How to increase the number of female flowers of balsam pear

Balsam pear yield is low, investigate its reason is female flower quantity is too little. Balsam pear female flower is too little, do not have a few pollination everyday, yield does not go up of course. The following small series will introduce you to how to increase the female flower of bitter gourd.

In fact, the flower bud differentiation of balsam pear begins from seedling stage, so the environmental conditions of seedling stage have great influence on the differentiation of female flower. Temperature below 20℃ and short day (less than 12 hours) were beneficial to female flower development. But in summer nursery, these two aspects are very difficult to achieve. The experience of vegetable farmers is to choose a place with shade in the afternoon when raising seedlings. Sunshade net is set up above nursery bed to reduce temperature and shorten direct sunlight time as much as possible.

The number of female flowers of balsam pear is small, but also can be adjusted by medicaments. For example, 600 times solution of Kualing and 3000 times solution of ethephon must be sprayed at least half a month in advance, because these chemicals are used to induce female flower differentiation and increase female flower quantity. The effect is not obvious in a short time after spraying, and do not spray continuously in a short period of time to prevent problems such as plant aging and short leaf yellow nodes.