How is the latest square watermelon grown?

Square watermelon is a popular watermelon in recent years. It has high sugar content, good taste and peculiar shape. After entering the market, it attracted a lot of interest. In fact, the planting technology of square watermelon has long been mature, but square watermelon is rare in ordinary fruit shops. The following small series will introduce you to the planting method of square watermelon.

1. How is square watermelon formed

The shape of a square watermelon is actually very simple. It is to put a mold on the watermelon when it grows young fruit. The original purpose of planting square watermelon is only to facilitate storage and save space, not genetically modified watermelon. When growing young fruit, not only can it be covered with a square mold, no matter what kind of mold watermelon will grow into a mold, such as heart shape, diamond shape, etc., which can make it more ornamental.

Second, what are the advantages of square watermelon

Now the square watermelon is not just a mold on the watermelon, the square watermelon has now been optimized by experts, calculated the size of the mold, compressed into a watermelon with greater nutrient density and richer nutrients. Square watermelon is easier to place during transportation, is not easy to squeeze, and the storage time is greatly prolonged. Moreover, square watermelons are not only edible, but now the ornamental value for viewing is also extremely high. Many designers write words and make patterns on watermelons.

3. How to grow square watermelon

1, variety selection: first of all, when selecting varieties, we should choose varieties with larger fruits, strong disease resistance and thicker skin, such as Xincheng.

2, seedling method: watermelon field to choose at least 4 years without planting melons and fruits, with farm manure, plant ash and carbendazim wettable powder mixed evenly in the land. The seeds should be dried in a sunny place for a day, pick out the dried and deformed seeds, then soak them in formaldehyde for an hour, wash them with water, and then soak them in normal temperature water for 7 hours. 3 hours fishing once, air drying water, germination treatment, and then batch sowing.

3. Timely planting

Watermelon land should be in the higher terrain, good drainage, leeward sunny place. Then the land will be tilled fine harrow, do a good job about 3 meters of farmland, drainage ditch and so on. The base fertilizer per mu is about 3000 kg farm manure, and there are ternary compound fertilizers. Seedlings grow to two leaves, one heart leaf can start single planting, the distance of each plant is about 2.5 meters *0.5 meters, water and fungicide mixed irrigation is sufficient.

In fact, planting is not only square watermelon, you can make different types of watermelon according to your own preferences or attract consumers 'attention. The above is a simple introduction to how to plant square watermelon brought by Xiaobian. If you want to know more about agriculture, continue to pay attention to the study of pro-agricultural network!