Chestnut pumpkin, not chestnut and pumpkin, this is only a new variety of pumpkin. In recent years, the chestnut pumpkin is known as the vegetable market by the people like one of the pumpkin, because of its fruit taste dense and soft, eat up the aftertaste has a kind of God like chestnut taste sweet, so it is the image of people called chestnut pumpkin. Now sold on the market above the main green skin and red skin two varieties. Its fruit is mostly oblate spherical.

Chestnut pumpkin planting time generally have three time periods to choose from, the earliest planting time in mid-February each year, generally planted in the greenhouse, nursery period in about a month; and then is the normal spring planting, the time is about in March-April, the same greenhouse nursery; the latest termination of the time in late June, when nursery in the outdoors, but need to be shaded for the seedling, the age of the seedling in about half a month.

The next step is to treat the pumpkin seeds, which should first be soaked in warm water at 50 degrees for ten minutes, when the water temperature will reach 30 degrees Celsius, followed by 4-9 hours. Then soak with sterilizing spirit disinfection, and finally rinse the seeds with water, and then use a dampened towel to wrap the seeds, and put them in a room temperature of 25-30 ℃ environment for germination treatment. In the period before germination, note that you should often turn, to ensure that the seeds germinate more evenly, in addition, you can gently scrub the seeds in warm water, which can accelerate the seed germination, about 2-3 days after the germination. When the pumpkin seed buds grow to 2-4 millimeters, it can be sown.

General selection in the nutrient cup for seedling, seedling soil selection with fish ponds dug out of the pond mud and rotted farmyard fertilizer in accordance with the ratio of 3 to 1 for full mixing, mixing needs to be placed in half a month in the cup sowing, general selection of the 8 cm * 8 cm nutrient cups, pay attention to the seed buds tip down, in order to ensure that the growth of the pumpkin seedling, each cup planting a seed for the best. The seeds should be planted one seed per cup to ensure the growth of the pumpkin seedlings. After planting, cover with soil about 1 centimeter thick, and finally remember to water well.

The pumpkin seedlings need to pay attention to heat preservation before they grow out, after the emergence of the seedlings should pay attention to timely ventilation, the temperature in the shed should not be too high, or because of the respiration of the seedlings lead to too much water droplets in the shed. If sowing in the fall, you should pay attention to the hot weather and drought and water shortage, and timely replenish water to the pumpkin seedlings.

After the pumpkin seedlings have grown to a certain level you can transplant them into the ground. First of all, you should half a month in advance of the land for turning, turning the ground need to control the depth, usually about 30 centimeters, after the ground is organized and smooth, you can dig a ditch. The width of the ditch is generally 60 centimeters, and the depth is controlled at 25-30 centimeters. Base fertilizer can be used farmyard manure, the amount of base fertilizer per acre of land is about 2500kg. in the spring transplanting, seedling to seedling distance of 0.8 meters, each acre of land can be planted 500 seedlings. If transplanted in the fall, the distance between the seedlings is slightly smaller, about half a meter, the number of seedlings per acre of land control in 800 plants.

Because pumpkin is a kind of climbing plant, so you need to set up a frame for pumpkin in the ground in time after transplanting. The general use of herringbone frame or scissor frame, frame and frame between the horizontal pull a bamboo (wood) poles, in order to support solid. The time of the frame is generally selected in the transplantation of a week later, set up a good frame needs to pull the vines one by one, so that the vines early on the shelf. Generally adopt the two-vine method, that is, when the main vine grows to 3-5 leaves, do the heart treatment, and finally choose to leave two healthy growth of the vine, to ensure that each vine melon 1-2, and remember to erase the axillary buds in front of the first melon.

The whole production process *** for two times of fertilizer, 10-15 days after transplanting after the first fertilizer, and the second time after the first fruit, between the two ditches for fertilizer. Timely watering after each fertilizer selection Ramlat special fertilizer. Pumpkins are very leafy and evaporative, so they require more water for temporary work. A week or so after planting can be released watering, to promote the growth of pumpkin leaves; after the fruit, to water again in a timely manner. When watering the current according to the climate, to control the amount of water, to ensure fruit development. Spring planting pumpkin to prevent water damage, fall planting pumpkin to pay attention to watering drought. In order to ensure the appearance of the pumpkin, to prevent the pumpkin from touching the land to turn yellow, you can add a mat between the pumpkin and the land to ensure the uniformity of the pumpkin color.