GUCUMBER ANULKA F1 Medium early variety (vegetation period 56 days), gherkin-like, productive with very short, shapely fruits, light green in color and small warts. Tolerant to downy mildew and common cucumber mosaic virus and resistant to cucurbit scab. Sowing into the ground at a depth of 1-2 cm. from mid-V-
⭐ Sowing: ½ V - VI
⭐ Harvest: ½ VII - ½ IX
⭐ Spacing: 15 x 80-120cm
⭐ Package dimensions: 13 x 8 x 1 cm
Cucumbers grown in pots.
2. Frost
Once the cucumbers sprout, the slightest frost destroys them. When they freeze right after germination, you may not even notice that they were there.
Frosts destroy emerging cucumbers usually in May. This may also happen in early June.
Emerging cucumbers are well protected against frosts by covers: greenhouses and foil tunnels.
3. Too dry
A cucumber won't grow at all if it's too dry. If there is no rain, you need to water, but only in moderation. Excess water can be fatal to cucumbers (see point 4).
4. Too wet
Cucumber prefers slightly moist soil. However, in too wet soil, especially heavy soil, the seeds are often infected with fungal diseases and die.
Sometimes infected seeds die underground. It also happens that they manage to sprout the first two leaves and then the seedlings become blighted. Young cucumbers look as if they are withering and dying.
The infection of germinating cucumber seeds by fungi is prevented by dressings. Therefore, the seeds are often sold pelleted.
The coated cucumber seeds are pink.
5. No sun
Cucumber germinates best in the sun. When the weather is cloudy or when cucumbers are sown in a place that is too shady, they may not emerge.
6. Snails and other pests
Many pests lie in wait for cucumbers when they are emerging.
The most voracious are snails. They can crunch green cucumbers right down to the root. And so quickly that sometimes you won't even notice that the cucumbers have sprouted...
Sprouting cucumber seeds are also a delicacy for pests such as wireworms, nematodes, cutworms, midges, and earthworms. Yellow sticky boards help reduce the number of many cucumber pests.
A yellow pest control board hung above the sown cucumbers.
7. Dead seeds
Cucumber seeds retain their ability to germinate for up to 8 years after harvest. If they are stored incorrectly, e.g. in too humid and cold rooms, they die.