Cucumber Chinese - a great alternative to our "zelenians"

Chinese cucumber is not a novelty of selection, but a variety of this vegetable, which speaks of the true origin.

Its distinctive features:

• Long-fruit (from 40 cm to 1 m, depending on the variety);
• Small seeds that do not increase for a long time, despite the growth of the fetus itself;
• The cuticle is thin and bubbly;
• Excellent taste without bitterness;
• Flesh is dense, tender;
• There are no voids;
• A wonderful aroma that spreads throughout the room when cutting a vegetable.

Very delicious dishes are obtained (salads, rolls), which uses Chinese cucumber. You can see a photo of one of them below. So you want to take a mini-roll and put in your mouth. By the way, in China, cucumbers, as a rule, fry, such as zucchini and squash.

Chinese cucumber is preferably grown in greenhouses, but in open ground it feels good, only fruiting is not so long, and the number of fruits is less. To obtain early products, it is necessary to grow seedlings. It is desirable to dress seeds in a solution of potassium permanganate, and then to sustain in a growth stimulant. Then place them in a damp cloth. After about 3 days, quality seeds will show small roots.

When they germinate, they need to be planted in peat pots with disinfected soils (you can use the seedbed for purchase or make a mixture of humus, peat, sand and ash). Stems with cotyledonous leaves appear quickly - a day after 3. After about 10 days, when plants will be formed 3, and preferably 4 real leaflets, they need to be transplanted to a permanent place.

A bed or a place in the greenhouse should be prepared a week before: add humus and ash and shed hot solution of copper sulfate. After this procedure, it is desirable to cover this place with a film for several hours.

Cucumber Chinese must be grown vertically, so that all plants are well lit by the sun. When planting seedlings do not thicken, it is optimal to leave 0.5 m between plants. After 10 days, you need to start shaping. In the axils of the first four leaves you need to pull out all the flowers and shoots. It is impossible to regret, if the main stem is properly formed, there will be many more. The next 6 lateral shoots need to pinch when they reach 25 cm. The following can be left 40 cm, 50 cm. The main shoot should be pricked as soon as it reaches the maximum height of the trellis or the roof of the greenhouse.

Cucumber Chinese should be watered only under the root of warm water. Its leaves should not touch the ground. Plants need good ventilation. From sowing seeds to fruiting, one can not wait long - about a month. From one plant, it is realistic to harvest 30 kg or more of fruit, depending on the size of the cucumber.

Care is needed throughout the season: weeding, shallow loosening, watering is desirable in the morning. Obligatory fertilizing, you can infusion weed grass after fermentation and 10-fold dilution with water. The same tool to handle the whips well. All dried and suspicious leaves should be removed in the morning in dry weather. After 1.5 months from the beginning of fruiting, the lower leaves need to be removed.

Try to grow Chinese cucumbers. Sorts of Kui Ming, Ii Jinn, Lifent Senius and others are on sale infrequently, and there are hybrids almost always. The series "Chinese snakes" is remarkable in that the plants stand green and bear fruit until late autumn, which means that you will have fragrant and tasty cucumbers for a long time on your table.