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Cucurbits

including, pumpkins, cucumbers, chokos, zucchinis, gourds

See also Melons

Crop management

Producing vegetables for market - 1. Successful horticultural enterprises
Horticulture (and vegetables in particular) have often been perceived by people on the outside looking in, as the panacea of many ills.

Pumpkins and grammas - Commercial production
This DPI&F Note discusses climate and soils, establishment and maintenance, pollination, nutrition and irrigation, pests and diseases, harvesting and marketing of pumpkins, including those for competition.

Virus resistant pumpkin: Dulong QHI
'Dulong QHI' is an open pollinated, moderately vigorous, moderately branched, trailing 'Jarrahdale' type pumpkin. This note points out it is resistant to three major pumpkin viruses and discusses fruit quality and yield.

Pests and diseases

Emerging plant pests - Melon thrips
Melon thrips (Thrips palmi) is a pest of fruit and vegetables in south east Asia, Japan, Florida and the Caribbean. It can cause stunting of susceptible plants and deformation of fruits, when its normal biological control is disturbed.

Passion vine bug
This page contains a description and the management and control methods of passion vine bug in fruit such as citrus, cucurbits and passionfruit.

Tomato root knot nematodes: Biology and control
Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are minute, worm-like animals which are very common in soil. They have a wide host range, causing problems in many annual and perennial crops.

 


 

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