Can you grow American hand twisted gourds on the balcony?

Updated on Balcony 2024-07-15
2 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    Cultivation Method:

    1. Seeding: Choose a small gourd that is mature and beautiful in appearance, take its seeds and soak them in cold water for a day and night, insert the small head of the seeds into the loose soil prepared in advance, water them thoroughly, and put them in a place where there is no sunlight.

    2. Seedling cultivation: a few days after planting, the shell of the seed begins to rise upwards and can be placed on the flower stand on the balcony to keep the potting soil moist, and cultivate with less fertilizer and moisture. Release two large leaves can be planted in a pot with a diameter greater than 20 cm, during this period, in addition to controlling the potting soil without lack of water, it is necessary to pay attention to insects or birds to damage the main bud of the small gourd.

    3. Climbing vines: When the seedlings grow to 20 cm high, fix a pole outside the window of the balcony, and wrap the rope head around the pole to fix it on the small gourd pot, so that the vine of the small gourd can climb along according to your intentions, and guide the main vine head every day in the process of climbing, which is more in line with your design requirements, depending on the opening and closing of your balcony. Do not hurt the main bud, the pole should be fixed firmly, pay attention to safety.

    4. Pinch the head and urge the fruit: the main stem does not grow a small gourd, the fork is on the fruit, do not let the lower 2-3 sections fork at the beginning, pinch off if there is a fork, and let it bear fruit. The main bud grows to 2-3 meters, and the main bud is pinched off, so that there are many fruits, good fruits, and good appreciation position.

    5. Pollination results: small gourd is a night flowering plant, blooming before the sun comes out in the early morning, it is a good opportunity for pollination, brush the male flower core with a small brush, and then brush it on the female flower core, or directly insert the male flower core into the female flower core. If you have bees, you don't need to do this.

    6. Pruning and plastic surgery: In order to keep the leaves of the small gourd vine evergreen and beautiful, often cut off the dead branches and leaves.

    Precautions: There are not many special requirements for small gourd potted plants, as long as the potting soil is not too wet, it can be watered twice in the morning and evening on a hot day, and it is not watered under the scorching sun. Potting soil should not be too dry, too dry is easy to die in the scorching sun.

    Don't be too fat, if you are too fat, it will not bear fruit, generally pour some tea water, wash the water of the milk bottle.

  2. Anonymous users2024-01-23

    The fruit is small and beautiful, 3-6 cm.

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