How to plant the seedlings early cucumbers for greenhouses

If planted in the open ground seeds of cucumbers after June 10 (middle lane), then the harvest will have to wait at least another month and a half. But if planted cucumber seedlings with 3-4 true leaves in the greenhouse in May, you can please yourself and your family early and tasty pickles in late May-early June.

What you need to know about before planting cucumber seedlings in the greenhouse

Cucumbers more thermophilic and capricious culture than tomatoes. To cucumber seedlings have emerged, the desired temperature + 23 to + 25 degrees. Moreover, the soil should be moist, not only during the germination of seeds, but also in the entire seedling period. But you can not pour too.

Picks cucumbers not tolerate, in contrast to the tomato seedlings. Therefore, we must sow in separate containers (cups) seeds at once, rather than in the general boxes. Cucumbers like nutritious land. This culture requires more organic compared to tomatoes, in particular, enjoy a warm bed. They are put on the compost, and manure piles. Do not be afraid that the cucumbers zazhiruyut.

Of organic likes humus, chicken manure, where a lot of nitrogen. Without a supply shortage small ovaries wither and fall off, and not having to give fruit.

If you create an early cucumbers favorable conditions for growth and development, you can always enjoy a delicious crunchy cucumbers and by the end of May.

Varieties should be chosen parthenocarpic, beam, early maturing and early hybrids.

Landing

1. Time.

If you want to get an early crop of cucumbers in the greenhouse, then in mid-April, you can start sowing seeds. Landing in the greenhouse produce since May 15, when the seedlings will be the last month.

2. Preparatory stage.

Better to plant the seeds have germinated. Before this, they must be etched in a potassium permanganate, hydrogen peroxide and stimulate Epinay-extra, wetting at night in a solution (2 drops 100 ml of water or 1 capsule immediately diluted in 2 l of water), the remaining solution must be spent on spraying seedlings colors tomatoes.

Soak can be right in the cotton disks, so that they are moistened, cover them with foil and put the container with the seeds and disks in a warm place.

You do not have to wash the seeds of a solution of Alpin, until they germinate. Sprouts may appear on the 2nd day. So every day is necessary to check the seeds.

3. Process for planting seedlings.

Germinated seeds may first be planted in 200g cups. with nutrient substrate (you can use the purchase soil for vegetables, which is diluted with steamed vegetable garden soil) and on the growth of plants in a cross 500 gr. capacity.

If the stems are elongated, (and this will happen, because the light is not enough cucumbers at home), they should be covered with soil before cotyledon leaves.

Thus, additional roots are formed on the stem. The root system of the efforts, seedlings get stronger and healthier than when sown directly into the flower bed. By the time of planting in the greenhouse (to May 15-20) extended it will be gone.

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