Cupid (cucumber): description and reviews

Cucumbers Cupid F1 - the most popular product of the Dutch company Bejo Zaden. This hybrid highly productive form is capable even of experienced truck farmers to amaze with their early ripeness, excellent taste qualities and beautiful marketable appearance. Cupid - cucumbers, which are successfully cultivated not only by experienced, but also by beginner farmers. The hybrid is grown most often in polycarbonate or glass greenhouses, but it is also able to bear fruit abundantly in the open ground.

Cucumber Cupid F1: description

The plant is parthenocarpous (self-pollinated), having predominantly female flowering type, weakly lobed, strong-growing, indeterminate. It is characterized by a uniform ripening of the crop. Due to very weak branching, bushes can be grown without forming.

The leaf is green, medium in size, slightly wrinkled, wavy or very weak, or absent.

Cucumbers Cupid description of the fruit have the following: green oval-fusiform, slightly wrinkled, finely humpy with white spines, shortened, about 12-14 cm long. Weight approximately 90-110 gr.

The skin is dark green with weak light strips. Spitting is frequent. In greenhouses the plant is planted on 1 square meter of 3 bushes, in the open ground - about 4-5. The main crop of Amur (cucumbers) gives in the first month of fruiting. Harvesting is carried out during the week 2-3 times. Fruits are mainly salad, but they are suitable for canning or pickling.

The average yield is 25-30 kg / m² on the average.

Cucumber Cupid: reviews

According to the reviews of gardeners, this variety is characterized by early maturity, abundant and long fruit bearing and simultaneous maturation of several fruits at once. In addition, it has a number of advantages:

• Excellent taste and aroma of fruits (green dense, crispy, without voids);
• High-quality appearance;
• The plant is resistant to powdery mildew, root rot and olive spotting (cladosporium);
• Has good transportability and storage time;
• Has self-regulation of branching;
• At each node up to five pieces of bundle ovaries are formed.

Cupid - cucumbers with predominantly female flowers. This popular early-growing hybrid in horticulture after fruit shoots enters into fruiting in 35-38 days.

Seed sowing

Grow Cupid (cucumber) can be two ways - seedless and seedling. Seeds for a few days before disembarkation into the soil are soaked and germinated. Landing in the soil is made in the beginning or middle of May (depending on the warming of the soil).

When sowing, it is necessary to pay attention to some recommendations of experienced truck farmers and specialists:

• It is necessary to sow the seeds in a fertile soil, deeply digging and fertilized with basic nutrients, to a depth of 1.5-2 cm. Sprinkle with soil mixture on top.
• It is better to cover the beds with a film to protect from the night colds, preserve soil moisture and obtain more amicable shoots.

After, how the cucumber will ascend, the film from the ridges is removed and the thinning is performed.

Seedlings cultivation method

Cucumber Cupid F1, the description of which is given above, is grown by seedling method as follows:

• In the open ground, the seeds are planted three or four weeks before the proposed planting.
• When growing cucumber seedlings in a greenhouse, the seeds are planted at the rate of 20 pieces per square meter of the landing area.
• If seedlings are grown in a room or a greenhouse, the minimum volume of planting pots or seedlings should be approximately 400 ml, and a minimum height of 12 cm, which is due to certain biological features of the root system of plants;
• Well-established special vegetable mix for vegetable crops. Its composition is optimally balanced to obtain a strong high-quality seedling. You can buy it at specialized retail outlets.
• When growing cucumber seedlings, one should constantly monitor the moisture of the soil and strictly observe the temperature regime.

In the event that more than one seed was sown in each seedling pot or pots, and all sprouted, only one of them, the most powerful and strong, should be left after the shoots, and the remaining seedlings cut at the ground level.

It should be remembered that it is impossible to plant seedlings in the open ground under the threat of frost or if the soil on the beds does not warm up to 16-17 ° C. The period of adaptation of seedlings to a permanent location, as well as the further productivity of plants, will completely depend on the exact observance of all the rules and proper care.

Care

Cucumbers Cupid F1 need care, which is similar to the technology of growing other varieties and hybrids of this plant. The basic rules of care are watering with warm water, systematic feeding, loosening of the soil and mulching, and also removing weeds. Good results and increased yield gives the cultivation by tapestry.