Ornamental Cotton Is On The Way To Provide New Ideas For The Development Of Cotton Industry.

Although it is called "flower", it has always been sold as "cotton" only.

Recently, the reporter visited the market and found that ornamental cotton entered some florists and attracted a lot of attention.

It is said that most of these ornamental cotton come from abroad, and the highest price per plant is 100 yuan, while the number of plants is several hundred yuan, and most buyers are young women.

Experts say such

It can also be produced in China.

It is a large cotton producing province. The ornamental cotton is popular, or it can provide new ideas for the development of cotton industry in our province.

Ornamental cotton is now high in flower market.

"Cutting dry branches of cotton is also lovely."

Last Friday, Miss Li of Wuchang received a bouquet of ornamental cotton ornament.

In a family

On the platform, many shops are selling ornamental cotton.

These flowers are priced at 158 yuan to 288 yuan, and nearly 100 of them are sold.

For 3 days, the reporter visited the four wholesale markets and flower shops in Hankou's Xun Li men flower market, Wuchang Yangjia Wan, iron machine road and Optics Valley, and found that there are many dry ornamental cotton shops in the flower shop. Among them, Optics Valley flower Plaza and Chu Han Street are the main flower shops.

In the Optics Valley International Plaza, the front and front sides of a fine flower shop are placed prominently on two sides of the cotton tree, which are planted with other flowers and plants, and one of the original cotton plants. The former is 26 yuan per bundle, and the latter is 80 yuan per plant, and it costs 8 yuan for each cotton.

Florist staff said that the sale of cotton from the Americas began selling at the end of last year, which is popular among young girls. "Good cuttings can sell 5 or 6 bundles per day, and they can sell 3 to 5 plants," she said.

In the Xun men's flower wholesale market, there are many shops selling cotton, but they are sold by the plant, and the 3 plants are sold, and the wholesale price of each plant is 40 yuan to 60 yuan.

In a fine flower shop in Han street, Wuchang, Ms. Qi, who bought 3 ornamental cotton, said she usually liked arranging flowers at home, listening to friends saying that she could buy some ornamental cotton, so she ran curiously to buy flowers.

"The shape of the tidbits is very good, and feels hairy, and there is a heart like look in the middle."

Claiming foreign imports have no proof.

During the interview, every shop owner who watched the cotton told reporters that cotton was imported from abroad and came from Shanghai.

However, some specific information about the origin of goods, some shopkeepers said it was the United States, and some shopkeepers said it was South America, but none of them could produce relevant proof, which was only referred to as a distributor's shipment to Wuhan.

Are these ornamental cotton really imported products? Recently, the reporter invited the cotton expert Yi Guo Xiang of the Provincial Department of agriculture to identify the flower market.

"At present, the industry has not seen any ornamental cotton imported from abroad."

After observing the ornamental cotton carefully, Yi Guo Xiang said that the cotton with the same appearance had been successfully planted in 2010, and it belonged to the Early Maturing Cotton, mainly in the northeast and North China.

Yi Guo Xiang said that from the height, thickness and appearance of the plant, not only early maturing cotton could achieve such ornamental level, but only careful selection of seedlings could produce such ornamental cotton on the existing cotton fields.

According to the judgement of Yi Guo Xiang, how much can early maturing cotton be worth? Yi Guo Xiang has calculated an account: the price of Early Maturing Cotton is about 2.8 yuan / Jin, the output per mu is about 550 Jin, almost 6000 plants, and 8 to 10 cotton per plant, so that the purchase price of each cotton is about 0.26 yuan, even if the lowest ornamental cotton in the wholesale market price, the price is also more than 150 times that of the early maturing cotton.

Suitable for introduction of ornamental cotton in Hubei

Yesterday, reporters came to Xinzhou in the two acres of cotton fields, Cheng master's home.

He told reporters that the cotton planted last year was sold at a maximum of 3 yuan per catty, 350 Jin per mu and 1050 yuan, which was sold to the cotton spinning organization.

"If the ornamental cotton can really grow and the benefit is so good, I will definitely try it."

The Department of agriculture and technology extension of the Provincial Department of Agriculture said that the climate and soil in our province are very suitable for planting cotton, and the growth time of cotton can reach more than 120 days, the longest can reach 200 days.

This also means that ornamental cotton can be produced from spring to autumn.

"It is no problem to have such a variety planted in Hubei province.

The only thing that needs to be clear is whether the flower market has enough consumption power, "Yi Guo Xiang introduced." Hubei is a major cotton producing province. Because of its poor economic efficiency, since 2008, the cotton planting area and output of our province have been on the decline.

"Our newly developed cotton flowers will be upturned, the shapes will be more brilliant, the cotton tidbits will be more compact and not easy to fall off, and the height should be maintained at 80 cm to 120 cm, and can be pruned."

Yi Guo Xiang said that the market decided to consume, which is the key to whether the cotton industry in our province can walk out of the new path of "ornamental cotton": "if after a period of cultivation, ornamental cotton can be accepted in the flower consumption market, it will become a new idea for the development of Hubei's cotton industry."