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Cucumbers are a favorite culture of most summer residents. It is versatile in use, with proper care it gives a rich harvest. For good growth, the culture must be provided with sufficient moisture and heat. Already in June, ovaries are visible - the first rudiments of the harvest. However, it happens that there are many of them, and the culture has stopped developing. Therefore, it is necessary to understand why cucumbers grow poorly, whether they like a draft, what can be done so that the culture begins to grow well again.
Why cucumbers have stalled
If the cucumbers have stopped growing, it is necessary to understand why this happened. To do this, it is important to analyze the planting time, care and the conditions under which they grow.
The main reasons for the growth stagnation are:
- Poor quality seeds... The low quality of the planting material can be seen during the growing season. It grows poorly, gives weak shoots. In this case, small leaves turn yellow before planting in open ground.
- Early disembarkation - the culture loves warmth, so you should not plant it on the first warm days that came after the frost. For the favorable growth of cucumbers, it is important that the average daily temperature is at least 15 degrees. If the landing occurred earlier, nothing can be done. The summer resident can only learn a lesson and not make such mistakes next year.
- Lack of nutrients during the growing season - cucumbers do not develop, the fruits are flabby and deformed. This is often due to a lack of nitrogen. To do this, it is necessary to feed the culture under the root with a urea solution. If the fruits resemble a pear in shape, they do not have enough potassium, you need to pour potassium sulfate or a solution of wood ash.
- Improper care - growing cucumbers requires careful care. It is necessary to regularly loosen the soil, water it, and form whips. The best harvest is obtained on lateral shoots, so you should pinch them 40-45 cm, cut off the top of the main stem.
- Lack of moisture - cucumbers begin to bloom, but small cucumbers do not grow. Water it three times a week with warm water. When flowers form, do not pour water on the leaves, so as not to knock off the ovaries.
- Poor pollination - if the cucumbers began to set, but do not grow, the reason is poor pollination. To remedy the situation, you can spray the culture with a solution of sugar with lemon balm infusion. The product will attract bees and improve pollination.
- Development of diseases - Powdery mildew is a common disease of cucumbers, manifested by white spots on the crop. To get rid of it, you need to use a mixture of skim milk, a few drops of iodine and warm water. The remedy will relieve the problem, the plants will slowly begin to recover and set fruits.
- Cucumbers may stop growing due to the development of anthracnose... This is a disease in which spots appear on the top of the leaf. A pinkish bloom forms at the bottom of the leaflet, turning into sores. All damaged parts must be removed to grow a good crop.
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Cucumbers are bad, grow slowly: how to feed
If the cucumbers have stopped growing, what to do should be decided as soon as possible. First of all, in order for the culture to grow, it is necessary to feed it with special fertilizers, which can be both chemical and natural.
Natural dressings
Bread dressing - fill 2/3 a bucket with bread crusts, fill with water, put under a press for a week. For use, it is necessary to dilute it three times, add 50 g of universal fertilizer to 12 liters of water. Process the crop at the beginning of flowering and before wilting once a week.
Ash. To get a good cucumber harvest, you need to pour a small amount of the product under the root of the culture. It is worth remembering that the method is not permissible with the simultaneous use of nitrogen-containing fertilizers. It is worth stopping processing when the first small fruits appear.
Brilliant green solution
Yeast feeding. For cooking, you need to take 10 grams of dry yeast, dilute them in 10 liters of warm water, add a tablespoon of sugar. Let it brew for 2.5 hours, then dilute with 50 liters of water. Used for rapid growth and the appearance of large ovaries.
Top dressing with brilliant green and iodine. It is used to destroy diseases. The roots are treated with Zelenka, for this 10 drops must be dissolved in a bucket of water. Iodine is used for leaves and shoots. It is necessary to dilute 10 ml of iodine in 10 liters of water. Spray the culture.
Tillage
Mullein treatment. A popular way to grow a rich harvest. It can be processed with such a tool at any stage of crop growth. Dilute a few cakes of cow dung in 10 liters of water.
Infusion of onion peels. It is necessary for her to fill a saucepan of 3 liters, pour water. Insist for a day, then dilute with water in a ratio of 1:10.
Often, summer residents have a situation in which cucumbers began to grow poorly, how to feed them is easy to decide, the choice is great.
Chemicals
- Preparations Kemir, Universal, Aquamarine - are used when the seedlings are moved from the house from the balcony or window sill to the ground or to the greenhouse. In order for the shoots to sprout, it is necessary to dilute 5-7 grams of fertilizer in 10 liters of water, water the hole.
- Microfertilizers containing boron - when treated with such a tool, the culture will begin to grow actively, will form a large number of ovaries. Apply 1 granule per 1 liter of water.
Cucumbers are tied but do not grow: care problems
If the ovary stops when growing a crop, then this arises for a number of reasons. These include:
- Low air temperature.
- Few nutrients, poor soil.
- The bed on which the culture grows is in a shaded place, because of this, ovaries are slowly formed.
- Bushes too dense.
- Watering with cold water.
- Excess or lack of moisture.
- Improper feeding.
In order to rectify the situation, it is necessary to take measures:
- Water only with warm water, and the amount of water should be dosed.
- Who likes drafts, tomatoes or cucumbers? Cucumbers are afraid of drafts, so do not plant them in places open to the wind.
- Plant the crop only in beds open to direct sunlight.
- Feed with fertilizers in the correct ratio.
- Treat the seeds before planting with a weak solution of potassium permanganate.
- Feed the plant at the root with a urea solution.
- Cut off the main stem, pinch the side ones.
- Get the attention of the bees.
- Treat with pest control products.
In addition, to obtain ovaries, it is necessary to attract bees. For this, special formulations are used, which can be purchased in a store or prepared independently from sugar and lemon balm infusion.
Cucumbers do not grow fruits, what should I do? First of all, it is necessary to identify the cause of the problem.
Cucumbers are a crop that requires attention and care to get a rich harvest. Before planting it in open ground, you need to find out what conditions the plants need, cucumbers like a draft or not, how and when to fertilize them. After that, prepare the garden bed, properly cultivate the land, then plant the seedlings and feed it.If the cucumbers are blooming, but the small cucumbers are not growing, most likely the matter is in improper care.
Cucumbers are one of my favorite vegetables. I always grow seedlings myself. And of course I want to do everything right, so that they grow and bear fruit well. This article provides a lot of useful information on cucumber care.
Cucumbers stagnate at low temperatures and insufficient watering. This happens as a rule at the end of the summer. You can, of course, artificially extend the growth period of these vegetables. But the costs of this are unlikely to pay off.
I prefer those cucumbers that grew on the ground, and not those that grow on a manure ridge. Although it would seem that there is a ridge of manure, in the holes of humus, the earth is again poured (fresh every year), heating, watering is even more convenient, but the taste of greenhouse is not the same. Why is that?
I was interested in the method of feeding with bread crumbs, I am in favor of natural types of assistance to plants, but, unfortunately, the ones that I tried before did not always help. And you always want a rich harvest of cucumbers.
The seeds you plant play a big role. But the main thing is abundant watering. When my well ran out of water, I did not see a single cucumber over the summer, although there was plenty of ovary.
I showed the article to my mother, just this year she didn’t work out something with cucumbers 🙁 She did not know about bread and yeast feeding, but she experimented with brilliant green. And I was not aware of luring bees either.
Cucumbers have always grown well, but this year I cannot boast of a harvest. Moreover, the variety "Crocodile" grew well and bore fruit, but pickled "Makhaon" grew very poorly. They fed up the same and grew on the same soil. I came to the conclusion that the seeds were of poor quality.
Useful article. I like to process cucumbers with ash, cheap and cheerful. When sowing seeds, I pour a little ash into the hole. Also, when aphids appear on the leaves, you can spray the cucumbers with an infusion of ash with water. There was a good harvest this year.
With a lack of nitrogen, you can also apply foliar feeding with simple ammonia. In calm weather, I take 50 ml of ammonia in a bucket of water and spray the cucumber plants. But I did not know about yeast feeding, I will take it into account.
If the cucumbers have sprung up together, then there is no need to doubt the quality of the seeds. The most common cause of poor growth is low temperature. This year, the summer is cold, night temperatures were mostly kept at around 14-15 degrees. At night, I covered the beds with covering material, and then also with a film, so I do not complain about the harvest.