Seed quality: purity 95% germination rate of 90% purity 99% Moisture ≤ 8% Nutrient list snake bean curd is rich in nutrients, per 100 grams containing 1.1 grams of protein, 0.1 grams of fat, 2.9 grams of sugar, 0.8 grams of crude fiber and a variety of minerals. Snake bean curd has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, is the best green food.
Snake bean curd plants grow to 50 centimeters, the beginning of the frame, frame height of more than 2 meters. In order to increase production and income, the use of improved single-stem or double-stem pruning. Open ground watering began in early May, watering in early June after the use of wheat straw or wheat bran, fermented firewood to cover the vegetable beds, and watering every 5-10 days, every 10-15 days foliar spray fertilizer, high temperature period, as appropriate, with a sprayer from the top down spray a water.
The full life span of snake gourd is about 180-200 days. Sprawling herb, vigorous growth. Leaves are dark green, densely tomentose on both sides, palmate, with radial veins. Female flowers are solitary, male flowers are racemose or compound racemose, petals whiskerlike and laciniate, forked and curved. The fruit is long and strip-shaped, pointed and thin at both ends, often curved at the tail end, with a transverse diameter of 4-5 cm and a length of 2.5 m. The young fruit is velvety, with flesh 3-4 mm thick, fleshy and soft, with a fishy odor, and turning orange-red at maturity, and the seeds are earthy-brown, with a rough surface, with 2 parallel grooves, and a thousand-seed weight of 200-250 g. Trailing climbing, strong branching, generally the main vine length of about 3 meters; in the 11th leaf position before and after the flowering and fruiting, flowers white; fruit such as snake-shaped, single melon fruit 450-600 grams, the average single plant knot melon 24, young melon flesh was light green, skin was light green, mature melon skin from green to red, picking period for the end of June a September; the average mu output of 1560 kilograms.