Bitter Gourd Cultivation Method

Intense gourd is a warm season edit. The temperature reasonable for its development and blooming is 25-30°C. Intense Gourd Crop can be developed in spots of marginally bring down temperature and high precipitation zones.
Bitter Gourd Cultivation Method. Watch this video. Courtesy: Krishi Lokam

As the unpleasant gourd seeds have a hard seed coat, germination is hard to occur when the temperature is beneath 10°C. the dirt ought to be all around depleted and fruitful. Sandy soil will likewise suit the product.

In sloping regions the yield is sown amid April-May. In plain zones where the winter season comes early, severe gourd is sown amid January-March in states like Rajasthan and Bihar. In states where the beginning of winter is late, sowing of seeds is done in February-March. In zones where the winter season is mellow, the severe gourd edit is sown consistently. In Kerala, when severe gourd is developed as a full harvest, the seeds are sown amid January-February for summer edit, May-June for kharif yield and September for rabi trim.

The seed is sown by dibbling strategy at a dividing of 120×90 cm. By and large three to four seeds are sown in a pit at 2.5 to 3.0 cm profundity. The seeds are absorbed wate over night before sowing for better germination. Seed germination was upgraded by dousing the seeds for 24 hours in arrangement of 25 to 50 ppm GA and 25 ppm boron. In flatbed design seeds are dibbled at the dividing 1 x 1 m.

The seed is sown from January to March for summer season trim, June-July for blustery season edit in the fields and March to June in the slopes.