Bean cucumber Mels F1: reviews, variety description, features and cultivation

A great achievement of breeders is the appearance in nature cucumber beams with several ovaries on one plant, which allows you to harvest a high yield. One of the hybrids is the cucumber Mels F1, reviews of which experts and gardeners give the most positive. On the features of growing gardening culture and many other things, read the article.

What does F1 mean?

Plants, in the name of which there is this prefix, are hybrid. To produce them you need to cross two varieties with better characteristics. The resulting seeds will be called hybrids in the first generation. They are denoted by F1.

Seeds of hybrids can not be harvested. Even if they are collected and planted in the ground, completely different plants will grow up, which will not have such sizes of fruits, their quantity, yield, taste. Although the fruit may not be at all.

Description

Cucumber Mels F1, reviews about which exceed expectation, is a hybrid species. Vegetable refers to ultra-ripening self-pollinated varieties. It is intended for growing in greenhouses, greenhouses and on beds.

Cucumber-Garnish Mels F1, reviews on the cultivation of which allow us to conclude that this is a unique variety, has a fantastically pleasant taste. Regardless of how he was looked after, the fruits do not get bitter, they do not form voids, they have a dense consistency and crunch.

Cucumbers grow to ten centimeters in length, painted in a bright green tone. Fruits are tuberculate, with pubescence. Nodes are many, each has up to seven ovaries. For a season from one plant, four hundred fruits are taken.

Benefits

Beet cucumbers of a hybrid species have many advantages due to which they enjoy great popularity:

• Resistant to damage by various diseases.
• Currant cucumbers are not afraid of temperature changes.
• Have early maturation.
• Characterized by high yield.
• They have excellent taste qualities.

With viability of hybrids, there can be little compared to what kind of vegetables of this species. They are characterized by rapid growth, endurance. In lean year for other crops, cucumbers bear fruit abundantly. This is because they inherit the best qualities.

Beneficial features

As part of the cucumber ninety-five percent of water, and the rest - sugar, many vitamins and trace elements. Water in a cucumber can be considered almost distilled. With its help toxins and salts are excreted from the body, it has a beneficial effect on the work of the whole organism. Cucumber juice is the best natural skin care product.

The only vegetable that is used in an immature form is the cucumber Mels F1. Reviews speak of his popularity. Cucumbers are used in fresh form for salads, pickling, marinating.

Degrees of branching

Depending on the variety, branching hybrids can be different. It is classified as follows:

• Branching weak. Characteristic for the hybrids of this group is a limited period of fruiting, only a month and a half. This is due to the fact that the lateral shoots of such plants have a short length, they do not pinch, which means that new ones do not form. But cucumbers with weak branching fruited faster.

• Branching is average. Cucumbers of this type are grown in greenhouses. Fruit for a long time, simple care, nipping is not required.
• The branch is strong. This group includes the cucumber Mels. Reviews of the high-yielding variety are based on the characteristics of the vegetable to bear fruit for a long time. Such cucumbers are grown in a greenhouse and open ground.

Methods of pollination

It depends on this procedure whether the ovary is planted or not. To understand what kind of cucumber to plant on your site, you should know how the plant is pollinated. Pollination by insects. Cucumber konishon Mels F1 has flowers only of a feminine gender. That pollination was high-grade, male specimens are planted. Between the female and male flowers there is a difference.

Female specimens initially have ovaries in the form of a small cucumber, and masculine - no. But they should not be deleted, otherwise there is a risk of being left without vegetables. Self-pollination is typical for greenhouse cucumbers, as with weather deterioration, the ovaries can be smaller.

How to form a plant?

To the leaves received a lot of light, and the ovaries - nutrition, to form hybrids you need a single stem. You should leave three or four lower nodes, and get rid of the remaining shoots. Each node of the main stem must have only one leaf with a bunch of cucumbers.

Seed mode of reproduction

For the cultivation of cucumbers in this way, the seeds are planted in warm soil at the very end of May, if the vegetables grow under the film shelter. If in the open ground - in early June. Mals F1 cucumber will not grow from the seeds harvested from the plant. Seeds should be bought at the store. Of self-harvested hybrid seeds, you will not get a cucumber with similar properties.

Before sowing in the soil, the planting material is soaked for one hour in water with the addition of potassium permanganate. Regardless of the location of future growth, the seeds are planted immediately into the ground. If you use peat pots for sowing, then the seeds will quickly acclimatize, since the root system will not suffer from the transplantation.

The soil is prepared in advance. It is well digged and brought in organic: wood ash, humus, compost, fresh manure. Then spill water at room temperature. Seeds are laid out on the surface of the soil at a distance of half a meter from each other, and sprinkled with soil, which is immediately mulched. To do this, use dry grass or straw. Mulch retains moisture in the soil, and after fertilization fertilizes it.

Care for germinating seeds

As soon as the shoots appear, you need to continue to mulch and water the soil. To the layer of mulch was not thick, it should be put in small portions, and poured through it. So the soil will not be washed by water and all living microorganisms will remain in it, the products of vital activity of which increase its fertility. It is very important not to overfeed cucumbers with mineral fertilizers, otherwise there will be no fruit, instead of them will grow luxurious greens. To prevent this from happening, watering should be reduced.

Seedling method of reproduction

Bean cucumber Mels F1 can be grown from seedlings. To do this, you first need to sow the seeds. The best time is the end of March - the beginning of April. We must wait until there is no threat of frost. Seed seedlings are first planted in boxes, containers or other containers with the same soil into which the seeds are sown. Boxes should not be made high, enough fifteen centimeters in height.

When the seedlings take root, it is transplanted for permanent growth in another place. But first you need to water the soil well with water, heated to thirty degrees. The seedlings are taken out carefully so as not to injure the roots, they should be left with small lumps of earth.

Cultivation

When the first crop is removed from the main stem, you should feed the cucumber Mels F1. Features of cultivation consist in intensive watering and daily harvesting. To feed the soil, nitrogen fertilizer is suitable. Having received additional useful substances, new fruits will grow.

The plant is planted in the soil according to the scheme 70x70 centimeters, but not more than two copies per square meter. When planting, it should be borne in mind that the cucumber Mels F1 loves a lot of space. Comments on the cultivation of this vegetable culture allow us to conclude that this is a promising variety.

Care

When growing the bundle of hybrid cucumbers Mels F1 it is important to observe the biological characteristics of the culture and follow simple rules:

• Remove the leaves from the bottom of the stem, down to the lower nodes. This will protect the roots from exhaustion and will help increase the yield.
• Mulch the soil to preserve moisture in it and suppress the growth of weeds.
• For the emergence of new ovaries after harvesting the first harvest, fertilize the soil with nitrogen and potassium fertilizers in a ratio of one to two.
• Before the beginning of the period of fruiting, it is recommended to water cucumbers once every three days in the calculation of four liters of water per square.