Spring comes - time to get out into the garden and started active work! On private land in our country it is grown a wide variety of crops, and few do without the cucumber beds. How to reduce the number of barren flowers? With that increase the number of ovaries cucumber? These questions are of concern for many.
Causes of Netherbloom
It all depends on the variety, which is planted gardeners. Cucumber varieties, giving a large number of flowers without ovaries are heterosexual - one selected plant there and female, with a pestle, and male, with stamens, the flowers. Female flowers after pollination give rise to ovary. Men with pollen bloom for one to three days. If pollination in this period did not happen, then the harvest will be low or cucumber fruit absolutely will not.
Often cucumber Scourge flaunt only male flowers. This is due to the age of seed. If the seeds are collected from different sexes grade last season, and planted in the current, it will be observed above mentioned effect.
Another reason - feeding. After entering into the bed of cucumber seedlings of nitrogen fertilizers, there is an active increase in green mass and a small number of small fruits. Plant devotes all his energy on the growth of lashes and lush leaves.
Ways to grow cucumbers without Netherbloom
Experienced gardeners and gardeners know how to get good plentiful harvest zelentsov.
Preparation of seeds of cucumber cultivars of different sexes for landing. Seeds desirable to take two years or three years ago. If this is not possible, the same age before planting seedlings or bedding can be warmed 2 hours dry heat at a temperature 45-55S;
Adding superphosphate. If there is increased growth of foliage and no fruit, the dressing according to the fertilizer will help to remedy the situation;
Selecting varieties for planting
It is not prone to self-pollinated flowering empty and parthenocarpic varieties and hybrids. Self-pollinated cucumbers flowers have both stamens and pistil, so the ovary appears in 100% of cases. Parthenocarpic hybrids feature is the presence of female flower bud which is formed without the participation of pollen.
Thus, the reasons for the so-called Netherbloom cucumbers announced, solutions to the problem are registered. It remains only to choose the appropriate way and you can begin to grow beautiful, strong, numerous zelentsov.