Melon is a plant that produces fruit with a greenish white color to red. Melon fruit flesh has a delicate texture and soft, usually enjoyed for dessert, fruit table, or made of mixed fruit ice.
The vine which propagates by long-form leaves in plants that have a high economic value. If you have a hobby farm, then we recommend that you try the cultivation of melons on its own can be done on the home page by using the pot or poly bag.
HOW TO PLANT MELON IN POLY BAG
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The existence of melon on the home page will bring the green space that is great for the environment. In addition, melons are eaten from own cultivation also raises personal satisfaction rather than buy it. For those of you who want to try melon cultivation in pots, these we describe how to plant melon in polybag practically.
1. Terms of GROWING
Melon fruit at the same time plants can grow well at at an altitude of 250-800 meters above sea level with a rainy climate between 1,500-2,500 mm/year and air humidity between 50-70%. The type of soil that is compatible for melon is sandy clay (andosol) containing organic materials with high levels.
2. TOOLS and MATERIALS
How to plant a melon in the pot is not much different with the concept of planting other crops, such as strawberry cultivation, in hectares or not. The first course by preparing tools and materials needed to support the activities of Your melon farm.
Prepare some fruit polybag with each size 40 × 50 cm (medium-size, or 37 × 40 cm). Farmyard House for growing melons also needs to be prepared and cleaned in the past if there are weeds, optional. Prepare the marker from the bamboo also will be plugged on the planting medium with a length of 1.5-2 m Nail size 2 inches, rope, Scissor and Clipper blades.
3. PREPARATION of the SEEDS
Buy melon seeds in the plant, and then soak it in water that's been given a fungicide for one night (about 12 hours). Afterwards, drain the seeds in a newspaper. Afterwards, save the seeds in the dark for 12-14 days to germinate or leaved for 4 was moved to media for on the polybag.
For the media, You can make it by mixing soil and manure with a comparison of their respective 2:1 and then inserted directly into the polybag or pots for. Planting the seed that germinated into a medium for the seeds are tapered, point facing down. Flush with water 2 days, so that the soil does not dry. Avoid from exposure to direct sunlight.
4. PREPARATION of the PLANTING MEDIA
Melon planting different media with media for, as well as place. Prepare first a new Poly Bag, then make the planting medium consisting of soil, manure, husk charcoal with each comparison 1:2:3. Enter the planting medium that is already mixed into a polybag, then add 5 grams of Furadan, 20 grams of NPK, 1 liter of humic acid, mix well.
The purpose of the use of additional materials is to prevent the sprouts that grow do not experience disruption of plant disease. Manure that is used can also be replaced with Trichoderma and Growing Regulatory Substances (ZPT) third with an additional organic material.
5. PLANTING
The planter is done when the seeds are sown about 2-3 weeks old when the shoots have reached a size of about 10 cm, and then move to the growth medium i.e. poly bag that has been prepared. Before it was moved to the planting in the first planting media, flush with water. Better planting was carried out as the sun began to calm down, get in the morning or afternoon.
6. INSTALLATION of MARKER
Marker from the bamboo plant melons when mounted on already propagate and spread or at the age of 5-8 days after early planting, while set the direction of the growth.
7. PRUNING and FRUIT SELECTION
Trimming branches aim to pick the fruit would be raised. Trimming is said to be important because it can do affect growth and productivity of the plant. Pruning should be done every day because of the very rapid growth of melon with the goal of keeping the growth of the branch has not been too great.
The fruit can be chosen candidate for 7-12 branches and selected one that wanted to be raised, while the other branch pruning to be done. Or branches that emerge from the first up to the leaf Axil-8 cut, then leaves the 9th till the 13th leaf branch growing left and kept for fertilization. After the leaves no longer need to exist until the preserved leaf branch of the stem is cut.
9. FERTILIZATION
How to plant melon in poly bag after doing the pruning of branches is doing the fertilizing. Fertilizing using basic fertilizer from fertilizer Pearls 15 grams per polybag, given at the time of filling the planting medium on the polybag.
Do successive fertilization with NPK 16:16:16 KNO3 and thrown on the way round the plants or mixed with water and flushing without crops. Successive fertilization was done on the 14th (NPK), 24 (NPK), 34 (NPK), 44 (NPK), and 54 (KNO3) days after planting with a dose of 10 grams each/polybag, for its 1 g KNO3/liter, 1 liter/pot.
10. The CONTROL of PESTS and DISEASES
Pest control can be done with the help of insecticides or dispose of the pests are manually from the living plant parts. To prevent the attack of the disease could be used as fungicide systemic and contact given in alternating. Its use can be coupled with an adhesive to adhesive strength leaves as if it was entering the rainy season.
11. HARVESTING
Harvest is usually done after melon started to bear fruit, generally at the age of 20 days after planting, fruit can already selected and maintained until the 60th day after the time of planting to harvest. The fruit is ready for harvest has a distinctive color that starts white, yellowish, yellowish white fruit peels, fruit stalk on a ring or circle there are cracked, and the fragrant aroma wafted from the melon.
That's how plant melons in poly bag on the home page. There are several advantages of doing the cultivation of melons in the pot among others, could be trimmer, garden or room, it can be moved more easily because it was on a media, easy maintenance, delivery of fertilizers and water is more practical, control pests and disease are also more easily, as well as harvesting the fruits easier with the fruit fresh.
