Planting and management techniques of watermelon for lazy people

Lazy watermelon is a seedless watermelon cultivated by mutagenesis and hybridization. it gets its name because it does not need to spit seeds. At present, lazy watermelon is widely planted in our country, so what are its planting management techniques?

Planting and management techniques of lazy watermelon

1. Soil preparation and seedling cultivation

Seedless watermelon seedling bed should be built in the leeward to the sun, the terrain is relatively high dry place, the seedling bed should be poured through the bottom water 1-2 days before sowing, and warmed up in a small arch shed. At the same time, the prepared seeds should be dried for 2-3 days and soaked in 55-60 ℃ warm water (two boiled and one cool). The treated seeds can be sown and raised seedlings.

two。 Colonization

Watermelon was planted when the seedling age was about 30 days and the seedlings had 2-3 true leaves. Potassium fertilizer, urea, diamine and potassium sulfate should be used for fine soil preparation before planting.

3. Pouring

Seedless watermelons should be watered at least two or three times throughout the growing season, and should be watered once when the number of leaves that begin to stretch begins to increase. When the baby melon is about the size of its fist, it will be watered once, and the rest will need to be watered again according to the situation.

4. Fertilizer application

In addition to the basic fertilizer, watermelon should be fertilized twice during its growth. when it stretches, fertilization should be based on nitrogen fertilizer, and then potash fertilizer should be added to promote the nutritional growth of watermelon; the second topdressing is to choose before the watermelon expansion period, the additional fertilizer types are potash fertilizer and nitrogen fertilizer.

In addition, proper artificial pollination and pruning pressure vines can also help them set fruit, of course, these two points should be determined according to the actual situation.