Do you use pinching to grow balsam pear?

Balsam pear is a common vegetable in life, often edible can lose weight, reduce fire, etc., generally more popular in summer, that planting balsam pear with pinching?

Do you use pinching to grow balsam pear?

Planting balsam pear should be pinched. Generally, after balsam pear grows vines and climbs onto the shelf, pinch off all the weak branches, diseased branches and sterile branches above, as long as there are 2 side vines on the main vine. In addition, melons cannot be left below the main vine 50cm, so the female flowers should be removed below the 50cm.

Second, how to put on airs of balsam pear?

When the seedlings grow to about 20 cm, it is necessary to set up a frame to draw vines. There are two ways to build scaffolding: flat scaffolding and herringbone scaffolding. The flat shed has the advantages of good ventilation, many melons and high yield. Flat scaffolding is divided into multi-span flat scaffolding and sub-span flat scaffolding. The multi-span flat scaffolding is generally in the melon row, erecting a wooden pile every 3 to 4 meters, above which the stakes of the whole field are connected with small bamboo, small wooden sticks or nylon nets, and the roof is about 2 meters from the ground; the split flat scaffolding is generally a shed for every two rows of melons, with a height of 1.5 meters. The scaffolding should be firm in order to avoid the collapse of the wind, while damaging the melon seedlings and affecting the yield. In the early stage, we should pay attention to the artificial binding of vines and assist the melon seedlings on the shelf. Balsam pear on the shelf, the main vine below 50 cm can not leave melons, female flowers should be removed to facilitate the overall development. After the main vine sits down 6 Mel 7 melons, leave 5 Mel 6 leaves to hit the top, and remove the rest of the vine.