Why do farmers put a stone on watermelons?

The hot summer is coming. Watermelon is the best way to quench thirst and cool off summer heat, especially iced watermelon, which is simply an "artifact" to cool off summer heat. If your family is in the countryside, and some people grow watermelons in the village, local watermelons will be listed soon. Walking in the watermelon field, you will see rows of watermelons arranged in Gua Tian like basketball. It is said that the master is in the private sector, and some farmers in rural areas are frequently surprised by their planting methods. Today, some netizens broke the news and saw a melon farmer put a big stone on each watermelon in his watermelon field. Why? What's the use of pressing a stone on watermelon? Listen to the melon farmers!

For this kind of practice, the first thought of melon farmers may be that they are afraid that watermelons will run away, so that watermelons can't run away, just like the Monkey King is crushed under Wuzhishan. Of course, this is a joke. The farmer searched online and found that this thing really exists, and there is a small video. As you can see from the video, the watermelon on the Gua Tian is bigger than basketball, but each watermelon usually has one or two stones, which is very spectacular. Just a little confused, why put stones on watermelons? For this practice, many netizens are also open-minded, mainly for the following reasons.

First put a stone on the watermelon, which will make the watermelon grow bigger and longer. The big watermelons seen in the market are basically oval and spherical, and only some small watermelons are spherical. And press a stone on the watermelon, so that the watermelon will develop horizontally when it grows, so that the watermelon will grow longer. It seems that this turns pressure into motivation. Farmers think there is some truth in this statement.

Secondly, pressing a stone on the surface of watermelon also has the function of sun protection. This is also said by some melon farmers who have many years of experience in growing melons, because the mature season of watermelons planted in the open field is summer, during which the sunshine time is long, the temperature is high and the ultraviolet intensity is high. In summer, people need sun protection, and so does watermelon. If you are exposed to the sun, it is easy to turn the watermelon skin yellow, which will not look good. Putting a stone or two on the top of the watermelon is to shade the watermelon, which is equivalent to applying sunscreen. Moreover, this stone placement method is also exquisite, that is, it should be placed on the most prominent point of watermelon skin.