The sooner the cucumbers ripen, the better. If the manufacturer wants to make a profit, he needs the products to be early, to have a marketable appearance and well preserved during transportation. Therefore, he carefully studies the characteristics of existing varieties, gets acquainted with new products. But among all the variety there is one that has not gone out of fashion for more than one year. This is the cucumber Masha F1.
Description
The stems of this variety are strong, powerful. On one node can accommodate 5 or more fruits. Cucumbers ripen together Masha F1. Reviews, photos suggest that the color of their fruits are dark green, their shape is cylindrical, the ratio of length and thickness is three to one. Each length is about 8 centimeters. The peel of a cucumber has noticeable tubercles. The pulp is not bitter, dense.
Destination
The variety was created for growing in film greenhouses. It grows well in glass. You can get an excellent crop in an open garden where plants are located in a horizontal or vertical way.
Grade characteristics
Gherkin Masha F1 (hybrid) has the following advantages:
- self-pollinating (parthenocarpic);
- the earliest (the first production appears 37 days after sowing);
- suitable for growing in a greenhouse and open field;
- resistant to major diseases;
- suitable for salting and preservation;
- has a high yield.
Conditions for obtaining quality products
Cucumber Masha F1 grows and bears fruit indoors. But in spring, when the day gets longer, the temperature rises to 25 degrees and above, its stems become thicker, the leaves grow larger, the cucumbers grow faster, they become tastier, their appearance improves. In order for the fruits to have a standard dark color, you need to add potassium and magnesium.
Growing
Having decided on the variety, you need to choose a good place and suitable soil on which cucumber Masha F1 will grow. Growing it is the same as other varieties.
The site for cucumbers should receive a lot of light and be closed from the wind. The soil is best taken light, non-acidic, sandy loam or light loam. Cucumber does not like close standing groundwater. The predecessors for cucumbers are siderates, cabbage, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, and legumes. Do not use beds on which beets, pumpkins, melons, and zucchini grew before this. The soil should be well fertilized. Mineral fertilizers are applied three weeks before sowing. Organics (rotted manure) contribute in the fall or spring. The cucumber Masha F1 responds well to it.
Landing and care
Cucumbers are grown from seedlings or in a seedlingless way, sowing in a permanent place. Seeds can be sown dry or previously soaked.
Seedlings are grown in small containers for each grain. After all, cucumbers do not take root well when transplanted. To fill the containers, prepare a mixture of earth (2 parts), humus (7 parts) and manure (1 part). Add mineral fertilizers. Seedlings are grown at a temperature of 20 to 25 degrees, using greenhouses or some warm room in which cucumber Masha F1 begins its life. Landing is made in the last week of May.
Seedlings with three or four real leaves by this time will be 25 days. Seven days before planting, it begins to harden. Before planting, plants are fed. There may be late frosts at this time. In this case, the seedlings are covered with a film. Cucumbers are tropical plants; they cannot tolerate hypothermia and disappear.
How to get cucumber Masha F1 without greenhouses? Growing in this case is less costly, but there is a greater risk that the seeds will not sprout. You can sow them in mid-May or a little earlier. The seeds have the best germination after two to four years of storage. Sowing depth - 2-3 centimeters. You can cover the crops with film or lutrasil.
The beginning of flowering depends on the air temperature. The optimum temperature is +27 degrees. At 20 degrees, this will happen ten days later. And at 32 gr. the plant ceases to bloom and develop.
Planting density
If the plants sprouted together, they need to be thinned out. The number of plants per meter depends on the way cucumber Masha F1 is grown. Customer reviews suggest that they can be grown horizontally or vertically. In the first case, 4 or 5 stems (50 thousand per hectare) are enough per square meter. When using trellis (vertical method) leave 3 stalks of cucumbers (25 thousand per hectare). To do this, they are planted according to the scheme 80 × 60 in the greenhouse or 20 × 100 in the garden.
Plant care
- Watered after 3 days with warm water.
- Feeding.
- Weak from time to time (as necessary), but carefully. The root system of cucumbers is close to the surface.
- Spud several times a season.
- Pinch over the fifth leaf so that there are more lateral shoots.
- On greenhouses, side stems are removed above the first cucumber.
- They are treated with insecticides and disease control agents.
- Mulch so that the soil does not dry out and does not crack.
- Fruits are constantly collected so that their number does not exceed 10-16 pieces on a bush.
- You can spray it, but this will increase the risk of fungal diseases. Greenhouses are regularly ventilated.
Let us focus on top dressing, which you need to support the cucumber Masha F1. The reviews indicate that the first of them is best done when two real leaflets are formed. The second is carried out in two weeks. In this case, the number of ingredients doubles. You can feed once a decade with a solution obtained from 1 liter of manure, diluted in 10 liters of water (you can take 10 grams of urea instead of manure). If cucumbers grow weakly, add ash to the solution.
If nutrition is insufficient, the leaves of the cucumbers turn yellow, the ovary disappears. How to find out which substance Cucumber Masha F1 did not receive? Description of the shape of the fetus will help to understand this. If it has a pear-shaped shape, then you need to add potassium, a narrow light tip indicates a lack of nitrogen, the presence of a waist occurs due to irrigation with cold water. Crooked fruits can result from cross-pollination of various hybrids.
Top dressing increases productivity, but with it you need to know the measure. Excessive amount of fertilizer can lead to the opposite effect. The quality of cucumbers will deteriorate due to the increased amount of nitrates, and the cucumber can become hazardous to the health of consumers.
Harvesting
Cucumbers need to be collected every day. If this is done less often, then some of them will outgrow and lose their quality. In addition, they will slow the maturation of other ovaries. Regular harvesting increases the quality and quantity of the crop. It must be done carefully. The stems of cucumbers are very brittle and delicate, often intertwined. If you pull the cucumber strongly without holding the stem, it can break off. Trampled bushes quickly disappear.
Productivity
Few varieties produce as many fruits as cucumber Masha F1. Its yield is 2 kg from each bush. Over the 6 thousand years that cucumbers have existed, their beneficial and unhealthy (and there are such) properties have been studied quite well.
The benefits and harms of cucumbers
95% of the water in the composition, the absence of fats, carbohydrates and proteins - all this helps to lose weight. The calorie content of cucumber is 15 kcal per 100 g. It contains vitamins A, C, PP, group B, potassium (most), phosphorus, iron, magnesium, iodine and other useful substances.
Cucumber helps treat cardiovascular diseases, metabolic arthritis, gout, kidney and liver diseases, prostate gland, improves intestinal motility, helps get rid of edema, has a choleretic and diuretic effect. Alkaline salts, which are part of the vegetable, contribute to rejuvenation. For this, he is called the orderly of the body. Cucumber is used externally for masks. Potassium and silicon improve the appearance of skin and hair. Iodine compounds will help people with iodine deficiency. And, accordingly, they are harmful to those who have excess iodine. In addition, cucumbers can be harmful to those suffering from gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer.
Cucumbers grown in open beds have much more than all the listed nutrients. But salted and pickled do not possess medicinal properties. They are just delicious.
Consumer Reviews
Many gardeners grow cucumber Masha F1. Reviews note its taste: it is not bitter, does not form voids inside the fruit. If you come across bitter cucumbers, then this is definitely some other variety. Consumers describe the growing process in detail. They share their experience of how and when they sow seeds, plant cucumber Masha F1 under the film. The formation of the bush is carried out by pinching the main stem. This helps increase plant yields. Indeed, instead of one, albeit a long whip, up to five side ones are formed.
Many gardeners like the fact that the variety is almost not infected with diseases. But nevertheless, they prefer not to take risks and treat the Aliet cucumber variety Masha F1 with antiviral drugs. Customer reviews indicate exposure to its peronospirosis and powdery mildew at high humidity. At the first manifestations of the disease (flour stains), the affected leaves are cut off. You can treat them with ash.
Salted, canned - cucumber Masha F1 is good in all kinds. Reviews say that cucumbers, like many vegetables and fruits, are dried in the dryers for the winter. This helps preserve the beneficial substances found in the product.
There are customer reviews of unscrupulous dealers. They noticed that some of the Seminis plants had bitter fruits. But first, male-type flowers appeared on them, which should not be on hybrids. What is the matter? Perhaps these are not really dealers of the company. If you are sure that you bought certified seeds, you can contact the advocates of consumer rights. But first you need to find a check and a package of seeds. It is believed that the company "Seminis" with increased demand was not enough to monitor quality. Consumers note that a significant number of punctured ones appeared among the seeds, inlay crumbles on them, even weeds are found. And what happens to seeds when repackaged by distributors, no one knows. To avoid this, it is better to purchase seeds in the original packaging, you need to buy them from official representatives.
A lot of reviews about the seeds of other companies, their quality, germination. It is noted that the seeds of the Dutch firms Nunems, Enza, Syngenta are well prepared, but plucked ones are still found among them.
Among those companies that qualitatively prepare seeds for planting, LLC SSF Partenokarpik-D (Vnukovo) is called. The company produces hybrids, well-known throughout the world. But they have an untwisted enterprise, small volumes of products. Some consumers like the products of the Gavrish seed-breeding center.