Cucumber female flowers and male flowers under the petals of the receptacle part, there is a clear difference. The receptacle of the female flower is a larger column is a very small melon, is the female flower is also the mother flower. The appearance of female flowers also means the growth of small fruits, and can grow and bear fruit. Male flower petals below only stalk, no small melon in, no bulge, it will wither and fall off after the flowering period, it is the male flower, it has a number of wicks in the center, the top look at the fluffy parts is the pollen. On the other hand to distinguish between male and female flowers, you can also look at its stamens, stamens in the middle of some look like a cylinder, thicker some, is the female flower. Petals in the middle of the pistil has a lot of pollen slightly thinner is the male flower.

Cucumber, is a kind of melon, for the cucurbit family climbing or creeping herbaceous plants melon fruit. Cantaloupe contains cucurbitacin B, can significantly increase the reserves of glycogen in the liver, can timely replenish the brain and blood glucose concentration, the human body's energy has a significant complementary effect. Cantaloupe is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrates, malic acid, vitamins, beet aubergine, crude fiber and minerals. Children drink its juice, to prevent chondromalacia has a certain effect. In addition, melon contains the conversion enzyme can be insoluble protein into soluble protein for kidney absorption. Melon pulp raw food, quench thirst and clear dryness, can eliminate bad breath, but the melon tip is poisonous, eating too much raw will be poisoned.

Before sowing, you need to sunlight the seeds for 1-2 days to break the dormancy. And then placed in warm water soaked for 1 hour, so that the seed skin absorbs water to soften, and rub off the surface layer of pumpkin seed mucus. After fishing out and controlling the clean, the water is added to the polymyxin to soak the seeds, and it takes about 4 hours to soak the cantaloupe seeds. Sow the melon in the nutrient bowl, to be melon true leaves white, after sowing above a layer of mulch insulation, moisturizing.