Does it need to be pinched to grow wax gourd?

Wax gourd is a kind of vegetable often used to cook soup, and there are many people who like to eat wax gourd, so does it need to be pinched to grow wax gourd? Let's have a look!

1. Basic introduction of wax gourd

Wax gourd is a kind of annual trailing or framing herb of Cucurbitaceae and wax gourd genera. The stem of wax gourd has yellowish brown hard hairs and villi. The flower of wax gourd is generally solitary, the fruit is long cylindrical or nearly spherical, the fruit is large, and the seeds are oval.

Wax gourd is mainly distributed in other tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, and is cultivated all over China.

Wax gourd likes temperature, is heat-tolerant, and can grow normally in the range of 25 ℃-30 ℃. The temperature below 20 ℃ is not conducive to fruit development.

In addition, sufficient light should be given during the growth period, and the long-term rain should be sheltered, otherwise the phenomenon of falling flowers, melons and rotten melons will occur.

Second, does it need to be pinched to grow wax gourd?

Need, because planting wax gourd is not pinched, melon seedlings will always grow, nutrition will be absorbed by melon seedlings, the wax gourd will become smaller, the quality is not good.

3. Cultivation techniques of wax gourd

1. Reproduction

Wax gourd is generally sown in spring and autumn, and the sowing time is from December to March and June to July every year. Most of the sowing methods are seedling transplanting in spring and bud sowing in autumn.

The seedlings are generally raised in a nutrition bowl, and the required nutrient soil should be prepared in advance, which can be made by roasting and sifting fertile garden soil or fiery ash, cooked pig, cow dung residue, grain husk ash and so on. The volume ratio of the three is about 6:2:2, and a small amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium compound fertilizer can be added, the amount of which is generally controlled at 0.2% Mo 0.3%, and fine mixing is required.

2. Colonization

Melon seedlings can be transplanted after steady growth. 2-3 days before planting, 10% thin human feces water and 80% Dysen zinc 800 times or 75% chlorothalonil 600 times solution can be used to spray seedlings with fertilizer and medicine. Watering and plastic film mulching after planting.

3. Fertilizer and water management

After planting, it was poured with thin dung water for 2-3 times to promote its rapid growth. Water once during the extension period. During the fruit setting period, when the fruit grew to fist size, the fruit fertilizer was applied once and urea 225kg/hm2 was applied, which could be irrigated under water film.

After that, it is necessary to set up and tie the vine, so that the wax gourd can grow better.