Characteristics of cucumber varieties Artist
Cucumber variety Artist selection from Sedek firm. The species is intended for growing in open soil, but gives a fruitful harvest if it grows in greenhouses, hotbeds or under a film cover. The bushes are medium-sized, medium-growing, compact, therefore they are often used on a windowsill or balcony - indoors.
Characteristics of cucumber varieties Artist
Description of the variety
Hybrid parthenocarpic, early maturing, bee-pollinated. You can get a good profit with your own grown F1 variety, because the marketability of the harvested fruits reaches 95%. The average weight of one Artist's cucumber ranges from 75 to 95 grams. Cucumber Artist f1 gives every year a constant yield of 17-19 kilograms per square meter or 30-48 tons per hectare with thickened plantings in large areas.
In just 45-52 days, after germination, these gherkins reach fruiting. The fruits are cylindrical in shape, with larger tubercles, short ones - 7-10 centimeters long, and are considered to be of the corona type. The female type of flowering is dominant. Ovaries develop in bunches - 3 - 4 pieces per node.
Benefits
Undoubtedly, the Artist f1 cucumber has the best taste characteristics:
- sweet;
- crisp;
- there are no hard grains inside;
- has a cucumber aroma.
Application
The Artist variety cucumber is suitable for use both fresh and canned.
Large fruits are great for pickling, and smaller ones, gherkins, for pickling in jars. Even if there is not enough time for harvesting on time, they will not outgrow the specified value for a long time.
Planting varieties
The technology of growing such cucumbers states that planting and caring for gherkins should first of all include high-quality soil preparation. And already when the soil is prepared, the method of planting the plant is chosen:
- seedless;
- seedling.
Soil preparation
Description of the characteristics of the variety The artist cucumber says that this vegetable belongs to crops that are whimsical to the fertility of the soil. It is necessary in advance to choose and prepare the soil for planting correctly. Loamy or sandy loam soils are best suited.
In order for the harvest to be fertile, it is necessary: to assess the acidity of the soil, apply fertilizer and other useful substances, prepare the garden itself.
Seedless way
Cucumber seeds must be buried in the ground by 1.5-2 centimeters.
On a warm day, seeds are sown, and the soil is covered with a black film. The optimum soil temperature for the germination of Delpin seeds should not be less than 17-18 ° C. Any weed and other crop residues in the fall should be selected. If you have acidic soil, then you need to lime it.
The soil must be prepared
In the spring, you need to process the site again - reforge, level. Humus, wood ash and other fertilizers are applied to the soil in mid-May. The soil should be disinfected with diluted potassium permanganate and covered with a dark film.At the first shoots sprouting, it is necessary to thin out and keep the strongest plants at a distance of 20-25 centimeters from each other. Seedlings are planted in the ground no deeper than 1.5-2 centimeters.
Seedling method
If you want to speed up fruiting by several weeks, then the seedling method will help you with this. Artist-f1 needs to be sown on seedlings about 30 days before planting on the soil:
- you need to sow seeds in loosened, fertile soil, which is filled with cups or pots 1.5-2 centimeters high;
- the minimum temperature that should be at night is 14-15 ° С, the temperature per day should not fall below 17-20 ° С;
- watering is carried out in the morning, but no more than twice a week with standing, warm water;
- then, after the second leaf appears, you need to feed it with a nitroammophos or another drug;
- 10 days before planting the plant, hardening is carried out.
Bush care
Crop care and growing rules include several special aspects:
- You need to systematically weed and water the cucumbers.
- Loosening can be combined with weeding.
- Watered in the evening. Water for irrigation must be at least 18 degrees.
- Mineral, organic fertilizers are used once every seven days, from 21 days after germination.
You can be convinced of the good fruiting of cucumbers. Artist, even if the year is not fruitful, proper care will do the trick.
Pest control
In order to avoid powdery mildew on plants, you need to:
- do not plant cucumbers every year in the same place - observe crop rotation;
- after harvesting, disinfect greenhouses and greenhouses;
- do not water with cold water;
- pick up a resistant variety.
In order to avoid cladosporism on plants, it is necessary:
- monitor the change in culture and do not plant cucumbers in their original place earlier than after 4 years;
- do timely airing of the greenhouse;
- remove all plant residues from the site;
- pour warm water.
Conclusion
Summer residents choose Artist cucumbers because they are the most optimal and productive forms of hybrids for greenhouses and greenhouses. Summer residents like it because of its great fertility, timely fruiting.
The hybrid is resistant to diseases of pumpkin crops, is not picky, has excellent taste characteristics and presentation. Summer residents advise growing the Artist F1 in greenhouses, directing the plants to one stem and keeping several stepchildren in a pair of ovaries. Cucumbers ripen earlier if they are planted in greenhouses, but the harvest is always good and in open soil.