Some gardeners believe that to obtain a good harvest cucumbers enough to water them more often and occasionally feed. Experts advise to use additional agricultural practices, which include topping of cucumbers.
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Why spend topping of cucumbers?
The plant spends a lot of nutrients in the formation of barren flowers and green mass. Pasynok 25-30 cm long reduces productivity bush 1.5-2 kg. If time does not spend pinched out, the overgrown stepchildren and leaves will shade the entire land. Formation cucumber bush promotes root system, proper growth and the formation of the central stem ovaries.
Due topping solve the main problem:
- increased productivity;
- reduced ripening time;
- facilitates further care compact bushes.
In addition, improved flavor quality of fruits (cucumber not taste bitter) and appearance (all fruits have a smooth cylindrical shape without crook).
Removing superfluous shoots, it can be at times to increase the yield of cucumber beds.
How to make a topping?
topping the scheme self-pollinated and parthenocarpic (which do not need insect pollination) crops grown in greenhouses, vary.
In the formation of the bush self-pollinated cucumbers need to perform these techniques:
- Tie the growing stems.
- 3 Remove the first ovary, to enhance the growth of the main whip.
- On the side shoots after occurrence of pinch point 4 ovaries growth.
Parthenocarpic grade form by the following scheme:
- Secure the whip on a trellis.
- To form a zone of glare by removing all the lower stepchildren and ovaries.
- Above this area pinch suckers appearing on the first leaf.
- At half-meter height to leave a few leaves and one bud.
- Leave 2-3 lateral escape from the ovaries and 3-4 leaves at a distance of 1 m.
- At a height of 1.5 m on the shoots can be left on the ovaries and 3-4 leaves.
It is important that each ovary remained healthy undamaged sheet.
When active growth of scourge throws through the support and lowered down. When the stem nearer to 1 m to the earth, the growing point is removed.
If the cucumbers grown in the open field, you should follow these recommendations:
- not thicken landing;
- before topping set support;
- 2 weeks later to tie the shoots;
- Lower stem release from inflorescences and lateral shoots;
- cut above the tip of the whip sheet 6;
- leave 2-3 lateral stem with ovaries (4 pcs.) and fasten them;
- remove the damaged leaves.
Topping of cucumbers hybrid varieties
Breeders have bred new varieties that grow well without topping. These include Blizzard, Valdai, Blizzard and others. These cultures lateral stems develop poorly, the majority of fruit is fastened on the main whip.
But many hybrids should be formed, prischipyvaya stepchildren to central stem has developed better.
You can work on this technique:
- Remove suckers in sheet 4 forming phase.
- Counting 5 of these leaves, stalk crop side.
- Repeat topping when fully grown 5 more leaves, leaving the escape of about 0.5 m in length.
- When these grow 5-6 leaves, trim the tip.
With the growth of unwanted stems should be removed, which will no longer bear fruit, as well as yellowing and sick leaves. Sections were better sprinkle with crushed charcoal.
Older plants remove all the lower leaves. Central whip will give the young shoots of new ovaries.
Formation of the bush helps not only increase productivity, but also heals the plant. Bush is better ventilated and illuminated, so there is less affected by pests and diseases.
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