Are the cucumbers blooming? It's time to feed in order to increase the number of ovaries and the yield in kg. I share 2 working recipes
Do you want to collect more cucumbers and plants are in bloom, like apple trees in May? Then a fiery salute, fellow gardeners!
Today, in honor of a significant event - cucumber flowering, I will be as short as ever and write 2 simple recipes for dressing. More is not necessary - they work with a bang and fulfill their main task: increase the yield. I will write and run to the garden soon - to feed my own.
Top dressing # 1: Turning the number of flowers into the number of ovaries
Meticulous cucumbers are designed in such a way that not every flower is ready to turn into a fruit. The formation of the ovary is influenced by a huge cloud of factors. I propose to use the property of one small, but very important for the amount of the crop, a microelement - boron.
Boron properties for plants:
- Is speaking phytohormone regulator, which are responsible for the condition of the bush as a whole. You don't need to be an agronomist to understand: a strong cucumber can grow more fruit on itself than a weakened one.
- Nice bonus - increases resistance to diseases all natures (fungal, viral, bacterial). There was still not enough, instead of waiting for the harvest, to puzzle over an emergency healing from, say, powdery mildew.
- The most important thing, comrade, - increase in the number of ovaries. In the boring language of science, it sounds like "increased pollen tube growth and pollen germination". Just in case, I wrote, if it is important to some of the readers, how does this thing in the form of a boron work, or again on the Internet natryndel.
The most affordable option to give boron to cucumbers is to buy boric acid powder. Strange, but many summer residents have a question where to get it. Although the shelves of the same "Leroy" in the department of agricultural products are littered with bags. There is a potion in other stores as well. As a last resort, buy it at Wildberiss when ordering another tunic.
Prepare a solution - 1 g per 1 liter, stirring this very gram in first in a little water. Then pour it into a liter and forward into the beds. Use a sprayer, a spray bottle, or - the old fashioned way - a broom.
Top dressing number 2: We give food so that more tasty fruits grow
The number of ovaries is the number. Now the plant needs strength to grow fruit.
Here it would be possible to write about purchased "chemical" fertilizers, but I will not do that. Most chemicals have a BEFORE harvest period when they can be used. For example, "20 days in advance". But I do not know when your cucumbers are ready, and why risk it again. It will be safer for everyone to feed the cucumbers "natural".
And the main fertilizer is wood ash. Free, affordable, the best in composition of all folk remedies. It is in the wood ash of all organic matter that the most potassium is contained, which is necessary specifically for fruiting.
Comrade! To make the feeding work on time, make an infusion, and not just fill it under the garden bed. I myself use the infusion of wood ash, however, I never suffer with gramming: it is difficult to harm. I take about 1 glass per 1 liter of water and leave for 5-7 days.
Are you growing cucumbers and was this article helpful? Press, comrade, "Thumbs up"! I'll leave a couple of useful links on the topic (click on the title to read):
- June is a month of special care for Cucumbers. What am I doing to harvest buckets soon
- How experienced summer residents "blind" cucumbers and why they harvest more than those who do not know about the procedure
All ash, boron, kilograms of cucumbers! Sincerely yours, who has already mixed boron powder, summer resident Fyodor Tyapkin-Sklyankin.