"This colonel" - hybrid cucumbers: benefits, care, reviews

One of the most notable high-yielding varietiescucumber-hybrids is the "real colonel". With all its features, as well as with the secrets of planting seeds and caring for the plant, we propose to read further.

Characteristics of cucumber

Talking about the best varieties of cucumbers for the opensoil, you can not fail to mention the "True Colonel". This is the mid-term hybrid self-pollinated (parthenocarpic) variety of this genus Pumpkin. It is distinguished by its powerful ground system, middle-spinning branches, bundles of ovaries. Leaves are medium-wrinkled, even, green, small.

"The real colonel" is cucumbers that startbear fruit after 1.5 months after emergence. They differ in simultaneous volumetric yield of the crop. The fruit weight is up to 100 g, the length is 7-9 cm. Cucumbers are cylindrical, covered with small soft spines and white edges. The skin is thin, the fruit itself is crispy, dense, without voids. Commodity and flavor characteristics of the "real Colonel" at the level, the fruits do not bitter. Suitable for direct consumption in food, additions to salads, and for conservation, pickles.

"The real colonel" (cucumbers-hybrids), in the first place, gardeners appreciate the high yield. In addition, the variety has the following number of advantages:

• Preservation of taste in preparation and preservation;
• a simultaneous wave of yield from the whole bush;
• universality of fruit application;
• vegetables on the bush are not overripe;
• high yields - up to 10-13 kg per square meter;
• "female" bloom is the guarantor of good fruiting;
• the plant does not branch strongly, which facilitates the care of it;
• Cucumbers are insensitive to downy mildew and cladosporium.

Since the "True Colonel" keeps highyields when planting both in greenhouses, under cover material, and on unprotected beds, it is rightfully included in the best varieties of cucumbers for open ground.

Seed closure

Cucumber-hybrids can be grown as a seedling, soand directly planting them in the open ground. However, with the first method, the plant begins to bear fruit about two weeks earlier. In the second way of planting, it is important to remember that sprouts can die if they rise during the last frost on the soil.

Planting the seeds of cucumbers "This Colonel" in open beds, it is necessary to remember the following:

1. Soil should not be acid and heavy - before sealing it should be properly moistened and loosened.
2. Higher yields will please you on well-fertilized soil - 7 kg of humus per 1 sq. Km. m soil.
3. Furrows for seeds are made at a distance of at least 70 cm, the gap between the seeds of one row is at least 7 cm.
4. Traditionally, cucumbers are planted after cabbage, onions, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes and peppers.

To shoots appeared quickly and evenly,Keep the planting from low night temperatures with a film, covering material. "The real colonel" (cucumbers F1) grow faster and develop when installing tapestries, pulling wires, ropes, for which they will cling to the antennae. The growing plants are not only underdeveloped and low-yielding, this direction of growth makes it very difficult to care for them. Help the bush grow up, tie it up if necessary.

Proper care

Care for the "True Colonel" is simple, but it is important to adhere to the following rules:

1. The first feeding is a mixture of cow manure and urea, the period of active growth is nitrogenous fertilizers, the formation of ovaries is phosphates, the yield of the crop is potassium and nitrogen.
2. When pinching excess shoots, do not touch the main and main side whips.
3. When growing cucumbers "This Colonel" ingreenhouse try to water the plant abundantly about three times a week, preferably not with cold water. In the open ground, the frequency of irrigation is affected by natural moistening - rain.
4. Periodically arrange for plants to prevent - copper sulfate, whey, aqueous solution of ash, "Fitosporin".
5. Sealing companion for cucumber - garden salad.

Cucumber "Real Colonel" F1: reviews

Among the undoubted advantages of gardeners and farmers say:

• abundant harvest;
• average fetal size;
• early fruiting;
• the possibility of landing in the open ground;
• pleasant taste;
• a good option for pickling;
• low price;
• self-pollinating;
• resistance to diseases.

"This colonel" - cucumbers, which have and cons. And they did not like the gardeners the following:

• the germination capacity is not 100%, about two to three;
• hybrids - every year you have to buy a new bag of seeds.

Cucumber variety "This colonel" is one of the most unpretentious and abundantly harvested self-pollinating hybrids. For these and a number of other qualities, it is highly valued by horticulturists and farmers.