How to improve the fruit setting rate of wax gourd

Wax gourd is a common vegetable, which is grown in many rural areas, but it is not a simple thing to grow wax gourd well. The reason is that the fruit setting rate of wax gourd is low, and a little carelessness will lead to poor pollination, thus reducing the fruit setting rate. So how to improve the fruit setting rate? Let's take a look.

1. Sowing time

When the wax gourd blossoms and sits in the rainy season, the moist air will seriously affect the pollination rate of pumpkin, so it is necessary to infer according to the flowering and pollination time of wax gourd varieties and choose the correct planting time to avoid the rainy season when wax gourd blossoms and pollinates. And because the time of rainy season is different in different regions, the flowering time of different varieties is different, so the correct sowing time should be chosen according to the local rainy season and the flowering time of wax gourd.

2. Fertilizer and water irrigation

Wax gourd needs sufficient nutrients in flowering and pollination, and the lack of nutrients will lead to the lack of sufficient nutrients for wax gourd fruit growth, so there will be a phenomenon of melons, so base fertilizer must be fully applied before planting. Mature farm manure and an appropriate amount of compound fertilizer can be selected as base fertilizer. In addition to applying base fertilizer, topdressing should be combined with irrigation according to the plant growth before wax gourd blossoms and bears fruit.

3. Artificial pollination

Wax gourd for other vegetables, its pollination rate is much lower, so to improve the pollination rate of wax gourd, it is necessary to carry out artificial pollination when wax gourd blossoms. Wax gourd pollination time finally choose sunny day 9-11:00 in the morning, when the wax gourd flowers have just opened, more pollen, pollination is directly male pollen on the female flowers can be.

4. Pest control

The common thistles and fruit flies of wax gourd, these pests are mainly to erode the flowers of wax gourd, which will seriously reduce the pollination rate of wax gourd, so when the wax gourd has not yet blossomed and pollinated, insecticide should be sprayed in time to control insect pests.

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