Rules for the care of cucumber seedlings after germination: step-by-step instructions for watering, feeding, pinching, picking, hardening and transplanting

Proper planting and caring for cucumber seedlings allows you to get a high yield even in the northern regions.

Plants grown from good seedlings are less ill, have a strong root and above-ground system, are pleased with early fruits.

Shoots: cultivation and care

Seed tanks with sown cucumber seeds covered with film or glass. Put in a room with a temperature of about + 25 ° C. Watered no more than once in 7-10 days. Water should be warm. Read more about seed preparation before sowing.

A week later, after the shoots had spiked and two cotyledon leaves appeared, they removed the protection, put the pots in the sunlight. When several plants appear in a glass, they leave the most viable. In order to avoid damage to the root system, weak shoots are cut and not pulled out.

Tip! Before transplanting seedlings into the ground, they sprinkle the soil several times into the pots for more active formation of the root system.

Care for cucumber seedlings after germination

Further we describe in detail how to care for cucumber seedlings?

Temperature conditions

Cucumber Seedlings demanding on temperature.

The optimal mode: + 20-23 ° C during the day, + 16-19 ° C at night.

Important! Temperatures above + 23 ° C, increased humidity lead to the coddling of seedlings, reduce the rate of development of the side roots. Temperature jumps are contraindicatedsoil heating less than + 15 ° С.

Lighting

Seedlings it takes a lot of lightbut she does not like direct sunlight. To avoid burns on the leaves, the light should be diffused.

With a lack of lighting, seedlings are strongly drawn up, pale. It is necessary to light up the fluorescent lamps, and better LED. Lighting devices are located at a height of 5-10 cm from the plants.

Additional light provide for 7-10 hours in the daytime, depending on the region, weather conditions.

Tip! To obtain a strong seedling on the windows fix mirrors, foil. Reflected light helps absorb more UV light.

Ventilation

Cucumber Seedlings does not tolerate crowding. Potted place at a distance from each other. Draft not allowed.

Watering

Cucumber Seedlings capricious regarding watering. Does not like waterlogging and drying. Watered moderately, warm (+ 23-25 ​​° C) with settled water.

When carrying out additional lighting 2 times a day, if there is only natural light, 1 time. Regularly sprayed.

In the bottom of the cups there must be holes so that the excess moisture does not stagnate.

Tip! With too high moisture and soil temperature, pathogenic fungi and microorganisms develop. Sprouts which appeared black plaque immediately destroyed.

The disease hurricane spreads to other plants, is not amenable to any means of protection. Non-affected seedlings for prophylaxis are treated with antifungal antifungal agents.

Top dressing

Seedlings feed at least two times:

  • The first feeding is carried out in 2-2.5 weeks after the emergence of sprouts. Observe important rule for cucumber seedlings - fertilizers are applied with morning watering on warm days, at the root. Fertilizers should not fall on the stem and leaves. Fertilizer Fertilizer is used. Support the seedlings with urea solution (teaspoon per liter of water), at the rate of one cup per plant. You can use diluted mullein in a ratio of 1: 8, or chicken droppings - 1:10.
  • The second dressing is carried out at the appearance of the second true leaf. Take a tablespoon of wood ash, one teaspoon of nitrophoska, three liters of water. Consumption, as with the first feeding, one cup per spine.

Recommend to carry out the procedure again, 2-3 days before planting in the garden.

Tip! Vegetable growers increase supplements with biological products based on microorganisms or they prepare growth stimulators independently from ordinary yeasts.

Dry, raw yeast or black bread, rye crackers soaked in water. Received zhizhitsu contribute twice, simultaneously with the basic mineral compounds.

After the application of the yeast additive, cucumber seedlings begin to rapidly increase the green mass.

Dive

A pick (the first transplant) is needed to reduce the density of grown seedlings. The procedure is carried out when growing a large number of roots, in seedlings, too small pots, overgrown. In order for cucumber seedlings to tolerate transplant well:

  1. Dive earlyduring the formation of 2-3 leaves.
  2. In rassadnye tanks pre-fall asleep new, previously unused soil. Give the soil time to settle.
  3. The day before the procedure, seedlings and the soil in the prepared cups plenty of water.
  4. Make shallow holes.
  5. When growing seedlings, to prevent further stretching, pinch spine 1/3.
  6. Using a small scoop, tweezers carefully get a bush out of the ground together with soil lump.
  7. Placed in the hole. Sprinkled with earth to the first subfamily knee. The soil is slightly compacted.
  8. Sprayed several times with warm water.
  9. Few days carefully protect from drafts. Maintain high humidity.

With a properly performed transplant, the growth of lateral basal roots is activated, the risk of overgrowing decreases.

Tip! To obtain a friable, light nutrient earthen mixture, take one part of sod, peat, sawdust, two parts of humus. A glass of wood ash and 2-3 tablespoons of complex fertilizer are added to the bucket of the soil mixture.

Topping

Pinching (pinching, clipping) make for overgrown bushes.

With a pair of scissors or fingers, the young shoots remove the tip above the growth point of the main stem, above the sixth leaf.

Pinching activates the tying of female flowers, the formation of the root system.

Watch a short video on how and when to pick cucumbers and why to do it:

Banding

Banding cucumber seedlings conduct for more branching adventitious roots, the formation of female-type flowers. Gardeners lovers rarely resort to this procedure. It is more justified for the commercial cultivation of seedlings of cucumbers.

For banding:

  1. Reduce watering, dry the soil.
  2. Wait until the plants lose foliage elasticity.
  3. Sterilized blade, scalpel make around the stem of a shallow incision in the form of a ring.
  4. Ringing is performed directly - twist the stem into the ring.
  5. Add soil to the seedbed leaves.

Hardening

Hardening cucumber seedlings start 7-10 days before moving to open ground or greenhouse. Reduce watering. The room temperature is reduced, compared with the usual daytime, by 5-7 °.

Then begin to expose in pritenennoe windless place in the fresh air.

Begin street hardening from 10 minutes, gradually increasing the time.

Transplanting seedlings to a permanent place

For planting selected dark green squat bushes. If the leaves are five or more, then the seedlings are overgrown and require penetration.

The root system should be white, formed, to occupy the entire volume of the seedling. Ideal seedlings for planting in the soil has 3-4, in the greenhouse - 5-6 leaves.

Planting of cucumber seedlings in open ground is carried out at a temperature of 21-23 ° C established during the day. At night, it should not fall below 18 ° C.

Cucumbers grow poorly in the same place. Potatoes, tomatoes, cabbage, greens, and legumes are good precursors for them.

The soil is chosen neutral acidity, light, fertile, with good air-moisture permeability. It is desirable that the land contained humus.

Cucumber beds are located on the sunny side, protected from northern winds.

Potted seedling handling

Cucumber seedlings are under great stress when transplanted. The most convenient way to transfer to a permanent place seedlings grown in peat pots. They are simply buried without disturbing the plants. The paper, thin plastic cups cut the bottom, walls, completely removing soil clod.

If necessary, remove the plant from dense containers:

  1. Stop watering Cucumber seedlings 3-4 days before transplantation. The soil should dry out, stick to the roots.
  2. Owl crush the ground around the perimeter potty
  3. Smoothly pulling a bush for "ears" along with the land.
  4. Move the plant to the prepared well..
  5. Fall asleep to cotyledon leaves. Soil compacted.
  6. Mulch the soil around the stem.

Growing cucumbers in a seedling way is convenient and profitable. Caring for seedlings is not complicated, and guarantees for a rich harvest increase.

Useful materials

Check out other helpful cucumber seedlings articles:

  • How to grow on the windowsill, balcony and even in the basement?
  • Tips for growing in various containers, particularly in peat pots and pills.
  • Find out the planting dates depending on the region.
  • The reasons why the leaves dry and turn yellow?

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