Detailed Explanation of Key Techniques for Ground-Crawling Cultivation of Melons

Melons are suitable for sowing at temperatures above 15°C, and the seedlings are transplanted when they have 2-3 true leaves. After transplanting melons, promptly top and pinch the growing tips, and take care to remove deformed melons. Distribute the primary vines and secondary vines evenly, and press clods of soil onto the primary vines. Cut off old and diseased leaves at the appropriate time and carry them out of the field. Promptly spray "Hushu Jiangjun" to disinfect and sterilize, preventing the replication and spread of disease and pest bacteria.

Melons have a well-developed root system, but it is shallowly distributed. During the fruit-swelling stage, melons need an ample supply of fertilizer and water, but waterlogging that suffocates the roots must also be prevented. Melons are grown with plowing and basal fertilizer application; the basal fertilizer should preferably include cake fertilizer, and melons should not be given nitrogen fertilizer alone. From after transplanting until flowering and fruit set, generally 2-3 topdressings are applied, preferably with well-rotted dilute human and livestock urine. To prevent overly vigorous seedling growth and spindly leggy growth that affects fruit set, when spraying foliar fertilizer, combine it with an appropriate amount of "Guaguo Zhuangdiling" spray; this not only improves the utilization rate of chemical fertilizer but also regulates the conversion of vegetative growth to reproductive growth, prevents leggy growth, promotes early flowering and more flowering, and during the fruit development stage can promote rapid swelling of the melons, preserving and strengthening the fruit. About 7 days before harvesting melons, stop fertilizer and water supply to preserve quality.

When using chemical agents to control melon powdery mildew, downy mildew, anthracnose, and fusarium wilt, add an appropriate amount of "Xin Gao Zhi Mo" to improve efficacy, retain moisture, and prevent waterlogging, reducing the breeding of diseases and pests under consecutive rainy weather, and it has a good control effect on many fungal diseases; because its disease prevention is a physical action, the pathogens will not develop resistance.