Planting techniques of Snake Melon

Speaking of snake melon, I think many people don't know what it is. I think it's strange to hear the name, and I think many people have never eaten it. Let's go with the editor to find out what kind of melon snake melon is.

What is snake melon?

Snake melon annual climbing vines; stems slender, much branched, longitudinally angled and grooved, pubescent and sparsely villous hirsute. Snake melon has well-developed roots, many lateral roots, adventitious roots, slender stems up to 5-8 meters long, five-angled and green stems, strong branching ability, green leaves, palmately parted leaves, round cracks, fine tomentose leaves, white Corolla, unisexual flowers, both male and female flowers, mostly racemes of male flowers, turquoise buds, light yellowish green when they bloom, and the occurrence of male flowers is earlier than that of female flowers. In general, female flowers begin to grow at 20-25 nodes of the main vine, and then both the main vine and lateral vines can produce female flowers continuously. Tender melon slender, cylindrical or curved, melon apex and base gradually thin, shaped like a snake, melon skin gray-white, with several green stripes, flesh white, soft, ripe melon light reddish brown, fleshy flesh. The seed is nearly rectangular, with two parallel grooves on it, the surface is rough and light brown, and the weight of a thousand seeds is 200 to 250 grams.

Planting techniques of Snake Melon

Snake melon contains 94g / 100g tender fruit, 0.5g / g protein, 0.1g fat, 0.8g crude fiber, 3g carbon / water ratio, as well as mineral salts and other nutrients. Snake melon heat-clearing and antipyretic, diuresis and blood pressure, is very beneficial to human health. Tender melons are rich in carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. The meat is soft and has a slight smell, but when cooked, it becomes fragrant and slightly sweet. Snake melon takes tender fruit as a vegetable, but tender leaves and stems are also edible. Snake melon contains 5 grams of protein, 30 grams of carbohydrates and other nutrients per kilogram of tender fruit.

1. Soaking seeds to promote budding and cultivating strong seedlings

The seed coat of snake melon is thick and hard and must be soaked to promote germination. The general sowing date is in early February. Before sowing, the seeds were soaked in warm water for 15min, then transferred to hot water for 50-60 ℃ to blanch 15min, stirred constantly, removed and soaked in warm water for 4-8 hours. Then spread the seeds on a wet cloth and cover them with 2-3 layers of wet gauze, put them into a 30-35 ℃ incubator to accelerate germination, pay attention to turning them, and wash them once a day. The seeds can be exposed in 2-3 days.

The seeds can be sown after they are exposed to white. Nursery bed was used to raise seedlings. Choose the place away from the wind and the sun, arrange the nutrition bowl on the seedling bed, mix the nutrient soil with 70% clean garden soil and 30% rotten barnyard manure, sow one seed in each bowl, cover the soil with 1-1.5cm, then cover the plastic film, build a small arch shed, cover the plastic film, and turn over the plastic film after the melon seedlings are unearthed.

Temperature, humidity and nutrients should be well controlled in seedling management. The suitable temperature of snake melon seedling stage is 13-28 ℃, 23-28 ℃ in daytime and 13-18 ℃ at night. Increasing temperature can shorten seedling age. Growing at a suitable temperature during the day and properly lowering the night temperature is beneficial to the accumulation of nutrients in the seedlings and promote the formation of female flowers. Seedlings should be refined 10 days before planting. Master thin application, generally 5 to 6 days with the water to pour some thin fertilizer, not too much so as not to grow.

2, soil preparation and fertilization, timely planting, as the saying goes: melon sprouts, eggplant flowers. Melons should be transplanted with young seedlings to avoid root damage. It can be planted when the seedling grows to 2-3 true leaves. The cultivation in early spring can be put on the market in advance when it is cultivated in greenhouse. Combined with ploughing and ploughing, 45t organic fertilizer and compound fertilizer 900kg were applied per hm2. The standard greenhouse generally makes 3 rows, one row, and the plant spacing is 80-100cm. Plastic film mulching cultivation, dig the cross shape on the plastic film according to the specification, move the seedling soil into the hole, then seal the surroundings with soil, and then pour the planting water.

After the slow seedling was planted by fertilizer and water management, urea 75kg/hm2 could be applied with water, and urea 120kg/hm2 and plant height 100cm could be applied with water and plant height 100cm respectively. During the result period, vegetative growth and reproductive growth are carried out at the same time, and fertilizer and water are needed to increase, so it is necessary to irrigate in time, keep the soil moist, and apply quick-acting chemical fertilizer every 10 days to prolong the fruiting period. And cultivate the soil in time. It is generally necessary to build a horizontal scaffolding with a height of about 2m, leaving only the main vine in front of the shed, picking off all the side branches, and then let the side vine elongate after the shed, and draw the vine to make it evenly distributed. After harvesting for 1 or 2 times, prune no melon vines so as not to consume nutrients.

Leave the seed. It is appropriate for snake melon to stay in the second section of the main vine. Generally speaking, the seeds of female flowers are mature more than 30 days after pollination, and the seeds can be picked when the lower end of the fruit begins to turn orange-red. After ripening for 1-2 days, the seeds are washed and dried. From flowering to growing into commercial melons in time, the growth time varies greatly with different temperatures. The temperature is low in early spring, the first batch of fruits can be harvested in 20-25 days, and the temperature will reach more than 30 ℃ in June-July. It can be harvested only in 10-12 days. When the fruit is harvested up to 1m in the early stage and 1.5m in the middle, the yield is too young and the commodity is poor. Generally, the weight of a single melon is about 0.4-0.5kg. Pest control snake melon disease resistance, occasionally virus disease, anthracnose and blight, but the incidence is mild. When virus diseases are found, they should be pulled out in time and sprayed with virus A to protect them. At the same time, aphids should be prevented and prevented from spreading. Snake melon has a special smell and few insect pests. If pink butterfly and Spodoptera litura damage occurs, Tianli and Tianba can be sprayed and killed at an early age.

Planting techniques of Snake Melon

1. Fertilizer and water management: snake melon grows fast and requires a large amount of fertilizer and water during the whole growth period. Topdressing once after planting survived, and then topdressing once for each harvest, it is best to use dilute dung water, rotten cake fertilizer or N, P, K ternary compound fertilizer, combined with foliar spraying 0.4-0.5% potassium dihydrogen phosphate. If the phenomenon of de-fatting occurs during the growth period, there will be abnormal melon strips, which can not grow, affecting the yield and sales.

2, build pruning: snake melon vines are well developed, luxuriant growth, strong branching ability, and long melon strips, so you need to build a hedge or scaffolding. When the melon vine is longer than 30cm, tie the vine and draw the vine to the shelf in time. Snake melon has strong continuous fruit-setting ability, and its main vines bear melons, but generally the main vines bear melons, melon strips are large, deformed melons are few, melon strips are small, and there are many deformed melons, so lateral vines can be properly trimmed according to cultivation methods and listing in the morning and evening. The earlier the market and the finer the cultivation model, the more thoroughly the lateral vines are pruned. Generally, each plant can leave 2-3 lateral vines. In the solar greenhouse, all the lateral vines can be cut off, leaving only the main vines to bear melon.

3. Pest control: the occurrence of diseases and insect pests in snake melon is less, and the main purpose of insect pests is to prevent aphids. Downy mildew can be controlled with metalaxyl and chlorothalonil, and powdery mildew can be controlled with carbendazim, methyl thiophanate, mancozeb and other pesticides.

As we all know from the above introduction, snake gourd is a kind of edible vegetable, and the nutritional value of snake gourd is very high, the shape of snake gourd is very strange, some of its twists and turns are similar to those of snakes, and the growth of snake gourd is also similar to that of towel gourd.