
- Best Sowing Time:
Monsoon & best grown in summer. - Soil & Temprature:
Sandy loam soils rich in organic matter with good drainage and pH ranging from 6.5-7.5 is best suited for Tinda cultivation. This crop requires a moderate warm temperature. Optimal soil temperature: 10-40°C (40-85°F). Seeds should germinate in 7-15 days. - Steps for Seed Sowing Method:
Take a container of your choice with drainage holes at the bottom.
Fill the container with proper potting layers & selected growing medium.
Sow 2 seeds at the centre of a pot.

Spacing:
On raised beds, sow two seeds per spot in a spacing of 2 x 2 ft.
Push the seeds a little in soil medium with your fingers & completely cover them with surrounding soil.
Water the sown seed bed immediately by a light shower with a watering can.
- Growth Steps of Round Gourd (Tinda) Plants
Sprouting Stage: Seeds will germinate within first 6-8 days or so & tiny sprouts will be visible. .
Cotyledons: The first two leaves will emerge in the second week of germination. These are false leaves called as cotyledons.
First leaves: First leaves will emerge above cotyledons at the end of the second week.
Seedling stage: Second week onwards, seedlings will start growing into a small plant. .
Thinning: After the second week, keep only single seedling at one spot, Cut off the weak, small & lagging seedlings with a pair of scissors.- How to Take Care For Round Gourd (Tinda) Plants
Sunlight: Indian Round Gourd plants require full sunlight. Therefore your raised bed should be made at a bright sunny spot. Keep the Indian Round Gourd container under open sunlight.
Watering: Water your potted Indian Round Gourd plant every day in summer. Water the soil near the plant. Use a watering can to make sure that the plants get water in the form of the shower & not by a single flow.
Trellis: Indian Round gourd is an aggressive climber & needs plenty of space to grow. So develop a strong trellis support up to height of 5-6 ft, by using locally available material like pipes, bamboo, ropes, wires etc. for your Indian Round gourd plant.
Manuring: As mentioned earlier, add good quality organic manure in the soil with 2:1 ratio before sowing seeds. Organic manure can be well rotten cow dung manure, farmyard manure, compost or vermicompost. . - while seed sowing apply DAP at 50kgs per acre mixed with 5kgs of root enhancer.
Top Dressing: When your Indian Round gourd climber is more than 45 days old, provide one tablespoon of 15:15:15 (NPK) Fertilizer per plant or mix handful of Vermicompost in the soil around each plant. .
Harvesting: (80 to 90 days from sowing.) Indian Round gourd climber will start flowering at the end of 3rd month. You can start harvesting ripe Indian Round gourd fruits after 3 months of seed sowing. Harvesting season can continue for next 3 months.
Days | Application | Remarks |
Sprouting Stage: | — | have note that the germination is good |
1-5days | phorate 10%cg | To avoid the infestaion of soil pesta like grubs and borers. |
1-10days | Imidacloprid 17.8 @ 1ml/lt + 19-19-19 2.5gm/lt | to avoid infestation of sucking pests and promote vegtative growth. |
10-15days | Drenching- Ridomilgold 1gm/lt + Humic acid 2.5ml/lt + streptomycin 1gm/5lt | to promote white roots , and reduce the effect of Damping off |
10-20days | Chloropyriphos 20 @ 2.5ml /lt+ Acetamiprid 20%sp 0.5gm /lt + Micronutrient 2gm/lt | to reduce the infestation of sucking pests |
20-25days | seleoo 00 1 @ 0.5gm/lt and Acetamiprid 20% 0.5gm/lt | to reduce the infestation of sucking pests and growth. |
25-30days | 12-61-0 + seleoo R(drip) | root enheancer and flowering |
30-40days | Bio r 303 1ml/lt + daman 47 1ml/lt + seleoo 00 1 @ 0.5gm/lt | to reduce the infestation of sucking pests and growth. |
40-50days | DAman + @5ml/20lts and okeoo 10 5gm/100lts | flowering and growth |
40-50days | yaravita bud builder @ 300gm per acre | propagative growth |
40- 50days | Fipronil 5%sc @ 1.5ml/lt + carbendazim@ 1.5gm/lt + streptocyclin | to reduce the infestation of sucking pests , fungal and growth. |
50- 60days | Daman + @ 5ml/lt + Daman 47 1ml/lt + Acetamiprid 10gm/20lt | control of catterpillar and flowering. |
60-70days | Damman Apollo @ 1ml/lt + Acetamiprid 0.5gm/lt + boron 1- 2gm/lt | control of catterpillar and flowering. |
60 – 90days | spraying of Chloropyriphos 20% ec @ 2.5ml/lt at regual interval of time | for control of sucking pest and flies |
60 – 90days | spraying of Chloropyriphos 20% ec @ 2.5ml/lt at regual interval of time | for control of sucking pest and flies |
60 – 90days | spraying of Chloropyriphos 20% ec @ 2.5ml/lt at regual interval of time | for control of sucking pest and flies |
60 – 90days | spraying of Chloropyriphos 20% ec @ 2.5ml/lt at regual interval of time | for control of sucking pest and flies |
60 – 90days | spraying of Chloropyriphos 20% ec @ 2.5ml/lt at regual interval of time | for control of sucking pest and flies |
60 – 90days | spraying of Chloropyriphos 20% ec @ 2.5ml/lt at regual interval of time | for control of sucking pest and flies |
Plant protection
Beetles
Bettles can be controlled by spraying
Malathion 50 EC 1 ml/lit at weekly intervals.
chloropyriphos 20%ec @ 2 – 2.5ml/lt https://krishibharat.in/product/doomer-20-chlorpyriphos-20-ec-termiticide-insecticide/



Fruit fly


- Collect the affected fruits and destroy.
- The fly population is low in hot day conditions and it is peak in rainy season. Hence adjust the sowing time accordingly.
- Expose the pupae by ploughing.
- Use polythene bags, fish meal trap with 5 g of wet fish meal and 1 g of Dichlorvos in cotton, 50 traps are required per hectare. Fish meal and Dichlorvos impregnated cotton are to be renewed once in 20 and 7 days respectively.
- Neem oil @ 3.0 % as foliar spray as need based
- Damman apollo @ 1ml/lt + acetamiprid + boron https://krishibharat.in/product/damman-apollo/
- Application of fruit fly traps in the feild https://krishibharat.in/product/fruit-fly-lure-bactrocera-dorsalis-bactrocera-correcta-bactrocera-zonata-green-revolution/


Do not use DDT, copper and sulphur dust, as these are phytotoxic.
White fly


White flies can be controlled by spraying
5 % Neem Seed Kernal Extract.
Damman cotto 12 https://krishibharat.in/product/damman-cotto-12/
Pyriproxyfen
Takaf – https://krishibharat.in/product/takaf/
Diseases
leafcurl– Bio r 303 1ml/lt + seleoo 00 1 + cotto 12
Blight-
BASF cabriotop @ 400gm/acre https://krishibharat.in/product/cabrio-top-metiram-55-pyraclostrobin-5-wg/
Damman Doppler @ 200ml/acr https://krishibharat.in/product/damman-doppler-200ml-azoxystrobin-18-2-difenoconazole-11-4-sc/
Yield
10 t/ha in 90 days can be obtained.