How to pinch the cucumber to get a rich harvest

Every year, as soon as snow begins to melt, experienced and beginner farmers buy seeds, preparing to harvest a rich harvest. Cultivation of cucumbers is not a complicated procedure, but still requires some care. To harvest the maximum number of vegetables per season, you need to properly form a plant bush. Therefore, it is useful for all truck farmers to know how to pinch the cucumbers.

For starters, seeds should be selected: they can be both hybrid varieties, and the most common, but care for them will be different. You can sprout them in a greenhouse or in glasses on a windowsill, it all depends on the personal abilities of each gardener. When the time comes to plant the seedlings in the open ground, you should pull the trellis along which the cucumber whips will tear. The support should be strong, because the adult plants are quite heavy.

When the seedlings begin to branch, it is necessary to tie it to the trellis, but not tightly and under the cotyledonous leaves. This will allow the bush to develop normally. Before plucking cucumbers, you need to wait until they grow their whips. If the seeds were bought hybrid, then when forming the bush it is necessary to cut off the top above the sixth leaf. Cucumber should have only three main shoots, everything else is removed. If the variety was ordinary, then only one stem is formed, which by default is the main one.

After plucking the cucumber is no longer needed, it is necessary to look after only the main shoot. On the stem there should be only four points of growth, from which the harvest will be collected. No more, because it can weaken the bush. Weak, twisted and extra loops are recommended to be removed without delay. Leaves can not be cut off, because they feed stems with useful substances.

Very many truck farmers not only do not know how to pinch the cucumbers, but also do not understand why this is needed. Indeed, why it is so necessary to tie the plants, tear off excess lashes, cut off the tops, if everything can be left to its own accord and get a crop. If you do nothing, then cucumbers, of course, will grow, but there will not be as many as they could be, and the quality of vegetables will be noticeably worse. The fact is that this plant has such a feature as laying down male shoots, which are also called empty heads. The crop is given only by lateral shoots of a female, that is why it is so necessary to pinch a cucumber. Otherwise, the female stems will grow very little, and the fruits will be bitter.

When planting cucumbers, it is important not only to pinch them in time, but also to take care of them properly. These plants love water, so in hot weather they need daily watering, and do not forget about feeding. They need to be planted not too close to each other, since the tapestry can tear under the weight of the lashes, and the leaves will cover the flowers, so the ovaries can not wait.

If you follow all the recommendations, in time to form the bushes and take care of them, then the harvest will be early and plentiful. In any case, the forces and time will not be wasted. Such fruits have an attractive appearance, very tasty and crunchy. For this, it's worth to mess around with seedlings.