The latest muskmelon fruit causes and control methods

Muskmelon stiff fruit is a common phenomenon in melon planting process, which will seriously affect the yield and quality of melon, and will also cause huge economic losses to farmers. So what causes melons to freeze? Let's take a look at the prevention methods together with Xiaobian.

I. Symptoms

Muskmelon stiff fruit refers to melon growth to walnut size, it will not continue to expand, fruit to be significantly smaller than the variety of normal melon, and hard skin, mature late, greatly reducing the commodity value of melon. Some stiff fruit in a certain period of time will also fall off or rot, will give the bacteria can take advantage of the opportunity to gradually spread to the branches, which is extremely unfavorable to melon growth.

II. Reasons

There are many reasons for normal melon stiff fruit, one is that the melon node position is low, forming falling cultivation, resulting in fruit growth is not big; Second, the melon is not watered in time after sitting, or the fertilizer and water management is improper, which cannot meet the needs of fruit growth and development normally, so the stiff fruit is formed; Third, in case of long-term bad weather after sitting melon, such as long-term rainy weather, it will lead to blocked nutrient transportation, normal peel gradually rigid, pulp can not expand, sometimes also cause cracking fruit; Fourth, pruning and thinning are not timely, plant growth is weak or excessive, vegetative growth and reproductive growth are unbalanced, fruit cannot expand due to lack of nutrients, and a long time will form stiff fruit.

III. Prevention

1. Choose the appropriate sitting position

Melon sitting node position has great influence on single melon weight, quality and maturity stage. Low node position sitting melon is easy to appear abnormal melon, late plant begins to wet and weak, high node position sitting melon, melon skin sowing and low sugar content, so we must choose suitable sitting melon node position.

2. Strengthen fertilizer and water management

When the fruit cells enter the division and expansion after sitting, a large amount of production supply is needed. When the fruit grows to the walnut, irrigate once to provide sufficient water for fruit expansion. At the same time, topdressing with water, potassium fertilizer 20-3 kg per mu. At this time, insufficient water cell division will slow down, fruit expansion speed will slow down, insufficient watering or too little watering will cause stiff fruit, so watering and fertilization must be timely and sufficient.

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