PLANTING GUIDE OF F1 SNAKE LUFFA SEEDS – GLORY 02

                                 (GOLDEN COIN SEEDS)

I/ Features:

- Strong plant, branchy.

- Early and good fruit setting, prolific.

- Harvesting: 57 - 60 days after sowing.

- Fruit size: 33-36 cm length, 3-3.3 cm diameter.

- Fruit characteristics: Oblong fruit, medium length, pointed at fruit bottom, green skin with small white stripes.

- Yield: 2.5 – 3.5 kg/plant.

II/ Sowing density:

III/ Sowing and transplanting:

* Scrape a angle of seed coat with a scissors or knife.

* Sowing:

- Seeds after being scraped, sowing directly into pots. Sowing seeds in a medium of mixing 2 parts of decomposed animal manure + 1 part of soil, cover the seeds and keep enough moisture.

- After 5-7 days of sowing, seeds will be transplanting into the field.

IV. Planting and maintenance:

1. Fertilizers (For 1.000m²):

Fertilizer application for cultivation depends on geographic conditions, however, we recommend applying the following guides are applied very effectively to many growing areas for you refer and apply:

* Quantity:

* Application:

* Notes:

• Should be applied lime at tillage to increase fertilizer efficiency.

• Should be applied fertilizer far enough from the plant foot, deep enough (6 – 7 cm) to increase fertilizer efficiency.

• Should be weeding combined with fertilizing times to increase fertilizer efficiency.

• Should be fertilizing timely and properly follow recommended.

• In the dry season, to add some micronutrients fertilizer: MgSO₄ (2 kg), MnSO₄ (4 kg), Borax (1,5 kg)/1000m²  basal in soil or used Magnisal, Botrac… spray to the leaves.

2. Cut the tops: To abundant harvest, should be cut these tops when there are 5 – 7 leaves on the seedling.

3. Vine Training: when the plants have branches, should guide them upwards to the trellis like herringbone shape to save space and to facilitate the plants protection, as well as set more fruit.

V. Plant protection:

* Damping off:

+ The disease thrives in the soil with moist, hot, tight and squash, poor drainage, overflow, especially on untreated soil from the previous crop..

+ Soil should being treatment before planting, cultivating and draining water if field is stagnant.

+ Remove all of diseased plant, using lime to prevent disease spread.

+ Use chemicals contain active substance such as Metalaxyl, Mancozeb, or Copper to treatment when the disease appearing.

* Bacterial wilt:

+ The disease is caused by parasitic bacteria on the stem and roots under the ground.

+ The disease thrives in the soil poor drainage, overflow...

+ When you detecting the disease in the field, remove and destroy the infected plant, using lime to prevent disease spread.

+ Soil treatment by chemicals contain active substance Coppers: Copper oxychloride 85%, Copper hydroxide, Bordeaux 60%+ Zinc 25%…

+ Spray conduct active substance to stump such as Oxolinic acid , Kasugamycin 75%...

* Downy mildew:

+ Damaging all the crop, if not timely treatment the disease spreads rapidly and kills the plants.

+ Preventing and treating: after planting 25 – 30 days, should spraying prevent every 5 – 6 days, rotating with the following chemicals: Cymoxanil 8% + Mancozeb 64%, Metiram Complex (min 85%), Ethaboxam (min 99,6%), Citrus Oil, Chlorothalonil (min 98%),....

* Anthracnose:

- Preventing and treating by rotating spray with the following chemicals: Propinep (min 80%),Chlorothalonil (min 98%), Mancozeb 64%,…

* Borer group:

- Is harmful in vegetative period.

- Preventing and treating by rotating spray in late afternoon with the following chemicals: Chlorantraniliprole (min 93%), Indoxarb, Emamectin Benzoate (Avermectin B1a 90% + Avermectin B1b 10% ), Chlorfenapyr (min 94%), Flubendiamide (min 95%), …

* Leafminer:

- Very harmful in the dry season, when the weather is dry.

- Preventing and treating by rotating spray with the following chemicals: Cyromazine (min 95%), Imidacloprid, Alphacypermethrin,….

* Suck group:

- Thrips, hoppers, aphids... suck resin and transmitting Viral disease.

- Preventing and treating by rotating spray with the following chemicals to the lower side of the leaves and on top of the plants: Chlorpyrifos Methyl (min 96%), Dinotefuran (min 89%), Clothianidin,…

* Notes:

• Fungicide should be sprayed at old leaves, pesticide should be sprayed at young leaves.

• Pesticide should carefully sprayed at the lower side of the leaves./

 We wish you the best harvest with Golden Coin Seeds!