How do you grow winter melon with plastic mulch? Teach you the correct cultivation techniques
(1) Cultivate disease-free strong seedlings:Choose high-yielding, disease-resistant, good-market-quality Guangdong Green Skin winter melon and local winter melon, in4early month, raise seedlings in a sunny cold frame, seedling age40~50days or so. During the seedling stage, keep the temperature at a daytime temperature of25~30°C, nighttime temperature16~18°C, and in the later stage lower the temperature to harden the seedlings. Watering should follow the principle of watering when dry is seen, and in the middle and later stages properly control water to prevent the seedlings from growing leggy. For topdressing, according to the growth of the seedlings, foliar fertilizer can be sprayed together with aphid control.

(2) Cultivation techniques:In5mid-month, while preparing the land, apply per mu decomposed barnyard manure5000kg, superphosphate40kg, diammonium phosphate15kg. Of this,1/3is broadcast, and the rest2/3is applied in concentrated furrows when making ridges at a row spacing of80cm, with ridge height20cm. After covering with plastic mulch, transplant on the ridges at a plant spacing of40cm, planting about2500seedlings per mu. After transplanting,3days later water once to help the seedlings recover, and when the vines begin to run water again to promote vine growth. After the first fruit sets firmly, begin watering, watering once every5~7days, and each watering amount should not be too large, generally just enough to fill the ridge furrow. After transplanting and seedling recovery, apply a quick-acting nitrogen fertilizer once to promote rapid seedling growth; after the winter melon sets and during the rapid expansion stage, apply a compound fertilizer once each. After the vines begin to run, insert triangular trellises promptly, and the vines can be tied around the trellis. While tying the vines, promptly remove side branches and tendrils. After the winter melon sets firmly, promptly pinch off the growing tip to promote rapid fruit expansion. Promptly remove the first fruit and select and keep the second or third fruit with a proper shape; after the fruit sets firmly, in the afternoon on a sunny day lower the vines and secure the fruit under the triangular trellis.