Cucumber Masha F1: reviews, description, cultivation

The sooner the cucumber rip, the better. If the producer wants to make a profit, he needs the products to be early, of a commercial appearance and well preserved during transportation. Therefore, he carefully studies the characteristics of existing varieties, gets acquainted with novelties. But there is among all the variety the one that does not go out of fashion for more than one year. This is a cucumber Masha F1.

Description

The stems of this variety are strong, powerful. At one site can accommodate 5 or more fruits. Maturing together cucumbers Masha F1. Reviews, photos show that the color of their fruits are dark green, the shape - cylindrical, the ratio of length and thickness is three to one. The length of each is about 8 centimeters. The cucumber peel has noticeable tubercles. The flesh is not bitter, dense.

Purpose

The variety was created for growing in film greenhouses. It grows well in glass. You can get an excellent crop in an open bed, where plants are located in a horizontal or vertical way.

Characteristic of the variety

Garnish F1 Mouse (hybrid) has the following advantages:

• Self-pollinating (parthenocarpic);
• The earliest (the first production appears 37 days after sowing);
• Suitable for growing in a greenhouse and open ground;
• Resistant to major diseases;
• Suitable for pickling and preservation;
• Has a high yield.

Conditions for obtaining quality products

Cucumber Masha F1 grows and fructifies in the closed ground. But in the spring, when the day gets longer, the temperature rises to 25 degrees and above, its stems become thicker, the leaves grow larger, the cucumbers grow faster, they become more delicious, their appearance improves. In order for fruits to have a standard dark color, you need to make potassium and magnesium.

Cultivation

Determined with the variety, you need to find a good place and suitable soil, which will grow cucumber Masha F1. Growing it is the same as other varieties.

The area for cucumbers should receive a lot of light and be closed from the wind. The soil is better to take light, non-acidic, sandy loam or light loamy. Cucumber does not like the near standing of groundwater. Predecessors for cucumbers are siderates, cabbage, onions, potatoes, tomatoes, legumes. You should not use beds on which before it grew beets, pumpkins, melons, zucchini. The soil must be well-fertilized. Mineral fertilizers are introduced three weeks before sowing. Organics (reparted manure) are brought in autumn or spring. The cucumber Masha F1 reacts well to it.

Planting and care

Cultivate cucumbers from seedlings or seedlings, sowing in a permanent place. Seeds can be sown dry or pre-soaked.

Seedlings are grown in small containers for each grain. After all, cucumbers do not get well during transplantation. To fill containers prepare a mixture of earth (2 parts), humus (7 parts) and manure (1 part). Add mineral fertilizers. Seedlings are grown at a temperature of 20 to 25 degrees, using hotbeds or any warm room in which the cucumber Masha F1 begins life. Planting is carried out in the last week of May.

Seedling with three or four real leaves by this time will be 25 days. Seven days before planting it begins to harden. Before planting, the plants are fed. At this time, there may be late frosts. In this case, the seedlings are covered with a film. Cucumbers are tropical plants, they do not tolerate hypothermia and disappear.

How to get a cucumber Masha F1 without greenhouses? Cultivation in this case requires less expenditure, but at the same time there is more risk that the seeds will not rise. You can sow them in mid-May or a little earlier. The best germination is the seeds after two to four years of storage. The depth of sowing is 2-3 centimeters. You can cover the crops with film or lutrasil.

The beginning of flowering depends on the air temperature. The optimum temperature is +27 degrees. At 20 degrees, this will happen ten days later. And at 32 gr. The plant ceases to bloom and develop.

Density of planting

If plants have risen together, they need to be thinned out. The number of plants per meter depends on the way the cucumber Masha F1 is grown. Customer feedback suggests that they can be grown horizontally or vertically. In the first case, 4 or 5 stems (50 thousand per hectare) are sufficient per square meter. When using the trellis (vertical method) leave 3 cucumber stalks (25 thousand per hectare). To do this, they are planted according to the scheme of 80 × 60 in the greenhouse or 20 × 100 in the garden.

Care of plants

• Water after 3 days with warm water.
• Feeding.
• Periodically weed (as much as necessary), but carefully. The root system of cucumbers is close to the surface.
• They hibernate several times a season.
• Pinch over the fifth leaf in order to have more lateral shoots.
• On the greenhouses remove the side stems above the first cucumber.
• They are treated with insecticides and means of fighting diseases.
• Mulch, so that the soil does not dry up and does not crack.
• Constantly collect fruits, so that their number does not exceed 10-16 pieces per bush.
• You can spray, but this will increase the risk of fungal diseases. Hothouses regularly air.

Let's focus on the top-dressing, which need to support the cucumber Masha F1. The testimonies testify that the first one is better to hold when two real leaflets are formed. The second is carried out in two weeks. The number of ingredients is doubled. You can feed once a decade with a solution obtained from 1 liter of manure, diluted in 10 liters of water (you can take 10 grams of urea instead of manure). If cucumbers grow poorly, you should add ash to the solution.

If the food is not enough, the leaves of the cucumber turn yellow, the ovary disappears. How to find out which substance the cucumber Masha F1 did not receive? The description of the shape of the fruit will help to understand this. If it has a pear-shaped shape, then you need to add potassium, a narrow light tip indicates a lack of nitrogen, the presence of the waist arises from watering with cold water. Curved fruit can be obtained by cross-pollination of various hybrids.

Feeding raises yield, but with it you need to know the measure. Excessive amount of fertilizer can lead to the opposite effect. The quality of cucumbers will worsen due to the increased amount of nitrates, and the cucumber can become dangerous to the health of consumers.

Harvesting

Cucumbers need to be collected every day. If it is done less often, some of them will outgrow, lose their quality. In addition, they will slow the maturation of other ovaries. Regular harvesting of fruits increases the quality and quantity of the crop. Produce it carefully. Stems of cucumbers are very brittle and tender, often intertwined. If you strongly pull the cucumber, while not holding the stem, it can break. The trampled bushes quickly disappear.

Productivity

Few sorts produce as much fruit as Masha F1 cucumber. The yield of it is 2 kg from each bush. For 6 thousand years, there are cucumbers, their useful and harmful to health (there are also such) properties are well studied.

Benefits and harm of cucumbers

95% of the water in the composition, the lack of fats, carbohydrates and proteins - all this helps to lose weight. Caloric content of cucumber is 15 kcal per 100 g. It contains vitamins A, C, PP, group B, potassium (most), phosphorus, iron, magnesium, iodine and other useful substances.

Cucumber helps to treat cardiovascular diseases, exchange polyarthritis, gout, kidney and liver diseases, prostate, improves intestinal motility, helps to get rid of edema, has a choleretic and diuretic effect. Alkaline salts, which are present in the composition of the vegetable, promote rejuvenation. For this he is called an orderly of the body. Cucumber is used externally for masks. Potassium and silicon improve the look of the skin and hair. Iodine compounds will help people with iodine deficiency. And, accordingly, they are harmful to those who have iodine in excess. In addition, harmful cucumbers can be for those suffering from gastritis, stomach ulcers and duodenal ulcers.

Cucumbers grown on open beds, have much more than all listed nutrients. But the salted and pickled medicinal properties do not possess. They're just delicious.

Customer Reviews

Many truck farmers grow a cucumber Masha F1. The reviews mark its taste qualities: it does not bitter, it does not form voids inside the fruit. If there are bitter cucumbers, then this is definitely some other sort. Details describe the process of growing. They share their experience, how and when the seeds are sown, the cucumber Masha F1 is planted under the film. The formation of the bush is done by pinching the main stem. This helps increase the yield of the plant. After all, instead of one, though a long whip, up to five lateral ones are formed.

Many gardeners like that the variety almost does not become infected with diseases. But still they prefer not to risk and treat the antiviral drugs "Aliet" grade cucumber Masha F1. Consumer testimonials indicate susceptibility to his perianospirosis and powdery mildew at high humidity. At the first manifestations of the disease ("flour" stains), the affected leaves are cut off. You can treat them with ashes.

Salted, canned - in all kinds of good cucumber Masha F1. Reviews say that cucumbers, like many vegetables and fruits, dried for the winter in dryers. This helps to preserve the useful substances that are available in the product.

There are customer testimonials about unscrupulous dealers. They noticed that some plants of the company "Seminis" grew bitter fruits. But at first they had flowers of a male type, which should not be on hybrids. What's the matter? Perhaps this is not really the company's dealers. If you are sure that you bought certified seeds, then you can contact the defenders of consumer rights. But first you need to find a check and packing from the seeds. There is an opinion that the company "Seminis" with increased demand has become insufficient to monitor the quality. Consumers note that among the seeds there is a significant number of frail, incrustation on them crumbles, there are even weeds. And what happens to the seeds when re-packaging by distributors, no one knows. To prevent this from happening, it is better to buy seeds in the original packaging, they need to be bought from official representatives.

Many reviews about the seeds of other companies, their quality, germination. They note that the seeds of the Dutch firms "Nunems", "Enza", "Syngenta" are well prepared, but among them there are still lunatic.

Among those firms that qualitatively prepare seeds for planting, called the CCF LLC Partenokarpik-D (Vnukovo). The firm displays hybrids, well-known all over the world. But they have an untapped company, small volumes of products. Some consumers like the products of the selection and seed center "Gavrish".