How to dive cucumber seedlings

Diving cucumber seedlings is familiar to many gardeners, but this terminology mainly refers to tomatoes and peppers. As for the need to dive cucumber seedlings, there are two opposing opinions, whose supporters are constantly arguing among themselves. The whole difficulty lies in the fact that cucumbers have delicate roots, and therefore picking seedlings of cucumbers to a new place is painful.In the case of injury to the seedlings, they are almost unable to survive, which is why diving requires constant attention and careful handling.

Dive cucumber seedlings

H what is a pick?

A pick is a transfer of seedlings from the original sowing location to a wider container or directly to the soil in open ground. When picking, the shoots are removed together with a small part of the ground covering the roots, which is important for maintaining the integrity of the rhizome, which means that it quickly adapts to the new conditions.

With this transfer, especially weak seedlings that are unable to cope with the adaptation die. and the stronger strengthen their growth. This process increases the resistance of cucumbers to diseases and their resistance to low temperatures, which is necessary when growing on open ground.To learn more about transplanting seedlings to a new place, you can watch a picking video or photo of the cucumbers.

The need for picking

The cucumbers are equipped with a poorly developed root system. Their roots are so thin and brittle that they can be injured by any exposure. In this case, the gardener needs to think carefully about whether it is worth transplanting plants and how to dive cucumbers correctly so as not to injure them. Due to the complexity of the process, many gardeners categorically insist on the incompatibility of the picking process of cucumbers.

Planting seeds in cups

According to experienced gardeners, direct planting of seeds in disposable ones is preferable cups of peat. At the same time, in each small container, no more than two seeds are placed, the duration of cultivation of which is 15-30 days. After the seeds have sprouted, they are placed in the conditions of greenhouse growth, in a greenhouse or open ground, and thereby dispense with the dive process.

Paper, peat or plastic cups must first be cut, freeing the plants, whereas from peat, plantings are buried directly in the soil.

An important point is transplanting seedlings by transshipment. That is, the exception is the separation of a lump of earth, entwining cucumber roots. This method increases the percentage of survival and quick adaptation to new conditions.

When is it worth diving seedlings?

Picking is obligatory

No matter how this gardeners do not want to, however, there are a number of cases when it is just necessary to dive all cucumbers.

• When planting seeds in containers that have large or deep sizes. In this case, the plantings feel discomfort, which leads to the formation of decay, the shoots become yellowness, the plantings lack growth. For the sake of saving at least part of the plants, it is necessary to dive in a container of optimal size.
• With insufficient lighting. It happens that the weather deteriorates, it rains all day and the sky is overcast. At the same time, plants, in search of light, are pulled up, becoming weak and brittle. The correct picking of all cucumbers in the open ground will help in this case to avoid problems during cultivation and care. By deepening the seedlings in the soil, it can be shortened, the rhizome of the plant is strengthened, due to the appearance of new root branches on the stem. Plantings activate their immunity and become more resilient.
• If you mistakenly calculate the time for planting in the soil. Cucumbers are transplanted to open soil when the temperature reaches 16 degrees, at low temperatures, the cucumber stalks will die. Transplanting seedlings is carried out upon reaching a 30-day period.If after this period, for some reason, you did not transplant the cucumbers into the open ground, then they need to be dived into wider containers for optimal growth and development. In this case, picking is done in order to prevent overgrowing and stretching of the leaves.
• When the soil or plant is infected. If at least one seedling has symptoms of the disease, transplanting seedlings into a new container is required. The same rule applies to the soil in case of infection, a healthy soil is needed.
• To carry out natural selection, it is necessary to pickle cucumber plants. Due to this, only strong seedlings will survive, guaranteeing a good harvest.

In these cases, mandatory picking of cucumbers is required. In all others, it is better to avoid replanting plants.

Dive rules

If a dive is inevitable, a competent implementation of a clear sequence of the transplant process is required. Otherwise, it will not be possible to save part of the plants that do not have great health and growth power. Only the youngest crops need to be pickled. As a material, it is necessary to choose seedlings that are no more than 7-30 days (taking a count from the moment the first greenery appears on the soil). In addition, you can be guided by the appearance of seedlings, they should have two cotyledonous leaves.

• Preparation of containers for cucumbers.The size of the containers must be selected slightly larger than the originally selected for sowing the cucumber. Glasses made of paper or peat will be optimal, due to the fact that with repeated transplantation, soil removal can adversely affect the development of plantings. And in such cups you can freely place the plant in the soil.
• Preparation of the soil. As a filler, you can use the substrate from the store, optimally suitable for vegetables or only cucumbers. You can also choose a mixture of self-cooking, consisting of turf land, rotted sawdust, organic fertilizer and peat. Harvesting the mixed mixture should begin in the fall, so that the mixture has time to overtake. It is possible to use only ash added to turf land. Whatever soil you choose for transplanting, the main condition is friability, air and water capacity, soil nutrition. Otherwise, after watering, nutrients will not be able to penetrate the entire depth of the soil.
• Filling the soil into prepared containers. Filling should be done by two-thirds, after which the container is left for a couple of days, so that the substrate is compacted. If necessary, you need to add more soil if after compaction of the soil there is a lot of free space.
• Before diving (in 2-3 hours), the soil in the tank should be irrigated with warm water (not lower than room temperature) followed by 2-3 cm deepening
• Before diving, the plants are watered with warm water (2-3 hours before transplanting). When watering, you must not overdo it so that the earth does not separate from the root system and is simultaneously saturated with moisture. Otherwise, it will not be possible to plant seedlings in a container without damaging the root system.
• Removing small seedlings should be done carefully. It is necessary to avoid touching the fingers of a fragile stem so as not to damage it, as it is very brittle. It is optimal to keep the seedling by a lump of soil between the roots or in the area of ​​cotyledonous leaves. Digging seedlings must be done with a small round spatula, an ordinary tablespoon or long tweezers. In this case, it is necessary to undermine not the entire length of the working tool, but gradually deepening under the root.
• The root of the extracted plant should be examined. In case of detection of traces of infection or suppuration on it, it is necessary to throw it away. If the roots of the plant are very long, they must be pinched by cutting off the long central shoots. This will provide an opportunity to develop lateral roots, providing seedlings with strength and strength due to uniform development.
• Placement of seedlings in the prepared recess. The soil should be lightly compacted around the stem of the plant. This operation positively affects the active adhesion of the root to the soil and the adaptation of the plant to a new place.
• Planting should be accompanied by abundant watering.At the same time, pre-settled water is used.
• At the end of the planting, all seedlings should be covered with a dense white cloth. Such material will protect plants from drafts and will ensure normalization of the temperature of the soil cover, creating favorable climatic conditions.
• It is necessary to exclude a significant deepening of cucumber plantings in the soil, as this will lead to the fact that the stem can rot, thereby reducing growth plants. The optimal depth is to fill the seedlings to the knee of the inflection line, which can be found on the stem.

Conclusion

Cucumber as a whimsical plant requires attention to two main points : level of heat and moisture of its environment. Therefore, at the end of the pick, containers with cucumbers must be placed in a warm place, where the minimum temperature is not lower than 20 degrees, with an ambient humidity of 80%. Such conditions can be ensured by installing a special humidifier or by setting a radiator with an additional tank where water will be poured. After 3-4 days, when plants adapt to new conditions, temperature and humidity can be gradually reduced.

Since the plants have already undergone adaptation after a dive, they need uniform growth in a new place. As a minimum feature for a cucumber, the temperature should be at least 16 degrees. At night, it is necessary to lower the temperature, followed by raising it to its previous value in the daytime.If the gardener knows exactly how to dive small cucumbers, then there will be no problems with replanting seedlings to a new place and, with proper care, you can harvest a plentiful crop.