The birthplace of a plant popular around the world is India. Cucumber is one of the crops grown since ancient times, it is about 3000 years old. Warm and balanced watering are important factors for high yields.
New in the seed line
Cucumber Ekol - a new parthenocarpic hybrid belonging to the gherkin type. During 2009 and 2010, research tests were conducted, and in 2011, customers were offered a novelty of cucumber seeds. Powerful plant mass at the beginning of the growing season helps to increase the resistance of cucumber mosaic viruses and diseases of powdery mildew and cladosporiosis.
Features of the Ekol Hybrid
The variety of cucumbers has its own distinctive features:
- The plant looks compact. On the bush due to short internodes, the growth of additional shoots is self-limited.
- Multiplicity in a knot. Under favorable conditions, from 3 to 5 fruits are formed.
- Short period to fruiting. Approximately 40-45 days pass from seedlings to the first harvest.
- Cucumber Ekol is famous for its high productivity - 10-12 kilograms per square meter. When grown in greenhouse conditions, the intensity of ovary formation increases, the productivity of the bush increases significantly.
- With proper agricultural technology - a long period of fruiting. In greenhouses with the possibility of heating the soil and air during preparation, with the help of additional illumination of early seedlings, cultivation can begin in February. The last crop in greenhouses and in the open field, subject to the absence of low temperatures, is harvested in September. In private households, they grow in film greenhouses to get an early harvest.
In the southern regions and in large greenhouse complexes with powerful lighting, Ekol cucumber can be planted twice a season. Autumn harvest will be lower, but the taste of the fruit will remain excellent.
Vegetable characteristics
- Coarse-tuberous fruit of a cylindrical shape with spikes.
- The variety is suitable for collecting small fruits (pickles).
- The length is 7-9 centimeters. The ratio of the length and width of the fetus is 3.2: 1.
- A catchy bright green color.
- Cucumber Ekol is suitable for fresh consumption and has proven itself as a product for processing. Canned fruits remain delicious and resilient.
- A distinctive feature laid genetically is the absence of bitterness. Even under adverse growing conditions, the taste will not change.
To obtain a high yield, fertile soil is needed , in which to increase aeration it is necessary to add rotted leaves or sawdust. When adding fresh sawdust, it is important to monitor the nitrogen balance, since cucumber is demanding on this substance.