akatemari ( Small watermelon ) Air pump hydroponics

Small watermelon

Home garden recommendation (★★★★)

Subject (Place of origin: West Asia, Mediterranean coast)
Suitable temperature for germination 25-30 ℃
Sunlight conditions Need a sunny place
Suitable temperature for growth around 25 ° C
Continuous crop failure Yes (3-4 years for soil cultivation)
Watering Twice morning and night (hydroponics)

Growth considerations

Growing as a single fruit per vine (bred with 3-4 vines)
If flowers bloom, let them pollinate early in the morning
Appropriately cut the leaves to improve ventilation (take out old leaves and sandals actively) (in the case of aerial cultivation)
When the vine on the fruit dies, it is time to harvest.
If you want to harvest, early morning is good (because sugar is the highest)
Don't forget to water in the morning and night
Watch out for aphids and observe the back of the leaves as much as possible to get rid of them early.

What you want to try in the future.

Try two berries with a vine (may be possible with hydroponics?)
I want to harvest 6 fruits in a single share.

（※Japanese is translated into English by translation software. I am sorry if it is strange English.）

Small watermelon hydroponics (red Temari grafting)

* (Because the appropriate temperature for germination is 25 ° C to 30 ° C, it must be germinated indoors or warmly. Yes.)

The summer of 2017 continues with hot days (;´･ω･)
Speaking of fruits that you want to eat after such a day,
After all it is watermelon. (^ ◇ ^)
But can watermelon be made in the kitchen garden? Moreover, at the veranda farm (; ･`д･´)
I tried to challenge the watermelon home garden

I examined a little about watermelon cultivation.
First of all, there are continuous cropping obstacles,
and the vine stretches sideways and requires some space ...
Hmm ... reading a book thinking it would be impossible on the veranda,
Aerial cultivation! There was a book written saying that it could be done by cultivation.
In other words, it is a way to stretch the vine vertically rather than horizontally. (^ ◇ ^)
Is this going to work out? I decided to give it a try.

Small watermelon seed watering Small watermelon

April 24, 2017.

This time, the first full-scale watermelon cultivation,
I bought a grafted seedling that is said to be disease-resistant.
The varieties are red and it looks like a watermelon. ( *´艸｀)

By saying that there are continuous cropping obstacles and aerial cultivation that stretches vertically,
I decided to grow it with an improved hydroponics device.

The seedlings you bought are improved hydroponic plant (> > For more information on how to make it here ).

May 6

The leaves have withered a little ...
Is it okay (´・ω・`)

May 15

Oh! Something is back (^ ◇ ^)
There are more than 5 true leaves, and let's pinch!
Leave 3 child vines (I decided to attach one fruit to one vine this time) and cut off the parent vine.

* (When 5 or 6 true leaves are found, the parent vines are squeezed into 3 child vines. )

I tried to pinch.
Something refreshed ... ('ω')

It looks like this from the top.
I'm sure ... I'll be back again.

May 22

Apparently it seems to be growing smoothly.
Up to this point, only fertilizer water has been replenished and no particular care has been taken.

akatemari ( Small watermelon ) Air pump hydroponics

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