Description of the Siberian Express cucumber variety, features of cultivation and care
Among vegetable crops, cucumbers are valued for the opportunity to feast on green fruits at the end of June. Therefore, it is advised to choose the early Siberian Express F1 cucumber, which has a lot of advantages. The hybrid vegetable is disease resistant. And the early maturity of cucumbers and the marketable type of products allows them to be grown on farm fields and summer cottages.
Vegetable plant characteristic
Early ripe varieties of cucumbers vegetable growers pay attention, because without them the summer menu will be poor. About the hybrid Siberian Express F1 we can say that it:
- gives the first fruits 35–40 days after germination;
- grows in open ground, despite difficult climatic conditions;
- does not require pollination;
- resistant to diseases - powdery mildew, fusarium;
- forms in each node 1–2 greens;
- allows you to collect from ten kilograms of cucumbers from one square meter.
We can say about the fruits of the hybrid that they are not bitter. In length they reach ten centimeters, weighing one hundred grams. The color of the cucumbers is dark green, they are covered with large tubercles. Excellent taste, lack of bitterness in fruits helps summer residents to use the crop universally.
Cucumbers are suitable for fresh consumption in salads, slicing, preparing pickled and salted products for the winter.
Growing cucumbers with a female flowering type
The agricultural technology of cucumbers is simple and familiar to every vegetable grower:
- To grow a vegetable plant, it is necessary to prepare a place with a soil rich in humus, light in structure.
- It is better to plant cucumbers after corn, peas, tomatoes.
- The soil temperature when planting seeds or seedlings of a vegetable should be at around 14 degrees Celsius.
- During the growing season, cucumbers need fertilizers, to which plants respond well, increasing the number of ovaries.
The seedling method is characterized by an acceleration of the fruiting time. At the time of planting in open ground, the seedlings of the cucumber should have from three to four true leaves. Hybrid seeds require neither disinfection nor heating before sowing in the ground. To obtain seedlings, seeds are planted in April in a nutritious soil mixture. In addition to humus and peat, it contains sawdust, wood ash, nitrophoska.
The containers are filled with soil and the germinated seed is sealed. During the growth of seedlings, the soil is watered and fed with a nutrient solution (three teaspoons of nitrophoska for three liters of warm water).
When planting in open ground, four plants are placed in the hole. If cucumbers are immediately sown on the garden bed, then the seeds are planted to a depth of 3-5 centimeters.
To increase the temperature of the air and soil, to accelerate the ripening of greens, corn, peas, and beans are planted every four rows of vegetables.
Siberian Express cucumber care includes:
- abundant watering;
- spraying bushes with warm water;
- pinching shoots over the fourth leaf;
- feeding with mullein alternating with mineral complexes;
- shading cucumbers on hot days.
Correct care will allow you to quickly get high quality greens.
Pest control
Cucumbers Siberian Express F1 are resistant to diseases, but pests attack plants, causing harm. Among them are aphids and whiteflies.
When growing cucumbers in a greenhouse, they don't know how to deal with a whitefly. A small pest, similar to a butterfly with white wings, lays hundreds of eggs per season. The insect is difficult to destroy by chemical means. Pest larvae can be found on the lower surface of cucumber leaves.
At the same time, the plant's ability to photosynthesis decreases. Viruses and fungi attack plants through punctures in the leaves. If spots of a yellow or brown hue appear on the leaves of cucumbers, and they curl, then the pest is easy to identify. It remains to wash the leaves affected by the larvae with soapy water. Of modern insecticidal preparations, treatment with Green soap will help get rid of the whitefly. Whitefly and traps made of cardboard boxes, which are coated with rosin and castor oil, will destroy. They are hung in the greenhouse and the insects stick to the walls.
Aphids, like whiteflies, are eliminated by spraying the bushes with infusion of garlic, onion peels, and tobacco.
The opinion of vegetable growers about the cultivation of the Siberian Express
Sincere reviews of the Siberian Express F1 hybrid indicate that cucumbers have earned popularity for their useful qualities, early ripening, and excellent taste of zelents. The variety is grown in greenhouses, in the open field.... Many advise grow cucumbers on a trellis... This helps to maintain the resistance of the vegetable to diseases, since the leaves do not come into contact with the soil.
The only drawback of the hybrid is that you cannot collect seeds from the fruit, as some of the best properties of this cucumber variety will be lost.
Mom last year started such a variety in her garden. Says that the yield is very high, especially with the drug BioGrowwhich she uses on both cucumbers and tomatoes. She planted only 5 bushes and, as a result, annoyed the cans for all relatives.