Care and Control Pumpkin Plant Pest and Disease

Control and care pests and diseases on pumpkin plants need to be done so the pumpkin plant can produce fruit with high quality.  Read the steps below to care and control the pests of this plant.

Care For Pumpkin Plant

Prior to plant pumpkin vines grow or spread, measures must often do the weeding. Land that has not been fully covered is easily overgrown by weeds. Ground around the main stem of the plant should also be lifted. The trick to pull the soil near the plant stem so that the staple crops to higher ground.

After the plant shoots out a place we need to make pumpkin plant propagation. Propagation of each place is used as a pole connected with the propagation of another rod at the top. Thus, the propagation of the place looks like the boxes that concatenated together.

Downsizing of the field box on the roof where the propagation is so that the fruit can grow perfect pumpkin and easily picked. Connections are tight in order to do the binding of the blades. Place of propagation should be made as strong as possible because it will be supporting the weight of a pumpkin.

Trimming the pumpkin performed 3-6 weeks old plants. Pruning branches spread endeavored to shoot so well that the fruit grows and more evenly. Old branches that do not grow lengthwise cut edges in order to germinate. Older leaves are no longer productive also discarded. The need fertilizing manure is 5 kg per planting hole. Add NPK addition of 100 g / hole or 60-100 kg / ha. Administration carried out at the beginning of the planting. Fertilizer is buried near the main stem.

Control Pests and Diseases of Pumpkin Plant

Caterpillar pest Spodoptera litura can spend pumpkin leaves. The signs of an attack bites can be seen on the leaves often just leave the bone alone. Caterpillar attack carried out at night. Caterpillars hide during the day time in the soil. To prevent it, weed around the plants should be cleaned. Also, do the spraying as early as possible with Azodrin, the dose is 2 cc / l,

Ladybug Leptoglossus australis attack pumpkins. When it rains, these pests will puncture marks exposed to rain so easily penetrated by the fungus. As a result, the fruit becomes soft and rotten. When attacking the leaves, the middle part or the whole plant becomes dry. Spraying with doses above Azodrin as well able to cope with bugs attack.

Fruit flies are often attacked the watermelon is the enemy of pumpkins, too. When the eggs had gone into the fruit so the fruit hard to consume again. In the parts of the fruit is often found small caterpillars hatch from eggs that have been. Another result, when attacking the stem, the stem swells like a boil. To prevent attacks, the land must be kept clean.

Disease that often affects the pumpkin plant is wilting disease. The cause is the fungus Fusarium sp. Emerging seedlings and young plants easily attacked. At first the tip of the leaves wilt, then shrivel, and finally dried. When plants are attacked in the area is still small, remove the plant and destroy. Spraying of Benlate 2 g / l of water to plants as well as in the former land where the plant will help the health of plants exposed to others.

That's the way the control and care of the pumpkin plant pests and diseases. Do not forget to give fertilizer so these plants grow fast and profitably.