A few tips for growing towel gourd on the balcony are excellent.

In summer, Rain Water is abundant. If you like to grow flowers, you might as well plant some melons, fruits and vegetables, which are easy to pick and safe to eat. In particular, there is a small balcony flower friend, in the balcony to plant a few towel gourd, the use of several tips, knot melon knot that is called "excellent".

Because towel gourd likes temperature and is resistant to high temperature and humidity, flower friends can generally use spring sowing. Flower friends in Central China, East China and North China can sow and raise seedlings between March and April, plant in May, and harvest in summer and autumn.

In addition, towel gourd is a short-day plant, which grows rapidly under high temperature and short day, while summer sowing has high temperature, long sunshine, vigorous growth of stems and leaves, high nodes of female flowers and late flowering, so it is not strict with natural requirements. Melons can still bear melons early under long sunshine.

1. Raising seedlings

Early spring flower friends can use nutrition bowl, nutrition soil to raise seedlings. Soak the seeds before sowing, generally soak in 50-55 ℃ warm water, and constantly stir, change the water temperature after soaking for 10-24 hours, rinse to remove sticky matter, put it in 30 ℃ with wet towels to accelerate germination, and sow seeds after exposure.

Before sowing, the nutrition bowl should be watered thoroughly. Each bowl should contain 1 white seed and cover fine soil about 1 cm. The nursery bed should be covered with plastic film to keep moisturizing, and the nursery temperature should be kept at about 30 ℃. After seedling emergence, the bed temperature should be lowered to below 25 ℃, above 20 ℃. After the two cotyledons are unfolded, the bed temperature should be adjusted to 16-18 ℃. And give short-day treatment for about 7-10 days, so that female flowers can occur early after planting.

At 20-30 days of seedling stage and 10-15 days before planting, the air release rate should be gradually increased, and the temperature and humidity should be adjusted according to the cultivation environment to refine the seedlings, but to prevent the seedlings from freezing injury, the temperature should not be lower than 15 ℃.

2. Colonization

The growing period of towel gourd is long and there are many melons, and the planting land must apply sufficient base fertilizer, which is better with barnyard manure and chicken manure with full effect of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Planting density: depends on the variety planted and the way in which the frame is built. Ordinary towel gourd is generally planted by the side of the house or the base of the wall, climbing trees and climbing walls sporadically.

3. Fertilizer and water

The management of ordinary towel gourd is more extensive than that of loofah. If enough base fertilizer has been applied at the time of planting, less fertilizer should be applied in the early stage of growth to prevent overgrowth and topdressing after the emergence of the first flower. Topdressing is recommended to use organic liquid fertilizer for fruits and vegetables, 500 times mixed with water, and irrigate the root every 7 days.

Melon period needs sufficient fertilizer and water, high temperature season, early and evening watering, and often keep the border soil with high humidity. The relative humidity of the soil should be about 80% and 90%.

4. Set up a frame to draw the vine

Towel gourd has strong branching force, and both main and lateral vines can bear fruit. In order to make the plant more fruitful, generally do not remove the side vine, set up a relatively tall scaffolding or support in time to guide the vine growth, such as too many side vines, you can choose to leave 2 or 3 strong vines, cultivate the soil and press the vines before the shelves, and after the stems are on the shelves, the artificial introduction of vines will make it evenly distributed, which will soon cover the balcony and hang a lot of fruit.