Detailed Explanation of Key Points for Efficient Melon Cultivation Techniques
Melon is one of the fruits we eat relatively often in summer, small in size and full of sweetness, just right to eat one at a time. It is precisely because market demand is rising that more and more people are growing melons. So, are you clear on efficient melon cultivation techniques? Let's take a look together!
1. Efficient Melon Cultivation Techniques
Melons can be cultivated in greenhouses, keeping the temperature between 28-32°C, and lowering it appropriately at night, with 18-20°C being suitable. The base fertilizer is mainly superphosphate, ammonium bicarbonate and cake fertilizer. During the fruit-setting period, artificial pollination should be carried out, which can ensure the melons are sweet with few deformities; spraying fruit-setting hormone-type growth regulators accelerates the expansion speed.
2. How to Prune
1. Keep 3 secondary vines. When the seedling grows to 4 true leaves, pinch off the growing tip of the main vine, and select and keep 3 robust secondary vines; among them, one secondary vine sets fruit at the secondary vine node, the other two secondary vines are pinched at 3-4 leaves, each keeping one tertiary vine to set fruit, and pinched 3-4 leaves before the fruit. Generally, 3-5 melons are kept per plant, and the whole vine needs to retain 30 functional leaves.
2. Artificial pollination. Use a brush to touch the male flower, then transfer the pollen to the stigma of the female flower. This method is relatively troublesome, labor-intensive, and the effect is not ideal; the melons expand slowly, but the melons produced are uniform in size, sweet in taste, and have few deformed fruits.
3. Spray fruit-setting hormone-type growth regulators. When the temperature is around 25°C, spray on the leaves (concentration according to product instructions). This method is relatively simple and easy to operate, with a high fruit-setting rate, fast melon expansion, early maturity and high yield.
4. Field management. Strengthen fertilizer and water management and pest and disease control; the suitable growth temperature is controlled at 25-28 degrees, and the moisture is controlled at around 50 percent.
5. Timely harvest. Yellow-white skinned melons can be harvested and marketed when 6-7 parts ripe.