Cultivation of melon plants for high productivity

The way of planting wrong fruit is what every farmer's family wants. In order to grow a lot of fruit, you should follow the basic melon planting techniques. Please refer to the techniques on how to plant basic loofah at home in a foam box or on arable land that we guide through the following article to produce a lot of fruit.

Luffa is a vines of vines, grown for green fruits. With a lot of nutrients and uses especially good for health, melon is chosen by many people in family meals. As an easy-to-grow fruit, you can spend a corner of your garden or balcony planting your own melon for your family according to some technical guidelines below.

With sweetness, average calculation, melon helps heat detoxify effectively.

Method of cultivating melon plants for high productivity

Characteristics of loofah

Luffa is a vines, with a very simple planting technique and is grown in many places in Vietnam. The trunk is angular, light green. Big leaves, diameter from 15 - 25 cm. Flowers are yellow. Male flowers grow into bunches, female flowers grow alone. Fruit usually have a length of 25 cm to 100 cm. The outer surface of the fruit skin is light green, with blue veins on it, running along the fruit length.

When ripe fruit, fruit only remains hard, tough, not damaged by water. When soaked in fiber water, it will bulge and soften, can be used with a brush, wash dishes. Our melon fruit does not smell like aroma. Marinate our fruit to make it big, dark green.Luffa is usually grown in the spring. Farmers often grow to take fruits, cook soup or stir-fry. Old fruit is used to make loofah for washing dishes. In addition, melon is also used as medicine .

Luffa tree has quite simple planting techniques and does not require sophisticated care.

In melon fruit, there are saponin, mucus, xylan, protein binder (1.5%) vitamins B and C, nitrate salt. There are 41 - 45% of oil in the kernel. According to oriental medicine, melon fruit has a sweet taste, thermal bar, except for rheumatism, diuretic, sputum, cooling blood, detoxification, meridians, milk production, anti-sores, pain and swelling and supplementing anesthesia.

Planting techniques

Firstly, people need to make soil carefully, up to 2.5m wide , apply 18-20 tons of manure, 120kg of phosphate and 30kg of potassium / ha. After that, the grower has to make a row on the bed (each bed only grows 1 row) and then check the seeds, 30cm from one clump of 2 to 3 seeds, then trim and leave one clump of 2 trees, keeping the density of 7,000 - 10,000 tree / ha.

People can plant melon trees for their families by applying the right basic planting techniques.

Tree pruning, top dressing and cultivating should be done until the melon is closed for about 2 months . If only top dressing is applied when the tree grows badly and poorly because the loofah is very prone to feces, it is only to cover the rig without giving fruits. The amount of topical fertilizer for 1ha of melon includes: 300kg NPK, 200kg urea and 30kg potassium, evenly divided the amount of fertilizer for many times. Plants that are 20 days old should be fertilized with diluted manure.

After that, every 20 days, people take care of the plants to apply the plants one time, aiming at the middle of the two flowers to create conditions for the plants to produce more fruits. When the melon grows 2-3 real leaves, the growers must prepare the trellis for the melon. 20cm tall plants need to be plugged into one cavity to pick up trees. The tabloid should be made of flat roof. Rig system should be solidified, rig 2 m high, catching the rope on the rig. When the melon is on a trellis, the people should prune off all the leaves at the base to make it open.

If the melon is covered with dark green leaves, few fruits due to excess nitrogen, growers need to take a clean incision in the stem from the ground 1m from the ground, flip the soil about 20cm deep, 1m from the original, apply 1 - 2kg of potassium chloride, loofah at the base. will be stained and wrong, many fruits after processing 20-30 days.

From planting to harvest of 80-100 days, the harvest time can last until September . The average yield of melon can range from 40-50 tons / ha. Seedlings must be large, pest-free, from fruits 2 to 3 or older, growers to put old fruits on trees such as pots, dry them up, then upstairs to the kitchen, get seeds for later crops.

Care mode

1. Watering regime: water is poured into irrigated irrigation ditches, watercress is very afraid of water logging, water ditches are stagnant for more than 10 hours, and water drainage is required. Therefore soil needs to be well drained. Water regularly according to the cycle, depending on the evaporation, moisture content of the soil.
2. Weeding: weeding around the root of the melon by hand or spraying herbicides like Onecide.
3. Weeding under irrigation ditches: weeding can be done by hand or by spraying herbicide Gramoxon or NuFarm. Spraying these drugs requires spraying to prevent the drug from sticking to the leaves or melon stalks from burning or dying.

The melon truss system follows the basic tree planting technique for high productivity.

Pest and disease prevention

Worms - destructive objects

1. Important types of insect pests and prevention methods are as follows:
2. Mouse: Biting the seeds at the time of using rat poison Phosphure zinc, Clerat, traps or after sowing, spraying insecticides with bad smell makes the mice dare not approach.
3. Crickets, deep soil, and earthen: Devour seed roots, buds, young plants, process grain Basudin into soil 10 - 15 kg / ha (treating drugs along the soil), spray 20 - 30 Basudin seeds sockets after sowing
4. Ladybug: Eat young leaves, buds, Peran spray, Cyperin .
5. Amaranth (chisel wormwood): Deep borers under the epidermis, making leaves susceptible to dryness, infection, resulting in loss of productivity and processing: Thianmectin 0.5 ME
6. Green worms, omnivorous worms: Biting young leaves, buds, cotton, and fruit melon from seedlings to harvesting and processing: Thianmectin 0.5 ME, Peran, Amate
7. Thrips, aphids, aphids: Choking young buds, young leaves make underdeveloped trees leading to poor productivity, handling: Oncol, Confidor, Decis .
8. White hoppers, green hoppers: Injecting plastic, infecting viral diseases to prevent plant growth. Treatment: Mospilan, Oncol, Thianmectin 0.5 ME + Mineral oil

Phenomenon of amulet drawing on the melon leaf.

Sick

1. Root rot disease: The lesion appears adjacent to the ground between roots and stems. Prevention: No Mildew 25 WP, Bao Dac irrigated roots, Marthian 90 SP
2. Leaf burns and leaf spots: Brown to gray spots appear on the leaves. Handling: M 80WP Coal, or Bavisan 50 WP + No Mildew 25WP
3. Anthracnose and leaf spots: Bacterial spots appear on older leaves, if severe disease can spread through the left. Handling: Marthian 90 SP, No Mildew 25 WP, Thane M 80WP, .
4. Downy mildew: Spotting disease appears on the leaves when the humidity is high, if severe, the yield may fall. Handling: Thane M 80WP, Amikta .
5. Green wilt disease: When soil moisture is high, pathogens easily penetrate into roots, causing the tree to die suddenly. Planted on well drained soil, sprayed with Marthian 90 SP .