What causes melon fruit splitting

Variety issues, soil that is too dry, imbalanced water supply, too much vibration during harvest, overwatering, adding too much organic fertilizer, and so on can all cause melons to split.

1. What causes melon fruit splitting

1. Variety reasons: thin-skinned and crisp-skinned varieties are prone to fruit splitting.

2. Dry soil: too much nitrogen fertilizer hinders the plant's absorption of boron and calcium.

3. If the fruit encounters continuous low temperatures in the early stage of expansion, development stops, and then continued expansion causes fruit splitting; or if the soil is dry and fruit development is hindered, too much watering later or heavy rain causes imbalanced water supply, resulting in fruit splitting.

4. At harvest, thin fruit skin and vibration cause fruit splitting.

5. Overwatering near the ripening stage.

6. After a long cloudy spell suddenly clearing, or overly large temperature regulation, because the temperature rises too quickly and too high. 

2. Methods for preventing and controlling fruit splitting

1. Choose varieties with relatively thick rind and high toughness.

2. Apply heavy organic fertilizer to raise soil temperature and promote root development to absorb water and nutrients from the plow layer.

3. Apply more potassium fertilizer and fulvic acid fertilizers to improve rind toughness. During the fruit expansion stage, spray calcium- and boron-containing fertilizers on the leaves 2 to 3 times.

4. Water reasonably, insist on the principle of small amounts many times, and applying fertilizer together with water.