It’s worth starting the description of the Zozulenok cucumber variety with the fact that it is a hybrid variation of the popular Zozulya variety. The cucumber was bred in 2007. Zozulenok is best suited for greenhouse cultivation in dachas or subsidiary plots. This is a mid-season variety that bears fruit 40-48 days after planting. The cucumber is resistant to light frosts, but requires frequent watering and careful weeding.
Description of Zozulenok cucumbers
According to the official description, the yield of the variety is 15.5 kg/m². Zozulenok f1 bears fruit together, within 3-4 months. Medium-sized bushes, not too branchy. The leaves are large, dark green, in the shape of a heart pointed towards the bottom.
Cucumber fruits are large, up to 22 cm long, at least 3.5 cm in diameter. Each cucumber weighs approximately 200 g.
Zozulenka is highly immune to common diseases and tolerates storage and transportation well. The variety is classified as a salad variety, but young cucumbers are great for twisting.
Characteristics of the variety Zozulenok F1
The cucumber variety Zozulenok is mid-season. Technical maturation is noted at 45-50 days. The crop bears fruit for 3 months. In the first month of fruiting and in the last month of the growing season, the yield is reduced.
The plant has medium branching, but the leaves are large and green. Pollination is not required for inflorescences. The variety is parthenocarpic. Cucumbers are used to make salads:
- Despite the fact that the bush is not growing much, it still requires correction. The stem grows up to 4 m. It needs to be tied up;
- 1 flower is formed in the axils of the leaves. Only female inflorescences grow on the bush. The ovary is formed without pollination. Zozulenok f1 cucumbers are grown in greenhouses. Reviews about the culture are good;
- green greens of medium length, 15 cm, diameter 3 cm. The peel is green with light stripes. The surface is tuberculate, slightly ribbed; the edge is white;
- average fruit weight 200 g. The pulp is juicy, medium density, crispy;
- yield from the second month of fruiting 15 kg/m²;
- The Zozulenok variety is resistant to mosaic. According to reviews from gardeners, the plants do not suffer from powdery mildew or cladosporiosis.
The variety is recommended for cultivation in the Northern, Northwestern regions, the Central Black Earth Region, the Northern Caucasus, and the Middle Volga region. Gardeners in the Volga-Vyatka and Central regions achieve good results. Zoning is related to the length of daylight hours.
When choosing a site in the garden for cucumbers, take into account crop rotation. Select beds on which root crops, plants of the nightshade, legume and cereal families were grown. It is recommended to grow cucumbers in the same area every 3-4 years.
Pros and cons of the variety
Zozulenok f1 has established itself as an excellent option for private breeding. Cucumber requires painstaking care, but at the same time it is able to produce a bountiful and high-quality harvest.
pros
The Zozulenok variety is famous for its high characteristics. According to the description, this cucumber, unique in taste, is resistant to diseases and tolerates difficult climatic conditions well. Here are its most important advantages:
- rapid ripening and long fruiting period - cucumber bears fruit from early summer to mid-autumn;
- wonderful sweetish taste and pronounced aroma - which is rare for large cucumbers;
- high marketability - the variety produces up to 90% of marketable fruit yield;
- resistance to such serious diseases as powdery mildew and cucumber mosaic;
- cucumber tolerates frost well - even in cold summers it produces an excellent harvest;
- moderate branching - Zozulenok f1 does not require constant work on the formation of the bush.
In addition, cucumbers of this variety are stored well in the refrigerator and are almost not damaged during transportation.
Minuses
Despite all the positive qualities, Zozulenok f1 requires careful and painstaking care. Its main disadvantages:
- demanding watering - bushes need a lot of liquid;
- the need for frequent weeding - weeds on the site must be removed at the stage of barely sprouted shoots;
- sometimes cucumbers taste bitter, unlike varieties such as Uranus - in this case it is worth peeling them;
- It is better to use canned food with Zozulenok no later than a year after preparation - later the cucumber becomes soft and loses its crunch.
In general, the variety is quite suitable for cultivation in a small area by a gardener who is ready to pay a lot of attention to caring for the plantings.
Zozulya cucumber seedlings
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The easiest way to grow Zozulya F1 cucumbers is using the seedling method. Seedlings are prepared in advance. Seeds are sown between April 20 and May 1. The soil for sowing is made from 5 parts peat, 3 parts humus and 2 parts turf. After mixing in a seedling box, the planting soil must be treated with a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
The seeds must be soaked in advance for 30-60 minutes in clean, plain water. Everything that floats up is removed, as they are empty. After this, you can sow the seeds in holes or furrows made with a pencil. Sow them at a distance of 5-6 cm from each other so that they can develop freely.
The easiest way to grow Zozulya F1 cucumbers is using the seedling method.
Important!
If the seeds have an atypical color - colored, then they have been treated with special agents against diseases, and therefore they cannot be soaked before planting.
The first sprouts appear at a temperature of +25...+28 degrees, but after the sprouts appear, it is lowered to +21 degrees so that the sprouts do not stretch. They take care of the seedlings constantly. It is necessary to water from time to time, fertilize with weak solutions of fertilizers and loosen the soil. When the seedlings have 3-4 leaves (on average 3 weeks after sowing), they can be transplanted to a permanent place.
Landing Features
Zozulenok f1 is most often planted using seedlings. The optimal cultivation method, based on the description, is a greenhouse, but cucumbers can also be planted under a film.
Site preparation
The soil in the area for cucumbers should be loose and fertile. A week or two before planting, the soil is dug up and fertilizers are applied: peat, sawdust, or humus. To prevent Zozulenka seedlings from freezing, it is necessary that the ground temperature should not be lower than 24°.
Planting seeds
This variety is planted by seed only in greenhouses, or in open ground in the southern regions. Seeds are planted in late April or early May, depending on the weather. Zozulenka f1 seeds are buried at a depth of 2 cm. The ideal soil temperature is 25°-27°.
Planting
Seedlings are planted in greenhouses at the end of May, and in the ground in early June. 3 sprouts of the variety are placed in one hole, and then one, the most viable one, is left. The distance between the bushes is 40 cm, between the rows - 60 cm. In open ground, to prevent the cucumber from freezing, the plantings must be covered with film.
How to prepare a garden bed?
Cucumbers are grown on fertile soil. Select the land on which root crops grew. If the garden has a separate area for a greenhouse and it is impossible to move it, then it is necessary to properly approach the preparation of the bed.
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Humus, baking powder, fertilizers, and insecticides are added to it. It is recommended to start preparation in the fall:
- All old vegetation is removed from the site;
- add rotted compost. If the site is landscaped annually, but 10 kg/m2 of compost is required. If the land is depleted, then the norm is doubled;
- During the growing season, cucumbers require nitrates, so manure is applied to the garden bed in the fall. It must be fully ripe. For 10 kg of compost, 1 kg of manure is required;
- cucumbers grow well in loose soil, so peat, 5 kg, sand or vermiculite, 5 l, sawdust, 5 l, are added to the garden bed;
- To improve the structure of the soil and normalize acidity, fertilizers are added, the basis of which consists of bacteria. These include “Shine-1”, “Agrovin micro”, “Gift of Fertility”; carry out spraying;
- Ash is used as an antiseptic. It requires 300 g/10 g of soil mixture. To prevent possible infectious diseases of cucumbers, the soil is sprayed with copper sulfate;
- from insects add “Nitrophoska” or “Azofoska”, 20 g/m2.
In the fall, the site is dug up using 2 shovels. In spring, mineral fertilizers are added to the garden bed. 20 g of potassium salt and 40 g of superphosphate are administered.
If the soil in the greenhouse has lost moisture, it must be watered before applying mineral fertilizers. Additionally, the soil is sprayed with “Potassium humates” or the “Baikal” complex.
Care
Zozulenok f1 cucumbers, judging by the description, require frequent weeding and periodic, abundant watering. They require a lot of attention during flowering and fruit set.
Watering
Zozulenok is watered at least once every 4-5 days, in dry summers - every 2-3 days. The water for irrigation should not be cold - it should be warmed up a little. You should also not allow liquid to stagnate in the holes - otherwise the roots of the cucumbers will begin to rot. In greenhouses they are watered in the morning, in the ground - in the evening.
Garter and bush formation
Variety Zozulenok f1 branches quite weakly, so there will be no problems with the formation. According to the official description, it is enough to remove all shoots and tendrils of the plant at a height of up to 6 leaves and tie up the bush as soon as possible, especially if it grows in a greenhouse. These manipulations will ensure uniform branching and better yield for the cucumbers.
Top dressing
Fertilize the Zozulenok cucumber 3-4 times per season. The ideal fertilizer for the elite variety is manure (preferably chicken), potassium nitrate, and mineral superphosphates. These fertilizers are applied one at a time, in small quantities, after careful treatment against weeds. The most important period for feeding cucumbers is the formation of ovaries.
How to grow Zozulya cucumber
Characteristics of cucumber Zozulya F1
This green vegetable consists of 90% water, and not simple, but mineralized. It also contains: fiber, iodine, potassium and many other chemical elements, vitamins C, B1, B2 that are beneficial for humans. Therefore, every spring, summer residents and gardeners are faced with the task: which variety of cucumbers is better to choose in order to soon get a rich harvest? And most often the choice is made on this hybrid.
The disadvantage is bitterness, which occurs due to lack of moisture and very high temperatures. In general, cucumber has positive reviews for its high yield and early ripening.
In order to get a harvest, you need:
- grow seedlings from seeds;
- plant seedlings.
How to germinate seeds
Place damp gauze on the bottom of the container, preferably in 2-3 layers. Place the seeds at a distance of 1-2 cm and cover with gauze in 2-3 layers. There is a method with sawdust. You need to place sawdust at the bottom of the container, which should be doused with boiling water, and then allowed to cool to a temperature of 25-27 degrees. Lay a piece of cloth, usually cotton, on the sawdust, seeds, cloth and sawdust again.
To obtain high-quality seedlings, certain microclimate parameters are observed:
- seeds in the soil should be at a temperature of 27-28 ° C;
- when the seeds germinate, the temperature can be lowered to 5-7°C.
Seedlings are planted after 20-25 days.
How to plant seedlings
After three weeks, the seedlings will have 3-4 leaves and numerous thin roots. Landing occurs in several steps:
- In a garden bed in open ground or in a greenhouse, prepare in advance excavations with a diameter of 40-45 cm and a depth of 1-2 cm.
- Sprinkle the bottom of the hole with biofuel (cattle manure or chicken droppings). The goal is to maintain an optimal temperature of the earth.
- Pull out the seedlings and carefully plant them together with a lump of earth so that the roots are not damaged.
- Sprinkle with soil.
- Pour water at a temperature of 25-30 °C.
It is recommended to plant 2.5-3 plants per 1 square meter. meter, that is, at a distance of 60-80 cm.
Caring for cucumber seedlings
Do not rush to water seedlings that have already started, because... the result is dark and strong stems. The soil should not be allowed to dry out excessively. Water well, but not too much. The greenhouse uses additional means, such as supplementary lighting with daylight lamps, as well as insulating the walls of the greenhouse with a special film to create a greenhouse effect. Mineral fertilizers are very effective and are delivered before flowering once every two weeks. Home feeding recipe: one liter of urea or manure per ten liters of water.
There are special products in stores. A week after planting, when the plant reaches a whip size of 40-50 cm, it must be tied up.
There are two methods: horizontal and vertical. The horizontal method is as follows: stakes 1.5-2 m high are installed on both sides of the bed. Several rows of rope are stretched between them. Vertical method: two pillars are also used. A vertical support is attached to the top, to which each plant is tied. The ropes are tied around the plant and tied to a horizontal support. First, the rope must be passed around the cucumber several times along its entire length. In greenhouses, cucumbers are usually allowed to climb up a vertical trellis. This makes it easier to collect fruits, increases productivity, and saves space in the greenhouse.
Caring for seedlings includes pinching. This is one of the main agrotechnical techniques when working with green vegetables, which involves removing a new green ovary to strengthen the existing one. Thus, the beneficial substances that are used by the plant are used to root the crop and develop the main shoots.
Stepsoning is also practiced - the formation of one main stem with stepsons. To do this, you need to remove everything that grows in the axils of the leaves: both the ovaries and the stepsons. And so on until the 6th sheet. Then they leave one ovary without stepsons, after 2-3 leaves there is another ovary and one stepson above the first leaf, which has one ovary, then follow the same pattern.
The Zozulya cucumber variety, like other varieties, has a positive effect on natural sunlight. This is the best condition for obtaining healthy and tasty fruits.
Fruits are harvested after 23-27 days, in open ground a little later. However, you shouldn't wait long, because... cucumbers become tasteless and 8-10 day old ovaries have the greatest medicinal properties. Productivity in the first month of fruiting is 8-16 kg per square meter. meter.
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Diseases and parasites
Zozulenok f1 is one of the most bacteria-resistant varieties. In his description, there is no pronounced vulnerability to any disease. However, prevention is still necessary, especially if cucumbers are cultivated in a greenhouse.
Fusarium wilt
It affects the upper shoots of cucumbers growing in greenhouse conditions. Develops due to high humidity and temperature changes. The following drugs fight fusarium in elite varieties.
Biological agent - Trichodermin, chemical - fungicide Fundazol. Zozulenka seeds are the last to be treated before planting.
Gray rot
This disease of cucumbers is provoked by night frosts and water that is too cold for irrigation. Rot manifests itself as pubescent grayish marks on the stem and at the base of the ovaries.
At the first signs of the disease on Zozulenka f1, damaged shoots are removed and the bushes are treated with a mixture of chalk and ash with the addition of copper sulfate.
Anthracnose
It is also provoked by high humidity and unstable temperature. The disease begins with the appearance of mucus on the leaves of the cucumber, after which yellowish-brown ulcers form.
At the slightest sign of anthracnose, damaged Zozulenka bushes are treated with a mixture of copper sulfate and milk of lime.
