Chinese salad varieties cucumbers – a find for both farms and summer cottages. Let’s consider what characteristics a Chinese cold-resistant cucumber has.
- Characteristic of the variety
- Advantages of the variety
- Deficiencies of the variety
- Growing conditions
- Seedling method of growing
- Sowing in open ground
- Conclusion
Characteristic Chinese cold-resistant cucumber
Characteristic varieties
The length of the fruits of Chinese cold-resistant cucumbers is 40-60 cm, sometimes 80 cm. The taste is pleasant, sweet. The pulp is juicy, crisp. The peel is green, thin, becomes denser and thicker over time. Small-ribbed cucumbers, with small white spikes. When overgrown, the peel does not turn yellow, the seed cavity decreases, the seeds increase in size.
Harvest of Chinese cold-resistant cucumbers can be used not only fresh, but also in the blanks.
Plants do not suffer from downy mildew, fusarium and gray rot.
The seeds are small. Fruiting is plentiful and long.
Advantages of the variety
The positive features of the variety include:
- early maturity (50-55 days from the start of emergence),
- high yield (30 kg per bush),
- shade tolerance,
- resistance to temperature extremes,
- cold resistance,
- excellent taste,
- disease resistance,
- minimum number of side shoots,
- self-pollinating.
Deficiencies of the variety
Among the disadvantages of the Chinese cold-resistant cucumber are:
- poor keeping quality, which means a short shelf life lilies,
- the absence of signs of the variety in the seeds of the next generation of F1 hybrids,
- too large and often curved fruits.
- tall lashes (from 150 to 350 cm),
- damage by a spider mite in a hot period.
Growing conditions
The plant needs a mandatory garter
When breeding Chinese cold-resistant cucumbers, you need a garter to the support, otherwise you can lose the crop. Thin-skinned fruits lying on the ground easily rot.
The crop is grown both in the greenhouse and in the open ground. Planting scheme – 3-4 seedlings per 1 square. m. In multi-row planting between plants should be 25 cm, and between rows – 90 cm.
To ensure a good harvest, you need plentiful timely watering and top dressing.In case of lack of moisture or necessary elements (potassium, nitrogen or calcium), the fruits are deformed, becoming curved or twisted.
Seedling method of growing
A mixture of turf earth and perlite, which provides moisture capacity and breathability. Seeds are planted in tall cups to a depth of 1.5-2 cm and placed in a dark warm place for 3-5 days. After emergence, seedlings are transferred to the light. The optimum temperature for leaf development is 20-22 ° C. A higher temperature leads to infection of the tender shoots with a spider mite. Additional lighting prevents premature extension of internodes.
Seedlings are planted in a permanent place at the age of 20-25 days when there are 9 true leaves when the threat of freezing frost passes. Planting holes are prepared with a diameter of up to 10 cm. Seedlings are removed from seedling containers with an earthen lump, being careful not to damage the roots. So that the lump does not crumble during the transplant, the seedlings are watered 2-3 days before. Seedlings are carefully lowered into the holes and compact the earth around the roots so that there are no voids left. The filled row is abundantly watered.
Sowing seeds under the film in the greenhouse increases the yield by an order of magnitude compared to open ground. However, when grown in this way, there is always a percentage of non-sprouted seeds.
Sowing in open ground
Sowing under the foil is carried out in May on preheated raised ridges. A week before this, the beds are covered with black covering material so that the soil thaws and warms up to the desired depth.
The soil mixture should be loose and nutritious. For enrichment with oxygen, surface loosening of the soil is recommended after each irrigation. To preserve moisture and reduce the number of weeds, it is advisable to mulch the soil at the places of planting.
Conclusion
Cucumbers Chinese cold-resistant F1 yields a high crop already in May even from several seedlings. Crispy, juicy, fragrant, fresh cucumbers directly from the garden will provide gardeners with essential vitamins and minerals from spring to fall.
