Is it difficult to grow melons? Master these points and easily grow high-quality melons!
2025年12月20日 11:28:41Believe that many people like to eat melons, which are named for their sweet taste, and are also called muskmelons because of their fresh fragrance It is a summer fruit to relieve the summer heat, and its nutritional value can be compared with watermelons. Today, Nongyou Shangcheng offers a mel planting plan to help you easily grow high-quality melons!
1、Temperature: Melons are high-temperature and long-day crops. High temperatures are required throughout the growth period. The lowest temperature seed germination is 15℃, the optimum being 25-35℃. The root system grows best at a minimum of 8℃ and a maximum of40℃. Root hairs develop best at a minimum of 14℃. The optimum temperature for the growth period is 25-28℃. Growth is slow 18℃ and is prone to malformation.
2、Light: Melons prefer sufficient light. During the growth period, they need 10-12 hours sunshine per day. Insufficient light makes the plants weak and reduces the quality, making them susceptible to disease.
3、Moisture: Melons have a developed root and can utilize soil moisture. They are relatively drought-resistant but not tolerant of waterlogging. The optimum soil moisture is 60%. However, if the soil moisture is after fruit set, it will affect the yield and quality of the melons.
4、Soil: Melons can adapt to a wide range of soils but prefer, well-drained alluvial sandy or loam soils. Cantaloupes have a high demand for nutrients, with the least absorption during the seedling stage, and the absorption of, phosphorus, and potassium gradually increases after flowering, reaching a peak at 16-17 days after fruit set and sharply declining at 26-27. The absorption peaks of phosphorus and calcium occur at 26-27 days after fruit set and continue until the fruit is mature.
The period from flowering the end of fruit swelling, about 1 month, is when cantaloupes absorb the most mineral nutrients and is also the period of maximum fertilizer efficiency. Calcium and b not only affect the sugar content of the fruit but also its appearance. When calcium is insufficient, the surface of the fruit has a rough, white netting. When boron is, brown spots are prone to appear in the flesh. Cantaloupes are chlorine-intolerant crops and should not be fertilized with ammonium chloride, potassium chlor, and other fertilizers.
Pre-flowering fertilizer:
Before tilling, apply 4 cubic meters of well-rotted farmyard manure per 200 kilograms of Haimei microbial agent per acre, balanced compound fertilizer (N: P: K) 50 kilograms, and then deeply the soil by more than 30 cm.
Plant by drilling holes or opening trenches, water at the time of planting, and fertilize the roots with5L/acre of Haimei Silicon Source Quick Calcium Boron 3-4 days later.
Pre-flowering fertilizer:
Water before the and irrigate with Yubebi 5L/acre Energy Master 1 bottle Haimei Green 1L.
Foliar spray: Haime Silicon Source Quick Calcium Boron
Post-flowering fertilizer:
After seedlings have recovered, irrigate when the cantaloupe is the size of egg: Haimei Root Growth 5L Haimei 19-19-19 balanced fertilizer 10 kilograms Haimei Green -2l high-potassium compound fertilizer 20-30 kilograms.
Foliar spray: Flower and Fruit Essence Quick Calcium
Fruit swelling period fertilization:
Quick Special 1lg Yubebi 10 kilograms Haimei 16-4-34 element 10 kilograms Energy Master 1 bottle
Foliar spray: Flower and Fruit Essence Kangran Phosphorus Potassium
Second crop fertilizer:
Yubebi 10 kilograms Haimei 19-19-19 balanced fertilizer 5 kilograms Haimei 1l irrigated
Foliar spray: Flower and Fruit Essence 1 bag Quick Green 1. Single vine training, main vine not topping: Select 4-5 nodes above the middle of the main vine to set fruit, 2-3 leaves before the fruit on the lateral vine and top the lateral vine, the upper lateral vines can be allowed to grow freely, topped at the right time, removed as appropriate according to the growth conditions in the field. This method is used for early-maturing varieties in the northwest of China and for close planting.
2. vine training, one of the most commonly used forms in melon production: When the main vine has 3-4 true leaves, leave 3 leaves and top, when the vine is about 15 cm, select and leave 2 strong lateral vines, the rest are removed from the base. Top the lateral vine when it is 3540 cm long and has 7-8 nodes, leave the grandchild vine to set fruit. Before the female flower of the grandchild vine opens, leave 2 leaves top. The grandchild vines that do not set fruit on the lateral vine are topped with 2-3 leaves. After setting fruit, the upper grandchild vines on lateral vine can be allowed to grow freely.
3. Three vine training, the most common form in the cultivation of thick-skinned melons in North China: There many lateral vines, the leaf area index in the field increases rapidly, there are many fruit-setting nodes, the fruit is set early and neatly, which is conducive early maturity. For early-maturing varieties that can set fruit on both the lateral and grandchild vines, the training method for early-maturing cultivation is: top the vine at 4 leaves, select and leave 3 strong lateral vines, top at 6-8 leaves. Each node of the lateral vine can grow a grandchild vine and most of the grandchild vines can produce female flowers and set fruit at the 1st and 2nd nodes, but the fruit on the 3rd and th grandchild vines on the lateral vine develop better and are earlier.
