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Cucumber Ladies' Man F1 ripens just 1.5 months after the sprouts appear. The variety from the well-known agricultural firm "Poisk" from the Moscow region was entered in the State Register in 2015. The cucumber of the salad direction is high-yielding, requires nutritious soil and regular watering.
Detailed description of the variety
A hybrid of medium vigor, the lash reaches 1.5-2 m in length, branches violently. The root system develops well in nutritious soil and provides the vine and fruits with the substances necessary for growth. Scourges are medium-leafy. In parthenocarpic cucumbers, the main crop is formed on the central shoot, in contrast to the usual varieties, in which male-type flowers are concentrated on the leading whip. With good agricultural technology, the side lashes of the cucumber Ladies' saint also form enough zelents. Blooming female buds do not require pollination. The variety is suitable for growing in greenhouses, on balconies or window sills, in vegetable gardens without shelter.
Description of fruits
New variety of salad cucumbers of regular shape, short, thick. The length of marketable fruits is from 8 to 10 cm, width is 3-4 cm, weight is 80-85 g. Small gherkins are proportionally smaller, of the same shape. Fruits are distinctly ribbed, with longitudinal light stripes along the edges, with a deep dark green base and a lighter top. The peel is dark green, pubescent, pimply, with many small tubercles with white obtuse thorns.
The light green pulp of the variety is juicy, crunchy, with a characteristic cucumber aroma, dense, plastic structure. The seed chamber is small, without voids. Seeds are not formed, therefore they are not visible when eating. Cucumbers have a pleasant expected fresh taste, without bitterness. According to reviews, cucumbers Ladies' man F1, due to the plasticity of the pulp after salting, do not lose their shape, crunch and density. Zelentsy are consumed fresh, due to their excellent taste characteristics, the fruits are suitable for pickling, pickling and as a component raw material for other home canned food.
The main characteristics of the variety
Cucumbers love light, moisture and warmth. For the Damsky splendid variety, create an appropriate atmosphere in the greenhouse, with a daytime temperature from 23 ° C to 29-30 ° C, at night not lower than 16-18 ° C. The declared quality of fruits without bitterness is ensured by regular watering. Producers are positioning the new variety as equally good growing and fruitful indoors and outdoors. Gardeners, on the other hand, are used to thinking that parthenocarpic cucumbers are for greenhouses only. But the varieties of the new generation, to which the cucumber Ladies' Man belongs, planted without shelter, show almost identical yields in relation to greenhouse ones. Of course, it is necessary to take into account the unfavorable weather conditions for the cucumber culture as such.
Yield
Ladies' man is one of the earliest ripening varieties. Separate first fruits appear on the 38-40th day of the development of the lash. Mass picking of cucumbers starts from 45-46 days. Each node of an early variety vines generates 4-5 ovaries, which are not all preserved under conditions of growing on a windowsill. Ripening of two greens at the same time on one node is possible. With proper care, the lashes of the varieties live and bear fruit until the fall.
According to reviews, one vine of a hybrid cucumber is capable of producing up to 4 kg of fruit over the summer. From 1 sq.m plantings of the Damsky saint variety are harvested per season 12-15 kg of fruits. The yield of a hybrid depends on:
- compliance with agrotechnical methods for heat and lighting;
- high levels of nutrients in the soil;
- regular watering;
- formation of a whip.
Pest and disease resistance
Cucumber Ladies' saint is not affected by diseases, which has recently significantly reduced the harvest of zelents:
- cucumber mosaic;
- olive blotch.
Against other pathogens, folk remedies or systemic fungicides are used at the initial stage of development. Pests are fought with solutions of soap, soda, mustard. As a preventive measure, you can protect cucumbers from the appearance of insects or ticks by observing the rules of agricultural technology in the greenhouse and in the garden.
Pros and cons of the variety
The variety Ladies' saint has an impressive list of advantages:
- high productivity;
- early maturity;
- commercial quality of products;
- excellent taste;
- universality of appointment;
- does not require pollination;
- vines of medium growth;
- unpretentiousness to soil and growing environment.
The gardeners do not notice any clearly expressed shortcomings of the new variety, except for the specific property: they only buy seeds.
Growing rules
Cucumbers are planted Ladies' Man F1, usually through seedlings, in order to get the earliest production for sure. In the south, the variety is sown in holes right in the garden.
Sowing dates
In open ground, cucumbers are sown when the soil temperature at a depth of 3-4 cm warms up to + 14-15 ° C. The air at this time reaches + 23-26 ° C. If there is a sudden cold snap to + 12 ° C, the seeds may die. In the same way, a temperature of + 3 ° C is destructive for sprouts, because irreversible changes will occur in the tissues of a thermophilic culture. Each gardener, guided by the weather in his area, chooses the timing of planting seeds of a valuable early variety of cucumbers Ladies' saint.
It is better to plant ready-made seedlings grown on your own in a greenhouse. Caring for cucumber sprouts is not very difficult, the main thing is to follow the advice regarding heat, moisturizing the substrate and the amount of light. Cucumbers are grown only in separate pots because their root system is very sensitive and cannot tolerate transplanting. Seedling development period is 1 month. Cucumber seeds are sown to a depth of 2 cm in April, May, when the sunlight is sufficient. A container with pots is placed on a light southern window and rotated twice a day so that the cucumber sprouts with juicy leaves do not tilt to one side.
Site selection and preparation of beds
The variety is planted in a sunny place, the crop rotation is taken into account:
- it is better to choose an area where potatoes or legumes grew, but not beans;
- do not place after pumpkins and zucchini;
- good neighbors of cucumbers will be spicy plants - fennel, celery, basil, dill.
The future plot for varieties of cucumbers that love nutritious soil is prepared in the fall, laying out 5 kg of humus or compost per 1 square meter before plowing. m. In the greenhouse, the earth is spilled with a solution of copper sulfate, fertilizers with a sanitary effect - "Gumi", "Fitosporin". In the spring, a nutrient mixture is also added to the wells:
- 5 parts of sod land, peat, humus;
- 1 part sand;
On each bucket of substrate, put:
- 3 tbsp. l. wood ash;
- 1 tbsp. l. nitrophoski;
- 1 tbsp. l. superphosphate.
How to plant correctly
The optimal time for transferring seedlings of early maturing cucumber varieties Damsky splendid is the end of May, beginning of June. Before transplanting, the seedlings are hardened for a week, taking them out of the room. Cucumber plants with 3-4 leaves are transferred to a permanent place, trying not to damage the delicate roots. For this, the pots are well watered before transplanting. Place 3 plants per meter Damsky saint. They are planted according to the scheme 90 x 35 cm.
Follow-up care for cucumbers
Cucumbers are watered once a week or 2-3 times more often if it is hot. The soil should not dry out, be only slightly moist. Arrange drip irrigation optimally. Weeds must be removed, the earth is loosened. The variety Ladies' saint is fed with special fertilizers for cucumbers "Sudarushka", various weapons of mass destruction and others. Use:
- at the beginning of growth, mullein 1:10 or bird droppings 1:15;
- in the flowering phase, wood ash, urea, potassium sulfate, superphosphate;
- at the beginning of fruiting, the variety is supported by foliar dressing with MagBor or wood ash.
Pinch the shoots and flowers in the axils of the first 5 leaves from the Ladies' saint. The next 6 shoots are left, and those that develop further are also pinched. Lateral shoots allow 30-50 cm in length.
Conclusion
Cucumber Ladies' Man F1 is a parthenocarpic of a new generation, which develops equally well in a greenhouse and in an open field. Nutritious soil, regular watering, rules for special formation of the whip are the main factors for growth and high yields.
