Cucumber Pragmatic

The Pragmatic cucumber variety has a number of advantages, including high yield, unpretentiousness, and the ability to bear fruit for a long time. With proper agricultural technology and heated greenhouses, you can get a rich harvest at any time of the year.

Cucumber Pragmatic is a high-yielding variety, bee-pollinated, excellent for growing in greenhouses. Resistant to lack of light and cloudy weather, adapts to various soils. Practically not susceptible to a number of diseases, relatively unpretentious in care. The variety is characterized by excellent taste and gastronomic properties, suitable for preparing salads.

Plants form a powerful vegetative mass, branching is medium or abundant, the lashes reach a length of 3 m, therefore they need a garter and fixation. The leaves are large, dark green in color. The root system is quite developed. Zelenets medium, cylindrical, has a length of 17–21 cm, weight 180–200 g, large tuberous peel with white thorns, rich color, bright green.

The variety is used for preparing salads, suitable for fresh consumption. Possesses excellent taste. It goes well with other ingredients and gives dishes an incredibly bright taste and aroma. Fruits with juicy crunchy sweet pulp.

Medium early variety. Begins to bear fruit on day 52-60. The benefits of the crop also include winter-spring cultivation and extended turnover. Winter-spring cultivation means getting fresh fruits in early spring and early summer. An extended turnover means long-term fruiting up to and including September.

In a heated greenhouse, Pragmatic cucumbers can also be grown in the winter-spring period, that is, almost all year round. This requires constant control over temperature and humidity.

The variety has a high yield. Under optimal conditions, 12 kg of tasty and juicy fruits are obtained from 1 m 2.

In the greenhouse, the cucumber is planted with seeds or seedlings. Before planting, you need to prepare the soil in advance. It should warm up to + 15 ... + 20 °. Then it is necessary to add peat, humus, manure, mineral fertilizers to it. All fertilizers must be thoroughly mixed, the soil must be loosened. For active air exchange and water permeability, it is important to achieve a loose soil structure. If the soil is heavy loamy, it is also diluted with sawdust, sand, turf.

Before the seedlings emerge, the optimum room temperature is + 26 °. In the future, a suitable temperature will be + 18 °. Seedlings should be transplanted into the greenhouse 30–35 days after germination. In the spring, the acceptable time for planting seedlings in a permanent place is at the end of April - beginning of May.

When planting with seeds, they must be pre-hardened and germinated.First, the seeds are placed for 2 minutes in hot water with a temperature of + 50 °, and then in cold water. After the procedure, they are dried. Then the seeds should germinate. To do this, you need to place them in moistened gauze and put them in a warm place until sprouts appear.

The holes are made at a distance of 30 cm from each other. With a large area, the marking of the holes is done in a ratio of 40X70 cm.When planting, the seeds are immersed in the holes to a depth of 2 cm, the area is covered with plastic wrap on top until shoots appear.

When cultivating this type of cucumber in a greenhouse, it is necessary to provide appropriate care. The plant is relatively unpretentious. Care comes down to watering, applying top dressing, loosening the soil, weeding. It is also necessary to monitor ventilation, temperature conditions.

It should be watered with settled water at a temperature of + 25 ° in the evening. Care should be taken to prevent splashing water from falling on the leaves during watering, especially in sunny weather, so as not to provoke burns. Watering is plentiful, regular, as the plants grow, the volumes of watering increase.

Top dressing is required 3 times per season. Cucumbers need mineral fertilizers, which include phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen. The proportions can be adjusted according to the instructions supplied. Top dressing is also best done in the evening in a pre-moistened soil. If you follow all the care recommendations, you can get a bountiful harvest of large fruits.