Forty years. Honeysuckle is easy to manage, easy to harvest, with high yield, and the tree age is as long as 40 years. Honeysuckle is adaptable, sunny, shade-resistant, cold-resistant, drought-resistant and moisture-resistant, and has no strict requirements on soil. But it grows best in moist and fertile deep sandy soil, and bamboo shoots are produced in spring and summer every year.

The root system is dense and developed, with strong germination, and the stems and vines can take root when they touch the ground. Like sunshine and mild and humid environment, strong vitality, wide adaptability, cold and drought tolerance, poor growth in the shade. Born in hillside thickets or sparse forests, stone piles, foothills and village fences, the highest altitude is 1500m.

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How to cultivate honeysuckle;

Sowing in April, soaking the seeds in warm water at 35 ~ 40℃ for 24h, taking out 2 ~ 3 times of wet sand to accelerate germination, and sowing when the crack reaches about 30%. Sow in furrow according to the row spacing of 2 1 ~ 22 cm, cover with soil 1cm, and spray water 1 time every two days for more than 10 days. Transplanting in autumn or the following spring, using about 15kg of seeds per1hm ㎡.

Usually in the rainy season. In rainy weather in summer and autumn, the robust 1 ~ 2-year-old branches are cut into 30 ~ 35 cm, and the lower leaves are used as cuttings. On the selected plot, according to the row spacing of 1.6m and the plant spacing of 1.5m, the digging depth is 16 ~ 18cm, and each hole has 5 ~ 6 cuttings, which stand obliquely in a scattered way, with 7 ~ 10cm exposed.