Parthenocarpic cucumbers do not need to "communicate" with a bee to form a fetus. This means that it can be effectively grown in the house, in greenhouses. In addition, in rainy weather, when the bees do not fly, such a cucumber will not cease to tie fruit. Partenocarpic already have dozens of varieties. One of them is "goosebumps".
Description
The fruit is very beautiful: short, dark green.
It’s easy to identify “goosebumps” on it. The description of the variety indicates that the fruit has large tubercles with spikes. A distinctive feature of the hybrid "goosebump F1" is a very pleasant smell.
Flowers like flowering has, like all parthenocarpics, female. Four to six ovaries form above each leaf. This allows you to quickly harvest. The crawfish variety is "goosebump" early, ripening in 44-48 days. Productivity from one plant is 6-7 kg.
Goosebump is a disease resistant cucumber.
Seed treatment
For sowing, the best seeds of three or four years ago are selected. Although they retain germination up to 8, sometimes even up to 10 years. Before sowing, they need to be disinfected and germinated.
To do this, they are heated for three days at a temperature of 50 degrees, soaked in potassium permanganate for half an hour, having previously dissolved 5 grams in half a liter of water. Then washed and soaked for half a day.
Germination
Prepared seeds are wrapped in moist cotton fabric (so that they "breathe") and kept until germination at a temperature of at least 25 degrees.
The field of this can also be hardened by placing the curved grains for 18 hours in the refrigerator. The temperature there should be 2 degrees of heat.
Seedlings
"Goosebump" - a cucumber that can be grown from seedlings. This will allow you to get an earlier crop. With this method, the risk of loss of grain or sprouts at low temperatures is eliminated.
But sowing cucumbers in boxes, like tomatoes, is not worth it. Cucumbers do not tolerate a transplant, so they need to be grown one at a time, in extreme cases - two.
Glasses are filled with a mixture of equal parts of humus and sod land with the addition of wood ash at the rate of 1 glass per bucket of mixture.
It can be filled halfway, put one or a couple (no more) sprouted grains and put 1 cm on top of the ground. At the same time, you need to tamp well, otherwise the sprout will pick up the layer added after it and not pierce it.
You can fill the cup by 2/3, make a hole in the centimeter and fill it with the mixture. Containers with sown seeds are set in a box with a thin layer of earth at the bottom and covered with glass or film. This will prevent uncontrolled drying of the mixture.
Seedlings will appear in 20 days. Therefore, you can sow the seeds of "goosebumps" in April-early May (for planting in open ground).
After the emergence of seedlings, the box is opened, put on a sunny, warm place (you can on the windowsill). The temperature is lowered to 22 degrees, the humidity is increased to 90%. This can be done by laying out wet towels on hot batteries.
Watering seedlings should be moderate. Spend several top dressing with mullein solution (1 liter of a ten percent solution per bucket of water). You can add mineral fertilizers.
Planting
Seedlings are planted when she has two or three true leaves. The most suitable soils for them are light loamy, well-fertilized. The place for cucumbers should be protected and well-lit, if possible on the southern slope. But make sure that there are no potatoes, fennel and other aromatic herbs nearby. The exception is dill.
The soil is prepared in the fall. Fertilize with humus (two buckets per square meter). It is distributed evenly over the site. The acidic soil is lime. At the same time, it is enriched with calcium, which enhances the development of root hairs.
At temperatures below 13 ° C, seeds disappear in the soil. Therefore, they need to be sown in the ground when warming it above this temperature.
The same goes for the greenhouse. But there the necessary conditions are created earlier.
Seeds are sown in grooves to a depth of 5 cm. They are watered, the soil is loosened a little so that it does not stick together. The seeds are laid out so that the distance between them is five to six centimeters. Fall asleep with damp earth. You can mulch humus. This will retain moisture and increase the temperature near the seeds.
You can use the square-nesting method (70 cm square side) when sowing cucumbers. Ten seeds are sown in each well, of which three are later left.
Thinning seedlings
The thicker the crops of the "goose" cucumber, the later its fruiting will begin. Therefore, plants need to be thinned out regularly. First, remove the excess plants before the appearance of these leaves. Five pieces are left per meter.
Cucumber loves heat (up to 25 degrees) throughout life. If the temperature begins to fluctuate greatly, then its roots die off and the plant weakens. And diseases are developing.
Watering
The fruits grow at night. To do this, they need to be watered.
But not every day in a mug under a bush. It is better to make two buckets of water per square meter. At the same time, the soil will get wet to a depth of 20 cm, which will make it possible to maintain the desired humidity on the site. During flowering, they are watered very carefully, breaking through the furrows at a distance of 15 cm from the roots and preventing water from entering the plant. Water is used warm, up to 30 degrees. After watering, you need to loosen the soil.
Fertilizer
Use cow dung or chicken droppings, fermented in containers with water and diluted in a ratio of 1:10. The color of the liquid is light yellow.
The second top dressing is carried out by adding superphosphate or nitroammophoska (1 tbsp.spoon per bucket of water) to the mullein.
Before dressing, plants are watered. Make 1 liter of fertilizer per plant.
A third is carried out using a glass of ash in a bucket of water. The application rate under the bush is halved.
Formation
The main stem of the hybrid "goosebump F1" pinch after the sixth leaf. Side stems - with a length of 40 cm.
Disease protection
"Goosebump" - an early cucumber, therefore little affected by disease.
But to prevent the disease, powdery mildew is sprayed with a 10% solution of milk with water, adding 100 drops of iodine.
It is necessary to treat the roots from rot by removing the earth from the bush and sprinkling them with ash. True, goosebumps are relatively resistant to this disease.
Reviews
Hybrid buyers like for early and friendly bearing. Some claim that it bears fruit before the onset of frost. They cannot name another such as "goosebumps", a variety of cucumbers. Reviews indicate that gardeners like his appearance and taste.
Some consumers believe that parthenocarpic varieties are less suitable for salting in taste. But they will arrange any housewife with their appearance.
Small, the same size, even - what else are needed for salting? Just such fruits have a "goosebump" - a cucumber, specially created for harvesting for the winter.
In the first weeks of August, it contains the maximum amount of vitamins and nutrients. It is at this time that it is recommended to pickle "creeps" for salting . Customer reviews indicate that if after three days the brine is drained, boiled, poured back and rolled, then the cucumbers will retain their taste and quality until spring.
Consumers believe that the "goosebump F 1" cucumber is the best of hybrids.