History of variety development
This cucumber variety was bred by Turkish breeders. But the cucumber hybrid Vyatich F1 was included in the Russian State Register only in 2016. At the same time, Russian seed companies do not produce seed material of this hybrid; all Vyatich F1 seeds come to Russian gardening stores directly from Turkey.
This hybrid is recommended for cultivation in greenhouse conditions in almost all Russian regions, and in the southern regions, the Vyatich cucumber grows well and bears fruit in garden beds.
Description of the variety
The Vyatich F1 cucumber is distinguished by its early ripening period - from the moment of germination of the planting crop to the harvesting of the fruit, a little more than a month passes. Moreover, in greenhouse conditions, as well as in the southern regions in the garden, this vegetable crop can be grown twice per season - in the spring-summer and summer-autumn periods.
The cucumber vines of this variety are of medium length and grow no more than 1.9-2.1 m, the side shoots are quite short. A characteristic feature of this hybrid is that the fruits on the side shoots begin to set after the central stem has finished bearing fruit. The shoots are well leafy. The foliage is medium in size, with many veins, smooth, rich emerald color.
Since this cucumber hybrid belongs to the parthenocarpic type, only female flowers are formed on its vines, and the ovaries are formed without pollen. Therefore, the bushes of this hybrid do not require pollination. Cucumber flowers are small in size, intense yellow in color.
Flowers are usually formed in the axils of the leaves, each of which can form up to 2-4 ovaries.
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Ripening greens are of the gherkin type, their size is up to 12-14 cm. The shape of ripe gherkins is elongated and cylindrical. The skin is smooth, with small tubercles and medium spikes of white color. The pulp is compacted, tender, with a characteristic crunch; there is no bitterness in it at the genetic level. There are no voids in the pulp and do not appear even during heat treatment.
The taste of ripe cucumbers is pleasant, sweetish, delicate, with a characteristic cucumber aroma.
The harvested gherkins can be easily transported over any distance and can be stored under appropriate conditions for a long period.
Mamluk F1 cucumber growing technology
Agricultural technology for growing Mamluk cucumbers is not difficult even for beginners. Seeds for seedlings are sown from April to May, depending on the region of residence. Since the plants are heat-loving, planting in a greenhouse or open ground is carried out after the onset of stable heat.
Attention! The Mamluk cucumber variety can be grown all year round in heated greenhouses without loss of taste and commercial qualities.
Direct planting in open ground
The hybrid can be grown by seedlings or direct sowing in open ground. The time for sowing cucumber seeds to obtain early green products depends on the climatic conditions of the region. In the south, work can be planned for April, in temperate climates - at the end of May. In the risky farming zone, seeds are sown in the second ten days of June.
Attention! To obtain a late harvest of cucumbers, planting can be repeated at the end of July in order to harvest cucumbers in September.
Growing by seedlings
To collect greens in early June, it is recommended to grow the Mamluk variety through seedlings in closed ground. Since a little over a month passes from the moment of germination to the harvesting of the first cucumbers of the Mamluk variety, the seeds should be sown in mid-April.
For sowing you will need nutritious soil. You can use a ready-made one by buying it in a store. If you compose the soil yourself, then, in addition to garden soil, humus or compost, sand and wood ash are added to the mixture. A week before sowing, the soil is spilled with boiling water with the addition of several crystals of potassium permanganate to destroy spores of diseases and pests.
Cucumber seeds are pickled in a pink solution of potassium permanganate or Fitosporin. You can grow seedlings in boxes, but it is better in cups, since seedlings do not tolerate transplantation well.
Plant 2 seeds into each cup to a depth of 3 cm. Cover the containers with film to speed up germination. When the sprouts appear, the cups are placed on a lighted window.
Important! If cucumber seedlings do not have enough light, they will have to be additionally illuminated with phytolamps.
By the time of transplantation, Mamluk cucumber seedlings, according to the description of the variety, should have 2-3 leaves, as in the photo below. Healthy plants are distinguished by lush green leaf blades without signs of diseases and pests.
Caring for cucumber seedlings comes down to moderate watering, superficial loosening of the soil and fertilizing with green fertilizer and wood ash extract. Before planting in a permanent place, plants are hardened off so that they develop successfully in new conditions.
Watering and fertilizing
Any varieties of cucumbers require watering, since they themselves mostly consist of water. For irrigation, only warm water is used. If you have a greenhouse, then watering containers can be installed in it.
At first, the bushes are watered once every 6-8 days. When fruiting begins, the frequency of watering is increased - every 3-4 days.
Irrigate only at the root, since moisture on the leaves can provoke fungal diseases.
As for fertilizing, in recent years gardeners have been striving to obtain environmentally friendly products, so they give preference to organics:
- mullein solution;
- wood ash extraction;
- infusion of fermented green herbs;
- foliar feeding with iodine and boric acid.
Cucumber plantings are fed taking into account the condition of the plants. If the soil is well-filled with organic matter, then at the initial stage you can get by only with foliar fertilizing and sprinkling the soil and leaves with dry ash.
Important! Feeding cucumbers at the root is carried out on previously spilled soil.
Formation
The hybrid can grow indefinitely in height, but part of the harvest is lost. That's why cucumbers are specially shaped. At a height of 25 nodes, the main stem is pinched so that increased growth of side shoots with ovaries begins. The first stepsons and ovaries located under the 2-3rd leaf are removed. The remaining side shoots produce 1 bouquet of ovaries. The next shoots are pinched, leaving 2 bunches and so on. The last side stems are shortened at a length of 90 cm.
Attention! The pinching procedure is important for the Mamluk cucumber variety; it allows for faster formation of ovaries in subsequent internodes.
Main characteristics of the variety
This cucumber hybrid is resistant to sudden changes in weather conditions, while their growth and ripening of greens does not stop either during a sharp cold snap, or in the heat, or during periods of drought. At the same time, the shape and size of the gherkins also do not change.
Productivity
The productivity of the cucumber hybrid Vyatich F1 is high - at least 20 kg of ripe gherkins are collected from each square of area.
Area of application of fruits
Ripe greens have a pleasant taste, so they are used fresh, added to vegetable salads and various snacks. Also, cucumbers of this variety can be pickled and canned. The taste of gherkins does not deteriorate during heat treatment.
Diseases and pests
This cucumber hybrid has high resistance to most diseases characteristic of other cucumber varieties. However, many gardeners say that with unfavorable care and failure to follow the rules of agricultural technology, the Vyatich F1 cucumber can be affected by cladosporiosis, downy mildew and white rot.
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If brown ulcers and a gray-olive velvety coating appear on the vegetative mass of cucumber vines and fruits, these are the first signs of cladosporiosis. To prevent this dangerous disease, cucumber bushes should be treated with a solution of Ordan, Kurzat R or Fundazol.
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If cucumber vines are affected by downy mildew, then yellow spots appear on the leaf blades, which become oily after a few days. And on the back of the leaves a characteristic gray coating appears. Gradually the foliage curls up, dries and falls off. To combat the disease and for preventive purposes, you can use the following means:
- Previkur;
- Abiga Peak;
- Kurzatom;
- Order.
White rot is a viral disease that can appear on the foliage, stems and fruits of this vegetable crop. The first symptoms of white rot are:
- the appearance of wet spots;
- white coating;
- the foliage curls, withers and gradually falls off.
To combat the disease, the chemical "Planriz" is usually used.
The main advantages of the variety
Hybrid Vyatich F1
The main advantages of the cucumber hybrid Vyatich F1 include:
- high productivity;
- early ripening of greens;
- Fruiting of bushes of this variety continues until autumn;
- high resistance to most diseases and changes in weather conditions;
- good taste and beautiful appearance of gherkins;
- ripe greens can be stored for a long time;
- unpretentiousness to growing conditions.
Pros and cons of the variety
Since most vegetable growers actively use the seeds of the hybrid variety Vyatich f1 for cultivation, experts can highlight a list of positive and negative characteristics of the crop variety. Let's consider a description of the pros and cons of growing cucumber Vyatich.
pros
Minuses
The experience of growing the Vyatich f1 variety allows vegetable growers to identify only one drawback of the variety: the lack of seed for the next planting. This is due to the fact that the cucumber pulp does not contain seeds that can be saved and planted next time.
Features of planting and care
This cucumber hybrid can be planted using seedlings or non-seedling methods. But seed material is planted directly into open ground only in the southern regions, where the soil has already warmed up to 12-14 degrees Celsius by the time of planting in early to mid-May. The seed material of this hybrid is planted for seedlings in the second half of April.
The area for planting this vegetable crop is prepared in advance, preferably in the fall. After the harvest has been harvested from the garden, you can begin to cultivate the plot in the fall. First, all remnants of vegetation are removed along with the roots, then organic matter (humus or compost) is added. After this, you need to dig up the area using the bayonet of a shovel.
You also need to follow the rules of crop rotation and grow cucumbers after potatoes, cabbage, parsley, peas or beans.
When growing cucumber seedlings indoors, you need to maintain a temperature of 22-24 degrees Celsius. In order not to pick these seedlings with a delicate root system in the future, it is necessary to immediately place the seed material in separate containers. After germination, containers with plants are moved to well-lit windowsills.
From the moment the sprouts appear, the temperature in the room is reduced to +16-17 degrees, and the daylight hours for them should be at least 12-13 hours. Therefore, if there is a lack of natural light, phytolamps must be installed next to the growing seedlings.
Care
The health of plants depends on their care. If you care for the plants correctly, they will not get sick and will bear high-quality fruits.
Care upon landing
Good temperature conditions are important for growth
Planting of cucumbers is organized in early spring. The best soil for growing the Vyatich (F1) cucumber variety is medium-clay soil saturated with oxygen. Before planting, the seeds are soaked in a solution of water with beneficial microelements, then dried and placed in the ground. The air temperature is kept around 28⁰C. When signs of the first shoots appear, the lighting is increased and the temperature is reduced to 17⁰C. After 3 days, the shoots are tied to a trellis to give them support.
There are also 2 basic rules:
- seeds should not be buried more than 3 cm;
- For rapid growth of bushes, very good temperature conditions and saturated soil are needed.
Care after landing
According to the description, after planting you need to monitor the area so that there are no remains of other plants and weeds:
- Sometimes it is necessary to loosen the soil;
- cucumbers need daily watering;
- when the plants grow, they begin to feed (organic fertilizers: 1 kg of chicken manure per 10 liters of warm water and water the bushes with this solution);
- the harvest is harvested no earlier than 2 months after sunrise;
- You can collect fruits 3 times a week.
Planting in open ground
The grown seedlings are planted in a permanent place after about a month, when at least 4-5 permanent leaves appear on it. This usually happens in the second ten days of May, when ground temperatures rise to 14-16 degrees Celsius.
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Seedlings of this hybrid should be planted on beds or seed material at a distance of 0.5 m from each other. In this case, the width of the rows should be at least 0.6 m. The direction of the beds should be strictly from north to south, in this case the cucumber vines will not block the sun from each other, and it will be easier to care for them and harvest.
Growing
Without compromising germination, seeds can be stored for up to five years. Check with saline solution. Suitable seeds will be at the bottom, and empty ones will float to the surface.
To grow seedlings, seeds are germinated at a temperature of 24-28 ° C, providing the necessary level of moisture and air access. After 2-3 days, the seeds germinate and are planted in peat pots.
Recommendations:
- The optimal soil temperature for sowing seeds for seedlings is 23-25 oC.
- The seed placement depth is 1.5-2 cm.
- After two weeks, the plants are fed with a solution of mullein or bird droppings. Repeated fertilization must be done 2-3 days before planting in the ground.
Sowing seeds or 25-35 day old seedlings in open ground should be done in April, when the soil temperature reaches 12 °C. If there is a risk of morning frosts, it is recommended to cover the bed with film or geotextile. Planting density is 3 seedlings per 1 m2. The soil must be prepared in the fall. Loosened to a depth of 15-20 cm (no longer makes sense, since the roots of the plant do not grow longer) and fertilized. It is necessary to provide high aeration (add sawdust or leaves). The place for the beds should be on the sunny side of the site and protected from the wind.
Formation
If cultivation occurs in a horizontal position, formation is not required. If cucumbers are cultivated vertically on a trellis, then during the period when 9-10 full-fledged leaves are formed on the stem, it is necessary to remove excess shoots to eliminate low yields.
The lower vines bear almost no fruit, taking away most of the nutrients. And due to poor ventilation, stem rot can begin. Therefore, it is necessary to trim 2-3 lower branches of the plant. When the main trunk reaches its maximum height, it is necessary to pinch off the top leaves, preventing further growth of the plant.
Care and watering
Water every 2-3 days with warm water. A grown plant may require up to 6 liters of liquid. Moisturize, as a rule, in the evening. If the weather outside is hot and the temperature exceeds 28 ° C, it is necessary to additionally sprinkle the leaves of the plant using garden sprinklers in order to:
- prevent a decrease in turgor (the process of withering and aging of cells);
- eliminate the lack of liquid in the leaves.
If a drip irrigation system is installed for irrigation, it must be configured correctly. Watering hoses must be looped so that the water is distributed evenly and reaches the farthest bushes, and does not flow out near the barrel, where the pressure is higher. Droppers should be located no further than 5-7 cm from the trunk.
During flower ripening, additional feeding combined with watering is recommended: 1 liter of manure or 10 g of urea per 10 liters of water. The use of mineral fertilizers is allowed.
Attention! The Vyatsky F1 cucumber has weak roots. They do not like weeding, transplanting and cultivating the soil. Therefore, weeds should not be pulled out
They must be cut with pruning shears level with the ground, without touching or injuring the lateral roots of the plant.
Therefore, weeds cannot be pulled out. They must be cut with pruning shears level with the ground, without touching or injuring the lateral roots of the plant.
Further care
Although this cucumber hybrid is unpretentious to growing conditions, the Vyatich F1 cucumber bushes still need to be provided with timely watering, regularly apply fertilizer and loosen the root zone of the plants. You should also tie cucumber vines to trellises.
Watering the bushes of this cucumber is done 2-3 times a week with warm, settled water. During periods of drought, plants should be watered every other day. Water is applied strictly at the root so that drops of moisture do not fall on the foliage and shoots of cucumbers.
Loosening of the root zone of the bushes of this cucumber is carried out after watering or rain, breaking up the dry crust that forms on the soil.
The lashes are tied to trellises or a special cucumber net to make them easier to care for and harvest.
After the sprouts appear or a couple of weeks after transplanting the seedlings into the beds, you need to apply fertilizer for the first time. Typically, fertilizers containing nitrogen are used for this. From the moment the buds appear, rotted manure, greenfinch or mineral fertilizers containing phosphorus and potassium are applied under the cucumber vines.
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Reviews from summer residents
Farmer-bloggers Oleg and Irina Stepura (Krasnodar region) left a review about this hybrid. They grew the Vyatich F1 cucumber in open ground conditions on a personal plot. The fruits were not afraid of the sun, but required disease prevention. The culture confirmed all the declared qualities. Olga (Voronezh region) praised the cucumber for its taste, productivity and resistance to negative factors. The fruits do not outgrow, but their skin is prickly.
The Vyatich F1 cucumber is not an expensive variety, although it is of foreign origin. He has many positive traits. Compared to the advantages, the disadvantages are minor. But finding varietal seeds on sale is not easy.
