How to grow cucumbers gherkins. Gherkin cucumbers: the best varieties. Cucumbers Director F1
Gherkins - best cucumbers for canning. They easily fit into even the smallest jar with a narrow neck. It is worth noting the high taste qualities of pickled cucumbers. In this article we will talk about gherkins and the characteristics of the most popular varieties of mini-cucumbers.
The best varieties of gherkin cucumbers
Parisian gherkin
This is an early maturing hybrid of French selection, which can be grown both in open ground, and in the greenhouse.
Description of the variety
The gherkin-type vegetable ripens in 45 days. In open ground it is recommended for cultivation in central Russia. Ripe fruits are cylindrical in shape. Their length is on average 1-9 cm. Pimples are clearly visible on the surface of small cucumbers, and there are stripes of light green color on the peel. The average weight of one fruit is 70 g. From 1 sq. m with proper care, 3-4 kg of fruits are collected. During the fruiting period, cucumbers are harvested every day.
The Parisian gherkin is not a self-pollinating variety. This makes it somewhat more difficult to grow it in a greenhouse. This variety is pollinated by insects, so during the flowering period it is necessary to ensure the presence of bees in the greenhouse.
Eat manual methods pollination, which require a considerable amount of time: pollen is collected from male flowers with a brush and carefully transferred to female ones. This is practically jewelry work.
Gherkin cucumbers of this variety are valued for their high taste and good yield. Another advantage of the variety is its resistance to fungal diseases and high temperatures.
As for the disadvantages, cucumbers, when harvested untimely, take the form of barrels. Since the Parisian gherkin is a hybrid variety, its seeds do not germinate well. Hybrids in the second generation are less productive and more susceptible to diseases. Accordingly, seeds will have to be purchased every year in specialized stores.
This early ripening variety was bred not so long ago. It is recommended to grow it in a greenhouse.
Description of the variety
At favorable conditions and proper care, Micron F1 produces a harvest within 38 days after planting. The bushes are formed medium-sized and medium-branched. The variety is pollinated by bees. The shape of the fruits, whose weight varies from 60 to 80 g, resembles an ellipse. Their length is, on average, 8 cm. You can also collect pickles, the length of which does not exceed 4 cm, or mini-cucumbers 5 cm long. The fruits have excellent taste. There are pronounced pimples on the green peel. From 1 sq. m harvest up to 15 kg of cucumbers. Micron F1, due to the dense structure of the pulp, is suitable for canning and pickling.
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
An important characteristic of Micron F1 is that it bears fruit throughout the summer. In addition, the gherkin is resistant to almost all diseases. Micron is not prone to overgrowth, which simplifies harvesting.
The variety has no obvious disadvantages. The inconveniences of growing are associated with the need to pollinate vegetable crop and buy seeds in the store every year.
Mels F1 
The variety is characterized by early ripening
This hybrid is perhaps the most popular today. Its popularity is due to such characteristics as early ripening and productivity. Gherkin cucumbers of this variety can be grown both in greenhouses and in open ground.
Description of the variety
Mels F1 is an early ripening cucumber. It produces a massive harvest on the 35th day after planting, which is not typical even for early ripening varieties, which begin to bear fruit closer to 38-39 days after planting. It is a self-pollinating plant, which makes it easy to grow in greenhouses.
This is a gherkin of bouquet type of ovaries. During flowering, several nodes appear on each branch, each of which produces up to 6 ovaries. During the fruiting period, more than 200 fruits are collected from one plant. But such results can be achieved by observing agricultural technology standards, which include:
- timely planting in the ground;
- fertilizing the crop;
- watering and loosening.
The length of cucumbers is, on average, 9 cm. The shape of oblong gherkins resembles an elongated ellipse. The peel is colored green color, pronounced pimples are covered with white fluff.
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
The advantage of the Mels F1 variety is that its fruits, dense in structure, are never bitter. Hybrid Mels F1 is resistant to various diseases and is not afraid of sudden temperature changes. It produces high yields, regardless of weather conditions.
The disadvantages of this hybrid variety not detected.
Novosibirsk gherkin F1
This is a mid-season hybrid that is suitable for growing in open ground.
Description of the variety
The growing season of the plant is 45-49 days. The hybrid is bee-pollinated. Medium-sized plant has long branches. Fruit weight cylindrical averages 75 g. The average length of cucumbers is 10 cm, weight - 70 g. The peel is dark green, there are tubercles with small black spikes. In ripe cucumbers, the peel on the back becomes yellow-green. From 1 sq. m harvest about 5 kg. These are average yields. The yield of the usual Altai Falls variety, for example, is the same 5 kg.
Novosibirsk gherkins are suitable for cooking fresh salads and conservation. Crispy fruits with a dense pulp structure are unusually aromatic.
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
It is important to prevent fruit from overripening
The main advantage of the Novosibirsk gherkin is that it gives the same good harvests for any weather conditions. The hybrid is resistant to fungal diseases, especially powdery and downy mildew.
Ripe fruits tend to overripe, so they need to be collected every day. This is a disadvantage of the hybrid.
Firestarter
This is a bunch hybrid, which requires care correct formation bush. To achieve maximum results, side shoots are removed, leaving one stem.
Description of the variety
The growing season of the hybrid is 38-40 days. A lot of greens are formed on the cucumber vines of an early-ripening hybrid. After ripening, the length of the cylindrical fruit is 9 cm, weight - 90 g. The peel is light green, with white stripes. The aromatic and crispy flesh never tastes bitter.
Perfection cucumbers are used both for preparing fresh salads and for preservation. They can be picked unripe. Pickles have the same taste as ripened fruits.
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
The main advantage of the hybrid is its high yield. From 1 sq. m harvest up to 30 kg of mini-cucumbers. The hybrid is resistant to change climatic conditions, at good watering easily tolerated high temperatures. As for the disadvantages, they include a tendency to overripe.
Moravian gherkin F1
These are gherkin cucumbers for open ground.
Today, mini-cucumbers do not cause much surprise; they have long been popular among summer residents due to their aesthetic appearance, density and elasticity.
Gherkin cucumbers and their characteristics
Small cucumber gherkins, as they are called in France, where their popularity came from, do not exceed 9 cm in length. The pickle variety of gherkins is even smaller - only 5 cm. Both types, except for the mini size, do not have voids inside the fruit, are dense, for which they are valued for salting.
Gherkins are different from regular cucumbers big amount useful substances and the fact that even when overripe they do not exceed a length of 10 cm. Gherkins have flat surface, cylindrical shape, when pickled, these cucumbers turn out elastic and crispy, which is not always the case with ordinary cucumbers.
Today, thanks to the tireless work of breeders, gherkin varieties have been created that have many attractive characteristics: rapid ripening, immunity to a number of diseases (powdery mildew, downy mildew, etc.), safety during transportation, high yield, beautiful appearance and excellent taste.
Did you know? When eaten regularly, gherkins reduce cholesterol levels, normalize metabolism in the body, help cleanse the intestines and strengthen the immune system.
Features of cultivation
Seeds of gherkin cucumbers are sown in open ground no earlier than June, since small cucumbers are afraid of low temperatures. It is preferable to grow gherkins through seedlings, having previously hardened them before planting them in open ground. Mini cucumbers grow well in loose, nutritious soils with an acidity level of 6-7 pH.
The importance of watering cucumbers
When growing gherkins during the growing season, moderate watering is required; during flowering, watering is reduced.
During the period of active fruiting, watering is necessary daily, and in hot weather it is necessary to irrigate several times a day.
Important! It is advisable to water with settled water. room temperature in the afternoon, spraying either in the morning or in the evening, so that the moisture that gets on the foliage, evaporating in the sun, does not leave a burn.
Necessary feeding for gherkins
Mini-sized cucumbers require moderate feeding and do not tolerate excess fertilizer, especially nitrogen. Two weeks after planting, carry out the first feeding with a balanced complex composition for seedlings (“Solution A”). For better fruit set and fruiting, cucumbers need potassium, adding potassium nitrate once.
Attention! If there is unstable weather with sudden temperature changes, gherkins may slow down their growth and development. Support plants with anti-stress fertilizers – “ Healthy garden"or "Ecoberine".
Timely harvesting
The fruits of mini-gherkins can be picked two days after the ovary. Already in this form they can be preserved, despite their size - they are a full-fledged crispy and dense cucumber. Gherkin cucumbers are collected daily when they reach 3–9 cm in height. Cucumbers of varieties from the gherkin group should not be allowed to overripe, and after harvesting, place them in a well-cool place for storage until harvesting for the winter.
Interesting!The cucumber has many varieties: in addition to gherkins, there are also such as anguria - a horned cucumber, native to Central and South America; kiwano - banana-flavored cucumber, grown in Israel, Central America, New Zealand for dietary nutrition; dosakai – curry cucumber, an Indian variety with a sweetish taste; melotria is an African cucumber that has not only edible fruits, but also root vegetables.
The most famous varieties of gherkins
Today in culture there are many names for gherkin cucumbers. Varieties with different characteristics and cultivation methods: in greenhouses, greenhouses, in open ground; varieties pollinated by bees and propagated exclusively by vegetative methods. It is impossible to describe all varieties, especially since new ones appear every day. Let's look at a few of the most popular varieties today.
Variety early maturation, self-pollinating, one of the best varieties of gherkins and cucumbers for growing both in a greenhouse and in open ground.
Cucumbers are cylindrical in shape, with large tubercles on the surface, growing up to 9 cm. The variety is resistant to many diseases, including root rot.
"Moravian gherkin"
The Moravian variety is loved by bees, so it is best grown in open ground. The variety produces fruits from 6 to 9 cm. The surface of the cucumbers is medium-tubercular; cultivation is possible in a greenhouse and in beds. "Moravian gherkin" is resistant to diseases.
And by mistake, the small fruits of ordinary cucumbers that have not yet ripened are called this way. In fact, gherkins are groups of cucumbers, the fruits of which reach about 5 cm in length, but do not exceed 8 cm, the so-called. We have already figured out what small cucumbers are called, now let’s get acquainted with the most popular gherkin cucumbers for open ground and greenhouses.
Did you know? India is considered to be the homeland of gherkins, and the name of this species comes from the French language.
The most popular variety is the "Parisian gherkin". It is pollinated by bees. Its fruits ripen after 40 days, and the weight ranges from 55 to 80 g. Growing gherkins does not require special care, mainly it consists of weeding, loosening the soil and proper care.
It is necessary to water with warm, still water after 2-3 o'clock in the afternoon, when sun activity decreases. The plant needs moderate watering when leaves appear. When the plant begins to bloom, watering is reduced and then increased again at the stage of fruit formation.
This hybrid is grown in open ground, it begins to bear fruit 50 days after germination and is pollinated. Fruits are short, length – from 8 to 10 cm, and their weight ranges from 70 to 95 g.
The main advantages are its stable yield and resistance to many diseases that affect cucumbers.
An early cucumber, which is grown both in open ground and in or under. The fruits appear after 40-45 days. The length of cucumbers is about 9 cm, and the weight of the fruit can reach 130 g. The variety has high yield and resistance to many fungal diseases.
It should be noted that it requires frequent hilling. The length of the cucumber reaches 13 cm, and its weight is 120 g. Otherwise, its characteristics are not much different from most other gherkins.
This is a self-pollinating plant, during flowering the entire bush is covered with flowers. Cucumbers have white spines and reach a length of 8 cm, weighing no more than 70 g. Resistant to most diseases. It is also classified as a variety that lacks bitterness.
"Gherkin Brownie" is self-pollinating and is suitable for growing in open ground from seedlings. Has the ability to bud. Fruits after 44-50 days. is no more than 13 cm and 120 g.
For landing it must be neutral and good. This gherkin has excellent taste.
The seed is planted in soil heated to 15 ⁰C and covered. Fruiting begins after 37-41 days. The length of the greens reaches 9 cm, and the weight can reach up to 80-90 g. Like previous varieties, this one is also resistant to many diseases. It should be watered after sunset with warm water.
Plants are different high quality and resistance to cold, low light and diseases. It can be grown in open ground or winter greenhouse. The fruits appear after 50 days, the length of which exceeds 30 cm.
Did you know? Perfect size gherkins for “piculi” is about 4 cm.
This variety is resistant to sudden temperature changes and diseases. It is planted with seeds or seedlings. Harvest can be done in 32-41 days. The greens are large-tubercular with dense pulp, reaching a length of 12 cm.
The variety is a mid-early variety; the period before fruiting begins is about 50 days. It blooms in bunches, and the length of the cucumbers is 6-8 cm. The fruits have a pronounced sweetness, there is no bitterness.
