Budidaya melon

Melon (Cucumis melo) is included in the cucumber tribe. Still a relative with watermelon, cantaloupe and cucumber suri. Like other cucumber tribes, melons grow up but can not climb. If not sustained, this plant will grow spread over the soil surface.
The ideal place for melon cultivation is in the range of 250-700 meters above sea level. If the height is less than 250 meters, melon plants tend to produce small fruits. While in the highlands with temperatures below 18oC, this plant is difficult to develop.
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Reticalatus. This type of melon is the most popular cultivar. The shape is rounded with the skin of the fruit is green and the texture is mesh, like coated nets. The fruit flesh is light green to orange.
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Melon plants for cultivation are usually generatively generated from seeds or seeds. For the cultivation of a single hectare of melon plants required seeds around 16,000- 20,000 trees or the equivalent of 500-700 grams of melon seeds.
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Before planting the seed should be added first. Way by soaking the seeds in warm water for 6-8 hours. If the seeds do not contain fungicides, fungicides may be added to the dosage bath.
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Then prepare a small poly bag or a nursery tray. Fill with planting media in the form of soil mix with compost or manure with 2: 1 ratio, see how to make the nursery media. Immerse the seeds of melon 1-2 cm deep into the planting medium.
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Next cover the bed with a plastic black silver mulch. The black color faces the ground and the silver color to the outside. Make a planting hole on the mulch. In each bed there are two rows of planting holes with a distance between rows of 60 cm and the distance between holes in a row 50-60 cm. Minimum mulch closure should be done 2 days before planting.
Next step planting seedlings that have been prepared. One seed for each planting hole. Then flush to keep it from withering due to drought. Planting should be done in the afternoon when the sun is not too hot.
Installation of the ajir should be done before the plant grows large. Usually before the age of 3 days plant starting from first planted. This is so that the sticks that are plugged do not hurt the roots of the plant.