The cucumber is one of the most widespread and the vegetables loved by gardeners. Summer residents with success cultivate this culture because of its high tastes and abundance of grades. How to prepare and plant seeds of cucumbers to receive good harvest of zelents?
It is required to you
- Seeds of cucumbers, salt, water, potassium permanganate solution.
Instruction
1. Decide what you want to grow up cucumbers: short or extended, weak or silnobugorchaty? Choose the necessary grades, proceeding from the place of their cultivation. In greenhouses most often land the partenokarpichesky (self-pollinated) grades. Pcheloopylyaemy grades of cucumbers also will be suitable for temporary shelters.
2. Upon purchase of seeds pay attention to grade: whether it is hybridomas (F1). It is impossible to leave seeds from hybrid forms of plants on landing. They will give splitting in the second generation therefore you do not receive repetition of grade.
3. If seeds at you the, calibrate them in 3-5% salt solution. You will throw out all emerged seeds. Wash out the remained seeds and warm up them 2 hours in oven at temperature of 60 °C. For disinfection you can lower seeds for half an hour in 1% potassium permanganate solution.
4. Just before crops put seeds of cucumber in fabric sack and wet in nutritious solution of regulators of growth for 12 hours. Temperature of solution has to be not less than 20 °C.
5. Spread out the wetted seeds for the fastest germination on damp fabric. Maintain temperature in flat dish not below 22-25 °C.
6. For receiving seedling sow the arisen seeds in pots. The size of pot should not be less than 8х8 cm. Establish future seedling on windowsill. At bezrassadny way sow seeds in the prepared ridge two rows. The distance between ranks has to make 30 cm, between seeds among - 4-5 cm. Depth of seal of seeds - 2-3 cm. After there is the first present sheet, pull out excess plants.