Watermelon 'Warrior' Variety Characteristics, Cultivation Key Points, Precautions, and New Tosa Rootstock
(Agricultural Wealth Network) Warrior. A first-generation hybrid watermelon-specific rootstock bred by Taiwan Nongyou Seed Company in 1984 using wild African watermelon. Watermelon grafted onto Warrior is resistant to Fusarium wilt, grows vigorously, performs well at low temperatures, has good grafting compatibility, sets fruit steadily, and the fruit quality and flavor are completely identical to local watermelon. New Tosa. It is a first-generation hybrid of Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata, used as a watermelon grafting rootstock; it has good grafting compatibility and symbiotic compatibility, is resistant to Fusarium wilt, promotes early maturity, and increases yield.
Warrior variety name: Knight
Source: Bred by Nongyou Seed Company in 1982, originally named Warrior.
Fruit shape: Tall spherical, rind dark green and smooth, flesh yellow-white, excellent storage quality, seeds oval and dark brown, 1000-seed weight about 90 grams, about 721 seeds, average fruit weight about 7 kg, maximum about 9 kg.
Watermelon Warrior variety characteristics:
This variety is a new medium-maturing large-fruit watermelon variety newly developed by our company. It matures about 32 days after fruit set, with a center sugar content of about 14o. It has the high quality of Jingxin-type watermelons and also combines the crack resistance and high yield advantages of Guanlong-type watermelons. The rind is emerald green, the background color is clean, the stripes are neat, the flesh is bright and attractive, the taste is crisp and refreshing, and the quality is excellent. It has moderate vigor and sets fruit easily. It is a watermelon variety favored by watermelon buyers. Its appearance fills the gap in the uniform flavor inheritance of Guanlong-type watermelons. "Warrior" with its fewer seeds, high sugar, attractive fresh fragrance, beautiful appearance, and excellent quality adds another beautiful landscape to enrich people's dining tables and can create ideal economic benefits for you. Yield performance: under normal management, single fruit weight ranges from 15-25 jin, with large fruits having a production potential of over 40 jin; large-mu yield (1000 m2) is about 18,000 jin. Suitable for open-field and protected cultivation in watermelon production areas across the country..
Cultivation Key Points and Precautions
① Plastic film mulching cultivation: two-vine or three-vine pruning, retaining the second and third female flowers for fruit set is best; if it rains during the flowering period, drain water promptly and perform artificial supplementary pollination to ensure fruit set. ②① Plastic film mulching cultivation: two-vine or three-vine pruning, retaining the second and third female flowers for fruit set is best; if it rains during the flowering period, drain water promptly and perform artificial supplementary pollination to ensure fruit set. ② According to local planting habits, dig furrows and ponds, arrange plant and row spacing reasonably; it is recommended to keep about 700 plants per mu. ③ Before fruit set, control fertilizer and water and do not apply too much, to prevent excessive vegetative growth; during the fruit enlargement period, water and topdress in time, apply more phosphorus and potassium fertilizer and less nitrogen fertilizer, to prevent reproductive growth from being too vigorous and affecting yield and quality. ④ During the flower bud differentiation period (1-5 true leaves), be careful not to let the temperature be too high, so as to avoid too many male flowers and delayed fruit set; pay attention to preventing and controlling pests and diseases from damaging the pistils and stamens, which may cause the fruit navel to form a large navel and create a hidden risk of fruit cracking. According to local planting habits, dig furrows and ponds, arrange plant and row spacing reasonably; it is recommended to keep about 700 plants per mu. ③ Before fruit set, control fertilizer and water and do not apply too much, to prevent excessive vegetative growth; during the fruit enlargement period, water and topdress in time, apply more phosphorus and potassium fertilizer and less nitrogen fertilizer, to prevent reproductive growth from being too vigorous and affecting yield and quality. ④ During the flower bud differentiation period (1-5 true leaves), be careful not to let the temperature be too high, so as to avoid too many male flowers and delayed fruit set; pay attention to preventing and controlling pests and diseases from damaging the pistils and stamens, which may cause the fruit navel to form a large navel and create a hidden risk of fruit cracking.
