What are the planting techniques of cucumber?

Cucumber, also known as cucumber, thorn melon, king melon, melon, cucumber, Tang melon, hanging melon, etc., is a common popular vegetable often eaten. Cucumber yield is high, harvest period is long, many growers have carried out large-scale planting. Now, we will cucumber planting technology to share with you, I hope useful to you oh!

1. Variety selection

Before planting cucumbers, growers need to choose good varieties suitable for local sales. Cucumber varieties are more, South China varieties planted more, North to dense thorn cucumber planting larger, at present the thornless fruit cucumber planting area has gradually increased.

II. Seed treatment

Soak the seeds in warm water at 25℃ for about 6 hours to wash off the dirty substances on the surface of the seeds. Then, take out a damp cloth to cover the seeds and place them in an environment of 25℃ for germination. After a day they can be taken out and seeded.

III. Soil preparation

Cucumbers can be grown in nutrient-rich humus soil or in two portions of garden soil and one portion of well-burned cinder. In the later stage, some gravel or corroded pine wood should be added to the soil to have a moisturizing effect and make it difficult for water to be lost.

IV. Sowing

Dig a hole the size of an index finger in the soil, place the seeds to a depth of 2 cm, then cover them with soil and water them until the soil is wet. In about 3 days, the cucumber will take root and sprout.

V. Fertilizer and water supply

Cucumber fertilizer water supply generally adopt the principle of small water frequently irrigation and thin fertilizer frequently application to prevent soil ponding and fertilizer damage. During the germination period of cucumber, do not need watering, and so on after emergence can be watered once; in the growth period of cucumber, need to be watered every 3 days or so; flowering try not to water, can be watered every 7 days or so. If the soil is dry, it needs to be watered in advance.

VI. Temperature management

Cucumbers like warm, not cold, in the planting process to try to maintain a certain temperature. If the temperature is low, it is easy to cause undesirable symptoms such as flower topping or slow growth. In protected land planting process, sometimes high temperature stewing is also carried out to control the occurrence of downy mildew.

VII. Frame picking

Cucumbers grow as vines, and when the leaves are too long, they need to build shelves so that the branches grow along the shelves. Cucumber growth in the 1 month time need to be a topping treatment, the top of the leaves removed, but also pruned off some of the dead branches, so that cucumber growth more vigorous.

VIII. Pest control

Cucumber diseases and insect pests are more, downy mildew, angular spot disease, powdery mildew, virus disease, whitefly, aphid and other diseases and insect pests are easy to occur, so comprehensive control should be carried out in time.

IX. Timely harvest

Harvest should be timely, early harvest yield is low, the product does not meet the standard, and the flavor, quality and color are not good; late harvest, not only excessive seedlings, affect yield, but also the product is not resistant to storage and transportation. Cucumber harvest should be handled gently to prevent damage. Growers can hold melons in one hand, gently cut the fruit stalk with scissors in the other hand, keep the fruit stalk about 1cm long, and wipe off the dirt on the peel.

The above is the cucumber planting technology shared, I hope to help you oh!