not injured, and the growth of the plant is not delayed for their restoration.

The seedling planting pattern is 30x30 cm; thickened rows must be thinned out. Young weeded plants can be eaten at any age. When sowing seeds, the plantings must be watered daily until shoots emerge. After this, the seedlings need to be watered well with warm water only once a week.

After watering, it’s a good idea to feed the “Peking” with liquid fertilizer - one liter for each bush. An infusion of ash, an infusion of herbs, or a solution of organic fertilizer are suitable. Ash gives the vegetable the potassium it needs, so it is the best fertilizer.

The most reliable way to apply fertilizer to cabbage is to plant green manure in the autumn on the area designated for it in the spring and apply fertilizer before winter.

In spring, Chinese cabbage can be planted next to cucumbers in a greenhouse. In such a neighborhood, everything will suit her - hot and short days, frequent watering. As the temperature rises, the cucumbers will spread their large leaves and shade the crop from the sun.

Pests love the tender leaves of the crop. You need to monitor the plantings very carefully, otherwise the cabbage will remain a net of leaves. Cabbage has many enemies:

Pests must be dealt with immediately, as soon as they are noticed. After all, they are able to deal with cabbage in a couple of days. Manual collection of caterpillars, frequent watering, mulching the beds, spraying with ash infusion and dusting with tobacco - all this will help save the crop.

Chickens and ducks will not bypass the tender cabbage leaves. Therefore, if birds walk around the garden freely, the plantings should be covered with film or netting.

When the heads have grown enough and have begun to form, the Chinese way of caring for this cabbage is to tie the heads at the top with a rope. Then the heads of cabbage turn out to be denser.

The difference between “Peking” and other species is its early maturity. A powerful, loose head of cabbage grows in just a month and a half.

Necessary conditions for optimal growth of Chinese cabbage:

• warm weather;
• loose soil without weeds;
• regular watering;
• fertilizing before sowing;
• short daylight hours;
• avoiding dense planting.

Important! With long daylight hours, Chinese cabbage “goes into arrow” and blooms without forming heads.

That is why the best time to plant Peking is early spring and the second half of summer, when it can be planted along with turnips and radishes.