Many consider the cucumber to be the main vegetable. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine real summer without its fresh smell. Cucumbers are he althy and tasty, so they always have a place on the table. Gardeners want to grow as many juicy, sweet and fragrant greens as possible, and this is available to everyone, the main thing is to choose the right variety.
Cucumber Adam: description
Many of those who grow cucumbers every year like the Dutch variety Adam, which has significant advantages. First of all, it is ease of cultivation, resistance to cold, good yield, but most importantly, excellent taste.
Hybrid Adam refers to early ripe annual vegetable varieties. It was bred by the Dutch company "Bejo Zaden", a leader in the selection and production of high quality seeds, as well as their sale in more than 100 countries.
Cucumber Adam is one of the firm's best innovations. The hybrid is included in the State Register and is recommended for widespread cultivation as a variety that gives high yields and is suitable for the climatic conditions of all regions of our country. In terms of cultivation, the variety is universal, it can be grownboth in open ground and protected (in greenhouses, under film cover).
Indeterminate borage bushes, stretching upwards all summer, until frost. The branches have an average weaving, the leaves are small, green or dark green. Flowering is profuse, female. To facilitate the process of care and cleaning, such cucumbers are best grown on a trellis or net.
What will the harvest be like
Cucumber Adam is a high-yielding, long-bearing variety. The first greens can be removed from the bush as early as 42-50 days after sowing. The fruits are dark green or green in color, with short light stripes and slight spotting, often pubescent with white prickly spines. They are of the correct cylindrical shape, aligned, with small tubercles.
Cucumber length up to 10 cm, diameter 3-3.5 cm, weight reaches 95 grams. The skin is thin, the flesh is dense, with excellent taste and bright aroma. Fruiting is plentiful, up to 10 kg per sq. m. Cucumbers are intended for fresh consumption, pickling and pickling.
If, when buying a bag of cucumber seeds, you pay attention not only to the picture, but also carefully read the inscription, you can see the words "Parthenocarpic hybrid".
What is a parthenocarpic hybrid
Everything is quite simple. Parthenocarpic cucumbers are varieties or hybrids that form fruits without pollination. That is, they are not pollinated at all: neither by themselves, nor by bees, nor by other good helpers. The fruits in this case arewithout seeds, and so they are interesting. True, it will not work to collect seed material from them in order to grow parthenocarpic cucumbers again next year. A natural question arises: how do breeders get seeds? The fact is that parthenocopy hybrids can also form flowers and fruits with the help of pollination, so experts get seeds from cucumbers formed as a result of manual transfer of pollen.
Benefits of Adam Parthenocopy Cucumbers
This interesting variety has a number of advantages that distinguish them from their regular counterparts:
- abundance of flowers;
- long and generous fruiting;
- giant (up to 2 meters) growth of lashes;
- disease resistance (cucumber mosaic, powdery mildew, cladosporiosis);
- excellent taste;
- highly marketable (almost all cucumbers are even and the same, neat shape);
- lack of bitterness;
- remaining bright green color (does not turn yellow);
- high transportability;
- long-term storage without special conditions,;
- suitable for canning and pickling.
The fact that Adam's cucumber does not have seeds can also be considered an advantage to some extent.
Growing and care
Cucumber hybrid Adam steadfastly perceives the vagaries of the climate, so after preliminary preparation it can be sown directly in open ground. Many gardeners prefer to plant prepared seedlings, but only after they have passedfrosts.
Before sowing, it is not necessary to warm up and pre-treat hybrid seeds, you only need to harden them to increase cold resistance by placing them in the refrigerator for a day. In order for the seeds to hatch, they are soaked in water at room temperature. For seedlings, they are sown in prepared containers filled with nutrient soil, and the necessary conditions are created for their germination: maintaining a temperature of + 24-26 ° C until mass germination, followed by a decrease to 20 ° C, additional illumination and timely watering, that is, standard care methods.
Planting seedlings or sowing seeds can begin when the soil warms up to at least 15 ° C, and the air - up to 18 ° C. Sprouted plants should also be pre-hardened, for which they should be taken outside the day before.
The Adam Cucumber is not overly picky, but is very responsive to heat, sunlight and soil quality, so site selection and planting bed preparation with organic manure is very important. In the further process of growing, watering, weeding, top dressing, bush formation, garter are required - the basic elements of proper borage care.
Evaluation of gardeners
According to gardeners, the best varieties are those that actively grow in open ground. They are good in a salad, and suitable for seaming. Therefore, many choose Adam cucumbers for planting. Reviews allow us to conclude that this variety is optimal for such requirements. Fragrant, juicy, sweet cucumbers appealed to everyone. Quite deservedly, this hybrid is considered unpretentiousa crop that is easy to care for and at the same time get a generous harvest. Such qualities make the Adam cucumber one of the top ten varieties from Bejo Zaden.
