The skin of Beibei’s little pumpkin is edible.

The skin of Beibei pumpkin is relatively tender and tastes good. Beibei pumpkin, like other pumpkins, can be used to make soups, pastries or meatballs. When cooking, wash the pumpkin directly, cut off a quarter of the pumpkin, scoop out the seeds inside with a spoon, steam it in a pot for 15 minutes, and then put other ingredients in the pumpkin. You can also steam the pumpkin directly and eat it.

Beibei pumpkin is a trailing herbaceous plant of the Cucurbitaceae family. Beibei pumpkin was bred in Japan in 1998 and later introduced to China. Beibei pumpkin is early-maturing, cold-resistant, has a high fruit setting rate, strong resistance, simple cultivation and management, is not prone to premature senescence in the later stages, and has a long harvest period; high yield, and a single plant can Harvest 10 or more.

Beibei pumpkin propagation technology

1. Seed treatment: Soak the seeds in 60℃ hot water and stir continuously for 10 minutes to make them evenly heated. Soak the seeds when the water temperature drops to 30℃. 6-8 hours, after scrubbing the mucus on the seed surface, soak it in 1 potassium permanganate solution for 15 minutes or 10 trisodium phosphate for 20 minutes. After draining, rinse with clean water to dry the surface moisture, and wrap it with a clean wet cloth.

2. Germination: Place the soaked seeds at 25-30℃ for germination. After 36-48 hours, when the 75 seeds break their mouths and reveal their roots, and the seeds are white, the buds are 0.3- Sowing can be done in 0.8 minutes.

3. Timely sowing: Early spring stubble cultivation in solar greenhouses in Shandong, China and surrounding areas is sown in early December. From sowing to before emergence, keep the seedbed temperature at 25-30°C during the day and 15-20°C at night; after emergence, keep the seedbed temperature at 20-25°C during the day and around 15°C at night; the plants can be planted when they have 3 leaves.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Beibei Pumpkin