CANTALOUPE IRRIGATION SOLUTIONS
With cantaloupe, there is only one suitable irrigation method that brings high economic efficiency: Drip irrigation. However, because cantaloupe is commonly grown in two forms: grown in growing medium bags and growing on soil beds.
Therefore, two forms of automatic watering will be applied for cantaloupes: Irrigation with a drip peg combined with a pressure-compensated none-drain dripper (PC ND Dripper), and Irrigation with PC dripline spread along the bed.
Important note: Apply PC ND Dripper (Pressure compensated None drain) and High frequency irrigation techniques, Pulse drip irrigation.
THE BENEFIT OF DRIP IRRIGATION FOR CANTALOUPE
- Cantaloupes require high nutritional factors: Fertilizing through an irrigation system is the most effective way to provide nutrients for melons.
- Cantaloupes are commonly grown on coco peat substrates and/or sandy soil: need to be watered many times a day with low water flow (pulse irrigation method). Only drip irrigation meets this need.
- Cantaloupes need to be harvested evenly, the care regimen, water flow, and nutrients applied to each plant are 100% the same.
We can say that we cannot growing the melons in greenhouse without automatic irrigation systems if we would like to have high quality of crop, increasing the yield, and increasing the total income. See more “Greenhouse irrigation“
