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Cucumber Bastion - parthenocarpic, unpretentious to growing conditions, attracts by early maturity and resistance to diseases characteristic of the culture. The culture has a traditional taste, the purpose is universal.
Breeding history of the variety
The Bastion hybrid was recognized as an interesting novelty of 2015. Cucumber from the series "Author's varieties and hybrids" from the Agrofirm "Poisk". This is a group of varieties of different crops - the result of the work of breeders for over 20 years. Vegetable growers adhere to the main direction in the selection of plants - the preservation of traditional high taste, as in the work on the Bastion f1 cucumber.
Description of the Bastion cucumber variety
By sowing Bastion parthenocarpic cucumbers, you can be sure of a good harvest. The variety has a well-developed root system, regardless of the type of soil, it spreads widely in search of nutrients and provides them with vigorous lashes. Cucumber Bastion of indeterminate type, requires mandatory formation. After pinching, they collect the announced amount of zelents. The stems of the cucumber are powerful, give medium branching. The foliage is common. Flowers of the female type, with an ovary.
Description of fruits
Medium-sized fruits of the Bastion f1 cucumber are pimply, with large and frequent tubercles, randomly located along the protruding stripes on the dark green skin. The pimples are visually completed with thorns characteristic of cucumbers, in this variety they are white. The length of the fruit in technical ripeness is 12-15 cm. The diameter of the fruit is from 3.5 to 4.5 cm. The average weight of the harvested cucumbers is from 130 to 160 g.
There are no internal cavities. The pulp of the Bastion variety is firm, juicy, habitually crispy when eaten. Cucumbers retain their natural color and do not turn yellow. The taste is pleasant, the skin and pulp are not bitter. Bastion cucumbers can be harvested in the gherkin phase when they weigh 90-95 g.
Characteristics of the variety
The Bastion hybrid is hardy due to its strong roots that adapt well to various types of soil.
Productivity and fruiting
The success of the Bastion variety lies in its early maturity. Cucumbers are ready to be harvested as early as 40-45 days of bush development. If the seeds are planted directly into the soil, they wait until it warms up to 15 ° C. In different regions, this is the end of April or May. The harvest of Bastion cucumbers will ripen less than 1.5 months after germination, by the end of June or mid-July. In a heated greenhouse, sowing times are regulated by gardeners.
Cucumber varieties Bastion have ovaries bouquet type, up to 6 fruits are created in a node. Collect from a bush from 5 kg. The yield increases when all the requirements of agricultural technology are met, including the correct formation of the whip, regular watering and feeding. More picking of cucumbers in the greenhouse, since the room maintains comfortable temperature conditions for the plant. The ovaries grow if the greens are regularly harvested: gherkins every other day, and larger fruits, for pickling, in 2-3 days. The detachment of the fruit stimulates the plant to form new cucumbers. It is always noted that the hybrid bears fruit even in conditions of temperature changes, and tolerates cool weather well.
Application area
Elastic, tasty cucumbers Bastion f1, judging by the reviews, are used with pleasure for fresh salads. They are salted, pickled, canned.Dense, void-free slices of cucumbers are cut for quick freezing.
Disease and pest resistance
The Bastion hybrid is higher in yield, because it is immune to the common fungal disease cladosporium or brown (olive) spot. It is also not affected by the cucumber mosaic virus. Variety Bastion is moderately resistant to powdery mildew pathogens. In greenhouses, if not properly maintained, cucumbers can be infested by aphids or whiteflies. First, they try folk remedies or use insecticides.
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
In reviews of Bastion cucumbers, summer residents call the distinctive features of the variety:
- early maturity;
- friendly return of the harvest;
- endurance to weather stress conditions: drought resistance and cold resistance;
- high commercial properties;
- versatility in the cultivation and use of fruits.
Many people believe that the disadvantage of Bastion cucumbers is that the hybrid brings a low yield, less than 10 kg per 1 sq. m.
Planting and care rules
Undemanding to weather conditions, the hardy variety Bastion is planted directly in the holes in the garden. If you want to grow an early harvest of cucumbers, 2-3 weeks faster, use the seedling method.
Planting seedlings
Cucumber seedlings develop quickly. After 3 weeks after germination, the seedlings are already moved to the site. For a vegetable garden or a film shelter without heating, cucumber seeds are planted in mid-April. The grains are processed and packaged at the enterprises of the originator's company: for the seeds of the Bastion hybrid, gardeners do not carry out pre-sowing preparation. Since autumn, they are stocked with a substrate if they do not acquire ready-made soil for seedlings. They take an equal share of garden soil, humus, add peat and sand so that the substrate is loose. For nutritional value, the soil in the container is spilled with a ready-made fertilizing preparation "Universal" or "Kemira".
Growing seedlings:
- The seeds are deepened by 1.5-2 cm, sprinkled with soil, covered with foil and placed in a heat above 23 ° C.
- Shoots appear in 5-6 days.
- For several days, the temperature is lowered to 19 ° C, at night not lower than 16 ° C.
- Fortified sprouts are provided with a comfortable environment: light and a temperature of 23-25 ° C.
- Water in 1-2 days so that the substrate does not dry out.
- After the appearance of the 3rd leaf, Bastion cucumbers are fertilized with nitrophos: a teaspoon of the product is diluted in a liter of warm water.
- The seedlings are moved to a permanent place at the age of 21-27 days.
Growing cucumbers using a seedling method
At an air temperature of 20-21 ° C, the seeds of the parthenocarpic cucumber variety Bastion are planted in holes to a depth of 3 cm according to the scheme 90x35 cm. For an optimal harvest, vertical or inclined trellises are erected, sometimes from poles.
Follow-up care
Cucumbers are watered daily or every other day, focusing on precipitation. It is best to irrigate the area in the evening with a watering can so that the warm water moisturizes the root system, but does not get to the lower part of the central stem. Leaves are also protected from splashes. In the morning, the earth is loosened, cleaned weeds.
At the fruiting stage, the Bastion hybrid is fertilized after 10-12 days, alternating mineral preparations and organic matter:
- mullein;
- bird droppings;
- herbal infusion.
The fungicide "Previkur", which is used to treat seedlings, helps to protect cucumbers from diseases.
Bush formation
Parthenocarpic cucumbers are amazingly productive when properly formed. If you leave all the ovaries and shoots, even the powerful root system of the hybrid is not able to "feed" the plant.
One method suggests:
- Completely remove ovaries and shoot buds from the first 3-4 lower nodes.
- The fruits are created at the next nodes of the central stem, from which the lateral stepchildren are also removed first.
- After collecting the fruits from the central stem, the bush is fed.
- The side stepchildren grow back and form the second wave of the harvest.
Conclusion
Cucumber Bastion will give a good harvest if you pay enough attention to the plant. Regular watering with warm water, top dressing, and the formation of lashes will be rewarded with delicious and aromatic vegetables.
