How to manage wax gourd after planting

Wax gourd is a very common vegetable in China, which is welcomed by many people and has a very large planting area in our country. The planting methods of wax gourd generally have many methods, such as direct seeding, seedling transplanting and so on. When raising seedlings and transplanting, wax gourd seedlings should be managed well after planting so as to improve the survival rate of seedlings. So how to manage wax gourd after planting? The following editor will give you a brief introduction, let's have a look!

1. Water and fertilizer management

After planting wax gourd seedlings, the first thing to do well is the management of water and fertilizer. After planting, some clear dung water can be applied to improve the survival rate of seedlings and provide sufficient nutrition for the growth of seedlings. Then, for each wax gourd seedling, some inverted vine fertilizer should be properly applied to the customized hole of plastic film. Urea and compound fertilizer are the main fertilizers, and then there is no need to topdressing until the wax gourd plant sits. Appropriate watering, when the soil moisture is poor, it should be watered in time, but the moisture should not be too much to avoid rotting roots to reduce yield and quality. When sitting melons and melons reach about one jin, then appropriate topdressing and watering, the fertilizer is mainly urea.

2. Pruning

Under the condition of ensuring water and fertilizer, if the wax gourd is not pruned, then the wax gourd plant is very easy to grow, which will consume a lot of nutrition and affect the yield of wax gourd. Therefore, in order to avoid this situation, we should prune some side branches, old and weak branches and some overlapping branches of the plant in time. However, each plant should retain about 3 stout lateral branches. Then the excess branches and male flowers should be removed in time, and after the plant grows about two melons, it will be heart-picked to improve the permeability of the field.

3. Auxiliary pollination

After the wax gourd enters the flowering stage, if the wax gourd is allowed to pollinate freely, then the pollination rate is relatively low and the number of melons is not much. Therefore, after flowering, we should pay attention to do a good job of auxiliary pollination. No matter the setting rate of wax gourd or the yield of seeds, there will be a significant increase. Wax gourd usually blossoms around seven o'clock every morning. At the beginning of flowering, some newly blooming male flowers should be collected, then dipped in pollen and fed directly to the style of the female flower. You can also release some bees in the field and use them to pollinate.

4. Melon protection

After successfully sitting on the melon, we should do a good job in protecting the wax gourd that has been done. Should be covered with a layer of hay under the wax gourd, do not let the melon directly touch the ground to avoid the phenomenon of rotten melon. If in the summer high temperature and strong light environment, then the melon should also do a good job of shading work, can cover grass, build sunshade net and so on. Avoid direct exposure to strong light, resulting in sunburn, reducing yield and quality. At the same time, we should also do a good job in the prevention and control of diseases and insect pests and strengthen management to ensure the normal growth of wax gourd.

The above is a brief introduction to how to manage wax gourd after planting. That's all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only. I hope it can help you all.