How to save melon seeds

Melon seeds

1. After collecting the melon seeds, place them on a clean wooden board or table for hand selection. By selecting and removing the deformed, moldy, damaged and worm-like seeds mixed in the seeds, the seeds are full and uniform and the seeds are retained.

2. Dry the seeds. Spread the selected seeds evenly on clean paper or straw mats. Choose a sunny, windless and sunny day to dry them. When drying, turn them over every 2 hours to ensure that the seeds are evenly exposed to positive sunlight.

3. Through drying, seed maturation is promoted, seed activity is enhanced, and seed germination potential and germination rate are improved. At the same time, ultraviolet rays and high temperature of the sun can kill some pathogens carried on the seeds and reduce the occurrence of diseases through seed transmission. Seeds can be dried to increase their water absorption rate and promote seed germination.

Keep the melon seeds yourself

For melon seeds, you should choose early-maturing, high-yielding, strong mother plants, and carry out artificial assisted pollination, or release bees in the field for pollination. Only keep 2 to 3 first-crop melons in the middle of the stem on each plant, remove the remaining female flowers, and harvest them in time after they are ripe. Then put the selected fruit seeds and the placenta tissue into a container, ferment for 2 to 3 days, then wash, dry and store.

How to get melon seeds

Melon seeds need to be bred before sowing. Select seeds with full grains and not shriveled. After breeding is completed, they can be sown. Use a wooden stick to insert a 1 cm deep hole in the soil, put two seeds in each hole, fill it with soil, and maintain it in an environment with a temperature of 22-25℃, not exceeding 32℃, and try to keep the soil moist.

Melon collecting seeds

This should be selected according to the seed characteristics of the melon variety, remove particles and incomplete damage, select plump, insect-free, mold-free, and mechanically damaged ones, and then conduct germination tests with a germination rate of more than 90%.

Melon seed storage

After the melon seeds are collected, they need to be dried to sterilize them, and then stored in a dry, airtight space.

Melon seed planting

The sowing time of melon is related to the cultivation method. If it is cultivated in the field, it is usually sown in March or April. If it is cultivated in a greenhouse, it is sown around February.

Select seeds with full grains and uniform specifications, expose them to the sun on a sunny day, and turn them over from time to time to ensure that every seed can get sunlight. Put the dried seeds in hot water at about 55-60℃, turn them over and disinfect them for about half an hour, then drain the water.

Then soak the seeds in a container filled with warm water at about 20 to 30 degrees, and then place them in a place at about 25-35℃ for germination. When the seeds grow to about 1-2 mm, they can be sown.