General characteristics of early varieties of cucumbers. The earliest varieties of cucumbers

Early cucumbers - the main advantages. Cucumbers - one of the favorite vegetable crops. Even on a small piece of the garden gardeners are trying to take a little space for growing crispy cucumbers. Usually try to choose the best early varieties  cucumbers that are the very first please good harvest. In order to eat fresh cucumbers since the beginning of summer, it is recommended to grow early cucumber varieties, but few know how to choose them correctly and what characteristics and advantages these vegetables have.

How to grow early cucumbers, growing conditions

If there is such a useful building for the zealous owner, such as a greenhouse, then cultivation early cucumbers  turn into a pleasant process, which will certainly end with a generous harvest, but only under the condition that no mistakes will be made during planting and growing. Having gone to plant cucumber seeds in May, in a month you can with pleasure observe the abundant flowering of seedlings. The first greenhouses will appear in two weeks.
  Growing early cucumbers in open ground  a bit more difficult, especially if the climate in the region does not indulge in high temperature. Here you can protect your favorite vegetable from overcooling and speed up the flowering of cucumbers, if you resort to using conventional plastic film. Covered cucumber bushes feel comfortable and differ little from cucumbers grown in the greenhouse.

Good to know

When choosing varieties for planting in the open field should be remembered that the seedlings of early varieties of cucumbers are more susceptible to diseases, because it has weak immunity.

Why it happens? All the strength and energy of early varieties of cucumbers goes to the rapid development, flowering and fruiting, while the later grow more slowly and adapt well to adverse climates.

Early cucumber varieties - characteristics

Before you start growing early cucumbers, you should understand how they will be used in the future. Zelentsy are divided into three varieties:

• universal (for salting or use raw);
• pickling (do not exceed the average size, do not lose the taste and crisp properties during heat treatment or pickling);
• salad (used only fresh, salting or pickling completely destroy the taste).

Ideal - choose a few early varieties of cucumbers, corresponding to the subsequent objectives. This will help to use the most suitable for salting cucumbers or enjoying juicy taste.

Very popular among good owners are hybrids. Their main advantages are resistance to most diseases, high ripening times, unpretentious care, and remarkable rapid adaptation to climatic conditions. There is one significant disadvantage that will disappoint owners who prefer to collect their own planting material  vegetable crops - seeds of hybrids are not used for growing plants.

To define a hybrid is quite simple - by the letter F, following the name of the variety. Usually there is a number next to it indicating the serial number of the generation.

The best varieties of early cucumbers

April F1
  Excellent parthenokarpichesky variety that does not require the help of bees, as pollinated independently. The main advantages are early terms of ripening, resistance to cold temperatures, resistance to diseases. Fruiting with proper care occurs in 1.3-1.5 months. It should be grown in a greenhouse, but vegetable crops of this variety are quite often found on balconies and window sills. The fruits of cucumbers are quite large (up to 25 cm), weighing rarely reaching 260 grams. They have a rich dark shade, large tubercles and excellent taste.

Good to know

Note that the April F1 cucumber is susceptible to white rot.

Murom 36
  Despite the rather large age (bred in the years of the Second World War), it is still quite popular between good owners, due to the basic quality - fruiting, which occurs within a month after planting. The fruits of cucumbers are small, more than 10 cm do not grow. The shade is light, tubercles almost not observed. In addition to its advantages, Muromsky has one important drawback - cucumbers quickly turn yellow, becoming unsuitable for use in canned or fresh form. Correct the situation can only be sent to the garden every day for a portion of fresh cucumbers. This early variety of cucumbers feels great in an unheated greenhouse or under a film coating.

Useful about cucumbers

The plant is resistant to powdery mildew and bacteriosis.

Zozulya
The variety has gained immense popularity due to its merits - early (about one and a half months from planting) fruiting, high yields (up to 25 kg per square meter) and excellent taste. Fruits of cucumber varieties Zozulya large, in the form of a cylinder, grow up to 23 cm. Some weigh up to 300 grams, but the crop is usually harvested early, because older cucumbers tend to lose elasticity. This early variety of cucumbers feels great in different climatic conditions, unpretentious to everyday care, not subject to common cucumber diseases. Zozulya has few minuses, the most important one is that cucumbers are practically not used in preservation, since they immediately lose the main advantage of cucumbers (crispy properties).

Should be considered when growing

With a lack of moisture, bitterness may occur.

Little finger
  Minus varieties Finger - the inability to apply for cultivation in greenhouses, need for pollination bees. Cucumber bushes are powerful and branchy, they grow quickly and rather quickly (almost six weeks after sowing) juicy large cucumbers start to give. Another advantage is the female type of flowering, which allows for a huge harvest from a small area. It should be grown in unheated greenhouses or directly in open ground.

Competitor
  Included in the list of the most favorite gardeners cucumber varieties. Advantages - great harvests with the simplest care and remarkable resistance to dangerous diseases of vegetable crops - powdery mildew, bacterial blotch. highly branching plant, reaches a height of two meters. The fruits have large prickly tubercles, grow only up to 11-14 cm, the mass will not please - only up to 100 grams. It is recommended to use the tapestry method of growing early-grade cucumbers. Competitor, this allows you to increase the number of greens.

About cucumbers in brief

The disadvantage is that the competitor is not grown in the greenhouse.

F1 advance payment
Before the start of fruiting from planting takes place a little more than a month. The type of flowering - female, suitable for both greenhouse comfort conditions, and for open soil. Shoots do not grow much, so you do not have to spend time on pinching. You should know that despite the slow growth of lashes, the power and weight of the vegetable culture will require tying to the supports. The fruits are semicircular, not too long (up to 14 cm), but rather large in diameter. Average weight - up to 0.140 gr. Hybrid Advance F1 is also notable for its excellent resistance to various diseases that can destroy other cucumber varieties.

Valday F1
  The variety is universal, suitable for greenhouse comfortable conditions and climatic difficulties of open soil. Fruiting with careful care will come late, after a month and a half. Bushes are vigorous, with powerful shoots and a highly branched root system. The advantages of the Valdai F1 variety are the endurance and immunity to various diseases, which are exceptional for this vegetable crop. It is most often used for processing because it preserves its qualities (taste, crunchy properties) after thermal short-term processing.

Chinese cucumbers
  Unknowingly, such cucumbers are considered a separate variety, which is the mistake. Chinese cucumbers - just a variety of a huge family, besides at home, in China, ranked as pumpkin.
  A remarkable advantage of the species is pollination without the help of bees; therefore, they are successfully used for two types of soil (open, closed). Delight is the rate of growth of shoots and yield.

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Cucumber Productivity

One bush of Chinese cucumbers can please several tens of kilograms of juicy Zelentsovo!

The terms of fruiting are also surprising, because a little less than a month passes from planting. Before the first frost, you can feast on your favorite vegetables, the autumn cold does not affect the setting of fruits.

The fruits are collected in huge bunches, sometimes in one you can count about a dozen cucumbers. Length - almost 8 tens centimeters! Depending on the variety, they may have a different aroma, even pumpkin or watermelon.

There are several drawbacks to these cucumbers, among them - short shelf life and low similarity. Garter to supports is also required.

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  Early cucumbers will yield only when the seeds are correctly selected and the optimal agricultural cultivation method recommended for this species is applied. Timely and regular watering, feeding and weeding will help to increase all the advantages of the selected variety and get an excellent harvest of delicious cucumbers.

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Cucumbers are undoubtedly not only one of the most popular, but also one of the earliest cultures. You can get the first crop of fragrant cucumbers already at 37-45 days after sowing. Soon after the emergence of shoots, young plants enter the phase of active flowering, after which only a little more time passes — about 12–14 days — and the first green leaves begin to form instead of flowers. How to navigate in abundance of different varieties of cucumbers and really choose the earliest of them?

How to choose cucumber varieties, and what you should pay attention to, we discussed in the article Choosing cucumber varieties. And we talked about 15 top grades  cucumbers for middle band  and about unusual cucumbers and their exotic relatives. And before we find out which varieties of cucumbers are the earliest, let's repeat the indestructible and very important rule: whatever varieties you prefer: early, middle or late ripening - choose only those that are suitable for cultivation in your area, which means , the most adapted to the climatic conditions of the region. Only in this case (of course, with proper care), you will get the maximum yield of cucumbers, which are not afraid of disease and practically do not suffer from adverse weather conditions.

Altai Early 166

April F1

In addition to the fact that the greens of this hybrid are not prone to yellowing, they have good taste, and the plants themselves have a complex resistance to most diseases. Due to the fact that the formation of lateral shoots in plants is limited, the need for a pinching and pinching, even periodic ones, is completely eliminated. From 1 square meter you can get 8-13 kg. Zelentsov.

Herman F1

Murom 36

Moscow F1 dude

Zozulya

Cascade

Little finger

Borovichok F1

Shrub

Competitor

Sphinx

F1 advance payment

Red mullet F1

Benefit F1

F1 chill

Orlik F1

Valday F1

May F1

Springwell F1

Nightingale F1

Pickling F1

Semcross F1

Fair F1

Gypsy F1

None can do without cucumber beds farmland. This vegetable culture occupies a place of honor on a par with tomatoes and potatoes. Cucumbers were loved by summer residents not only by excellent taste, but also by a high rate of ripening. It is important to know which conditions are important for the yield of the earliest varieties.

Early cucumbers should be planted from mid-May

Growing conditions

Since mid-May early cucumbers  it's time to plant. For the greenhouse, it is preferable to acquire self-pollinated varieties, this property of vegetable crops gives a guarantee of obtaining the crop. Growing in a greenhouse makes it possible to quickly get the first fruits. Only 30 days later, the summer residents observe intensive flowering, which is replaced by the appearance of the first Zelentsakh. Within two weeks, the cucumbers delight the summer resident with the first fruits. To increase the rate of ripening of fruits in the open ground, they cover it with a film, protecting the plants in case of a possible cooling.

You should consider the degree of adaptation of the vegetable to the climatic features of the region. This is important for maximum yield. Most suitable grade  growing conditions make it possible to avoid diseases associated with weather factors unsuitable for vegetables. Therefore, planting in the greenhouse is most favorable. There are also minor flaws in the early ripening varieties. Later varieties are known for their stronger immunity to disease and bear fruit longer.

Characteristics of early cucumbers

Cucumbers are early, mid-season and late-ripening. They differ not only in terms of ripening, but also in shape, color and taste. For the right choice  early varieties of cucumbers, it is desirable to know what characteristics are inherent to them:

• How will the vegetable be cooked? Sorta early ripe cucumbers  usually divided into pickling, salad and universal.
• External characteristics determined by the color, shape and texture of the peel.
• The quality of taste.
• The method of growing it.

Cucumbers are early, mid-season and late-ripening.

Lettuce cucumbers are usually bulky, but can have a variety of shapes. Canning and salting soften them too much. The taste almost disappears. Particularly successful are the early ripe April F1, Altai early 166 and some others. Varieties of cucumbers, created for salting and canning, have very different sizes of fruits. Very short, not exceeding ten centimeters, greens form the fruits of the gherkin type. They are just made for pickling. Big greens are well suited for salting. These are varieties such as Murom 36, Cascade, Mig. From hybrids: Christina F1, Rodnichok F1 and many others.

In order to quickly eat a crispy cucumber, to choose a grade. When choosing, it is necessary to find out what is the speed of ripening, the approximate volume of the future crop, the place of its growth. Variety is obtained by crossing samples of the same species. Early cucumbers are grown quite easily in the open field and in the greenhouse. But it is worth remembering that on their shoots first appear ovary of male flowers. They are recommended to be removed, as they hinder the development of the whole plant.

Early varieties of cucumbers are among the hybrids, which are usually marked as F1. The number after the letter F indicates the generation. These high-yielding varieties differ from the usual high endurance. They have excellent cucumber disease resistance, such as downy mildew, anthracnose, and bacteriosis.

Fast growth and a rich harvest are their main advantages over simple cucumbers. But, unlike conventional varieties, seeds of hybrid cucumbers are not suitable for subsequent planting.

Altai Early 166

This productive variety  begins fruiting on the thirtieth day. It is pollinated by bees, therefore it is better for it to grow not in a greenhouse, but in open ground. Scourge short, overgrown with abundant foliage. Gives greens with a mass of about eighty grams. White-pubescent oval Zelentsy completely covered with small tubercles. Light, green color of the skin with longitudinal stripes to the middle, does not show yellowness. Dignity of the variety in the early ripening of fruits, in its cold resistance and good immunity to disease. With one square meter dacha collects up to six pounds of crop. Fragrant fruit will be an excellent ingredient for salads, have a pleasant taste just fresh. But for salting they are not intended.

Fruits of Altai Early 166 variety will be a great ingredient for salads

April F1

Female-type variety, parthenocarpic, self-pollinating. But with very early planting, pollination by bees can help significantly increase the yield. Designed for growing it in a greenhouse. Fruiting begins on the fortieth or forty-fifth day since the emergence of seedlings. For this hybrid is characterized by medium flotation, a small side branching. The cylindrical form of green stuff has an average tubercula and ribbing. Reaching a length of twenty-five centimeters, it gains a mass of up to three hundred grams. The peel is colored bright green with a transition to a darker shade, with short light stripes and white spikes. In the first month, the harvest can reach thirteen kilograms per square meter. Variety perfectly resists almost all diseases of cucumbers, but unstable to white rot. This fruitful hybrid is famous for long fruiting, resistance to cold.

Herman F1

This hybrid has the title of super-productive and super-early cucumber. With minimal use of fertilizers, twenty-five kilograms of crop per square meter is harvested. Cucumber Herman F1 gives the first fruits already on the fortieth day after the shoots appear. The property of self-pollination allows you to grow it in open ground and in the greenhouse. Dense fruits up to ten centimeters in length have a dark green uniform color with large tubercles. The dense texture allows them to remain crunchy even after processing. This fruitful variety bears fruit for a long time, resistant to many diseases of cucumber culture. Ideal in size and density for preservation, preparation of vitamin salads.

Zozulya F1

Also is very high-yielding varietygiving up to twenty kilograms of fruit per square meter. Zozulya F1 is famous for an interesting feature of simultaneous flowering and formation of the ovary. It is good for planting in open ground, as well as for planting in the greenhouse. Partially is parthenocarpic, that is, self-pollinated. It is time to feast on the first green stuff on the forty-sixth day after the sprouts appear. The main advantages are the good immunity of the hybrid to root rot, the virus of cucumber mosaic, olive spot and ascochytose. The elongated, cylinder-shaped fruit has a light downiness. On the peel is a pale pattern in the form of white stripes. With a length of twenty-two centimeters, the fruits of this variety of cucumber can reach a mass of three hundred grams. The hybrid is very tasty in salted and fresh form.

Cylinder elongated fruit with light pubescence

F1 advance payment

This early hybrid is characterized by a female type of flowering and belongs to the self-pollinated. You can grow in open ground and in the greenhouse. The formation of the first fruits occurs on the forty-fourth day. The advantage of this medium branchy variety in a limited number of side branches. This is a strong-growing plant that needs support. Another special the advantage of a hybrid is high immunity  such cucumber diseases as olive blotch, root rot, powdery mildew. Fruits grow to thirteen centimeters. The dark green skin is covered with frequent tubercles. One cucumber is able to reach in the mass of one hundred and thirty grams. The variety Advance F1 is recognized by experienced summer residents of high-yielding, giving up to fourteen kilograms of fruit.

Chinese cucumbers

Overseas cucumbers compete with our samples and have their own advantages. This is not a variety, but a variety of ordinary cucumber, belonging to the same genus of pumpkin. For the most part, Chinese cucumber varieties are self-pollinated. They can grow in the greenhouse and in the open field. In the greenhouse you can achieve maximum yield. Summer residents collect up to thirty kilograms of fruit from one bush. Surprising is the very rapid growth of this type of cucumber and precociousness. Less than a month will need to wait for the first cucumbers. They are able to bear fruit up to the most frost, even in open ground. Its productivity is quite high. This species is resistant to diseases and shade-tolerant.

Yield chinese cucumber  quite high

Its fruits grow in bunches and have an amazing length, sometimes reaching eighty centimeters. Taste chinese cucumber  brighter than other species. It has more sweetness and freshness. Different varieties  can give a vegetable a melon or watermelon flavor. Even its skin has a sweetish aftertaste. The texture of the peel is dense, as if wax. Small seeds are located in a small chamber in the middle of the fruit. Some shortcomings were noted in him: low degree of keeping quality, the need for a vertical garter, low germination of its seeds. One of the fastest growing varieties is Chinese Snake.

To grow the best early cucumbers, you need to properly comply with all the requirements for the care and planting. And also know which varieties of early cucumbers to choose. Recommended cultivation of seedlings in the greenhouse on a carefully prepared soil. The use of a covering film when planted in open ground plays an important role in protecting plants from freezing, especially at night. For fair care and care, early cucumbers will generously reward the host with a rich harvest.

Before we figure out what the earliest varieties of cucumbers have proven to be successful, let’s repeat the indestructible and very important rule: whatever varieties you prefer: early, middle or late ripening - choose only those that are suitable for growing in your areas, and therefore the most adapted to the climatic conditions of the region. Only in this case (of course, with proper care), you will get the maximum yield of cucumbers, which are not afraid of disease and hardly suffer from adverse weather conditions.

Early Varieties of Cucumbers - Altai Early 166

Altai Early 166 variety - one of the most precocious and fruitful. It was zoned back in 1958, but still one of the most popular among summer residents. Fruiting begins about 37-39 days after germination. It is sufficiently resistant to fungal diseases and is cold resistant. Light-green white-felled spindle-shaped fruits are completely covered with small tubercles. In length, they reach 9-10 cm, and the mass of greens reaches 80 grams.

Early Varieties of Cucumbers - April F1

Partenocarpic (that is, self-fruited, not requiring pollination) April F1 F1 hybrid - early, cold-resistant, with a predominantly female type of flowering. Fruiting begins at 45-55 day. Designed for cultivation in closed ground; It is successfully grown on balconies and as indoor culture. Cereals are cylindrical, dark green, large-knobby, reaching a length of 20-25 cm, with a mass of about 200-250 grams.

In addition to the fact that the greens of this hybrid are not prone to yellowing, they have good taste, and the plants themselves have a complex resistance to most diseases. Due to the fact that the formation of lateral shoots in plants is limited, the need for a pinching and pinching, even periodic ones, is completely eliminated. With 1 m² you can get 8-13 kg of greens.

Early Grades of Cucumbers - Herman F1

Self-pollinating (parthenocarpic), over-productive hybrid Herman, the first fruits of which appear as early as 40-43 days after germination, is intended for cultivation in greenhouses and open ground. Fruits - mid-bumpy Zelentsy - gherkins about 8-10 cm long are not bitter. The hybrid is characterized by a long period of fruiting, as well as resistance to the virus of cucumber mosaic, powdery mildew and cladosporia.

Early Grades Ogurtsov - Murom 36

Zoned in 1943, the Murom 36 variety is one of the earliest ripening early varieties: its growing season is only 32-45 days. Small-tuberous light green fruits in length reach 7-10 cm, can be ovoid or ellipsoidal. The growing season lasts about 4 weeks, and from 1 m² you can get about 3-4 kg of cucumbers. Despite a lot of advantages, the fruit of the Muromsky 36 variety has one major drawback that needs to be taken into account when growing it: the fruits start to turn yellow very quickly, therefore, they will have to be collected quite often.

Early Grades Ogurtsov - Moscow F1 dude

The precocious bee-pollinating Moscow dude F1 begins to bear fruit at 40-45 days after germination. A hybrid of mainly female type of flowering, intended for cultivation in greenhouses and open ground. The plants are vigorous, with an average ability to form shoots.

The fruit is green, with white stripes, white-celled tubercular greens with a diameter of about 3.5-4 cm, weight about 100 grams, 10-12 cm long. The hybrid is extremely resistant to bacteriosis and olive spotting, with proper care you can collect 1 m² about 12-15 kg of fruit.

Early Varieties of Cucumbers - Zozulya

The early variety of Zozulya cucumber was zoned in 1977. The term of its growing season does not exceed 48 days from the moment the first shoots appear. The variety is high-yielding: you can get about 20 kg of greenberries from 1 m². Slightly obstructive white-headed elongated fruits of a variety of cylindrical shape, reach a length of 18-22 cm, and weigh up to 250 and even 300 grams. The plants are resistant to yellowing, are immune to olive spotting, as well as some other infectious diseases.

Early Varieties of Cucumbers - Cascade

The precocious variety of cucumbers Cascade, the growing season of which lasts about 6 weeks, was zoned in 1982. Its fruits are very dense, crunchy Zelentsy with a lumpy surface, about 4 cm in diameter and 13-16 cm long. 150 gr. The variety is extremely demanding of soil moisture, and the lack of water affects the fruits: they acquire an irregular shape.

Early Grades Cucumber - Finger

Bee pollinating universal grade. From the emergence of seedlings to the beginning of fruiting about 43-45 days pass. Designed for cultivation in the open field. Plants are predominantly female-flowered, stubby and medium branchy.

Fruits are dark green, elongated-cylindrical in shape, the surface is covered with rare large tubercles. The length of greenhouses can reach 10-14 cm, and weight up to 120 grams. The variety is resistant to downy mildew and is distinguished by an extended fruiting period - up to 2 months.

Early Varieties of Cucumbers - Borovichok F1

Borovic F1 - an early maturing bee-pollinating hybrid of cucumbers, from the emergence of shoots to the beginning of which fruiting takes about 43-48 days. Mostly female type of flowering; intended for cultivation in greenhouses, open ground; prone to the formation of parthenocarpic (self-fertile, not requiring pollination) fruits. Zelenets is up to 10-12 cm in length, and reaches a mass of 80-100 grams. The fruit itself without bitterness, green with white stripes, lumpy, covered with small black spikes. The hybrid is resistant to root rot, as well as true and downy mildew. Up to 6 kg of Zelentsa can be obtained from one plant.

Early Varieties Ogurtsov - Kustovoy

The precocious variety of Kustovaya cucumbers with a predominantly female type of flowering is intended for cultivation under temporary film shelters and in open ground. The dark green fruit of the variety is an ovoid-elongated form of green stuff weighing about 70-90 grams, reaching a length of 10-12 cm. The plant is weakly branching and compact enough. With 1 m² you can get about 10-12 kg of fruit.

Early Varieties of Cucumbers - Competitor

Early variety, zoned in 1980. The competitor was loved by our summer residents for their yield, resistance to bacterial spot and powdery mildew, which has plagued many gardeners in the past few years. Fruits of the Competitor variety are large-tuberous, oval-cylindrical in shape, reaching 12 cm in length, and reaching up to 100 grams by weight. The variety is used exclusively for cultivation in the open field and bears fruit better on the trellis than just on a bed. The growing season lasts about 1.5 months.

Early Varieties of Cucumbers - Sphinx

Early ripening: ripening occurs about 39-40 days after germination.

Fruits of oval elongated shape evenly colored dark green. The surface of the fruit is ribbed, completely covered with small tubercles. The yield of the variety is about 5 kg of Zelentsa per 1 m2.

Early Varieties of Cucumbers - Advance F1

Early hybrid, the growing season of which is 39-44 days. Partenokarpichesky, with a female type of flowering; can be grown both in open ground and in greenhouses and greenhouses. The plants are medium branchy (by the way, it is precisely for the limited growth of lateral shoots that this variety is valued) and vigorous, therefore they need to be supported. Fruits are cylindrical, partially tuberous, dark green in color; in diameter of about 3-4 cm, a length of 11-13 cm, and the mass reaches 120-130 grams. The hybrid is extremely resistant to root rot, real, and downy mildew, olive blotch. The yield of the variety is about 12-14 kg per 1 m².