Potted cucumbers are too popular as long as the flowerpots are full of healthy and delicious cucumbers.

Potted cucumbers, long melons with small yellow flowers, hanging among the green leaves for viewing, giving people a fresh and refreshing feeling of God. Cultivation of potted cucumber, both ornamental and edible, economical, kill two birds with one stone, potted cucumber, although not as beautiful as potted flowers, but the young leaves and small yellow flowers are more attractive, hanging in the leaves of the long melon, more attractive than flowers, both considerable taste, edify sentiment, but also can be picked at any time, therefore, potted cucumber is very popular with many flower friends love.

The requirements for pots. Pottery pots are the best, and there is no uniform specification for the size and shape of pots. To achieve a certain yield of cucumbers, the volume of the pot should not be too small, the diameter should be more than 20 cm, and the pot height should not be less than 15 cm. The holes in the bottom of the basin should not be too small, it is best to use the "five-eyed" basin. If you buy a single hole thick eye, the bottom of the basin should be buckled with curved tiles to prevent soil from leaking out of the hole. Because of the limited size of the pot, the nutrient soil must be rich in nutrients.

Basin soil. The basin soil can be fertile sandy soil, but it must be vegetables that have not been planted before. The base fertilizer can be applied and fully mixed with decomposed livestock manure, calcium superphosphate and bone meal when preparing the culture soil. The purpose is to improve the fertility of the soil and supply cucumber for a long time. Apply a part of base fertilizer at the bottom of the pot, that is, fermented bean cake, dried dung and unfermented hoof pieces are placed at the bottom of the pot or around the lower part of the pot, but avoid excessive quantity and too small a distance from the plant. At present, more organic fertilizers and inorganic fertilizers are mixed, so that cucumber growth can be guaranteed to obtain continuous and stable nutrients.

When planting, first pour cucumber seeds into 60~70 ℃ hot water basin, stir until not hot, then soak for about 5 hours, filter water and wet cloth, germinate after 24 hours at room temperature of 20 ℃. Then planted in the pot, covered with 1 to 2 cm deep soil, generally after a week can emerge, such as seedlings grow 2 to 3 true leaves can be transplanted to the pot, planted to a depth of about 3 cm from the pot edge after watering. Such as too much filling, too shallow planting, watering when the water capacity is small, it is difficult to meet the cucumber demand for water; if the filling is too little, planted too deep, watering is easy to excessive, easy to cause rotten roots. A flowerpot is best planted 1~2, not too much, too much will affect the normal growth of cucumber.

Watering. Potted cucumbers have limited water capacity and are directly exposed to outside air, resulting in large evaporation. Therefore, potted cucumber watering characteristics are a small number of times. Otherwise, the root system growing on the basin wall is easy to burn when there is water shortage. Before fruiting melons, do not water too much to keep the soil dry and the leaves not wilting. During the flowering period of root melons, they should not be watered too much. After the root melons are formed, gradually increase the number of watering times, or water once a day, and in the afternoon, add less water to individual dry pots.

Because cucumber is a vine plant, it will grow long climbing branches. When it grows to about one meter, it needs to be picked to promote branching, so it is necessary to set up a support for cucumber growth in time. In addition, cucumber handle has toughness, so it is best to cut with scissors when picking to prevent vines from breaking.