If you want your watermelon to grow well, you need these fertilizers! Take a look at what the melon farmers are sharing

Watermelon is one of the important cash crops in summer. With the improvement of people’s living standard, consumers’ demand for watermelon is getting bigger and bigger, and their requirements for watermelon quality are also getting higher and higher. This has led to a huge increase in watermelon growers and acreage. So which fertilizer is better for growing watermelons?

Watermelon choose organic fertilizer as the base fertilizer, fertilizer effect lasting, so organic fertilizer is essential. In general, organic manure from farmers’ decomposed manure is a good choice, but it must rot or easily burn the seedlings. It is also a good choice if cake fertilizer is available, such as soybean meal and peanut cake. Of course, it would be better if you could break it down. Organic fertilizer has long effect and is a good base fertilizer for watermelon.

Manure water is a kind of farmyard manure, but compared with farmyard manure, it has the characteristics of faster fertilizer efficiency. The method of using fecal water as a base fertilizer is relatively simple. First, the soil is ploughed deeply, then watered with fecal water, and then exposed to the hot sun for about a week. The purpose of insolation is to eliminate bacteria in fecal water and soil.

As a high sugar synthetic crop, watermelon has a great demand for potassium fertilizer, which is beneficial to the metabolism and formation of carbohydrate accumulation. It greatly improves the quality and sugar content of watermelon. After entering the fruit-setting stage, watermelon mainly depends on reproductive growth. Therefore, a large amount of potash fertilizer should be supplemented.

Potassium dihydrogen phosphate can even be used as a foliar fertilizer. Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers can be applied appropriately. Especially the use of potassium chloride in watermelon, can be used in the early watermelon, but should not be used more, potassium chloride should not be used in the later watermelon. Too much will affect the accumulation of sugar and the quality of the watermelon.

Borax fertilizer can help watermelon bloom and set fruit. Proper application of borax fertilizer can effectively prevent watermelon hollowing and watermelon rind too thick. This is very helpful to improve the yield and quality of watermelons. Special attention should be paid to boron-deficient plots. As a trace element, although the demand is small, but also indispensable.

Foliar fertilizer should be applied during watermelon fruit expansion, especially potassium dihydrogen phosphate. Spray every other week until ripe. Even when spraying, add a small amount of sucrose or glucose to the solution, which will effectively increase the sweetness of the watermelon. In addition, spraying borax at a concentration of 0.1-0.2% can also increase sweetness.

In addition, watermelon needs different nutrients in different growing seasons and must be at its best. The key is to apply enough base fertilizer, mainly a mixture of phosphate and farmyard manure. Light application of nitrogen fertilizer at seedling stage can promote seedling growth. In the extension phase, nitrogen must be controlled, and phosphorus and potassium must be chased. You can get fast-acting nitrogen fertilizer by sitting on melons, using mainly potassium, which has increased sugar content. Let’s look at the specific method of fertilization.

Base fertilizer: can choose good decomposition of farm fertilizer, bean cake fertilizer or organic fertilizer, and a certain amount of potassium sulfate compound fertilizer and some microbial agents. We must apply fertilizer properly, and the best way to apply fertilizer is to combine the fertility of the soil. Do not blindly fertilize, so that the watermelon can not absorb so much, causing unnecessary waste.

According to the growth of watermelon, should also use strong seedling fertilizer. If the watermelon grows normally, it can be used according to the minimum amount of fertilizer applied. If growth is weak, use in large quantities as prescribed. Because fertilizer instructions are marked by the number of experiments, it is most appropriate to use them according to the instructions. It is best to choose some liquid fertilizer containing certain rooting effect and trace elements to wash and apply strong seedling fertilizer, so that fertilization on watermelon seedlings root development will have a good effect.

Watermelon expansion fertilization is the fertilization of watermelon expansion stage, is also the most important step in watermelon growth process. Fertilization is also very strict, must choose a good high potassium type of flushing fertilization. Note that high potassium fertilizer should be selected with high crop utilization. Don’t be stingy. Buy some high potassium fertilizer, not conducive to crop absorption, will also affect the expansion of watermelon, so that the yield and quality is not ideal. Therefore, the selection of high potassium fertilizer is very beneficial to the promotion of watermelon.

In short, watermelon fertilizer is not only large, but also reasonable use. We must decide the most appropriate amount of fertilizer for the needs of the soil. We should choose a fertilizer suitable for each stage of watermelon growth. Scientific fertilization can make watermelons grow big and good, with high sweetness, high yield and good quality.