cucumber

Cucumber with the scientific name Cucumis sativus belongs to the gourd family.

Botanical details:
It is a one-year plant. The root is superficial and wide. The leaves are very wide and large and are attached to the stem alternately by large petioles. The stem is light green, juicy and has thin skin. The plant is a single stem. But the male and female flowers are separate.

Weather:
It is suitable for tropical and subtropical regions. The minimum temperature is 12 degrees Celsius and the most suitable for growth and fruit production is 23 to 27 degrees.

Soil:
It is more suitable in clay and loam soils.

Fertilization:
Nitrogen:

It is one of the macro elements that the cucumber plant needs, the lack of nitrogen will cause a decrease in growth, yellowness and smallness of the leaves, premature falling of the leaves and fruit, and its color will become lighter.

Phosphorus:
To compensate for the lack of phosphorus in cucumbers, fertilizers can be used together with the water used in irrigation, complete NPK fertilizer, high phosphorus can be used.

Potassium:
It is one of the other macroelements that the plant needs very much. Its deficiency causes yellowing of the edges and leaves, the undeveloped end of the cucumber grows along with the tip, it was used. To compensate for potassium, complete NPK fertilizer was used.

Calcium:
An element that cannot be transferred. Calcium deficiency causes plant growth to stop. With foliar application of calcium fertilizer, which is a type of fertilizer, cucumber productivity increases.

Magnesium:

Another microelement whose deficiency causes yellow and brown spots on the plant. It can be used as a foliar spray to remove magnesium sulfate.

Pests:
Cucumber mosaic virus: occurrence of yellow and green spots and curling of leaves, fruit spotting, decrease in crop yield, shortness of the plant.

Powdery mildew: the appearance of white and powdery spots on the upper surface of the leaves, wilting of stems and leaves.

Internal powdery mildew: Angular spots appear on older leaves, and the leaves dry up and die.

Jaliz fly: It is one of the important pests of Jaliz.

Jaliz aphid: One of the most important hosts of this pest is cucumber and tomato.

Cucumber thrips: This pest tends to young plants. Thrips can be transmitted quickly and infect healthy plants.

Spider mite: causes virus transmission.

Cucumber angular leaf spot: It is observed in all weather conditions.

Harvest:
Unlike some vegetables of this family, whose fruits must be fully ripe, cucumbers must be harvested before they are fully ripe. The first harvest is 60-70 days after planting. To achieve this goal, you should regularly search the field and pick green cucumbers. Harvesting is done two to three days apart.

Among the fertilizers that are produced in Yadnegar Structures Company (Cinco) and can be effective for cucumbers are fertilizers such as calcium acetate, magnesium acetate, potassium acetate, potassium sulfate, magnesium sulfate, postafert, liquid calcium, and complete NPK fertilizers.