Cucumbers are an amazing vegetable culture of the pumpkin family, which is consumed in an unripe form. The heat-loving plant, whose homeland is India and China, has long been grown in Africa, Greece and throughout the Roman Empire. Cucumbers were brought to Russia by overseas merchants in the fifteenth century. At present, it is a popular culture all over the world. The versatile vegetable is equally good in fresh, salted, canned and pickled form. The ingredients of many recipes include cucumber. Pickled and pickled pickles are especially delicious. There are a lot of varieties of this vegetable crop. They can be combined into several groups: greenhouse, ground, gherkin. They can be early ripening, middle and late. In addition, they are distinguished by properties: pickling and salad.
Among the huge variety of varieties and hybrids of domestic and foreign selection, the Temp F1 cucumber deserves attention.
Description
When choosing a vegetable crop, the expected result should be clearly presented. Usually, ripening and yield plants that are different in terms of maturity are selected, which will provide vegetable products throughout the season. Moreover, they should be unpretentious and resistant to drought. Valuable qualities are resistance to diseases and pests. What varieties of cucumbers are good can be determined by their description and reviews of gardeners. Hybrid cucumbers Temp F1 is characterized by early ripening. From seedlings to collecting the first pickles, thirty-seven days are needed. Gherkins will ripen a week later. This hybrid is parthenocarpic. The female type of flowering and a bunchy ovary prevail. The yield of cucumbers of the Temp F1 hybrid increases due to the formation of three to five fruits in one node.
From one square meter they collect from eleven to fifteen kilograms of beautiful fruits, the mass of which is thirty or fifty grams. They taste great without bitterness. The shape of the fetus is cylindrical. Its tuberous surface is covered with small white spikes. The length of the cucumber is from five to seven centimeters, and a diameter of one and a half or two centimeters. The color of the fruit is green with longitudinal stripes. The plant is branchy.
Main characteristics
The Temp F1 hybrid is designed to produce gherkins that have a universal purpose. Equally good both in fresh form and in culinary dishes is the Temp F1 cucumber. Reviews confirm the excellent taste of gherkins. They can be canned, salted and pickled. At the same time, they retain elasticity, taste great. The Temp F1 hybrid is attractive to farmers. These short-cucumbers have excellent marketability and transportability. Hybrid Temp F1 is resistant to diseases: cladosporiosis and powdery mildew. Weakly affected by peronosporosis. The hybrid tolerates drought and high summer temperatures.
Growing
Self-pollinated cucumbers bear fruit without pollinators for open ground. Hybrid Temp F1 is able to produce crops without pollination. It can be grown in film greenhouses and in open ground.
To accelerate the harvest, a seedling method is used. F1 cucumber varieties are first-generation hybrids obtained by crossing several plants. Growing such vegetables is not possible to obtain seed material on your own.
The Temp F1 hybrid is characterized by rapid growth and a stable high yield of excellent gherkins that do not outgrow. It facilitates the cultivation of good resistance to diseases and pests.
Cucumber Seedlings
Seedlings can be grown at home. When to plant cucumbers on seedlings? For film greenhouses, sowing of seeds is performed in early April. Cucumbers do not take root well in case of damage to the root system. Therefore, the seeds are sown in cups or peat pots.
Two seeds are placed in each of them. If the acquired hybrid seeds are not treated with growth stimulants, they are sorted before sowing, removing damaged and non-equilibrium. After that, the seeds are soaked. Germinated seeds germinate faster. Seedling tanks are filled with a special earthen mixture. It is easy to cook it yourself. The earth mix consists of garden earth, peat and sand. After sowing, the cups are covered with foil and placed in a warm place. When sprouts appear, you need good lighting. Caring for seedlings is quite simple. This is regular watering and the creation of the necessary temperature and light conditions. At the age of twenty or twenty-five days, it is planted in closed ground.
When to plant cucumbers on seedlings for open ground? Seedlings are transferred to the beds when stable warm weather occurs, when the threat of spring temperature drops passes. Ready planting material is planted in late May or early June. Therefore, sowing seeds for seedlings occurs in early May. Moreover, plants have three or four well-developed leaves.
Outdoor cultivation
You can sow the seeds of Temp F1 cucumbers directly on prepared beds. Planting cucumbers in the ground is possible when the surface layer is heated to fourteen degrees Celsius. When choosing a site, it should be noted that cucumbers should not be grown after zucchini and pumpkin. The best predecessors will be early white and cauliflower, potatoes and onions. You should also pay attention to the soil. It should be quite fertile and loose. The site is located in a well-lit and protected from drafts place. Before sowing seeds, weed, loosen and level it. At the same time, organic and mineral fertilizers are introduced. Seeds are sown in grooves, between which they stand a distance of fifty centimeters. They lay out two seeds at a distance of not less than thirty-five centimeters. Planting density should not exceed three or four plants per square meter. With more thickened cultivation, the area of plant nutrition decreases. At the same time, productivity decreases and the risk of disease and pest damage increases.
Planting seedlings
A plot for growing cucumbers is prepared in the fall. They dig it up and make organic fertilizers. At the end of May, Temp F1 cucumber is planted on a previously prepared site. Reviews of gardeners suggest that seedlings grown in separate cups are easy to plant. In this case, the root system of the plant is practically not injured. Seedlings grown in tablets and peat pots are placed with them in prepared wells. The distance between the holes should be thirty or thirty-five centimeters. They are arranged in rows.
Aisles are fifty or sixty centimeters. When planting, seedlings are well watered and mulched with peat.
Trellis cultivation
High yields will please the cucumber Temp F1. The description of this plant emphasizes the bouquet formation of the ovary. Cucumbers of this kind feel great on the trellis.
This improves the quality of fruits that are not injured. Plant care and harvesting are also simplified. Cucumbers are well lit and ventilated. This helps to reduce the incidence. With the trellis method of growing, cucumbers are planted after 20 cm. A trellis is built along with the plants along which lashes will be fixed. As a support, you can use metal or wooden poles. Their height should be at least two meters. Between the posts pull three rows of wire. A plastic mesh is attached to it. Its cells are 15-20 cm. Plants are fixed with twine.
Cucumbers in a greenhouse: planting seedlings
Self-pollinated cucumbers are perfect for open ground, and also such plants are suitable for growing in spring film and stationary greenhouses. Hybrid Temp F1 has parthenocarpic properties, which will allow its cultivation in film greenhouses. This early ripe vegetable crop is able to provide a fairly early harvest of beautiful short-fruited cucumbers. In spring film greenhouses, seedlings are planted in late April. If they are heated, then this period can be shifted a month in advance. Plants are planted in rows, maintaining a distance between bushes of at least 30 cm.
Care
The growing lashes are arranged vertically.
They are tied to the shelter frame. Successful cultivation will require the creation of a special microclimate. When leaving, regular moistening and fertilizing for cucumbers is necessary. In a greenhouse, watering plants is performed only with warm water. Its temperature should be 24-26 ° C. Before flowering, hydration should be moderate. The cucumber Temp F1 is characterized by a bouquet type of ovary. Reviews of gardeners who grew this plant in a greenhouse indicate that the bunch consists of three or five ovaries. During their formation, watering is increased to three liters per square meter. Also, for the ripening of fruits, fertilizers for cucumbers will be required. The greenhouse uses full mineral fertilizer. Ten gallons of water will require 40 g of
ammonium nitrate and 30 g of potassium magnesia. 2 g of boric acid and copper sulfate, as well as 3 g of manganese sulfate and iron are added to the aqueous solution. For foliar feeding, you can use liquid
complex fertilizers.Harvesting
Stable harvest differs cucumber pace F1. Reviews confirm the excellent commercial and transportable qualities of the fruit.
The bouquet type of ovary formation significantly increases productivity, which can reach fifteen kilograms per square meter. When picking pickles, the yield will be seven kilograms per square meter. Regular picking of cucumbers will be required. Frequent picking of fruits helps to accelerate the formation of ovaries.