How to plant cantaloupe seeds? Which variety is better? How much half a kilo?

Hami melon is a transformation of melon, also known as snow melon, tribute melon, is a kind of excellent melon varieties, produced in Xinjiang, Hami is the most widely planted. So how do you plant its seeds? Which variety is better? How much can I buy per jin? According to Ms. Xu, a seed wholesale company in Shuyang County, Suqian, Jiangsu Province, cantaloupe seeds are now about 60 yuan / jin. Cantaloupe is about five yuan per jin, but it will vary depending on the season, region and origin of sale. The price of cantaloupe sold in the market season is obviously lower than that of cantaloupe sold out of season. Cantaloupe usually goes on sale in early May and lasts until October.

Which variety is good for cantaloupe seeds?

There are more than 180 varieties of cantaloupe, including oval, oval, braided hammer, long rod, etc.; they vary in size, ranging from 1 kg to 15-20 kg; the pericarp is reticulated and smooth; the color is green, yellow and white, and the flesh is white, green, orange-red, crisp, crisp and soft, and the flavor is mellow, delicate and fruity. There are more than 50 more valuable varieties.

1. Xizhou honey: light hemp green, greenway, fine reticulation, orange flesh, fine meat, crisp, good flavor, 20% sugar content, the best produced in eastern Xinjiang.

2. Donghu melon: the net grain is beautiful and tastes like fragrant pear, fresh, crisp and tender, with attractive aromas of milk, fruit and wine.

3. Black eyebrows: oval in shape, with more than a dozen dark green vertical stripes on the skin, just like beautiful women's eyebrows, melon flesh green, fine and juicy, high sugar content, sticky mouth, eating after winter, but also aroma, sweet and refreshing

4. Red heart crisp: orange-red in color, crisp and juicy, with creamy flavor, strong fragrance overflowing, aftertaste after eating, lasting for a long time

5. Yellow eggs: the color is golden, the garden is small, the meat is like lanolin, soft and sweet, and a melon is placed all over the room to produce fragrance.

6. Xuelihong: the thick-skinned melon bred by Xinjiang Hami Melon Research Center is an early and middle-ripe variety. The fruit development period is about 40 days. The fruit is oval, the pericarp is white, occasionally has sparse 7 or sparse net patterns, it is red when ripe, the flesh is light red, the flesh is tender, crisp and refreshing, the taste is like fragrant pear, the central refractive sugar is more than 15%, and the single melon weighs about 2.5 kg.

8. Jiashi melon: Jiashi melon gets its name from its origin in Jiashi County. It has been planted for more than 1500 years. It has a wide variety of varieties, including more than 30 species in the early, middle and late seasons. Jiashi melon has a long history of cultivation, and its shape is symmetrical and full. it has the characteristics of thick and fine meat, sweet and crisp, thick juice, thin skin, high sugar content and so on. Jiashi melon ranks first among all kinds of melons in Xinjiang and becomes the leader among all kinds of melons and fruits in China.

How to plant cantaloupe seeds?

There are more than 180 varieties and types of cantaloupe, including early maturing summer melon and late maturing wax gourd. Wax gourd is resistant to storage and can be stored until next spring, but the taste is still fresh.

1. Land selection and land preparation

It is better to have fallow land or abandoned land in the melon field. The rotation period of the ground wheel that has planted melons is more than five years, and the previous crops are suitable for food crops. It is forbidden to plant cucurbitaceae, leguminous and eggplant crops around the melon fields.

The melon land should choose the soil with medium or above fertility, the soil texture is better than loam or sandy loam, the content of soil organic matter is more than 1.0%, the content of available phosphorus is 10ppm, the content of available potassium is 150ppm, the content of alkali-hydrolyzable nitrogen is 50ppm, the content of total salt is about 0.5%, and the pH value of soil is between 7 and 8.

It is best to carry out summer ploughing and autumn ploughing before the year, with a depth of more than 25 cm, and winter irrigation to benefit alkali and mature soil, and to eliminate weeds and overwintering pests.

2. Apply basic fertilizer and open melons

After the beginning of spring, the ditch line is drawn along the contour line of the melon field, the ditch distance is 4-4.5m, the ditch length is not more than 30m, the fertilization ditch is 60 cm away from the center line of the melon ditch, the depth of the ditch is more than 25cm, and the application of high quality humic organic fertilizer is 2000 kg per mu. In addition, the amount of chemical fertilizer is 20kg ammonium nitrate, 25kg calcium superphosphate, 20kg diammonium phosphate, 15kg ammonium nitrate, 50kg humic acid compound fertilizer. Or humic acid compound fertilizer 100 kg. Apply fertilizer into the ditch and mix well with soil.

Trench along the centerline of melon ditch, ditch depth 0.5-0.6 m, upper mouth width 0.9-1 m, bottom width about 30 cm, melon ditch requires flat, straight, consistent waterline, and there are no large soil clods and plant rhizomes.

3. Irrigation before sowing

Irrigation 5-7 days before sowing, irrigation before sowing is the key to ensure the integrity of seedlings, must be fully watered, generally more than 80 square meters / mu.

4. Covering plastic film

Choose 70-90 cm wide transparent film or silver gray film to cover both sides of the ditch, 10 cm away from the bottom of the ditch along the ditch wall up, requiring the film close to the ground and the ditch wall, to be flat, compacted, compacted. It is generally used to spread film first and then sow seeds. In order to avoid the harm of late frost, you can dig holes and sow seeds in the peritoneum, but break the membrane in time to liberate melon seedlings. Otherwise, it is appropriate to cause burning seedlings and lack of plants.

5. Select improved varieties

The currently approved new varieties Xinmiza 7 (8601), Xinmi 11 (86-1), Xinmi 13 (New Queen), Xinmi 15 (Xiangfeimi) and Xinmi 23 (Jinmibao) should be selected.

6. Sowing, sowing at the right time should generally be mastered after the late frost, and the soil temperature at the depth of 10 cm under the soil surface can be stabilized at about 14 ℃. The sowing method can be used to drill holes and sow along the watermark line of the melon ditch, and dig holes manually, and the distance between the holes depends on the maturity of the variety.

7. Buckle the shed

In order to cultivate Hami melon in the small arch shed in the protected field, it is necessary to prepare the soil, open ditches, apply bottom fertilizer, irrigate and cover the film before buckling the shed.

8. Field management

The main results are as follows: (1) generally, the seedlings can emerge 5-7 days after sowing, and the seedlings should be checked and replanted immediately within 3 days of emergence. The seeds should be disinfected, then soaked to accelerate germination, and the seeds can be replanted when the seeds are exposed.

(2) Intermediate seedling and fixed seedling

When there are 1-2 true leaves, there are 2 seedlings in each hole, and pay attention to the removal of weak seedlings and diseased seedlings. The seedlings were fixed with 4-5 true leaves and 1 healthy seedling was left in each hole. If the seeds are sown with precision, the interseedling and fixed seedling can be completed at one time when there are 4 true leaves.

(3) weeding by ploughing

Ploughing and loosening the soil can not only increase the soil temperature, but also preserve soil moisture and eradicate weeds.

(4) pruning vines and retaining melons

The whole vine and retained melon of Hami melon are determined according to the variety, and the early and middle ripening varieties, such as Hongmibao, Red Empress Dowager, Xinmi 15 (Xiangfeimi), Xinmi 13 (New Queen), etc., can use single vine pruning method; middle and late ripening varieties, for example: Xinmiza 7 (8601), Xinmi 11 (86-1), Xinmi 23 (Jinmibao) and so on. The specific pruning method can be determined according to the local habit of planting muskmelon.

9. Topdressing

The melon fields cultivated with plastic film mulching generally do not apply organic fertilizer, but if the base fertilizer is insufficient, some cake fertilizer or chemical fertilizer can be applied.

10. Irrigation

The number of irrigation and the amount of irrigation vary with the quality of soil, the size of melon ditch and the level of groundwater level.

Prevention and control of diseases and insect pests

Implement the policy of "giving priority to prevention and comprehensive control", on the basis of mastering the existing laws of the occurrence of diseases and insect pests, understand and grasp the relationship between diseases and insect pests and crops and environmental conditions, and adopt comprehensive prevention and control measures by changing ecological conditions to achieve the purpose of restraining the occurrence of diseases and insect pests and reducing or controlling harms. On the basis of conscientiously implementing the above-mentioned measures, we also need to cooperate with chemical prevention standards for prevention and control.

11. Harvest

Timely harvest is the key link to ensure the quality of commercial melons, the central sugar content of commercial melons must reach more than 13% during harvest, light picking should be done during harvest, mechanical damage should be minimized, fruit stalks 1.5-2 cm long should be left during harvest, and the pile should be shaded to avoid exposure to the sun, reduce losses, and strictly prohibit raw melons and rotten melons from being put on the market.