Many gardeners say that if you talk to the plants, the crop is much higher. And yet, the main thing - in time to hear you say the plants, because they send us signals, first the color of leaves, and then the shape of the fruit. We will understand the language of cucumbers.
We do not have enough nitrogen
This phrase in the language is expressed in cucumber small leaves on slender stems that rapidly woody and emerging fruits have sharp curved tip. Lower leaves are drooping, and the upper begin to turn yellow.
In this case it is necessary to urgently conduct foliar fertilizer urea, and the soil watered with liquid manure or a solution of chicken manure. Zagotovte as green manure of chopped weeds, which is filled with water and left to ferment for a week. The filtered solution is before our eyes healthier plants.
Good will respond to it, and other vegetables, so do not be lazy to prepare it for the future and more. And that you do not mind an unpleasant odor, cover the container with a lid or cardboard. You can throw on top of a twig or a few leaves of valerian.
We potash hunger
This report cucumbers light border that appears first on the lower leaves. Then they begin to turn yellow in the direction of the main vein, and turn brown and wither with strong potash hunger, especially in hot weather. Fruits are narrowed to the petiole, taking the form of a curved pear.
An urgent need to feed the plant potash fertilizers, such as wood ash. If the cucumbers have already entered the time of fruiting, it is necessary to foliar application, otherwise the whole will get potassium fruits, and still leaves will feel the shortage of potassium.
Important! Just use potassium sulfate instead of chloride. Chlorine cucumbers do not like!
And can be diluted in a glass of ash bucket of water, insist night, drain and sprinkle cucumber flower bed in the early morning or evening.
Give us a phosphorus
The request is expressed in the small leaves of dark green color, which quickly dry up, becoming almost black.
Shade leaves become purple and the veins - violet-red. The leaves are folded down.
First aid in this case will be sprayed with a solution of ammonium phosphate or superphosphate, which is necessary to take in the amount of 1 tablespoon of water in the bucket.
We were a little magnesium
it is common to hear from cucumbers growing on acidic soils. About the lack of magnesium can be recognized by the appearance of a light-green spots on the leaves, which then turn yellow.
Yellowness or red-purple hues first appear between the veins. Correct situation can be sprinkled cucumber bed of magnesium sulfate. It is useful to close up the soil wood ash. She alkalizes soil and roots will be easier to extract from it the necessary cucumbers magnesium.
Urgent need Bor
The frequent phrase in plants growing on light sandy soils. Form becomes spoon-shaped leaves, they become gnarled and brittle. Flowers are showered with a deficiency of boron, and the ovary grow very slowly. Unless urgent action is taken, the withered growing point, and the harvest will not be all.
Cucumber can save foliar fertilizer solution of borax or boric acid.
Well, now you know a few phrases in the language of cucumbers, and it will be easier to find mutual understanding with them. Cucumbers are very responsive, they will thank for their care hundredfold.
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