City dwellers who have no seasonal dacha or to fans to gardeners who want to reap crop not only in warm season, will just suit option of cultivation of cucumbers on windowsill. It will be simple to that who grows up cucumbers on personal plot to make it, but not having similar experience it is necessary to know requirements of this plant.
Conditions for cultivation of cucumbers on windowsill
Whether it is possible to grow up cucumbers on windowsill all the year round? Alas, break should be taken, but only in case there is no desire to bother with luminescent or helium lighting. The last dates of February when the daylight hours begins to increase gradually – it is a high time for landing of cucumbers.
The cucumber – rather shade-enduring plant, but on windowsill nevertheless of light for it will be a little, especially in spring - the autumn period. And therefore it is necessary to grow up cucumbers only at the southern or southeast windows. The plant does not love drafts, take care of that in window frames there were no slots.
There is sense to grow up cucumbers on windowsill only if temperature in the apartment does not fall lower than 20 degrees. This thermophilic plant stops growth at temperature below 16 degrees.
The cucumber loves the increased air humidity, it will be not really simple to provide it such conditions in the winter, it is necessary to cover batteries of house heating with wet towels. Simple spraying of leaves in this case will not help.
If you can organize suitable conditions for plant, then you can quite grow up house cucumbers on windowsill. From one bush on average it will turn out to collect from 10 to 15 good mean values of cucumbers.
Grades and preparation of seeds
To grow up cucumbers on windowsill, partenokarpichesky hybrids or the self-pollinated grades are necessary. If, of course, you do not want to pollinate them independently. At the wrong choice of grade not pollinated ovaries of cucumbers will turn yellow and will fall down. The recommended grades: F1 Window and balcony, F1 Gift of the East, F1 Ekaterina, F1 Marathon, F1 Faust and many others.
If you are going to grow up cucumbers for the first time, then best of all buy seeds of the shade-enduring and not afraid temperature drops of grades.
The prorashchivaniye of seeds will require cotton fabric or cotton pads. We humidify them and we have on saucer, from above we spread seeds of cucumbers. Do not allow fabric drying. Later literally two-three of days the seeds will arise. Everything, it is possible to land them in the way paved previously approximately on centimeter depth.
In what it is better to grow up cucumbers on windowsill
Cucumbers are quite freedom-loving therefore the pot for their cultivation has to be rather big. On one plant the 5 liter vessel is required. It can be simple flowerpot, it is even better – self-made box in which several bushes will perfectly be located at once. The most economic way is to take 5 liter large bottles for water and to cut off at them upper part together with mouth. As option – double plastic bags. Only you should not forget that what container you would not choose, surely in its day it is necessary to make openings for drain of surplus of water.
In what soil it is necessary to grow up cucumbers on windowsill
It will be simpler to the beginning gardeners to get the ready soil in shop. Those who has desire to prepare it independently can offer several options:
- To mix 4 parts of the garden earth, 1 part of humus and 1 part of peat. On 5 liters of mix to add 100 grams of ashes, teaspoon of magnesium sulfate and tablespoon of fertilizer "full".
- To mix 2 parts of the garden earth, humus, peat and one part of sawdust. On 5 liters of the soil to add 100 grams of ashes, teaspoon of magnesium sulfate and tablespoon of fertilizer "full".
- In equal proportions to mix biohumus and the garden earth, to add 5 tablespoons of ashes of the earth, wood on each 5 liters.
In principle, it is possible to grow up cucumbers on windowsill in any soil, without harvest there will be nobody, just in correctly picked up earth harvest that is quite natural, will be much higher. And it is necessary to fertilize the unprepared soil all the same.
How to plant cucumbers on windowsill
Except the soil and containers for landing, it will be necessary for you twine for future support to cucumbers and glass or plastic caps for the shelter of seedling.
- The pot is filled with the soil below edges on 3-4 cm. We spread germinated (if is not present – that dry or wetted) seeds in number of 3 pieces at distance about two cm from each other. We powder them with the earth.
- Properly water seedlings, let's water be absorbed.
- For creation of greenhouse effect we cover saplings with plastic or glass container. We remove pots to the warmest place the apartment. Most often it is top of cabinets in kitchen. After emergence of sprouts of "small greenery" clean up, and pots are located on constant stay on the southern or southeast windowsills.
- When the real leaflets are formed, we choose the most powerful and beautiful plant, we delete the others.
How to grow up cucumbers on windowsill
Prepare support for cucumbers in advance. It can be both twine or thick nylon thread, and long peg to which cucumber lashes will need to be tied up. In case with peg all mustache which have appeared on cucumber should be deleted.
After emergence 5-6 interstices cucumber should be prishchipyvat. Side escapes prishchipyvatsya over the second leaf too.
To grow up cucumbers on windowsill without fertilizing – waste of time. Every two weeks, and at emergence of cucumbers and times in 10 days, it is necessary to carry out fertilizing. It is possible to bring 1 tsp of "agrolife" in top soil or to water with the cap of "Growth" divorced in two liters of water. It is possible just once a month to pour fresh biohumus.