Claudia F1 is one of the most popular varieties of cucumbers. He is very famous among gardeners. Despite the rather high price, these cucumbers are always in demand. They are bought in several packs. Why is this variety so fond of, what is its uniqueness?
Cucumber Claudia F1: variety description, reviews
Variety Claudia F1 refers to mid- season cucumber varieties. From seedlings to the first fruits takes about 50 days. The variety, as the name implies, is hybrid. The letter and number (F1) means that it is a hybrid of the first generation. This means that he has a heterosis effect. This effect causes a very high yield, resistance to diseases and adverse weather conditions. The effect of heterosis is a high viability, rapid growth of the plant. True, collecting seeds from such cucumbers is useless. The effect of heterosis affects only the first generation of hybrids. Seeds collected from the fruits of a hybrid lose all their best qualities. Therefore, in order to get the desired crop and the best qualities of the Claudia F1 variety, they just need to be bought every year again.
Another plus of the Claudia F1 variety: this cucumber variety is completely bitterness-free. No adverse weather conditions affect its taste. The taste of cucumber is always excellent both in fresh and in pickled, salty form.
Cucumber Claudia F1 - parthenocopic hybrid (self-pollinated). This variety can be grown absolutely without pollination by insects. He has only female flowers. From the ovaries, you can see that there are no empty flowers, on the whip are formed the puplyas of cucumbers with flowers. The ovaries are mainly located in bundles.
What is it, cucumber Claudius F1? Reviews gardeners do not disappoint. Cucumber belongs to a long-climbing variety. But then it gives a very large crop and a long period of fruiting. Therefore, buyers speak of it as the most fruitful variety in any year with even small cucumbers, which, when preserved, do not form voids inside the fruit. And the external data of the cucumber also have only positive reviews. In diameter - 3 cm, length - 9 cm. The very size for conservation. Even green color, without stripes, without pronounced ribbing, finely tuberous, as though rough, thin delicate skin, strong cucumber aroma. Gardeners not only respond well to this variety, they also advise all friends to buy and plant it.
What is the difference between Claudia Agro F1?
Cucumber Claudia Agro F1 reviews are the same as Claudia F1. The word "agro" in the name of the variety has no special meaning. This is the same variety. Just some firms involved in the packaging and sale of seeds, thus trying to sell the seeds as their own, they bred. The main thing is that the bundle should have the name of the variety - Claudia F1 - and the seeds are suitable for sowing according to the sowing dates.
Cucumber Claudia F1: reviews on cultivation, productivity and varietal qualities
Since the cucumber Claudia F1 is a parthenocopic hybrid, it can be grown universally. For example, bee pollinating varieties and hybrids can only be planted in open ground using temporary film shelters. Because they definitely need pollinating insects, without this crop there will be no.
But what about the cucumber Claudius F1? Description, reviews and discussion of the variety on the forums are encouraging. Cucumber Claudia F1 can grow in open ground and in greenhouses that do not get pollinating insects. Fruits at home, on the windowsill and balcony. Moreover, since in the greenhouse you can maintain a constant optimum temperature and humidity, then Claudia F1 gives a crop twice as much as on the street.
What is the yield of cucumber Claudius F1? The feedback from gardeners is impressive. In open ground, the average yield is 10 kg per 1 m 2 , and in a greenhouse - 20 kg per 1 m 2 . In a greenhouse, a variety is grown on trellises, and in open ground, lashes stretch along the ground. On the taste and external data, the difference in growing conditions does not affect. Cucumbers are harvested mainly every other day, and then the yield is greater, and the greenery does not outgrow.
You can grow as you like. High productivity and excellent taste qualities of fruits are guaranteed. Cucumber is beautiful fresh, fragrant, delicate. Gorgeous in canned form, without voids and watery, crispy. Fruits without bitterness. Unpretentious to environmental conditions, resistant to disease. Fruiting is long. The fruits do not turn yellow and do not outgrow. For abundant fruiting, pollinating insects are not needed. This is how gardeners speak about the variety.
Very attractive and appetizing in the photographs is the cucumber Claudia F1. Reviews, photos and discussions on the online forums of varietal qualities of cucumbers are invariably admired. Photos of canned cucumbers look appetizing, and the described taste is not in doubt that Claudia F1 will meet all the expectations of customers.
How to plant cucumbers
You can plant cucumbers immediately in the ground and through seedlings. Many, to get an earlier harvest, use the second method. Seedlings should be no more than a month old, otherwise it does not take root well and the seeds planted immediately in the ground eventually overtake it in development. When planting in the ground, seedlings must be covered, shaded in the daytime, watered and opened at night. Otherwise, it may burn out in the sun or suffer from wind. When the seedlings are acclimatized, it will cease to need shelter. This usually takes several days. In the greenhouse, seedlings are less sick, there is no wind, high humidity, direct sunlight is not dangerous.
Before planting, it is advisable to soak the seeds before swelling or nibbling of the root. Now some hybrid seeds are sold in a colored shell; they are not soaked to preserve it.
Outdoor landing
When planting in the ground make a bed. It can be earthen or dung. If cucumbers are planted simply on the ground, then the bed should be no more than a meter wide so that it is easy to harvest and care for the cucumbers. Cucumbers are planted in 2 rows on such a bed, leaving a distance of at least 20 cm between bushes in a row. You can make 2 furrows along the bed with a hoe, spill them well with water, then sprinkle fertilizer, preferably nitrogen-phosphorus-potash, there is everything you need . Then put the seeds of cucumbers and cover them with earth.
High bed of manure
You can put manure in the form of a bed with sides, pour the earth inside, and plant cucumbers in the ground. A high warm bed of manure will always make it possible to harvest a good crop. Cucumbers on it are warm, there are a lot of nutrients. In the old days, our grandmothers used to grow this vegetable in this way, when there were no greenhouses and any fertilizers and fertilizers in every yard.
How to grow a rich harvest? When cucumbers form a few true leaves, they can be poured with Zdraven fertilizer and spud. Thus, the bushes form a more powerful root system and give an even greater yield. Some gardeners advise to add a teaspoon of fertilizer “Field of Miracles” for each bush, then Claudia F1 in the open ground will yield a crop no less than in a greenhouse.