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Cucumber Salad Variety Perseus for Field

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Medium-early Hybrid with Vigorous Growth

Medium-early hybrid with vigorous growth. The cucumber is medium-sized, medium green, with a spindle to cylindrical shape. Package contains 25 seeds.

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Cucumis sativus - Perseus

Cucumbers undoubtedly belong to the most popular vegetable types. Pickling cucumbers or salad cucumbers are probably the most commonly grown vegetable variety. Everyone knows the long snake cucumbers. The fruits measure over thirty centimeters, are smooth, non-bitter, and suitable for growing in greenhouses and polytunnel covers. Cucumbers originate from India, where they have been cultivated for 3000 years. The plant grows up to 2 meters long and is climbing. Characteristically, it has large, deeply lobed, alternately growing leaves. Cucumbers produce large yellow unisexual flowers - male and female, which are pollinated by insects. The fruit is the cucumber - a berry.

Cucumbers contain the enzyme erepsin, which breaks down proteins. Vitamin E protects cells from free radicals. When consuming cucumbers, a feeling of satiety quickly sets in, which helps with weight-loss diets.

Besides basic kitchen preparations of cucumbers, such as salads or for preserving, cucumbers can also be used to make various cream salads, cocktails, and various smoothies.

How to Grow Cucumbers

  • It is not advisable to plant cucumbers where potatoes or strawberries were previously grown. On the other hand, beds after peas, onions, beets, or beans are suitable. Cucumbers require a bright, warm location that is sheltered. We keep the soil around emerged seedlings loose and clean. Cucumbers are shallow-rooted, so we don't dig deep. We pinch plants in the six-leaf phase after the fifth leaf and later also the side shoots after fruit set. Pinching accelerates harvest by at least fourteen days. Watering during sunny heat is not suitable, as they suffer from scorch and downy mildew. Leaves must be dry at night, so afternoon watering is completely unsuitable and we water only in the morning. For growing cucumbers, it is advisable to use PVC film which protects seedlings from possible temperature drops. Black non-woven fabric is most suitable.

  • Cucumber seeds can be sown directly in the bed around May 20th. Cucumbers are quite susceptible to temperature shocks, so temperatures should not drop below 8°C.

    Another option is pre-cultivation, which helps us avoid cucumber downy mildew. Sowing can be done from mid-April. We sow seeds in sowing substrate, one seed per pot or seed tray. We can pre-cultivate by the window indoors or in a greenhouse. Seedlings are pre-cultivated for 12-16 days and the suitable temperature for seed germination is 15-18°C. Waterlogging doesn't suit seeds or young seedlings well, they could easily die. We again place seedlings in their final location only after May 20th.

  • They require quality, manured, deeply worked soil.

  • It is good to fertilize the site before planting with well-aged manure or matured compost. This prepared soil is left to settle for another 2 to 3 weeks. During vegetation, you can fertilize with diluted cow manure with fermented chicken manure. You can also use artificial fertilizer Cucumin, designed especially for cucumbers. We can also apply Cererit or Floran.

  • Sucking pests such as aphids, whiteflies, or spider mites can significantly weaken our cultivated plants when heavily infested. Among fungal diseases, mainly mildews such as cucumber downy mildew, black fruit rot, powdery mildew. It is advisable to use ROCK EFFECT as prevention, not only against sucking pests but also against fungal diseases. For treatment against fungal diseases, we can use products Acrobat MZ WG, Aliette 80 WG, also Dithane DG Neotec, Champion 50 WP, Kuprikol 50, Ortiva, Previcur Energy, Ridomil Gold MZ Pepite, and Plíseň STOP.

    Symptoms of cucumber mosaic virus can be observed on approximately month and a half old plants. Greener irregular spots begin to form on the leaves, which yellow over time. Leaves wrinkle and deform. They are transmitted by pests such as aphids or whiteflies. Protection involves eliminating the sucking pests that carry the disease and destroying plants in case of infestation.

  • We harvest cucumbers at least two to three times a week. When harvesting, we take care not to tear the cucumber seedlings and not to damage the shoots. We harvest mature fruits.

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Data sheet

Growing difficulty
Medium
Growing suitability
Garden cultivation
Purpose
Edible fruits
Sowing Time
Summer
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Harvest time
Autumn
Summer
Fruit color
Green

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