Do you need pruning to grow cucumbers?

Cucumber is a vegetable that is often eaten in daily life. many people also use cucumber slices for cosmetology, and there are also many people who grow cucumbers, so should cucumbers be pruned?

I. growth habits of cucumbers

Cucumber is an annual trailing or climbing herb of Cucurbitaceae and Cucumber. There are two kinds of flowers: male flowers in clusters in leaf axils; pedicels slender, puberulent; Corolla yellow-white, Corolla lobes oblong-lanceolate; female flowers solitary or sparsely clustered; pedicels stout, pilose; ovary rough. The fruit is oblong or cylindrical, yellowish green when ripe and rough on the surface.

Cucumbers are planted all over China. Cucumbers like to grow in the environment of 10-32 ℃. Cucumbers grow best at 25-32 ℃ in daytime and 15-18 ℃ at night.

Different varieties of cucumber have different requirements for sunshine. North China type varieties do not have strict requirements for the length of sunshine and have become sunshine neutral plants.

Cucumber likes wet but not resistant to waterlogging and fertilizer but not resistant to fertilizer, so it is appropriate to choose fertile soil rich in organic matter. Generally like the soil between pH5.5-7.2, but the pH value of 6.5 is the best.

Second, do you need pruning to grow cucumbers?

Growing cucumbers requires pruning, cutting off excess side branches and malformed fruits in time, so that other cucumbers can grow normally and improve their quality.

The specific pruning methods are as follows:

1. When the main vine bears melon, be sure to cut off the extra side branches in time.

2. One or two leaves are pinched after the melon is set, and all tendrils are knocked off.

3. When the stem exceeds the shelf head, it should be pinched in time to promote the growth of the lower melon, and the method of twisting tip can also be adopted to restrain the growth of the upper part.

4. check the growth of cucumber in time and find that any abnormal fruit must be cut off in time.

5. When the plant grows to the top of the greenhouse, for the growing period of cucumber in spring, the bracket can be made and the cucumber can be tied to the wire, which can improve the volume of cucumber fruit growth.