The truth about the seeds of boys and girls from cucumbers

Legends are difficult razobolacheniyam. Especially when they have the truth.

true legend

Previously grandparents collected seeds with only special cucumber. We chose the cucumber-girls form. They were in a section closer to the square, and the boys closer to the triangle.

Seeds are preferred from the chamber, which is about florets.

cucumber selected in advance left turn yellow before harvesting bush.

So it was. It's true.

And there are grounds for such a seed collection, it is scientific. Melon growers have such a division. Watermelon with bisexual flowers called arbuzihami they sweeter guaranteed fastened. The old varieties of cucumbers, too, were the bisexual flowers, which grow and "girls."

These varieties have not disappeared, some of them are the parents of modern hybrids.

What's wrong

• The legend of the seeds "girls" are not credited with the ability to taste bitter. In fact, the bitterness is not dependent on the type of flower. Grade or genetically capable taste bitter or genetically without bitterness. You can read my article why cucumbers gorchat
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• And, as you understand, cucumbers not girls and boys. Shape (square or triangle in cross section) of the varieties may vary.
• In modern varieties and hybrids pcheloopyljaemogo prized flowers with a female type of flowering. Sometimes even have to plant pollinator, which has a lot of male flowers. It turns out that all formed fruits of one species, male to pollinate the female flower.
• Modern parthenocarpic hybrids do not need insects. Taurus cucumber grows without pollination. The seeds can not collect from them. Almost all of them are genetically without bitterness.

• If you still want to save your grade, collect the seeds of the old-fashioned, but in a radius of 1.5 km you grow other varieties of cucumbers, cross-pollination is very likely. The risk of getting a hybrid.

So, there are three kinds of colors of cucumber: male, female and hermaphrodite. Recent already a rarity. And the fruits of the bisexual flowers, in fact, different in a good way.

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