All are eagerly awaiting the moment when on the garden plants will last the long-awaited fruits. Yes, so nice to thwart their beds with the first ripe tomatoes or a small crunchy cucumber that we assiduously cultivated on the site. But, as it turned out, in the habit of "truncation" among gardeners disagreed - some say that the first fruits to pick off course necessary, but others - insist on the return. So whether or not to still break off the cucumbers early in their beds? This question is based on my personal experience, I will try to answer in this article.
To begin to get a good crop of cucumbers, they should be mulch, fertilize and water. As for the truncation of the first fruits, then yes, this time can also affect the amount of the crop. I have to say, I've experimented - and cut off, and left the first cucumbers on the bushes, and then came to the conclusion that every gardener should for himself to define the purpose, which it pursues - either as the first to eat pickles straight from the garden or the wait time and wait for the big harvest. Now I tell in more detail what I mean.
So, if you do not pick the first cucumbers, the plant start up a lot of energy in their cultivation, and bushes of nutrients will not be enough - they stop growing. As a result, the fruits ripen much earlier, but ultimately they will not so much as it could would be, because a greater number of these small cucumbers on flimsy bushes simply can not grow.
If first cucumbers still break, The bush cucumber will continue to continue to grow, because this is what he will spend his unspent energy reserves. Due to the fact that shrubs will grow longer, and they will be stronger, so with time on They will have a lot more cucumbers than in the first case, and as a result, the harvest will be much richer.
So there's your pick - or earlier, but less than, or the same long, but the more - the owner, as they say, sir!