How to improve the fruit-setting rate of winter melon? Sharing the latest practical methods
Winter melon is a common vegetable, grown in many rural areas, but growing winter melon well is not a simple matter, because the fruit-setting rate of winter melon is relatively low, and the slightest carelessness can lead to poor pollination, thereby reducing the fruit-setting rate. So how can the fruit-setting rate be improved? Let's take a look together.
1. Sowing time
When the flowering and fruit setting of winter melon coincides with the rainy season, the humid air will seriously affect the pollination rate of the pumpkin, so when planting, it is necessary to infer according to the flowering and pollination time of the winter melon variety and choose the correct planting time, thereby avoiding the rainy season when the winter melon flowers and pollinates. Moreover, because the rainy season time in each region is different, the flowering time differs among different varieties, so the correct sowing time should be chosen according to the local rainy season and the flowering time of the winter melon.
2. Fertilizer and water irrigation
Winter melon needs sufficient nutrients when flowering and pollinating. If nutrients are lacking, the winter melon fruit will not have enough nutrients to grow, so the phenomenon of fruit abortion will occur. Therefore, before planting, sufficient base fertilizer must be applied, and decomposed farmyard manure plus an appropriate amount of compound fertilizer can be chosen as the base fertilizer. In addition to applying base fertilizer, before the winter melon flowers and bears fruit, flowering and fruiting fertilizer should also be applied as a top dressing according to the growth of the plant, and the top dressing should be carried out in combination with irrigation.
3. Artificial pollination
Compared with other vegetables, the pollination rate of winter melon is much lower, so to improve the pollination rate of winter melon, artificial pollination should be carried out when the winter melon flowers. The pollination time for winter melon is best chosen on a sunny morning from 9-11 o'clock, when the winter melon flowers have just opened and there is more pollen. For pollination, simply shake the pollen of the male flower onto the female flower of the winter melon.
4. Pest control
The common pests of winter melon include thrips, melon fruit fly and so on. These pests mainly erode the flowers of winter melon and will seriously reduce the pollination rate of winter melon, so before the winter melon flowers and pollinates, insecticides should be sprayed in time to control pests in time.
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