How to Grow Watermelon?

Watermelon is a popular summer food that not only quenches thirst, but also cures many diseases. How can you grow watermelons well and ensure that they are all sweet? Here watermelon seed supplier learn how to grow watermelon.

Out of our province in June and July is the rainy season, more low temperature and rainy weather, you can use the seedling transplanting method of planting watermelon. In this way, the melon seedlings transplanted into the field, fast, early survival, early development, can be seated before the arrival of the moldy rain season firm fruit, to avoid empty trees run vine, to achieve the purpose of early maturity and high yield quality.

The specific methods of seedling raising 

1. build a good seedbed. Watermelon seedbeds should be selected in the vicinity of the melon field, wind and sun, good drainage and irrigation, convenient management of the place to build. Generally use plastic film arch type seedbeds, bed length 15-20 feet, 2.5 to 3 feet wide. After the seedbed is ready, pour 90% of 800 times of crystal trichlorfon preparation solution at the bottom of the bed to kill the underground residual pests. Conditional places can use nutrient bowl seedlings.

2. Sowing seedlings. According to the climate in our province, generally in late March to mid-April sowing watermelon. Before sowing seeds to be a selection, remove deflated grains, insect grains and moldy grains, choose the full seeds. Soak the seeds in cold water for 12 hours before germination, then rinse the seeds with clean water and put them in the germination place. The germination temperature should be kept at 30-32°C and the humidity should not be too high, so that the gauze wrapped around the seeds does not come out of the water with hand squeezing. During the germination period, you can stop washing the seeds, just change the gauze when checking the germination, usually three or four times, always keep the seed surface not sticky, the gauze does not yellow, about two days to sprout and sow.

Sowing can be done on a sunny day. Before sowing, pour enough bottom water in the nutrient bowl, then put a sprouting seed in the center of each nutrient bowl, the tip of the shoot downward oblique in the bowl, covered with soil 2-3 cm thick, covered with film, pressed around.

Before the seedlings emerge from the soil, the seedbed is kept hot and humid, with the temperature kept at 25-3°C during the day and around 20°C at night, and after emergence, 20-25°C during the day and 16-18°C at night. In addition, water properly. The bed soil should be kept dry on rainy days and the temperature can be slightly lower. Before planting, pay attention to uncovering the film for low temperature exercise to make the seedlings thick and strong and enhance the resistance ability.

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