Many consider cucumber the main vegetable. Indeed, without its fresh smell it is difficult to imagine a real summer. Cucumbers are healthy and tasty, so they always have a place on the table. Gardeners want to grow as many juicy, sweet and fragrant greens as possible, and this is available to everyone, the main thing is to choose the right variety.
Cucumber Adam: Description
Many of those who grow cucumbers every year, like the Dutch variety Adam, which has significant advantages. First of all, it is ease of cultivation, resistance to cold, good productivity, but most importantly - excellent taste.
Adam hybrid belongs to the early ripe annual vegetable varieties. It was launched by the Dutch company Bejo Zaden, a leader in the selection and production of high-quality seeds, as well as their sales in more than 100 countries.
Cucumber Adam is one of the best innovations of the company. The hybrid is included in the State Register and is recommended for widespread cultivation as a variety that gives high productivity and is suitable for climatic conditions in all regions of our country. In terms of cultivation, the variety is universal, it can be grown both in open ground and protected (in greenhouses, under film shelter).
Bushes of the borage indeterminate, stretching up all summer, until the frost. The branches have medium plait, the leaves are small, green or dark green. The flowering is plentiful, according to the female type. To facilitate the process of care and cleaning, such cucumbers are best grown on a trellis or net.
What will be the harvest
Cucumber Adam is a high-yielding, long-fruiting variety. The first greenbacks can be removed from the bush already 42-50 days after sowing. Fruits are dark green or green in color, with short light stripes and weak spotting, often pubescent with white prickly spikes. They are of regular cylindrical shape, aligned, with small tubercles.
The length of cucumbers is up to 10 cm, diameter is 3-3.5 cm, weight reaches 95 grams. The skin is thin, the pulp is dense, with excellent taste and bright aroma. The fruiting is plentiful, up to 10 kg per sq. m. Cucumbers are intended for fresh consumption, pickling and pickling.
If, when buying a bag of cucumber seeds, you pay attention not only to the picture, but also carefully read the inscription, you can see the words "Parthenocarpic hybrid."
What is parthenocarpic hybrid
Everything is quite simple. Parthenocarpic cucumbers - these are varieties or hybrids that form fruits without pollination. That is, they are not pollinated at all: neither by themselves, nor by bees, nor by other good helpers. Fruits in this case are without seeds, and so they are interesting. True, gathering seed material from them so that next year they will again grow parthenocarpic cucumbers will not work. A logical question arises: how do breeders get seeds? The fact is that parthenocopic hybrids can also form flowers and fruits by pollination, so specialists get seeds from cucumbers formed as a result of manual transfer of pollen.
Benefits of Adam Partenocopic Cucumbers
This interesting variety has several advantages that distinguish them from ordinary counterparts:
- the abundance of flowers;
- long and generous fruiting;
- gigantic (up to 2 meters) growth of lashes;
- disease resistance (cucumber mosaic, powdery mildew, cladosporiosis);
- excellent taste;
- high-quality look (almost all cucumbers are even and the same, of a neat shape);
- lack of bitterness;
- persistent bright green color (do not turn yellow);
- high transportability;
- long-term storage without special conditions;
- Suitability for canning and pickling.
The fact that cucumber Adam has no seeds can also be considered an advantage to some extent.
Cultivation and care
Cucumber hybrid Adam steadily perceives the vagaries of the climate, so after preliminary preparation it can be sown directly in the open ground. Many gardeners prefer to plant prepared seedlings, but only after the frost has passed.
Before sowing, it is not required to warm up and pre-process hybrid seeds, it is only necessary to harden to increase cold resistance, placing in a refrigerator for a day. So that the seeds hatch, they are soaked in water at room temperature. For seedlings, they are sown in prepared containers filled with nutrient soil, and create the necessary conditions for their germination: maintaining the temperature + 24-26 ° C until mass germination, followed by lowering to 20 ° C, clarification and timely watering, that is, standard care methods .
Planting seedlings or sowing seeds can begin when the soil warms up to at least 15 ° C, and air - up to 18 ° C. Sprouted plants should also be pre-hardened, for which they should be taken out the day before.
Cucumber Adam is not too whimsical, but very responsive to heat, sunlight and soil quality, so choosing a place and preparing a planting bed using organic fertilizers is very important. In the further process of growing, watering, weeding, top dressing, bush formation, gartering are the basic elements of proper care for the borage.
Assessment of gardeners
According to gardeners, the best varieties are those that are actively growing in open ground. They are good in salad, and suitable for seaming. Therefore, many choose Adam cucumbers for planting. The reviews suggest that this variety is optimal for such requirements. Fragrant, juicy, sweet cucumbers pleased everyone. It is well-deserved that this hybrid is considered an unpretentious culture, which is easy to care for and at the same time receive a generous harvest. Similar qualities bring cucumber Adam to the top ten best varieties from Bejo Zaden.