Experienced gardeners know that for receiving good harvests it is absolutely optional to be spent for acquisition of fashionable grades of vegetables – it is quite possible to collect full-fledged seeds on the site, this statement concerns also cucumbers.
What cucumbers to leave on seeds
Choosing cucumber on seeds, it is necessary to pay attention to what is written on packing if the maternal plant has grown from seeds which were bought in shop. The fact is that modern selection offers large number of the hybrid seeds noted by F1 or F2 symbols, i.e. received by crossing of two parental grades in the first or second generation.
In most cases, gaining excellent flavoring and quality characteristics, high resistance to diseases, wreckers and the lowered temperatures, such cucumbers do not keep these characteristics for posterity, sometimes have even no full-fledged seeds. If seeds from similar plants ascend, the gardener will have no guarantees that they will yield some harvest. Proceeding from it, it is necessary to leave on seeds cucumbers with characteristics of full-fledged grade.
Also there is opinion that among the cucumbers which are grown up from seeds of fresh harvest many barren flowers develop. That to avoid it, it is necessary to sustain seeds 2-3 years, only then it is possible to seed them and to hope for receiving good harvest.
How to receive seeds of cucumbers
On seeds it is accepted to leave the cucumber of the correct beautiful form which has grown in the first wave of harvest on lashes from bosom of the first or second leaf. Having chosen the necessary plant, the lash should be prishchipnut over the fifth or sixth leaf that the seed cucumber had opportunity fully to ripen. After that it is necessary to tie the label with the indication of grade and date of prishchipyvaniye of lash to plant. For maturing the testicle needs 35-40 days. It is possible to remove it at the end of August when the main lash has begun to turn yellow and perish. The exterior of seed cucumbers of usually yellowy-brown color covered with small cracks. After removal of testicle it is necessary to put it for dozarivaniye for 2-3 weeks in the dry room with continuous temperature of +18-22 degrees. When maturing the cucumber becomes soft. After that it is necessary to cut, take it seeds together with pulp in glass or plastic ware by means of teaspoon. In such state the seeds leave for 3-4 days for fermentation. It is necessary in order that then qualitatively to clean seeds from alburnum. After that seeds repeatedly wash out in flowing water and sort: puny and small seeds are rejected, and the others need to be dried and stored well before landing in the linen or paper sack supplied with the label with the indication of grade.