Vietnamese melon: description and photos. How to grow Vietnamese melon?

Vietnamese Small-fruited melon breeding bocheva culture of the gourd family. Its homeland is the Middle Asia and Asia Minor. The closest relative — cucumber. This heat-loving plant does not tolerate much humidity, but well perceives an abundance of light. The melon (the so-called fruit of the melon) has a small rounded shape of various colors, usually with small bands.

North

In modern conditions of climate warming, some southern culture have the opportunity to move into the Central and even the Northern regions. This usually contributes to the introduction of new varieties more hardy, having the ability to grow in a harsher environment. In this regard, on private land in Central Russia is becoming more and more popular melon of smaller fruits, one of which is Vietnamese melon.

The reasons for the popularity

The thing is that even in favorable years in the middle lane rarely grow more than two or three fruits of early maturing varieties such as Pineapple or Golden. This melon is not very well tolerated by fairly sharp fluctuations in temperature that occur in this area. Their growth slows down, and wait for the plant generates a fruit weighing up to two kilograms, is just not possible — the weather is not permitting. Such varieties need to be grown in plastic greenhouses, small greenhouses (slightly above half), which is associated with additional difficulties and material costs. And here to the aid of the gardener-lover come melons with small fruits (one hundred-four hundred grams) that have been proved in such conditions. The last time had a good performance grade Vietnamese melon.

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Specifications

The Motivation for growing such varieties as follows: let it is better for giving the weather time to ripen a few small fruits of the same plants than one large traditional varieties (and who knows — you will have time to ripen at all). Besides, smaller fruit varieties such as Vietnamese melon, themselves indicate that it is characterized by earliness and yield. After the formation of the small fruit takes less time!

Properties of the small-fruited varieties

In Europe, adopted the following classification of the main varieties of melons:

• Melon mesh,
• Cantaloupe melon,
• Melon Sharonova,
• Melon honey.

The Others, due to a mediocre taste, no particular value.

Vietnamese melon. Description

This plant can be attributed to Sharonova subspecies. The variety is precocious and far more powerful than, for example, the Dream of a sybarite. The fruits are round or oval. Color-orange with yellow stripes. Looks very elegant, like the sun burning directly into the garden, emitting their own fluorescent light. Lots of small melons — 100-200 grams. But the number of fruits are able to ripen for the season, sometimes up to thirty. The flesh is bright and light orange color. It's tender and juicy, buttery and sweet, with a very strong distinct flavor, quite pleasant. A melon growing in southern latitudes. The climate of the middle band — rather an exceptional phenomenon (it is known that watermelons and cantaloupes taste characteristics largely depend on how they matured in the beds). It is noticed that variety, designed for long-term storage, and the smell is not as strong and the taste is much less juicy and tender.

Vietnamese melon. Growing

The Plant reveals itself in the middle band of how complex resistant varieties. When growing, for example, in greenhouse conditions, it forms a single stem to the trellis (with the twisting of the stem on the twine as it is in the growth technology of growing cucumbers). The formation of fruit takes place in the axils of the first and second leaves on the side shoots. The shoots are primasutra immediately after the occurrence of the ovary. There is no need to be tied fruits in the grids, as usually practiced in the cultivation of large-fruited melons. Seedlings are planted in a row in 50-70 centimeters (closer is not recommended to avoid excessive density of shoots).

If the Vietnamese melon grown in the open ground, it makes sense to plant pieplate on a second sheet to put the melon on two leashes with subsequent rooting. You need to use a fertile soil, so will the higher crop returns and the growth rate. The most appropriate — sandy loam and loam with the manure into the soil. Humus buffers up to six kilograms per square meter. The seedlings are supposed to plant when the danger of frost has passed (usually 20-25 days), root neck not covered with soil. Melon not tolerate Vietnamese transplanted from place to place, so we need to do it together with a lump of earth. Pour melon Vietnamese only warm water. This should be done in the first half of the day in order to evening, the soil has time to warm up. Required for germination temperatures — more than twenty degrees Celsius. If the plant is grown in a greenhouse, you will need itopen in order to let the bees have access to flowers or pollinate plants manually.

For this variety is more typical fruiting until frost. It takes quite a long period, as in the collection, for example, cucumbers. Mature with pronounced signs of maturity (become characteristic color of fire-orange color and strong flavor). The peduncle is easily separated. Pests and diseases of Vietnamese melon is affected rarely.

When growing ripening occurs in about some time with the cucumber in the greenhouse — from mid-June, outdoors — from mid-July. Thus, selection grade Vietnamese melon (seeds can be purchased in specialized stores) is gaining more attention among farmers in Central Russia.

Incidents

And finally: Vietnamese melon-Breasts, photo which went around the Internet is not a plant, and a work of art. And Vietnamese creative artist, of course, became famous thanks to their imagination.