How to plant and manage wax gourd 1, sow and raise seedlings
When planting wax gourd, the seeds should be soaked with thiophanate methyl for 10 minute, then soaked with Domil manganese zinc for 20 minutes, and then the wax gourd seeds should be taken out. After the residual chemicals are washed out, they should be soaked in clear water for 6 hours, and finally put in an environment of 30 degrees to accelerate germination. After the seeds become white, they should be sown in fertile seedling soil.
2. Site selection and planting
To plant wax gourd, you should choose fields that have never been planted with melon crops, or fields that have been rotated for 3-5 years, then turn the fields deeply with hoes and dry them until the soil color turns white, then dig out the compartment surface with a width of one meter to the soil surface, and finally plant the robust wax gourd seedlings in the fields with a spacing of 60 cm.
3. Fertilizer and water management
After the winter melon planting is completed, a row ditch with a width of 50 cm should be dug around the compartment surface, then decomposed animal fertilizer and calcium superphosphate should be applied to the ditch, then the soil should be buried and watered, and after the melon seedlings grow six leaves, ternary compound fertilizer and urea should be applied to the ditch to promote vine growth.
4. Pollination and melon retention
In the later stage of management, in order to improve the fruit-setting rate of wax gourd, it is necessary to pollinate it artificially. In the morning, the newly opened male flower is selected, and then it is smeared on the stigma of the pistil after the pistil is exposed. After the wax gourd is fruit-set, the young melons bred by the second and third female flowers should be kept, and the remaining young melons should be removed to reduce nutrient consumption.