Description of the best, yielding varieties of cucumbers for polycarbonate greenhouses

Cultivation of cucumbers in greenhouses is common in areas with capricious climatic conditions and fleeting summers. And in areas with favorable climatic conditions, the best varieties of polycarbonate greenhouse cucumbers allow you to have these vegetables throughout the year. In contrast to the middle of the late 20th century, on the modern market, cucumber seeds, as well as their hybrids for planting in greenhouses, are presented in a large assortment.

It is necessary to take into account the optimal greenhouse varieties of cucumbers for cultivation in enclosed spaces, know their properties, the order of planting, care, feeding and pest control. Before deciding which variety of seeds to buy for sowing in a polycarbonate greenhouse, it is necessary to decide for what purpose you will cultivate them (eat them fresh, in salads or preservation).

Features and variety of characteristics of cucumbers

Descriptions of hybrids and varieties of cucumbers are classified according to the following characteristics:

• dislocation of cultivation (seeds for sowing in beds, in greenhouses and combined);
• the time of their ripening (early, middle and late period);
• method of pollination (plants with male and female flowers, insect pollinated and fruit formation without pollination);
• culinary properties (preservation, in salads, combined);
• methods of agricultural cultivation (varietal and hybrid planting material);
• the presence of different flowers (female, heterogeneous);
• fruit size (pickles, gherkins, ranging in size from 8 to 15 cm and more);
• fruit color (white, light green, green, spotted and striped);
• type of fruit skin (weakly pronounced tuberosity, smooth, with the presence of pimples and their color - light, dark and brown);
• by the type of plant tops (bush-shaped, short-curly, medium-curly and long-curly);
• fertility (weak, medium and high-yield varieties).

In addition, plants may differ in relation to diseases and the meteorological background (resistant to diseases, changes in temperature regimes, adapted to cultivation in shaded beds, in areas with minimal precipitation and low temperatures).

What cucumbers are best to plant in a greenhouse for an early harvest

The best varieties of early-ripening vegetables, with the receipt of the first fruits after 45 days in a greenhouse, are considered by vegetable growers:

1. Aristocrat is a super-universal hybrid that does not need pollination. It is resistant to disease and insensitive to changes in temperature.The fruits are dark green, cylindrical, with large tubercles. There is no bitter taste.
2. The white delicacy is highly productive. It has a long stem and predominantly female flowers. It tolerates moisture deficiency and low temperature conditions well. It's almost white cucumbers for greenhouses 10-15 cm in size with excellent taste, oblong-conical shape and thin skin. It is famous for its increased resistance to diseases. Can be grown both in greenhouses and open beds.
3. Bettina ripens early. It has an average stem length. This monoecious plant easily tolerates lack of light. Green fruits 10-12 cm in size with pronounced tubercles have a cylindrical shape, pleasant to the taste, used in preservation, salads and raw.
4. Knop is a variety that is not susceptible to fungal diseases. Has increased fruiting, resistant to lack of sunlight and temperature fluctuations. It is a self-pollinating type of cucumber. Zelenets has a pleasant taste, dense, with a pronounced crunch. Reaches 10 cm in length. Used for canning, pickling, pickling and in freshly prepared salads.
5. Forsage f1 is a gherkin-shaped, non-pollinated hybrid, with a bundle-like arrangement of flowers. Adapted to cultivation in regions with limited humidity, it has an increased resistance to diseases. Forsage green cucumber, pleasant to taste and smell, elastic, up to 14 cm in size, combined culinary spectrum of application.

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You can also plant cucumber varieties and hybrids popular for greenhouses for early ripening: Delpina, Dynamite cucumber f1, Karaoke, Dragonfly f1, Kibria, Crispina, Paramon f1, Boy-with-finger, cucumber Beethoven f1, Masha, Marinda, Perenta f1 and others ... These are not high-yielding varieties, but when planted commercially, due to their early ripening, one can expect significant profits.

What varieties of cucumbers are best planted in a greenhouse for a crop of medium ripening

Mid-season fruitful varieties of cucumbers for greenhouses, reaching presentation in 45-50 days:

1. Wisconsin is a high-yielding hybrid type of cucumber. This is one of the varieties of disease immune. Fruits with large pimples, cucumber length 8-10 cm. One vegetable can reach about 75 g. They have a pleasant taste without bitterness.
2. Fontanelle - medium ripening period, excellent for canning, fruit in the form of a cylinder, 10-12 cm in size.
3. Raphael is a long-growing hybrid variety that does not require pollination with an increased yield and is resistant to root rot. It can be grown in a greenhouse or greenhouse. The fruits are elongated, cylindrical in shape with a smooth skin and have a pleasant taste. The weight of one cucumber is up to 210 g, and up to 22 cm long.
4. Sunny - the variety is suitable for canning. It has well-branched tops and medium-length stems. Combined flowers. Zelentsy are very tasty, spotted with light green stripes. Fruits have white hairiness. The length of ripe cucumbers is about 11 cm, weight is up to 140 grams.
5. Annushka f1 is a bee-pollinated variety. It takes about 45-50 days before the first harvest of fruits. According to reviews, Annushka f1 cucumber has high pickling qualities. From 1 sq. m. you can collect up to 10 kg of fruit. Cucumbers are lumpy with white thorns. The plant is quite powerful with a female flowering type. They require tying to a trellis.

Also, the advantage of medium-ripening varieties of cucumbers is that they have the longest fruiting.

Types of late-ripening cucumbers

Late-ripening varieties of cucumbers for cultivation in greenhouses are rarely cultivated. These include:

1. Obsky is a medium-sized plant that does not require pollination. He has female flowers. It easily tolerates temperature fluctuations, perfectly resists peronosporosis.In cooking, it is used fresh and for canning. Zelenets has a pleasant taste, small size - 7-10 cm, unexpressed silvery color in the form of a cylinder, covered with pimples with dark fibers.
2. Brownie - good for pickling and canning. Immune to various diseases. Fruits are small (6-9 cm), cylindrical-oval with light outgrowths. They taste great, no bitter taste.
3. Nezhinsky - this variety dates back to the 18th century, when cucumbers were salted in barrels and delivered to the court of the kings. Requires insect pollination. The stems are long. It has good resistance to bacteriosis and olive spot. Zelentsy weighing up to 100 g, up to 12 cm in size. Fruits have pronounced tubercles with dark thorns, are distinguished by good culinary qualities and crunch.
4. Phoenix 640 has long stems. Requires pollination by bees. It is a super versatile hybrid variety with dominant female flowers. It is immune to disease and high temperature conditions. The fruits are crispy, do not have a bitter taste, weighing 160-190 g, and about 15 cm in size, covered with large tubercles.
5. Crunch is a hybrid with increased productivity, universal use. He is practically not susceptible to disease. Fruits weighing up to 80 g and about 10 cm long, taste good, crunchy and without bitterness.

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What are the most productive cucumbers

Vegetable growers prefer the most productive varieties and hybrids to grow in greenhouses.

Note! The seed market is represented by a more productive planting material for greenhouses than its garden species.

Today there are the most optimal varieties with increased fruiting:

1. Summer resident - has an early fruiting period. This hybrid is suitable for planting in disposable greenhouses. Fruits are green, cylindrical. Productivity up to 14 kg per square meter. The weight of a cucumber is about 90 g.
2. The cellar is quite resistant to disease. Has early fruiting. Requires insect pollination. Fruits are dark green in color with light stripes, weighing up to 100 g and about 11 cm long. The most productive of the greenhouse varieties. Productivity from one square meter to 15-17 kg;
3. Pinocchio - early fruiting with a consistently high yield. It is immune to short-term drops in temperature. Parthenocarpic hybrid, female-type flowers, collected in a bouquet. Fruit without bitterness, in the form of a cylinder with large tubercles, rich green color. About 13 kg of cucumbers can be harvested from one square meter. The size of one is up to 9 cm and weight is up to 100 g.

The above varieties of cucumbers for greenhouses that give good yields also include: Dvoryansky, Zozulya.

Pollination-free cucumber varieties for cultivation in greenhouses

Optimal greenhouse cucumber varieties that do not require insect and cross-pollination. Such plants have flowers of a male and female species. A variety of cucumbers of this type - Claudia - is very much in demand by summer residents. This hybrid has medium ripeness with a high yield. He is not susceptible to disease. Fruits are elliptical, covered with light pimples, up to 12 cm in length and weighing about 70 grams. Up to 15 kg can be collected from one square meter.