Cut melons to investigate: Market melon it turns on 6

Cut melons to investigate: Market melon it turns on 6 to be white seed, dark the intersection of seed and " the 8424 " in succession Listed successively this month

Fengxian white clothing gather village select to pluck and turn on melons to test the flesh live on the melon canopy. Black seed melon is distinguished with white seed melon obviously in the water-melon chosen.


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The end of March: The fairy of bearing fruit " Prevent miscarriage " Wait for the measure

Around April: " birth control "

May: Ripe starting sales of melon

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The water-melon is the important fruit of the market of Shanghai, it is a melon and fruit which citizens like, most generally eat most variety too. But two weeks ago, first " red open area water-melon baffled ' explodes ' in Jiangsu " Information,it is unexpected lead to the fact unsalable when appearing Shanghai water-melon.

The red open area water-melon explodes and expands pharmaceutical is improperlied use to saying, Shanghai agricutrual committee held the emergency meeting a few days ago after through the ad hoc survey, show the local water-melon in Shanghai is not basically used " Expand pharmaceutical " .

But buy citizen's doubt of melons and has not disappeared: Why is water-melon bought recently only a white seed? To a series of doubt of citizens, the morning paper reporter deepened country fair and field to carry on the investigation.


Open the melon to investigate: 6 melons of fruit shop are all white seeds


Yesterday, reporters bought 6 water-melons in 5 fruit shops of road of Zhaotong respectively at random.

It's interesting, in a fruit stall among them, when the reporter inquires when black seed water-melon will go on the market, the stall owner points to a water-melon with obviously bigger stature and says: "This is a black seed melon! Look, I have still specially the red line of root made marks on the base of a fruit of the melon. "

But after 6 water-melons and everything are in bloom, besides having several fragmentary black seeds in a melon, other water-melons are all white seed melons. Especially a regrettable one is, that " black seed " specially making the mark with red thread The melon is all white seeds after cutting.

Reporter come Fengxian present urban white clothing with respect, gather Yang, large plantation family of village, show in the gentle melon canopy still yesterday.

In the intersection of melon and canopy, reporter it chooses 5 to be already ripe water-melon, among them 1 first " the 8424 " of knot on the melon vine The melon, other 4 are the second batch. "The first batch of melons bloomed in March, was listed successively from May 1. After the first batch of melons is plucked, just longer than the second batch of melons on the melon vine, these melons are ripe successively too at present. "

4 ripe for second batch " 8424" The melon is different in size, cut 4 melons open with the knife, the melon plup is pink, the oil of melon seed is black. Observe carefully, there are several white seeds which seem flat and flat too. "White seed these too can grow into black seed while being familiar, watermelon seed have some more early a little familiar lately familiar always. "

Compared with black seed melon, cut only one first " the 8424 " open Water-melon see suddenly, the melon seed was all white. "The first batch of melons is all white seed melons, the relation of fairy that this has used bearing fruit. " Yang XianWen says, because the time of blooming of the first batch of melons is in March, it was relatively cold at that time, water-melon flower have no pollen, can not use the way to pollinate manually, " in order to let the water-melon bear fruit successfully, must use the fairy of bearing fruit. And the water-melon which use fairy of bearing fruit is white seed melons. "


Good news: Black seed melon will be listed successively


"From June 1, newly ripe second batch water-melon ' 8424 ' will go on the market successively, these water-melons are all black seed melons. " Yang XianWen says, the second criticizes " 8424 " The intersection of Shanghai and weather turn hot already when water-melon grow, " water-melon spend can accept, pollinate manually, the fairy that so has not needed to reuse and bear fruit, natural black will appear in the melon seed, third water-melon belong to dark seed too later. "
Cut melons to investigate: Market melon it turns on 6 to be white seed, dark the intersection of seed and " the 8424 " in succession Listed successively this month