Artificial pollination technique of muskmelon

In the cultivation of muskmelon, in order to improve the fruit setting rate and pollination quality of muskmelon, artificial pollination will be used in most cases to achieve the purpose of increasing production. So how to carry out artificial pollination of melons? Let's take a look at the detailed introduction with the editor.

1. Selection of node position of sitting melon

When planting melons, they usually leave melons with son or grandson vines, and generally do not leave melons on the main vines, but there are two ways of pruning: single vines and double vines, and the nodes of the two pruning methods are different. The early maturing varieties of single vine pruning are generally suitable for keeping melon at 9-13 nodes, while the early and late ripening varieties are suitable for 12-16 nodes, while the seed vine nodes for double vine pruning are located in the same single vine.

2. Pollination time

Muskmelon pollination time is generally chosen at 7-10:00, because this is the female flower stigma and male flower pollen as the active period, when pollination helps to improve the fertilization rate. Generally speaking, melons in the same field had better complete all pollination in one week, and only complete pollination in the same cycle, which is conducive to management and harvest in the fruit period, so as to avoid inconsistent ripening time and chaotic management.

3. Artificial pollination

Choose the male flowers that bloom on the same day, pick them, remove the petals, expose the stamens, and then gently smear the stamens on the stigma hill of the stamens. Generally, the stamens of each male flower can be smeared with more than 2-3 female flowers. The pollen of the male flower can be collected in a vessel in advance, and then dipped in the pollen with a cotton swab at the best time of pollination, smeared on the stamen stigma to complete pollination.

4. Points for attention

It should be noted that pollination should not be carried out in overcast and rainy weather, so as not to affect the quality of pollination, and if it rains during pollination, you can bring paper bags to the flowers and pick them three days after pollination. If it is a rainy day, pollination should be carried out 2 hours after the rain. In case of overcast and rainy weather within 3 hours after pollination, it should be re-pollinated and marked after pollination to avoid repeated pollination. The mature period can also be determined to facilitate harvest.

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