Time for sowing cucumbers for seedlings

Content

1 Seedlings, early cucumbers
- 1.1 Where to start
- 1.2 Timing of sowing seeds
2 Features of planting seedlings in the ground
3 A few small tips

Throughout his life, a person does not give up trying to prolong life, youth, and health. He follows diets, goes under a scalpel and travels to sanatoriums. He transfers his experiments to his beloved flora. In a zone of critical agriculture, where summer is shorter than any other season, the most interesting undertaking was the effort to prolong it. Thus, give the plantings the opportunity to bloom and bear fruit for as long as possible.

The tricks of breeders, the construction of greenhouses and the cultivation of seedlings that had become stronger by the beginning of summer were used. Cucumbers, popular among the people, did not escape this fate. They have no equal on holiday tables, in various salads and in the form of spicy and salty snacks. The summer heat is unthinkable without Russian okroshka with onions, cucumbers and horseradish. Picked in the dew, a crisp cucumber is a vivid witness of the summer solstice and healthy village life. I just wish all this would happen sooner and last longer.

Seedlings, early cucumbers

Cucumbers and strawberries can be eaten all year round. But the people still have an irresistible desire to prolong this little cucumber happiness created with their own hands.

The experience of growing early cucumbers through seedlings suggests that this is a very promising activity.Low financial and labor costs have made the seedling option for cultivating cucumbers very popular.

Where to start

First of all, from harvesting seedling soil in the autumn period, consisting of humus, peat and sand, in equal proportions. If necessary, you can buy ready-made soil in a store, but the aftertaste from your own labor will be ruined. Although the bulk of worries are still ahead:

the volume of seedling soil is stored on the basis that 400 g of soil is needed for one seed of seedlings;
the number of cups for cucumber seedlings should be equal to its quantity. You shouldn’t, even to save money, pick cucumber seedlings - they don’t like it;
The volume of a cup of sour cream, fermented baked milk or matsoni should be close to 400 g and a height of at least 120 mm. The presence of drainage holes in them is mandatory; 22222
there is no need to grow a large number of cucumber seedlings. The area of the light window sill should be more than enough for these purposes. Sowing cucumbers directly in the ground (in early June) will give the main harvest of cucumbers without additional seedling care;
Installation of mounts for backlight lamps is carried out on the basis that 3 seedlings require 1 incandescent lamp with a power of 60 W. Phytolamps are mounted along the entire length of the window sill. The distance between planting cucumbers and lighting is within 200 mm. As the cucumber crops grow, the lamps should be raised regularly;3333
Germination of cucumber seeds for seedlings. It is necessary to soak the required number of cucumber seeds, taking into account possible rejection, in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Dry the cucumber seeds. Place them on damp gauze placed in a saucer. Cover the saucer with glass to prevent the seedling seeds from drying out.Regularly moisten the gauze with warm water. In order to stimulate the pecking of cucumber sprouts, the saucer can be placed in the refrigerator for a couple of days for hardening. Bubbling seeds cucumbers before planting, under an aquarium compressor will also have a healing effect on them.

Important! The acidity of the soil for seedlings should be close to pH 6.6. Change the acidity using battery acid (to increase) or dolomite flour (to decrease).

Timing of sowing seeds

On the one hand, when solving this problem, almost all time periods are known.

Having lined up, in their sequence, into a harmonious equation, they give a specific time sowing cucumber seeds. On the other hand, no one ever names a specific number for establishing a stable 15⁰, night temperature.

Only experience and a little luck will help here. Otherwise, either insulate already planted seedlings or plant insufficiently developed ones. Both are very bad, as they increase the likelihood of diseases and increase the timing of the onset of fruiting. We are trying to calculate the time for sowing the best cucumber seeds:

Based on the selected cucumber variety, you can determine the duration of its development from germination to fruiting. We take as a basis one of the early varieties of cucumbers with a period of 40 days.
The duration of germination of cucumber crops is usually equated to 4 days. At temperatures close to 30⁰, plantings germinate between 3 and 6 days. At temperatures close to 18⁰, plantings germinate between 8 and 10 days;
Pickling cucumber seeds and soaking them until the sprouts hatch will add another day;
in total we get the duration, from germination planting cucumber seeds before planting in the ground, no more than 4 weeks;
If you want to get the first cucumber by May 1, then you need to plant it as seedlings at the beginning of the 3rd decade of March. In this case, seedlings will have to be planted in the ground by April 20;
At this time, it is necessary to order from weather forecasters a stable night temperature of at least 15⁰. Unfortunately, during this period there is a high probability of return frosts.

The example of the timing of planting cucumber seeds was unsuccessful. Most likely, all the seedlings may die. But those who do not take risks should not eat their cucumbers on May Day.

If we talk about the timing of planting cucumbers directly in the ground, then there are different calculations. Dry seeds are planted in the last ten days of May. Swollen seeds and barely germinated - in the first ten days of June. In this case, the soil at a depth of 120 mm should be stably warm - not lower than 15⁰.

When additional illumination of grown cucumber seedlings, in order to reduce the period of their nurturing, it is necessary to adhere to the following regime - in clear weather, turn on the lamps for 3 hours in the morning and for 2 hours after work. And in cloudy weather, do not turn off the lamps above the seedlings all day.

Features of planting seedlings in the ground

After 3-4 weeks of nurturing the cucumber seedlings, they became stronger and grew a lot. It is simply impossible to keep it on the window any longer. There is, of course, an option to keep it on a warm balcony or loggia. But this is an exceptional case due to bad weather conditions.

Even if you have an unheated greenhouse, you can take a risk and instead of home overexposure plant cucumber seedlings there. But even there it will have to be covered in some cases. It will develop poorly in such conditions and diseases of some plants are possible.

It is best to transplant cucumber seedlings during consistently warm weather, when the possibility of return frosts has passed. This time, in the middle zone of the country, begins in June. By this time the soil will have already warmed up to 16⁰ and a comfortable temperature for seedlings will be established around 20⁰. The transplant process is as follows:

Cucumber seedlings are hardened off for several days by taking them out into the open, fresh air. In this case, direct sunlight should be avoided;
the day before planting, cups of cucumbers must be watered generously;
It is necessary to plant seedlings in well-fertilized soil with compost;
wells, the size of a glass of seedlings, pour well with warm water;
cucumber planting scheme - in accordance with agrotechnical and varietal recommendations;
When planting, cups with cucumber seedlings are turned upside down on the palm of your hand. You need to knock on it and remove the empty glass from your palm. You can cut it with scissors if it seems convenient;
The sprout, with a lump of earth, is lowered into the hole and easily squeezed the earth surrounding it. Well-developed seedlings are planted vertically. If the seedlings are overgrown, it is necessary to plant them obliquely.

Advice! To avoid the occurrence of diseases of the planted plants (root rot), it is necessary to sprinkle the bases of the seedlings with clean river sand.

A few small tips

Before planting cucumbers in the soil of the selected area, it is necessary to analyze all previous plantings on it. Crop rotation recommendations say that after pumpkins and zucchini, cucumbers can be planted after 4 years.

Attention! It is best if the predecessors were legumes, various greens and cabbage with nightshade plants.

Cucumber seedlings grow well in fully illuminated areas with light and fertile soil. Systematic and abundant watering is mandatory for them. Good conditions for seedlings can be created by covering them with a lightweight portable greenhouse. This will protect the seedlings from direct sunlight and cold wind.

Thus, having received the basis for the optimal development of seedlings, a bountiful harvest of greens will not be long in coming. Of course, not by May 1, but the cucumbers are their own and the most delicious.