How to Treat Watermelon Rind Diseases? A Detailed Guide to Prevention and Control Methods

When planting watermelons, if you want a high yield, you need to do a good job of disease prevention and control. So, how do you treat watermelon rind diseases?

1. How to treat watermelon rind diseases

Watermelon rind diseases can be prevented and treated by applying medication, for example, wood ash can be applied to the diseased spots on the rind, which can effectively control them. If the watermelon rind disease is relatively severe, a pesticide can be sprayed. But the prerequisite is that this occurs during the young fruit stage; if it is a mature melon, spraying pesticide is not recommended, and it is fine to simply pick it off.

2. Prevention and control methods for watermelon rind diseases

1. Strengthen management and deep-plow the field. When preparing the land, plow diseased plant residues deep into the soil to reduce the amount of inoculum, and remove diseased plants, diseased fruits, weeds and wild host plants from the field to reduce sources of infection. At the early stage of disease onset, promptly pull out diseased fruits and diseased plants and destroy them.

2. Seed disinfection. Soak the seeds in warm water at 55°C for about 30 minutes.

3. Crop rotation. In severely affected plots, carry out crop rotation with non-cucurbit plants for more than 3 years.