Gardeners build greenhouses and hotbeds in their summer cottages to grow tomatoes and cucumbers in them. Each person, over time, selects the ideal variety of vegetables for himself, focusing on taste and productivity. One of the most popular varieties is Adam F1 cucumber . Description, feedback and care can be found in our article. What is this vegetable like?
Cucumber Adam F1: description
This culture is vigorous and medium-ply, has a female type of flowering. Ideal for growing throughout our country, but especially loved by the inhabitants of the middle zone and northern latitudes for the precocity, which is important for these areas. Harvest formation occurs already fifty days after seed planting. Adam cucumbers are used for salads, pickling and pickling.
Zelentsy have a dark green color. Fruits grow up to 12 centimeters, the average weight reaches 90 grams, their surface is slightly tuberous, on which there is a slight pubescence of white color. The cucumber Adam F1, the description of which we produced, is endowed with a sweetish taste, juicy and crispy, not prone to bitterness.
This variety has a high yield. The bushes feel great in greenhouses and greenhouses, as well as in beds with temporary shelter in the form of a film.
Advantages of the variety and its disadvantages
Adam F1 cucumbers are endowed with a number of positive qualities, including high resistance to many diseases, such as powdery mildew, cladosporiosis and cucumber mosaic. What else can a variety boast of?
- Early ripening of fruits, high productivity.
- Zelentsy are even, have an excellent trade dress.
- Cucumbers easily carry transportation over long distances, as they are endowed with the ability to long-term storage.
- Taste excellent, do not have bitterness.
On one square meter, the average yield is 8.5-10.5 kilograms, so Adam cucumbers are popular not only among summer residents, but also among farmers who grow vegetables for sale.
As for the shortcomings, they simply do not exist. You can safely say that the variety is ideal.
Landing rules
Cucumber Adam F1, reviews of which can be found in the further contents of the article, is adapted to any climatic conditions, so the seeds can be planted in open ground. To do this, follow the following rules:
- Presowing preparation and heating are not needed.
- Seeds of cucumbers Adam must be placed in water for punching.
- If the area is not too hot in the summer and there are often cloudy cool days, it is worth hardening the seeds by placing them in the refrigerator for a day (not in the freezer!).
- Seeds for higher yields must be placed in special peat-humus pots.
- Before the emergence of seedlings can not be allowed to lower air temperature below +26.
- If the greenhouse or the greenhouse is “dark”, arrange for additional highlighting so that the bushes do not go up and their stems are not thinned.
- If the seeds are planted for seedlings, then they should not "sit" in pots for more than four weeks.
For planting seeds or seedlings, a 70x30 pattern is used. In addition, the following points should be considered:
- Sowing and planting seedlings should occur only when the air temperature is not lower than +18 degrees, and the soil is warmed up to +16.
- Seedlings need to be tempered, whether it is seeds or seedlings. To do this, a week before planting, take them out onto the street, pour water at a temperature slightly below room temperature.
- A day before planting, the soil in which the seedlings are found is watered with settled water, previously heated.
- Care for emerged seedlings is necessary according to the standard scheme, which is suitable for hybrid cucumbers.
Care
Cucumber Adam F1 is not a moody culture. It is only required to observe basic rules of care. So what is required for high yields?
- To reduce the risk of damage to cucumbers by pests and diseases, do not cultivate them annually in the same area. Returning them to the same place is required no more than once every five years.
- The beds on which the crop is grown should always be cleared of weeds.
- The root system is exposed to growth as it grows; therefore, it is necessary to stably loosen the soil and to spud the bushes.
- Before flowering, plants need weekly watering, and during fruiting, their number should be at least two per week. Thus, the fruits will be juicy and sweet.
- Watering should be carried out only in the evening. Water settles, so that there is no chlorine in it, and is heated to +24 degrees.
- Adam cucumbers need to be fed. The number of such events is five times a season. Ideal top dressing is mullein or bird droppings. If there is no way to find such, then the purchased funds will be suitable, the best ones are Fertility, The Breadwinner, Ideal and sodium humate.
- To stimulate branching and thereby increase productivity, you can pinch the main stem after the appearance of the sixth leaf of the plant.
How to increase productivity?
A convenient way to grow cucumbers is trellis. By tying the stems to the wire, you increase the lighting. Productivity will be higher with systematic harvesting.
It is very easy to make a tapestry. You will need a thick galvanized wire, two columns. Poles can be wooden, but they must be treated with a solution that will protect the material from pests and decay. The bark is completely removed, the ends of the pillars to be dug must be lubricated with resin. After installing the poles along the edges of the seedlings, pull three or four rows of wire, tie the whips to it with thick threads.
Is seed harvesting possible?
Many gardeners prefer to harvest their own seeds for planting next season. It is worth remembering that all varieties with a mark of F1 are not intended for this. They are not able to maintain their properties for the second generation. If you still decide to try this method, then do not expect a high yield and unique taste. Seeds are inexpensive, so it’s better to buy them.
Cucumber Adam F1: reviews of gardeners
There are a lot of comments on the variety. They write that cucumbers Adam fruit stably, high yields. They praise the culture for its fast growth, strong lashes on which juicy cucumbers ripen. Cucumbers Adam gained a lot of fans among gardeners and farmers-entrepreneurs due to its rich aroma, juiciness and sweet taste. They write that the variety is completely bitter.
Many reviews say that the culture is completely capricious, it is resistant to pests and diseases. For cucumbers of this variety is very easy to care for, they are unpretentious. They also write that the foliage does not turn yellow when the sun is stable, the yield lasts until the very end of the season. There are comments claiming that even when the bush begins to turn yellow, cucumbers can still ripen on it.