Gardeners build greenhouses and greenhouses in their summer cottages to grow tomatoes and cucumbers in them. Over time, everyone selects the ideal varieties of vegetables for themselves, focusing on taste and yield. One of the most popular varieties is the Adam F1 cucumber. Description, reviews and rules of care can be found in our article. What is this vegetable?
Cucumber Adam F1: description
This culture is vigorous and medium climbing, has a female type of flowering. Ideal for growing throughout our country, but especially loved by residents of the middle lane and northern latitudes for precocity, which is important for these areas. The formation of the crop occurs within fifty days after planting the seeds. Adam cucumbers are used for salads, pickling and pickling.
Zelentsy have a dark green color. The fruits grow up to 12 centimeters, the average weight reaches 90 grams, their surface is slightly bumpy, on which there is a slight white pubescence. Cucumber Adam F1, the description of which we have made, is endowed with a sweetish taste, juicy and crispy, not prone tobitterness.
This variety has a high yield. Bushes feel great in greenhouses and greenhouses, as well as in beds with temporary shelter in the form of a film.
The advantages of the variety and its disadvantages
Adam F1 cucumbers are endowed with a number of positive qualities, including high resistance to many diseases, such as powdery mildew, cladosporiosis and cucumber mosaic. What else can a variety boast of?
- Early fruit ripening, high yields.
- Zelentsy are even, have an excellent presentation.
- Cucumbers easily endure transportation over long distances, as they are endowed with the ability to store for a long time.
- Tastes excellent, no bitterness.
On one square meter, the average yield is 8.5-10.5 kilograms, so Adam cucumbers are popular not only among summer residents, but also among farmers who grow vegetables for sale.
As for the shortcomings, they simply do not exist. We can safely say that the variety is ideal.
Boarding rules
Cucumber Adam F1, reviews of which can be found in the further content of the article, is adapted to any climatic conditions, so the seeds can be planted in open ground. To do this, follow the following rules:
- No seedbed preparation or heating required.
- Adam's cucumber seeds need to be placed in water to hatch.
- If the area is not too hot in summer and there are oftencloudy cool days, then it is worth hardening the seeds by placing them in the refrigerator for a day (not in the freezer!).
- Seeds for higher yields should be placed in special peat-humus pots.
- Before germination, air temperature should not be allowed to drop below +26.
- If the greenhouse or hotbed is "dark", organize additional highlighting so that the bushes do not go up and their stems do not become thinner.
- If the seeds are planted for seedlings, then they should not "sit" in pots for more than four weeks.
For planting seeds or seedlings, a 70x30 scheme is used. In addition, the following points should be taken into account:
- Sowing and planting seedlings should take place only when the air temperature is not lower than +18 degrees, and the soil is warmed up to +16.
- Seedling material must be hardened off, be it seeds or seedlings. To do this, it is necessary to take them outside a week before planting, water them with water, the temperature of which is slightly lower than room temperature.
- The day before planting, the soil in which the seedlings are located is watered with settled water, preheated.
- It is necessary to take care of the emerging shoots according to the standard scheme, which is suitable for hybrid varieties of cucumbers.
Care
Cucumber Adam F1 is not a capricious crop. It is only necessary to follow the basic rules of care. So, what is required for high yields?
- To reduce the risk of cucumber pests anddiseases, you should not cultivate them annually in the same area. It is required to return them to the same place no more than once every five years.
- Crop beds should always be cleared of weeds.
- The root system becomes bare as it grows, so you need to steadily loosen the soil and hill up the bushes.
- Before flowering, plants need weekly watering, and during the fruiting period, the number of them should be at least two per week. This way the fruits will be juicy and sweet.
- Water should only be done in the evening. Water is settled so that it does not contain chlorine, and is heated to +24 degrees.
- Cucumber Adam needs to be fed. The number of such events is five times per season. An ideal top dressing is mullein or bird droppings. If it is not possible to find any, then the purchased funds will do, the best are "Fertility", "Breadwinner", "Ideal" and sodium humate.
- To stimulate branching and thereby increase yields, you can pinch the main stem after the sixth leaf of the plant appears.
How to increase yields?
A convenient way to grow cucumbers is trellis. By tying the stems to the wire, you increase the lighting. The yield will be higher if the fruit is harvested systematically.
It's very easy to make a trellis. You will need a thin galvanized wire, two poles. The poles can be wooden, but they must be treated with a solution thatprotect the material from pests and decay. The bark is completely removed, the ends of the pillars that will be dug in must be lubricated with resin. After installing the poles along the edges of the seedlings, stretch three or four rows of wire, tie the whips to it with thick threads.
Is it possible to harvest seeds?
Many gardeners prefer to harvest their own seeds for planting next season. It is worth remembering that all varieties marked F1 are not intended for this. They are not able to maintain their properties for the second generation. If you still decide to try this method, then do not expect a high yield and unique taste. Seeds are inexpensive, so it would be better to buy them.
Cucumber Adam F1: reviews of gardeners
There are a lot of comments on the variety. They write that Adam cucumbers bear fruit stably, the yield is high. The culture is praised for its rapid growth, strong whips on which juicy cucumbers ripen. Adam cucumbers have gained many fans among gardeners and entrepreneurial farmers due to their rich aroma, juiciness and sweetish taste. They write that the variety is not bitter at all.
Many reviews say that the culture is completely non-capricious, it is resistant to pests and diseases. Cucumbers of this variety are very easy to care for, they are unpretentious. They also write that the foliage does not turn yellow with a stable sun, the yield lasts until the very end of the season. There are comments that evenwhen the bush begins to turn yellow, cucumbers may still fully ripen on it.
