Cucumber "emerald stream": reviews. Variety description, cultivation

It is difficult to imagine human nutrition without vegetable crops. Each of them has its own history and individual characteristics. Among the most popular vegetables can not fail to mention cucumbers. This amazing food product, which is home to India and China, is quite useful. Cucumbers are 95% water. However, a high content of potassium and a minimum of calories allows them to be an integral part of the diet for everyone who wants to lose weight.

Cucumbers for salad

When choosing a variety for growing gardening, following a fashion or guided by other principles of selecting plants for beds, give preference to cornichons of salty type. However, those who love cucumber salad and are familiar with the cultivation of Chinese long-bodied cucumbers in their garden will always find a place for this variety.

And do not necessarily write out the seeds of cucumbers from China. Reviews happy owners of unusual vegetables are advised to grow domestic varieties and hybrids. Among them, the cucumber variety "emerald stream" possesses remarkable taste qualities.

Description

Hybrid differs early ripening maturation. Vegetation period is 44-48 days. Cucumber is parthenocarpic, with predominance of female type of flowering. He is characterized by a bouquet type of ovary formation. The plant does not require pollination. This feature allows you to grow a hybrid in the open ground, in greenhouses and at home.

Fruits of the Chinese type. Zelenians reach 25 cm in length. When fully ripened, the fruits of the cucumber hybrid emerald stream reach impressive proportions. The testimonies of the lucky owners of this miracle show that individual specimens reached eighty centimeters in length! Fruits of a salad type are sweet and very fragrant. Thin peel is equally delicate and in greenery, and in cucumbers when fully ripe.
Dark green thin cylindrical fruits have a tuberculate structure.

Advantages

"Emerald Flux" F1 is characterized by a long stable fruit bearing, which will last from the beginning of the summer season until the first autumn frosts. It is equally resistant to heat, and to low temperatures. Shade-tolerant qualities allow you to grow on a window or in a loggia at home. The plant is resistant to powdery mildew.

A fragrant and delicious cucumber "emerald flow". Reviews say that the best vegetable for salad is not found. In this case, one cucumber will be enough for the dish, which you can feed all household members. Regardless of the weather conditions, the continuous fruiting of the hybrid will provide juicy sweet fruits throughout the season.

Seedling

For conveyor production of crops, it is advisable to plant Chinese-type cucumbers in several terms. For early production, the seedling method is perfect. The seedlings are planted in greenhouses in April, when the soil temperature reaches fourteen degrees. In this case, they should be well formed and have three or four leaves. The age of such seedlings should be twenty-five or thirty days. Seed the seeds of cucumbers "emerald flow" to obtain a planting material, which will be planted in greenhouses in March. Before planting, they are treated with growth stimulants or aloe juice. Next, the seeds are lightly dried and sown in two pieces in plastic or peat cups filled with a fertile earth mixture.

Cultivation of cucumber seedlings in boxes is undesirable. It does not take root well when the root system is disturbed. The sowing is terminated by moistening the soil and covering the seedlings. She is moved to a warm place and waiting for the appearance of sprouts. The cucumber "emerald stream" possesses shade-resistant qualities. Comments from those who grew seedlings of this hybrid, note that with the departure there will be no additional problems. Plants develop well and are not stretched.

Greenhouse cucumbers

A high quality planting material is planted in rows under closed soil conditions. For a full development of planting should not thicken. Between the seedlings are kept at least 50 cm. Special attention should be paid to the soil. If cucumbers are grown several years in a row in one place, which is highly undesirable, the soil composition of the greenhouse should be updated. It is filled with fresh fertile soil and a complex mineral fertilizer is introduced. The soil must be loose and have excellent aerobic qualities. Greenhouse cucumbers are grown vertically. The hybrid of a cucumber "emerald stream" differs the strengthened growth with formation of average weaves. He is tied up to the frame of a greenhouse.

Care for cucumbers in the greenhouse

To obtain a stable crop, regular watering and feeding will be required. When moistening, water should not fall on the leaves of the plant. It should be warm. After each humidification, ventilate the greenhouse so that humidity does not increase. For the season will require three times the application of fertilizers.

The unusual size of the fruit is a cucumber "emerald flow". Comments of truck farmers who liked this hybrid, say that it will take a regular harvest of greens. They are collected when reaching 25-30 cm. However, if you do not rush to harvest, you can grow large cucumbers, the length of which is 60-80 cm. To ensure good and long fruiting, regular fertilizer is applied once a week. This activity is desirable to be done after picking cucumbers and conducting moisturizing. As fertilizing, solutions of the mullein or chicken manure are used.

Outdoor cultivation

If there are greenhouses in the area, they cultivate the "emerald stream" cucumber in several ways. Reviews of vegetable growers say that it is very convenient to grow this hybrid in several terms. In an earlier period, it will grow in a sheltered environment. After the onset of a steady warm weather, you can sow the seeds in the open ground. At the same time, it is recommended to plant pre-grown seedlings on the beds. Seeding of seeds in the open ground is carried out on a plot prepared in the autumn. The best predecessors for the cucumber will be onion, plants of the family Solanaceae and legumes.

In the spring, the plot is weeded, the soil is loosened and humus is introduced. Seeds are sown in rows. The rows are kept at least 50 cm. In the row between the plants should be 30-35 cm. Chinese cucumbers are more convenient to grow on trellis. In this case, a strong plant will require reliable fixation.

Trellis way

The structure of the support for growing cucumbers can be different. The main condition is reliability. The structure can be built from a wooden beam or metal pipes and wire, as well as a special trellis net. The height of the support should be two meters. Between the supports, three rows of wire are stretched, on which a plastic mesh is fixed. Fixation of cucumber lashes is performed by twine. The area around the trellis should be covered with humus. Each bush slightly hills.

Care of plants in open ground conditions

Regular harvesting will be required to obtain a stable crop. As in the conditions of closed ground, moisture and food are needed. For this, regular moisturizing and top dressing is carried out. Do not dry the soil. In hot weather, watered in the evening. As in a closed ground, warm water is used for this. The regularity of fertilizer application is ten days. They begin seven days after planting the seedlings.

When sowing seeds directly into the soil, the application of fertilizers falls on the period when two real leaves appear. As a fertilizer use slurry, a solution of chicken manure. In addition, you can additionally use mineral fertilizers. Ten liters of water will be required: 20 grams of urea and potassium sulfate, 30 g of superphosphate. Care for cucumbers is not limited to watering and feeding. In addition to the use of these agrotechnical methods, it is also necessary to keep the beds clean and to observe the looseness of the soil.

How to grow cucumbers in winter?

If there is no summer cottage or garden, you can grow cucumbers at home. But for this purpose only those varieties and hybrids that do not need pollinators are suitable. The most suitable are parthenocarpic plants. The best option is hybrid seeds of cucumbers. Reviews of those who grew cucumbers "emerald flow" at home, only positive. It can be planted even in winter. Shade-tolerant qualities make it possible to harvest fragrant juicy cucumbers at home. Each plant is prepared with a capacity of at least 5-7 liters. They are filled with a fertile earth mixture. Seeds are sown in the middle of February, first in small containers for obtaining seedlings. Twenty days after the appearance of sprouts, cucumbers are transplanted into prepared large containers, which are installed on the windowsill.

The plant is fixed with twine. When the stepchildren appear after the fourth leaf they are removed. In this plant plucked. Care consists of regular moderate watering, as well as fertilization. Top dressing begins immediately after emergence. Regularity of fertilizer application - once in seven days. For this, mineral fertilizers are used.

High yields!