Do flowers and cucumber ovaries fall? ⚡ I'm telling you how to harvest a crop for which you are not ashamed

Fiery fireworks, comrades vegetable growers!

Do you want to collect many delicious cucumbers? Fair, because how much work was spent. And intractable ovaries seem to appear, but the beds immediately fall to the ground... Calm down, this is familiar to me! After reading the article to the end, you will find out the reasons why the ovaries turn yellow and fall, and, most importantly, how to fix... hmm... annoying situation.

From the author: Cucumbers are old people in my garden. This is one of the first crops that I started growing on my own plot. After greens and radishes. Over the years, I have seen the annoying fall of the ovaries more than once and studied a lot of literature on the issue. I share the best practices with you!

I'll start with rare reasons for cucumber ovaries falling off: you rarely meet, but there are

Most modern varieties are self-pollinated. But the owners of the "retro" plantings are missing the harvest due to the lack of pollination.

⚡ An open greenhouse door, an insect bait in the form of honey water and, in the end, manual labor: transferring pollen from a male flower to a female with a brush, saves the situation.

Flowers and ovaries of cucumbers fall unpolished and because of the vicissitudes of the weather:

• rain turns pollen into a sticky lump, of little use for the implementation of the plan;
• the record (at least for my region!) heat of 35 ° C makes it sterile at all;
• nighttime temperature drops below 10 ° C and cold dew will cause the bush to most likely drop flowers and ovaries to the ground.

⚡ The gardener needs to closely monitor the weather forecast. Open the greenhouse for ventilation in the heat. Protect cucumbers from night cold in the open field with a covering material. Nothing supernatural, comrades!

Sometimes self-destruction of cucumber flowers and ovaries - consequences of diseases. For example, a cucumber mosaic once mowed my entire garden bed, and rot is a companion of a rainy summer.

⚡ It is important to regularly inspect the plantings and notice warning signs. Do not hesitate to use really working tools, and do not experiment with soda solution and similar bullshit.

And now - the common reasons for falling flowers and ovaries in cucumbers

So, I mentioned to you about emergency reasons. Now it's time, comrades, to talk about the mundane. Demonstrative dropping of what should have been a cucumber is usually the natural outcome of the struggle for resources.

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The plant realizes that it is unable to draw out all potential cucumbers. And, as it were, he drops some of the flowers and ovaries as a sacrifice, so that others can turn into fruits.

⚡ The most important cucumber resource is water. The soil in the cucumber bed should always be moderately moist. Therefore, please do not dry out the plants.

From the author: Watering with cold water is not suitable for cucumbers. Bathing in ice will become intense stress, from which flowers and ovaries can likewise end up on the ground. I make sure that the water temperature for irrigation is at least 20 ° C.

⚡ Soil nutrition is equally important. Now it is too late to think about fertilizing the garden - this should have been done before planting. In the meantime, you can mulch the cucumber plantings with humus and use an environmentally friendly infusion of wood ash for First Aid purposes.

⚡ From all these troubles can save pinching. Summer residents, unfortunately, do not like to remove stepchildren. Recklessly thinking that "how to remove a branch, because there may also be cucumbers." But the competent formation of the bush is designed to optimally distribute resources - water, nutrients and no less important light.

From the author: I have noticed from my own experience that pinching significantly increases the yield. She began not only to remove everything that grows below 4 leaves, but also whips, on which there are many leaves, but few flowers. Let the plant unleash its strength on promising shoots!

⚡ But most often, the falling of flowers and ovaries in cucumbers is a consequence of "country greed" under the motto "Shove in the unstoppable". For 1 sq. meter of a garden bed and greenhouse, it is permissible to plant no more than 2 plants, and often 1 - the exact amount is written in the description for a particular variety. A picket fence - everyone suffers: none of the plants will receive enough sun, water and nutrition.

Are you planting cucumbers and was the article helpful to you? Please put "Thumbs up" in response! Thank you. And for lovers of luxurious gardens, I strongly advise you to read the timely material: How to care for peonies after flowering. So that next year the bushes burst with flower caps