The method of promoting the high yield of towel gourd is to remove male and concentrate nutrition.

The reasonable male thinning and whisker removal of towel gourd can reduce the nutrient consumption of soil and towel gourd plants, and make Yangzhong concentrate on the growth and development of towel gourd, so as to increase the yield of towel gourd. The experiment showed that under the same conditions of other cultivation and management, the setting rate, weight and yield per plant of loofah increased by 17.9%, 15.9% and 36.8%, respectively, compared with those of towel gourd without male thinning. The practice of thinning the male and removing the beard of towel gourd is introduced as follows:

Towel gourd

First, the male towel gourd is a cross-pollinated crop. The female flower has one flower and one fruit, about 15 days from budding to towel gourd harvest. Male flowers are infinitely growing racemes, each inflorescence can open 20-35 flowers, the total number of male inflorescences is more than the number of female inflorescences, and the pollination ability greatly exceeds the requirement of female flowers. Because the florescence of male inflorescence is longer, about 30-40 days, which is equivalent to 3-4 times of the fruiting period of female flowers, a lot of nutrients are consumed during this period. Therefore, removing the excess male inflorescence as soon as possible can save nutrients and supply the need for female flowers to bear fruit.

The method of male thinning: starting from the budding of female flowers, 80% of the male inflorescences on each litter of towel gourd plants are removed and 20% pollinated.

Second, remove the beard. The tendrils of towel gourd play a role in climbing and encircling branches in trailing crops. Towel gourd tendrils take a long time from occurrence to death and consume more nutrients, which is not conducive to more melons and good melons. Removing tendrils and using artificial binding instead of climbing function are beneficial to the progress of plant photosynthesis, the manufacture and accumulation of nutrients, the control of diseases and insect pests, and make towel gourd good pollination and high yield.

Third, the method of removing beard: in the early stage of towel gourd plant growth, the method of removing beard while binding is adopted to draw the vine to the scaffolding; after the branches are evenly distributed and fixed on the scaffolding, the tendrils can be removed at any time with the whole vine.