Winter cucumbers: how to grow on a windowsill rich harvest

Soil, food, lighting, watering - as the users get FORUMHOUSE winter crops of cucumbers

Get a winter crop of cucumbers "from your window sill," not so difficult. We'll tell you what difficulties may be encountered along the way, and how to cope with them FORUMHOUSE participants.

If you sow the seeds in October, the first crop will be harvested in time for the new year. December crop will harvest in February and cucumbers planted on New Year's holidays, are ripe for March 8.

Grow room cucumbers in loose ground (you can buy ready-made, can be mixed 1: 1 humus and garden land), with the addition of wood ash, potash and phosphate fertilizers. Fertilizers - an important point in the cultivation of cucumbers room, since, as we know, this culture in general, "likes to eat."

Well, if you have vermicompost - three liters of finished ground can add a liter of vermiculite. Before sowing seeds disinfected and germinated. It is not recommended to be greedy - two bags of seeds will turn 20 bushes cucumber. First, better to sow the seeds in individual cups for seedlings (

care for the seedlings, as usual) And after the appearance of the third true leaf sit in permanent containers.

SanSanych58

Member FORUMHOUSE

Cucumbers planted on January 25, fruited four months since March.

Member FORUMHOUSE SanSanych58 10 years making beads from water-soluble fertilizer, such as rastvorin, and lays on the bottom of the pot. Per liter of land - three grams of fertilizer, so to vosmilitrovy pot leaves 24 grams of fertilizer, or four balls, six grams. So, six grams rastvorina wrapped in a piece of edible film 10x10 cm, curled into a ball, ball tail folded in half and is grasped with tape so as not spun. Each ball is punctured with a fine needle and is laid into the soil to a depth of 1/3 of the pot downward thrust.

For conscientious objectors any "chemistry" have a wonderful recipe for organic fertilization: a handful of orange peel pour boiling water and infuse for 3-5 days prior to the beginning of active work of lactic bacteria (we learn about it from the appearance of bubbles). Dilute with water 1: 3 and water. If you add the infusion of nettle, a plant will receive and nitrogen, and a complete set of trace elements.

The hardest thing in the cultivation of cucumbers room that required them to provide the level of humidity is practically impossible. If the clock in the room warm radiator, even moisturizers radically situation will not change. But the desire to disrupt in the midst of winter, your own, without nitrates and other muck, cucumber, makes the users of our portal to overcome any difficulties.

Nata06

Participant FORUMHOUSE

There is a way: under the battery put a large container of water on the battery – blanket covers the bottom end immersed in water. Empirically selected a veil to it before it had to dry.

As the evaporation of water in a large vessel, which usually plays the role of baby bath, refill needed, bedspread occasionally wash. This method is really effective, but its aesthetic side few people are comfortable with.

Watering cucumbers best warm water, the temperature should be slightly warmer than room temperature. Alternatively, the battery can be heated to melt water.

violet13

Member FORUMHOUSE

My plastic bottles placed in the pan with water or nutrient solution, and cucumber drink as much as he wants. Adding water or a nutrient solution every day. And every day'll break one large or a small cucumber.

The more often we will gather a crop, the longer it will live our podokonnichny cucumber. Ideally cucumbers need to disrupt every day.

When growing cucumbers in the garden, we always mulching them, and when we grow on a windowsill, often forget about this method. But it is better to mulch, because the roots of this plant are very close to the soil surface. It is better not to put the mulch against the trunks, leave a distance of 5-7 cm.

As for the light, for cucumbers it is not as important as, for example, tomatoes.

Malin74

Member FORUMHOUSE

Cucumbers, as a rule, require more land than tomatoes, and the sun less.

That is, cucumbers - light-requiring culture, and for the normal growing season it takes 10 hours of light per day, and most likely will have to organize the lighting, but:

Cucumbers do not like direct sun.

Especially, they do not like direct sun in the indoor environment where the air is practically immobile, plants very little evaporate moisture and can easily become overheated (visual indication of plant overheating - sagging leaves). Therefore cucumbers have pritenyat, especially on the south windowsill. Suitable transparent piece of any fabric, such as curtains old, which is mounted between the plant and the window glass. Cucumber leaves should not touch the glass - this can cause burns!

In dry and hot weather the plants respond by dropping already formed cucumbers. And it's a shame!

Lyalic

Member FORUMHOUSE

Cucumber has responded to drought and heat – He dropped 14 ovaries, cucumbers in a row.

Therefore, many users FORUMHOUSE try to create a special microclimate for plants. Thus, in Sly Fox Cucumbers are on the windowsill, where:

• the lower part of the window sealed with a film;
• on cucumbers hanging fitolampy at 18 watts, with the growth of cucumber lamp height is adjusted;
• cucumber beds are separated from the room lace curtains;
• because the room heating stove, the plants are sprayed with water daily.

Sly Fox

Member FORUMHOUSE

What surprised me – even a "leaky" material, such as curtains, on the windowsill can create its own microclimate.

Another problem with cucumbers - when grown on a windowsill, they often form a great number of male seed and almost no female form. Often this is due to the fresh seeds.

It is recommended to sow the seeds of cucumbers in the second year after harvest.

In addition, cucumber seeds before sowing is recommended to warm up - this technique stimulates the formation of female flowers.

Female flowers can not be formed, and when there is insufficient power plants. Here we will help fertilizing phosphorus fertilizers: 60-70 g of superphosphate per 10 liters of extract water.

And in order to trigger the growth of the main stem of the fruit, with the lower two internodes removed female flowers (s ovaries). In the photo below we see four interstices, necessary to remove the female flowers of the two lower. The photograph is one that is directed at us, and one that can be seen for the stem.

For cultivation in the room should be chosen shade-tolerant and do not require pollination varieties. Among the best varieties, the experience FORUMHOUSE users showed themselves: Berendey the F1, the F1 Zozulya, Gribovsky-2 The F1, Rytova (Russian Mikhail agrobiologist Ritov first brought cucumbers to grow in the room), the F1 Room, Emerald Feed A1.

For growing on balconies approach: Urban cucumber F1, Balagan F1, the F1 calendar, Hummingbird F1, Swallowtail F1.

Gorby777

Member FORUMHOUSE

At present, from his window he took about 5 kg of cucumbers. Of these, a bush Emerald flux - 2.3 kg (9 zelentsov weight of from 180 to 345 g), the rest Cadet, and Rais Dynamite.

In this case, keep in mind - your room cucumber never be as small and compact as the promise of seed producers. Is added to the length of the whip, which you are promised on the packaging, even a dozen or so centimeters - due to lack of sun the plants are likely to stretch out.

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