Cucumber Ecole - a beginner in seed production

The native land of the world's most popular plant is India. Cucumber is one of the crops grown from ancient times, it is about 3000 years old. Heat and balanced watering are important factors for obtaining high yields.

New in the line of seeds

Cucumber Ecole - a new parthenocarpic hybrid, belonging to the cornichon type. During 2009 and 2010, research trials were conducted, and in 2011, buyers were offered a novelty of cucumber seeds. A powerful plant mass at the beginning of the growing season helps to increase the resistance to cucumber mosaic viruses and diseases of powdery mildew and cladosporium.

Features of Ecole hybrid

The variety of cucumbers has its own distinctive features:

• The plant looks compact. On the bush, thanks to short internodes, the growth of additional shoots is self-limited.
• Multiparty in the node. Under favorable conditions, from 3 to 5 fruits are formed.
• Short period before fruiting. Approximately 40-45 days pass from shoots to the first harvest.
• Cucumber Ecole is famous for its high yield - 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 agrotechnics - a long period of fruiting. In greenhouses with the possibility of heating the soil and air during preparation with additional illumination of early seedlings, the cultivation can begin in February. The last harvest in greenhouses and in the open ground, provided that there are no low temperatures, are collected in September. In private households, to produce an early crop, they grow in film greenhouses.

In the southern regions and in large greenhouse complexes with powerful illumination, the cucumber Ecole can be planted twice a season. Autumn harvest will be lower, but the taste of the fruit will remain excellent.

Characteristics of the vegetable

• Large-tubular fetus cylindrical with spines.
• The variety is suitable for collecting small fruits (pickles).
• The length is 7-9 centimeters. The ratio of length and width of the fetus is 3.2: 1.
• Memorable bright green color.
• Cucumber Ecole is suitable for fresh consumption and has proven itself as a product for processing. Canned fruits remain tasty and elastic.
• A distinctive feature laid genetically, we can note the absence of bitterness. Even with unfavorable growing conditions, the taste will not change.

To obtain a high yield, fertile soil is needed , in which, to increase the aeration, it is necessary to add rotten leaves or sawdust. When adding fresh sawdust, it is important to monitor the nitrogen balance, since the cucumber is demanding for this substance.