How to manage the heart in towel gourd planting

Coring is an important work in the management of towel gourd, which is directly related to the yield of towel gourd. Usually when the towel gourd main vine has 13-15 leaves and the plant height is about 160 cm, it begins to leave the melon and pick the heart, and then leave one heart for every 3 leaves. In general, this is feasible, but it is not suitable for towel gourd with weak growth after planting.

If the towel gourd with weak growth picks the heart according to the usual method, it is easy to appear the phenomenon of "empty gourd" after harvesting 3-4 melons, and after the 3-4 melons are harvested, the stems become thin and weak, which is not conducive to the normal sitting of towel gourd. Therefore, for the towel gourd with weak growth, it is better to pick the heart and raise the vine early in the empty seedling period, so that the stem vine becomes stout, so as to enhance the ability of towel gourd to bear melon continuously and prevent the phenomenon of "empty gourd". The author suggests that when the towel gourd main vine has 11-12 leaves and the vegetative growth is exuberant, the heart should be picked out after breaking the traditional practice of keeping the melon, so as to promote the development of stem vine consciously. After picking the heart at this time, the germination rate of lateral branches is slow, and the stem vines are sturdy because of sufficient nutrition accumulation. After the side branches germinate, you can start to leave melons, leaving 1 melon every 2 leaves, and there will be no "empty melon" phenomenon.

In towel gourd production, the traditional method of coring is to keep the gourd when the main vine has 13-15 leaves, first and then. Using this method of coring, the phenomenon of thin stem and poor vegetative growth will appear after 3-4 towel gourd are harvested. Some vegetable farmers use the method of "empty vines" to ensure the balance between vegetative growth and reproductive growth; some vegetable farmers use the method of leaving a melon every 5 leaves to grow vines. However, these two methods are not desirable, because neither of them can make the towel gourd continue to bear gourd during the fruiting period, resulting in a decrease in the yield of towel gourd.

A vegetable farmer changed the towel gourd heart picking method, picked the heart in advance, picked the heart first and then left the melon, and achieved high yield. He began to hang the main vine when it had 7-8 leaves, and began to pick the heart when the main vine had 11-12 leaves and its vegetative growth was exuberant. At this time, the germination rate of side branches becomes slower, and the main vine is stout because of sufficient nutrition accumulation, and the melon can be retained after the side branches germinate. at this time, one melon can be left every two leaves, so that the towel gourd will not have the phenomenon of empty stubble, and the yield of towel gourd will be high naturally.