Watermelon and beating melon are both the same watermelon.

But beating melon belongs to seed watermelon.

Watermelon Cultivation Techniques

Selection

It is advisable to choose a sandy loam soil with a deep layer of soil, loose and fertile soil, and easy drainage and irrigation, and to cultivate a field that has not planted a melon crop in less than five years on dry land and three years on paddy land.

Fertilizing

Pre-winter melon field deep ploughing and freezing, transplanting before the timely land rectification. The melon field should be three ditches supporting, so that the rain stops the field dry, soil loose moisture surface flat. Base fertilizer to high-quality organic fertilizer and cake fertilizer, inorganic fertilizer, supplemented, generally accounted for 60% of the total amount of fertilizer to 70%, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium should be a reasonable mix of micro-fertilizer according to the lack of pigmentation, respectively, bottom or spraying. The amount of fertilizer due to soil fertility and cultivars, generally medium fertility fields, combined with the land application of organic fertilizer 3000 to 4000 kg per mu, 45% nitro-sulfur-based or potassium sulfate-type controlled-release fertilizer 60 to 80 kg, do not apply chlorine-containing fertilizers. Small fruit type and grafting cultivation can apply 20% less fertilizer. Plant in raised beds, 4 to 4.5 meters wide and 2.0 to 2.5 meters narrow. Wide beds can be planted on both sides of the beds, the melon vines to climb, can also be planted in the middle of the melon vines on both sides of the climb, narrow beds in one side of the planting of the melon vines on one side of the climb.

Planting

Early-maturing varieties are about 1 month old, and can be planted with 2 to 3 true leaves. Medium-maturing varieties can be planted at 20 to 25 days of age, and late-maturing varieties can be planted at 7 to 10 days of age. Wide bed planting 2 rows, narrow bed planting 1 row. Small fruit type watermelon trellis type cultivation, planting 1500 to 1800 plants per acre; climbing type cultivation, using three or four vines branching, planting 600 to 750 plants per acre. Medium and large varieties are generally planted 650 to 700 plants per mu, grafted seedless varieties are planted 300 to 400 plants per mu. According to the row spacing digging planting holes, the nutrient bowl according to the cotyledons and the direction of the bed to the same direction into the planting holes, the depth of the bed level with the soil to fill the seedling holes with fine soil, with the fertilizer and potion watering fixed root water. The film width is not narrower than 80 centimeters, and the film should be thin and flat, the film should be close to the moisture surface, and the film should be sealed all around, and the broken film should be sealed with fine soil.

Rectification of vines

Three vines are generally used for rectification. In the main vine 8 to 9 leaves, selected to stay in the main vine and two strong side vine, the rest of the children and grandchildren vine all removed. The whole thing should not be carried out in rainy days to prevent the spread of disease. When the vine grows to about 50 centimeters, combined with the whole branch with soil pressure vine, and then the interval of 3 to 4 sections and then pressure 1 time, each vine *** pressure 2 to 3 times, will be evenly spread melon vine.

Reverse pressure. The growth is too strong, the use of counter-pressure. Dig a 7 to 10 centimeters deep pit, the melon vine toward the melon root direction into the pit, so that the back of the vine arch, and then filled with soil compaction, can control the vigorous growth, improve the rate of seating melon.

Holding the vine. When the second to third female flowers appeared, in order to make the melon sit, grow big, can be used to hold the vine. At a finger height from the ground, with two 7 cm or so of wooden strips hostage vine, so that the vine becomes flat, to ensure that the vascular bundles continue.

Lift the stem. Want the young melon to sit firmly, in the back of the young melon on the vine to force a lift, hear the "click" sound, "the back end of the click, the front end of the melon."

Pan head pinch. Into the expansion period, the melon before the vine should be properly inhibited, not to make it grow vigorously, otherwise it will lose nutrients, affecting the melon expansion. The pan head pinch is to pull back the melon before the vine, circle on one side, and pinch the tip of the vine with your hand.

Melon sitting

Select the 2nd and 3rd female flowers on the main vine or the 1st and 2nd female flowers on the lateral vines to sit on the melon. In order to ensure that the melon sitting in the appropriate nodes, in case of low temperature or rainy weather, artificial pollination should be used, in order to protect the flowers and fruits. After the melon is seated, the whole fine shoot the ground below the young melon and make a slope, and then the young melon will be placed along the slope, and make the young melon and vine swing in a straight line. After the fruit is fully grown, the melon should be turned in time. Turn the melon in one direction, about 1/3 of a turn each time.

Fertilizer

When the young melon grows to the size of an egg, depending on the growth of the plant to apply melon expansion fertilizer, generally 15 to 20 kg per mu of 45% nitro-sulfur-based or potassium sulfate-type controlled-release fertilizer.　

Moisture

The seedling period should be watered as little as possible, or even no watering, to promote the formation of a well-developed seedling root system; blossoming and fruiting before the control of water, to prevent the growth of madness; after the fruiting, you should ensure an adequate supply of water in order to facilitate the expansion of the fruit and increase the weight. Harvest before 7 to 10 days should not be watered, so that the fruit accumulation of sugar. Water shortage should be in the lower temperature of the morning and evening night irrigation. Adopt furrow irrigation seepage moisture, that is, irrigation in the border furrow, to be water penetration melon ridge, immediately drain the remaining water in the furrow. Irrigation and rain immediately after draining the field of water, otherwise easy to cause rotting roots rot vine.