Chestnut Flavor Pumpkin High Yield Cultivation
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Chestnut Flavor Pumpkin High Yield Cultivation
Chestnut-flavored pumpkin is famous for its beautiful appearance, rich and powdery flesh, strong chestnut flavor, and health benefits. It is a high-quality variety of Indian pumpkin, widely welcomed by consumers.
Selecting Improved Varieties
Choose varieties that are of good quality, adaptable, disease-resistant, and high-yielding, such as the red-skinned 'Early Cheese' and the green-skinned 'Beijing Tianli'. Their common characteristics are: early maturity, strong growth, resistance to powdery mildew, good fruit setting in consecutive cropping, uniform and beautiful fruit shape, orange-yellow flesh, sticky and sweet, with a strong chestnut flavor. The standard single fruit weighs about 1.5 kg. Each plant can yield 2-3 pumpkins. The average yield per mu is 2000 kg. It is very durable for storage and transportation.
Suitable Sowing Period
Chestnut南瓜 enjoys cool weather but does not tolerate humidity and heat, making it suitable for early spring transplanting. Sowing early can avoid the high temperatures in the later growth stage of pumpkins, effectively reducing the occurrence of diseases and improving yield and quality. In the outskirts of Beijing, you can sow in a small arch greenhouse in mid-March.
Seed Germination Method
Disinfect the seeds, then soak in a 500-fold solution of carbendazim for 5-6 hours and rinse with water; or soak in hot water at 55-60°C until it cools to 30°C for 6 hours. Under the conditions of 28-30°C for 24-36 hours, when the sprouts are 0.3-0.5 cm long, they can be sown. Place the seeds horizontally, avoiding covering with lids, and cover with a small arch greenhouse at night, using straw curtains. The seedling stage is about 30 days. Sow simultaneously and reduce the temperature a week before sowing.
Land Preparation and Planting
It is best to choose high and dry land with convenient drainage and irrigation for planting, with a row spacing of 1.8-2 meters and a plant spacing of 0.5-0.6 meters, planting 600-800 plants per mu. After digging the planting trench, apply 2000-3000 kg of organic fertilizer, 30-40 kg of ternary compound fertilizer, and 40 kg of phosphate fertilizer. In mid-April, choose a sunny day for planting,浇灌 enough planting water, and cover with a small arch greenhouse.
Field Management
After the seedlings slow down, water to accelerate growth. Prune the double vines, removing more lateral branches to avoid too many lateral branches affecting fruit setting. When the vines are 0.4-0.5 meters long, press the vines, then press again every 3-4 nodes, totaling 2-3 times. Remove abnormal pumpkins, old leaves, and diseased leaves in a timely manner. Red-skinned pumpkins can retain the fruit of the second female flower (green-skinned pumpkins can retain the fruit from the 14th to the 15th node). Perform manual pollination in the morning to increase fruit setting rate. One fruit per grapevine, two fruits per plant.
When the fruit is the size of a fist, leave 2-3 leaves and then top. Apply 30 kg of compound fertilizer and 10 kg of potassium sulfate per mu. During the expansion period of the melon, the soil should be kept dry and moist. Track the melons in a timely manner to ensure normal growth and beautiful appearance. In the middle and later stages, to prevent sunburn, you can cover the melons with straw or melon leaves. Timely turn the melons to ensure fruit quality. Stop watering 10 days before harvest.
Harvest on time. Generally, harvest 40-50 days after pollination.
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