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Taraxacum kok-saghyz Cultivation | Propagation | General Uses Cultivation Notes: Succeeds in ordinary garden soil[1] but prefers a well-drained moisture retentive humus-rich soil in full sun or light shade[110]. Prefers a pH between 5.5 and 8.5[110]. Dislikes very heavy or compacted soils[110]. Top growth of seedlings is very slow at first until the root has developed[110]. It is advantageous to mark out the rows with a catch crop such as radishes or lettuce[110]. This plant used to be grown commercially in Russia as a rubber producing plant. It was trialed in various countries during the second world war and was found to yield a commercial harvest in Britain, Scandanavia and Northern N. America. In a trial in N. America plants grew better in the northern U.S.A. and S. Canada than they did in the south of the USA[141]. With the advent of cheap artificial rubber interest in this plant dwindled. Many species in this genus produce their seed apomictically. This is an asexual method of seed production where each seed is genetically identical to the parent plant. Occasionally seed is produced sexually, the resulting seedlings are somewhat different to the parent plants and if these plants are sufficiently distinct from the parents and then produce apomictic seedlings these seedlings are, in theory at least, a new species. For further Taraxacum kok-saghyz gardening information |
