Causes and control methods of muskmelon fruit

Muskmelon fruit is a common phenomenon in the process of muskmelon planting, which will seriously affect the yield and quality of muskmelon, and cause huge economic losses to farmers. So what is the cause of muskmelon fruit? Let's take a look at the prevention and control methods with the editor.

1. Occurrence of symptoms

Muskmelon fruit means that muskmelon does not continue to expand when it grows to the size of walnut, the fruit is significantly smaller than the normal melon of this variety, and the outer skin is hard and ripens late, which greatly reduces the commercial value of muskmelon. Some nuts will fall off or rot in a certain period of time, which will give the germs an opportunity to gradually spread to the vines, which is extremely disadvantageous to the growth of melons.

Second, the reason

There are many reasons for normal muskmelon fruit, one is that the position of sitting melon node is low, which leads to the growth of fruit, and the other is that the expanded melon water is not irrigated in time after sitting melon, or the fertilizer and water management is improper, which can not normally meet the needs of fruit growth and development. so the formation of stiff fruit. Third, in the melon after a long time of adverse weather, such as long-term rainy weather, then will lead to the transport of nutrients blocked, the normal peel gradually ossified, the pulp can not be expanded, and sometimes cause cracking; fourth, the whole branch sparse melon is not in time, plant growth is weak or crazy growth, vegetative growth and reproductive growth imbalance, fruit due to lack of nutrients and can not expand, a long time will form a zombie.

III. Prevention and treatment

1. Choose the appropriate position of sitting melon section.

Melon sitting node position has a great influence on single melon weight, quality and maturity, low node position, deformed melon is very easy to appear, later plant begins to wet and weak, high node position, melon peel sowing and low sugar content, so it is necessary to choose a suitable melon node position.

2. Strengthen the management of fertilizer and water

When the cells of fruit after sitting melon enter into division and expansion, a large amount of supply is needed. When the fruit grows to walnut, it is irrigated once to provide sufficient water for fruit expansion. At the same time, 20-3 kg potash fertilizer per mu is applied with water. At this time, water deficiency cell division will slow down, the fruit expansion rate will slow down, insufficient watering or too little watering will cause stiff fruit, so watering and fertilization must be timely and sufficient.

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