Planting date and time of early-maturing hybrid melon varieties, matters needing attention and nursing care in the process of melon planting

Cantaloupe Watermelon Red Sweet & # 39th N early mixed cantalupo hibrido dulce Y precoz is an ideal area for short season. It can resist mildew and powder cream. The harvest is about 75 days. With plenty of sunshine, it is easy to sprout and grow. Mature for 75 days.

Few horticultural crops come close to the juicy sweetness of melons. Muskmelons (sometimes mistakenly called cantaloupe) has a reticulate yellowish-brown skin and salmon-colored meat. Melon-type melons include honeydew, smooth, white skin with light green flesh; casaba, pointing to the end of the stem, with yellow skin and white pulp at maturity; and Crenshaw, oval, with reticulate tan skin and pink flesh. Charentais melon, the real cantaloupe of France, with verrucous rib peel and sweet bright orange fruit. Because melons grow on ivy, they have a fair share of garden space. They also need a long and hot growing season, making it more difficult for them to grow in the north. Minimize problems by planting early-maturing varieties.

Planting date: late May

Migration date: early June

Plant species: fruit

Bloom cycle:

PH level: above 6.0,

Seed depth: 2. 2 inch

Plant space: 2-3 per mountain

Line spacing: 4-6 feet apart

Harvest date: 75 days

Regional requirements: preferably a long and warm summer

Fertilizer demand:

Light requirements: plenty of sunlight

Water requirement: sufficient water for grapevine growth; less fruit ripening

Soil demand: fertile, well-drained soil (high content of organic matter)

Disease problem: mold

Pest / insect problem: cucumber beetle

Solution: to prevent cucumber beetles, cover the line; remove when the female flower appears (the base of the female flower is swollen). Use pyrethroids to treat infections. In order to prevent mildew, maintain plant vitality and plant resistant varieties.

How to grow: if you start indoors, plant in a peat basin 3 or 4 weeks before the planned transplant. The warm season is 120 days or more, live outdoors or transplanted 2 or 3 weeks after the last frost. If not, plant 6 to 8 seeds in hills 3 feet apart, or 4 to 6 feet apart if not. After the threat of cucumber beetles and changing weather, thin plants are the strongest 2 or 3. Alternatively, separate the seeds by 1 foot, 5 to 6 feet in rows, thinning to 3 feet if latticed, and 4 to 6 feet on the ground. The migration uses the same spacing.

In spring, plastic sheets are covered with warm soil and then planted in plastic holes. In the south, once hot weather arrives, plastic is removed and organic mulch is used to keep the soil temperature uniform. To save space, provide support for grapevine climbing. If the melon hangs heavily, please support it with a net or pantyhose sling. If the plant is lying on the ground, put the melon on a butter bucket or plank to prevent pests. Keep the soil moist when grapevines grow and flowers are pollinating. When the fruit is ripe, it is watered only when the leaves wither at noon.

Harvest instructions: harvest when the size of the melon is 4-5 inches. The following are signs of ripening: melon, the stem is separated from the fruit, slightly pulled, leaving a round depression; honeydew, softening at the end of flowering (relative to the stem tip), the skin becomes milky white; Casaba, the skin softens at the end of flowering, the skin shows yellow stripes; and charentais, the fruit begins to turn yellow, softens or cracks at the end of flowering.