- The document provides instructions for growing watermelon, including preparing soil media, germinating seeds, transplanting seedlings, planting techniques, fertilization, pest and disease control, and harvesting. The soil is prepared by mixing manure and compost into the beds. Seeds are germinated by soaking them and covering them to maintain moisture. Seedlings are transplanted into polybags and placed in sunlight. Watermelon is planted in holes and maintained through weeding, staking, fertilizing, and controlling for pests like thrips and diseases like fusarium wilt. Fruit is harvested about 70-100 days after planting when the skin color changes.

1. Watermelon Breeding
Preparation of Media Semai
- As much as 25-50 kg Manure mixed with soil to land 1000 m2. Let stand + 1 week in the shade
by always keeping the humidity and occasional stirring (reversed).
- Mix the finely ground (already sifted) 2 parts or 2 buckets (volume 10 l), mature manure that
has been finely sifted as much as 1 part or 1 bucket, TSP (± 50 g).
- Insert the media into a polybag seedlings small 8x10 cm to fill up to 90%.
Watermelon Seed Germination Techniques
Seeds inserted into the fabric and tied, then marinated in herbs: 1 quart of warm water
temperature of 20-250C NASA POC + 1 tablespoon (soaked 8-12 hours). Seeds in the bond
taken, wrapped in newspaper and then brooded 1-2 days. If there were sown and germinated
taken to add water if dry and wrapped in cloth and then put the paper again. Here is a picture of
the newly planted watermelon seeds.
Seedling Seedlings Seeds and Maintenance
- Media seedlings watered enough clean water. Seeds of selected candidates along the roots are
2-3 mm, direct sowing in polybags as deep as 1 to 1.5 cm.
- Nursery bag lined placed so full sunlight. Given a transparent plastic cover, one end / edge
open.

2. - Watering 1-2 times a day. At the age of 12-14 days seedlings ready to be planted.
Media Processing Plant
Land Opening
Piracy + 30 cm deep, crushed and flattened. Clean the area from the remnants of roots and rocks.
Formation seedbed seedbed for planting watermelon width is 6-8 m, minimum height 20 cm
beds.
Calcification of Use
lime per 1000 m2 of land at pH 4-5 required 150-200 kg dolomite, pH 5-6 takes 75-150 kg
dolomite and pH> 6 is required as much as 50 kg of dolomite.
Fertilization Basics
a. Manure 600 kg / ha, applied to the surface of beds about a week before planting. b. Inorganic
fertilizers such as TSP (200 kg / ha), ZA (140 kg / ha) and KCl (130 kg / ha).
Other
Beds need to be weeded, watered and given a plastic mulching width 110-150 cm to water
evaporation and inhibit the growth of weeds. Covered with straw mulch on top 2-3 cm thick dry
for propagation and laying watermelon fruit.
Watermelon Planting Techniques
Hole Making Plant Watermelon
Do One week before planting to a depth of 8-10 cm. Within 20-30 cm from the edge of the bed
of the distance between the hole about 90-100 cm. Time. Here's the finished picture watermelon
planted.
Planting Watermelon
Planting should be in the morning or later afternoon seedlings watered until quite wet.
Watermelon Plant Maintenance
Stitching Watermelon
Should be done 3-5 days after planting.
Weeding Watermelon
Watermelon plants just enough to have two pieces, with settings that tend to be a lot of primary
branches. Maintained 2-3 secondary branches without cutting twigs. Keep weeding on the branch
that is not useful, ends trimmed and secondary branches are left two leaves. Secondary branches
that grow in an existing segment cut fruit because they interfere with the growth of the fruit.
Here's how to weeding the garden watermelon picture.
Watermelon Perempelan
Do perempelan young shoots that are not useful because it affects the growth of trees / fruit
growing watermelon.
Irrigation and Watering Watermelon
Irrigation through channels between the beds or digembor with 4-6 days interval. The volume of
water should not be exaggerated.

3. Watermelon Fertilization
Fertilization one week after planting: ZA = 40 kg / ha TSP = - Kg / Ha KC = L40 Kg / Ha
Fertilization watermelon plant two weeks after planting ZA = 120 Kg / ha TSP = 85 Kg / Ha KC
= 170 Kg / Ha
Fertilization watermelon plants when the plants flower ZA = 130 Kg / ha TSP = - Kg / Ha KC =
30 Kg / Ha
Other Maintenance
Choose fruit that is large enough, lies between 1.0 to 1.5 m of plant roots, good shape and not
disabled. Each plant required candidates 1-2 pieces of fruit, cut the rest. Since candidates fruit ±
2 kg are reversed in order to avoid the color unfavorable due to inequality in the sun.
Watermelon Plant Pests and Diseases
Plant Pests Watermelon
a. Thrips Small sized slender, pale yellow-black, has a body with jointed antennae. Mode of
transmission is wandering at night, settle and breed. Control: spray Natural BVR or PESTONA.
b. Destroyer caterpillar green colored leaves with a black stripe / green striped yellow,
symptoms: leaves eaten up living layers of wax and looks much like a hollow. Control: Natural
spraying Vitura or PESTONA.
c. Animals small red mites yellowish / greenish small sucking plant fluids. The sign, visible web
of animal nests beneath the leaf surface, the leaves will pale color. Control: spray Natural BVR
or PESTONA.
d. Soil Color black caterpillar berbintik-bintik/bergaris-garis, 2-5 cm body length, active damage
and move at night. Attack the leaves, especially young shoots, worms mature prey base of the
plant. Control: (1) planting simultaneously on adjacent areas to break the life cycle of pests and
moths surrounding nest eradication, (2) control by spraying Natural Vitura / Virexi or
PESTONA.
e. Fruit Flies characteristics have transparent wings with yellow splotches and have trunks.
Attack signs: there is a scar on the skin of fruit (such as proboscis puncture), flavorful flesh
slightly sour and visible bruises. Control: cleaning up the environment, soil pests former
reversible with hijacked / hoe, fruit fly trapping and spray PESTONA.
Watermelon Plant Diseases
a. Fusarium wilt causes: the environment / situation that allows the yeast to grow (air is too
humid). Symptoms arise rot in plants that had been dense and lush. Control: (1) the rotation
period of planting and maintaining environmental conditions, plant in a new area that has not
been planted, (2) the provision of Natural GLIO before or at planting time.
b. Leaf spotting Cause: germs spores carried by the wind from other plants affected. Symptoms:
leaf surfaces are mottled yellow and then turn brown eventually dry up and die, or there are
subtle colored tassels abu-abu/ungu. Control: as in fusarium wilt disease.
c. Anthracnose causes: such as fusarium wilt disease. Symptoms: The leaves look brown
blotches that eventually turn a reddish color and the leaves eventually die. When attacking the
fruit, it looks pink spheres gradually expanding. Control: control of diseases such as fusarium
wilt.
d. Attacking the Semai rotten seed being planted. Symptoms: brown seed stems, vines and fall

4. down and die. Control: Natural gift GLIO before seeding on seedling media.
e. Fruit Rot Cause: fungal / bacterial pathogen that infects the fruit before cooking and active
after fruit begins picked. Control: avoid skin damage and prevent the occurrence of fruit, both
during transportation and storage, picking fruit done in the daytime is not cloudy / rainy. f. Leaf
rust cause: a virus carried by pest plants growing on the leaves of plants. Symptoms: leaf blister,
pinto, tend to change shape, stunted plants and longitudinal fissures arise on the stem. Control:
same as fusarium wilt disease. Note: If the pest control using natural pesticides can be used not
overcome chemical pesticides. In order to evenly spraying of chemical pesticides and not easily
lost by rainwater add Adhesives Straighten AERO 810 dose + 5 ml (1/2 cap) / tank.
Harvesting Watermelon Crop
Characteristics and Harvest Age harvested after 70-100 days after planting. Characteristics: fruit
color changes, and stem the fruit begins to diminish the fruit can be picked (harvested). How to
Harvest Fruit Harvesting should be done when the weather is sunny so the fruit surface is dry
skin, and lasts for the penyimpananan or in the hands of retailers. We recommend cutting a
watermelon made its stalk. Here's a picture of watermelon harvest.