Description of Shosh Cucumber

If you are a lover of delicious vegetables, then Shosh cucumber is just the variety you need. According to many farmers, such a vegetable crop is unpretentious in cultivation and has good taste. Cucumbers have long taken root in our national dishes. Not a single feast is complete without such a vegetable crop.

Description of the cucumber Shosha

Description of the vegetable crop

Shosha cucumber f1 is a hybrid type of vegetable developed by Russian breeders. The crop can grow in all regions of the country. o the climate of the central regions of the country is suitable for this type of vegetables.

Unpretentious and resistant to weather changes, vegetables can be grown in three ways:

• in greenhouse conditions;
• planting in open ground;
• growth on the windowsill at home.

Characteristics of the plant

Has a female flowering type and is self-pollinating plant. The flowers are bright yellow in appearance, resembling a crown. Shosha cucumber f1 grows to 1.5 m in height. Fruiting begins 38-45 days after planting.

Each node is capable of forming up to 3-4 green leaves. The characteristic indicates that the vegetable crop has a strong root system that supplies the entire plant with nutrients.The yield is relatively high from m2 to 18 kg of vegetables.

Characteristics of the fruit

In the description, Shosha f1 cucumbers are delicious crispy vegetables that you will like for their sweet taste and a complete lack of bitterness . With a longitudinal section of the void, a lot of seeds are not formed, but they taste good:

• the color is dark green;
• the surface is bumpy;
• the peel is thin and pleasant on taste;
• the pulp is sweetish, light green in color;
• fruit weight is 50-60 g;
• the shape is oblong, about 11 cm long and 3 cm diameter.

Pros and Cons

The advantages of Shosha f1 cucumbers are primarily its excellent taste, pleasant taste, they are suitable for raw consumption and production of pickles. Everyone knows that you can make excellent pickles and marinades from F1. Another of the main advantages is the high yield.

Shosha cucumber f1 people grow for their own consumption. They are also grown on an industrial scale for sale or processing in production, where pickles are made from them. Vegetable culture has a high degree of keeping quality and retains its external and internal qualities for two weeks after harvest. That is why Shosha cucumbers are excellently transportable and can be exported to other countries.

This variety will provide you with a good harvest

Also, for everything else, the vegetable is used in cosmetology and traditional medicine. Cucumber masks cleanse and refresh the complexion, relieve swelling of the lower eyelid. The negative sides of the variety are not observed. Cons can be distinguished only in the case of individual human addictions to certain taste qualities.

Preparing seedlings

There are two ways to plant cucumbers: plant seeds or grow seedlings, and then plant them in open ground. To grow seedlings, we need small boxes that we fill with earth. We put seeds for seedlings to the bottom. Before landing, a period of 4 weeks must pass. Planting seedlings as well as seeds in open ground should not be earlier than mid-April.

So that the plant can cope with the temperature drop, seedlings are tempered in advance. Boxes with sprouts should be taken out into the fresh air for an hour, and then completely left for half a day. So we prepare sprouts for possible frosts. The seeds should also be hardened: for this, they are first soaked in copper sulfate, then wrapped in a damp towel and refrigerated for 2 hours.

Planting cucumbers

Before sowing seeds, fertilize the soil and saturate it with oxygen.To do this, dig the soil, fertilizing with humus or chicken droppings. You can start planting a vegetable crop when the air temperature stabilizes and the thermometer is 15 17.

You need to plant seeds according to the scheme of no more than 4-5 plants per m2 so that they do not interfere with each other during growth. To plant sprouts, we need to dig small holes. We will make sand drainage at the bottom of the recesses.

Care

After you have sown the seeds, future seedlings will need proper care:

• moderate watering is required every day;
• several times a week you should weed your sprouts in order to provide the root system with oxygen;
• you should also monitor the correct growth of the plant, unnecessary ovaries should be broken;
• with intensive growth, it should be flavored with liquid fertilizers;
• the plant also requires a garter.

Pests and existing illness

When cucumber leaves began to turn yellow and wither, it is an occasion guard. Perhaps the plant has undergone a fungal infection, which affects the overall development of the plant and the quality of the fruit. Mold causes diseases such as Nematode and Cladosporiosis.

In order to get rid of fungal infections, you need to process the seeds before planting using fungicides or fertilize with a solution of copper sulfate in a ratio of 1:10.

Vegetable crops are also susceptible to pest attacks. Aphids and Leafworms can slow down the growth and development of a plant. In the fight against harmful insects, pesticides and folk remedies are used: treatment with garlic infusion or manganese solution.