Chinese Cucumber - is not new selection and variety of this vegetable, talking about the true origin.
Its distinctive features:
- dlinnoplodnost (from 40 cm to 1 m, depending on the grade);
- small seeds, which for a long time do not increase, despite the growth of the fetus;
- skin is thin, and bubble;
- great taste without bitterness;
- flesh is firm, tender;
- voids are absent;
- wonderful fragrance which spreads throughout the room while cutting vegetables.
obtained very tasty dishes (salads, rolls), which uses the Chinese cucumber.Photos of one of them you can see below.Just wanted to take a mini-roll and put it in his mouth.Incidentally, in China cucumbers typically fried, type and zucchini squash.
Chinese Cucumber preferably grown in the greenhouse, but in the open field, he feels good, but not such a long fruiting and number of fruit less.To obtain early production need to grow seedlings.Seeds desirable to etch in a solution of potassium permanganate, and then soak in growth promoters.Then put them in a damp cloth.After about 3 days of quality seeds show little roots.
When they sprout, you need to plant them in peat pots with disinfected soil (can be used for the purchase of seedlings, or prepare a mixture of humus, peat, sand and ash).Stems from the cotyledon leaves appear quickly - days through 3. After about 10 days, when the plants will be formed 3 and 4 present the best leaf, they should be transplanted to a permanent place.
beds or in a greenhouse is necessary to prepare the week before: make humus and ash and shed hot solution of copper sulfate.After this procedure, it is desirable to place cover with foil for a few hours.
Cucumber Chinese need to be grown in a vertical way, all plants are well illuminated by the sun.When transplanting is not necessary to thicken optimally to leave 0.5m between plants.After 10 days you need to start formirovke.In the axils of the first four leaves vyschipnut need all the flowers and shoots.Pity you can not, with the right main stem formirovke there will be many more.Further 6 prischipnut side shoots should be when they reach 25 cm. The following can be left 40 cm, 50 cm. The main prischipnut should escape as soon as it reaches the maximum height of the trellis or the roof of the greenhouse.
Chinese Cucumber should be watered at the roots only with warm water.Its leaves do not have to touch the ground.Plants need good ventilation.From sowing seed to fruiting have to wait a short time - about a month.With a single plant is feasible to collect 30 kg or more fruits, depending on how large cucumber removed.
care needs throughout the season: weeding, shallow tillage, irrigation preferably in the morning.Mandatory fertilization can extract weeds after fermentation and 10-fold dilution with water.This also means a good handle whip.All dried up and the suspect leaves need to be removed in the morning when the weather is dry.After 1.5 months from the beginning of fruiting need to remove the lower leaves.
Try to grow cucumbers Chinese.Grades Kui Ming, Yi Jinn Lifent Senyus and others for sale are rare and have almost always hybrids.A series of "Chinese Snake" is remarkable in that the plants are green and bear fruit until late autumn, and then on your desk for a long time will be fragrant and tasty pickles.
