Watermelon
Crop Information
Flowering and Pollination
- by Gabriele Gusmini and Meri Reeber
- Department of Horticultural Science
- North Carolina State University
- Raleigh, NC 27695-7609
How to make a watermelon fruit support bag for greenhouse
breeding nurseries.
After pollination, watermelon fruit can grow quite large
and break the stem or fall off the plant that has been trained
onto a trellis. If the fruit falls before it can be harvested
for the seeds, it is a loss for the breeding project. This
can be avoided by adding a support bag to each fruit when
the rind has become tough and the fruit reaches approximately
100 mm diameter.
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1. Cut a square
piece of cheesecloth from the roll |
2. Open the fold
and cut again in two square halves |
3. Fold the square
in half |
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4. Fold the rectangle
in half |
5. Wrap the string
3 times around, 1 inch below
the free corner |
6. Tie the string
tightly twice and cut the string
leaving a 5 foot tail. |
