Tinda cultivation and its management

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/