Watch how pumpkins are planted in pots

The fruit of ornamental pumpkin is exquisite and strange, and its ornamental value is very high. It can be cultivated in open field, greenhouse or flowerpot. It is a vegetable variety with both ornamental and edible value.

Variety selection of ornamental Pumpkin

Golden egg, silver egg, Wuzhishan, golden boy, jade girl, incense burner, white jade, golden apple, small wall clock, little green, a little yellow, pillow, crown and so on are all suitable for potted pumpkins.

Preparation of nutrient soil for ornamental Pumpkin

You can choose to use pond mud or garden soil that has not been planted with melons, dry, disinfect and break up, mix with peat soil, perlite, river sand and other substrates, and then add compound fertilizer to form nutritious soil. Put the coarse grains at the bottom of the basin, and the soil only needs to be placed in the position of the flowerpot 3x4.

The sowing of ornamental pumpkin

25 degrees is the suitable temperature for the growth of ornamental pumpkin, spring and autumn are the sowing season, soaking seeds to promote germination before sowing. Wrap the seeds with clean gauze, soak them in warm water of 30 degrees for 4-5 hours, scrub the seeds clean and pick them up to sprout. After watering the nutritious soil, sow the seeds with 3-4 seeds in each pot, cover the soil with a depth of 1 cm after sowing, and water the seeds.

Ornamental pumpkin planting in pot

Choose a flowerpot of the right size, spread a small amount of river sand on the bottom of the pot, put an appropriate amount of sesame sauce residue as base fertilizer, fill it with nutrient soil, compact the soil after planting the plant, and pour it thoroughly with water.

Timely plastic surgery of ornamental pumpkin

Ornamental pumpkin topped when the plant grew to about 15 cm, promoting the development of branches. Topping again when the branch grows to a height of 10 cm, usually 3-4 times. When the plant grows to 25-30 cm, the vine should be set up, and the material can be made of bamboo or iron branches. The leaves should be picked when the leaves are too dense, in order to ventilate and breathe, enhance the light, and make the plant look beautiful.