Cucumber "Libelle F1": reviews and features
One of the most popular vegetables, which is solike to grow domestic truck farmers, is a cucumber. It has low nutritional value and a small amount of vitamins. However, the high taste of cucumber in combination with a wide range of applications allowed this vegetable to gain immense popularity.
The reasons for "people's love"
This vegetable garden canned - marinated and salted, it is used in the preparation of salads.
Characteristics of varieties and hybrids
There are many varieties of cucumbers. They differ in both the size of the green and its tuberosity. Different varieties have different resistance to disease, excellent types of flowering and terms of precocity. Varieties also differ in the degree of suitability for processing, yield, length of the whip and even the coloration of the spike.
In the process of pollination of this vegetable culture inmostly involved bees. Excellent varieties that are suitable for growing outdoors like Semcross F1, Othello F1, Cranberry F1, Farmer F1, Finger, as well as cucumber Libell F1 are well proven. A self-pollinated subspecies of this vegetable culture is a subclass of parthenocarp. It includes Lapland F1, Pasalimo F1 and Blizzard F1, Snowstorm, as well as the Petersburg Express F1, Crispina F1, the Barabulka F1 and even the Boy with the finger F1. Most of them are hybrids, which were derived relatively recently and which can be grown in greenhouses. Nevertheless, the most popular variety for open ground is the cucumber Libelli f1.
Description
Culture refers to the category of hybridsbee-dusted. He has a rather high yield. Fruits have a slightly pronounced ribbed form. The color shades of cucumbers range from medium to rich dark green. At the same time, the taste qualities, characterized by this hybrid, are quite high, they are not spoiled by bitterness.
Fruits in length with proper cultivationreach fourteen centimeters with a mass of up to one hundred and fifty grams. The main advantage, characterized by cucumber Libelle F1, the description of which also proves this plus, is the absence of spots and its increased resistance to powdery mildew. This vegetable is equally tasty in fresh as well as in processed form. In addition, the cucumber Libellé F1, being an early hybrid, is intended both for sowing in open ground and for growing in a film greenhouse.
Fruit
Characteristics of this variety, pollinatedbees, are a long weaving and an average degree of ripeness, as well as the stability of fruiting. The fruit that the cucumber gives to Libelle F1, looks very much like a spindle. It contains a minimum number of ribs, and also pleases not only its kind, but also unique taste.
Cucumber Libelle F1, reviews about whichtestify to the great popularity of this hybrid, begins to bear fruit no earlier than the fiftieth day, counting from the moment of emergence on the ground. The yield of the variety is quite high: it goes up to ten kilograms per square meter.
Growing system
Like all other vegetable crops, cucumberLiberle F1, reviews of care of which say that he loves light, moisture and heat, has an underdeveloped root system. But the part that is located above the ground, has a relatively large mass. For good growth and proper development, the plant needs the following temperature regime: for air - 25-27, and for soil - 20-22 degrees.
The emergence of a variety of diseases beginsmost often, when the lower indicator is kept relatively long. In the case when the weather is not rainy and long enough for an average of 10 degrees of temperature, the vegetable culture starts to slow down in development, moreover, in question, in this case there will be a crop that the cucumber will give to Libelle F1. The comments of those who have been growing this hybrid for a long time already indicate that in a high heat, for example, at 35 ° C, fertilization will not occur.
Features of care
This late-ripening variety is characterizedlength and female flowering. Its greens in the middle zone of our country grow up to seventeen centimeters in length and weigh from 70 to 90 grams. To optimize the pollination, as well as to bind fruit to the seeds of this hybrid before sowing, experts recommend mixing and planting material of any pollinating variety at the rate of ten percent of the total mass of the sown volume.
Cucumber Libelle F1, cultivation of whichassumes a certain agrotechnical knowledge, very fond of moisture, and, as in the soil, and in the air. Its deciduous system is developed well enough, and therefore the evaporation of water occurs very intensely. The pledge of a high crop, according to experts, is primarily a regular watering, as well as a good warming of the soil.
Characteristics of the soil
Plant a variety of cucumbers Libel F1 need to land,rich in humus, and also having a high degree of fertility. Not the last value for the amount of harvest is the preparation of the soil before sowing, as well as the quality of the seeds. According to breeders, the ideal material for this is the planting material stored for three or four years.
Highly fertile, drained soil with lownitrogen content, as well as liming very acidic soils - these are the main requirements that are imposed on the land in which the cucumber Libelle F1 should grow.
Reviews
Many experienced gardeners in their plots have alreadyIt is this hybrid that has been planted for a long time. Some of them have chosen this particular variety for the first time, and for decades now they have been growing only the cucumber of the Libelle variety. The reason for the popularity is that they can equally well be used for fresh consumption, as well as in salads or preserves. However, judging by the reviews, sometimes the first cucumbers collected from a bush can be bitter, but it happens only in a dry summer, so in such weather, watering should be done regularly and abundantly. In addition, this class is characterized by excessive overgrowth, which is characteristic when the crop is not going on time.
Many, judging by the reviews, planted cucumbersLibel in the open ground in early May, and that the seeds are well sprouted or spring frosts could not kill the seedlings, they cover the beds with a spandbond, laying this material freely on the ground without straining. Some for the intensity of pollinating grow a sort of cucumber Libelle F1 with "Spruce F1".
