What are some practical ways to increase pumpkin yields?
What are some practical ways to increase pumpkin yields? Please give me some advice. To increase pumpkin yields, you can refer to the following methods (I hope some of them suit you): 1. Pinching off the growing tip: when the vine reaches 2 m, remove the growing point of the main vine. In this way, the main vine whose growing point has been removed will produce 3 to 4 branch vines, and let the branch vines flower and set fruit....
What are some practical ways to increase pumpkin yields? Please give me some advice.
To increase pumpkin yields, you can refer to the following methods (I hope some of them suit you):
1. Pinching off the growing tip: when the vine reaches 2 m, remove the growing point of the main vine. In this way, the main vine whose growing point has been removed will produce 3 to 4 branch vines, and let the branch vines flower and set fruit.
2. Trellising: when the branch vines reach 2 m, guide the vines onto the trellis, taking care not to break them. Pumpkins guided onto a trellis will suffer fewer pests and diseases, greatly increasing the fruit-setting rate.
3. Pollination: first cover the female flowers that are about to open and are ready for pollination with pumpkin leaves to keep rain off, then at around 9 a.m. the next morning, pick male flowers from a different plant and place them over the female flowers, and remove the covering male flowers after 3 days.
4. Leaf removal: on vines that have already flowered and set fruit, promptly remove the basal leaves and old yellow leaves, and remove 30% of the male flowers; this both improves ventilation and light penetration and reduces nutrient consumption.
5. Stem burying: in the later stage of pumpkin growth, that is, after 3 batches of fruit have set, when yellow leaves appear near the roots, use the adventitious roots growing from the vine nodes to bury the stems, which can increase the yield by 30% to 40%. The specific method is: choose fertile garden soil and mix in a small amount of organic fertilizer and quick-acting premium fertilizer, bury 4 to 6 nodes of stem, with a soil depth of about 20 cm, and ensure sufficient stem length for burying. If the stem length between the ground and the trellis is too short, you can rearrange the stems on the trellis and appropriately retract the main stem portion, but never pull the vines forcefully. When burying the stems, cover the soil firmly to promote the growth of adventitious roots.
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