How to water cucumbers: useful tips

Cucumbers like to drink a lot. This is a long known fact. Everyone who has their own personal plot or garden knows about this. But not everyone knows how to properly water cucumbers. After all, too much is not good either.

Improper watering can bring many problems to the plant and its owner. To avoid such troubles, we will analyze the most common misconceptions.

Cold Water - Taboo

There is an opinion that you can not drink cucumbers with cold water. But it is recommended to water them in the evening. Well, yes, and wet land at night - just boiling water. It does not cool at all. It even warms up itself and envelops the roots in heat.

Cold water is not icy. Cucumbers can easily be watered with cold water. Healthy plants will absolutely tolerate such a procedure. And the sick will die without your help.

By the way, the opponents of cold watering, are you aware that one well-developed plant per day requires up to 6 liters of fluid? And you can heat the barrel to properly water the plantings. And if these plantings are not two beds in the greenhouse, but a good hundred or two? For a large family for example. How many such barrels will be needed every day of the vegetative season?

We don’t listen to anyone, we pour cucumbers with cold water. All the same, at night the wet ground will cool.

Mid-day watering prohibited

Some sources categorically forbid watering cucumbers in the middle of the day. Well, because the sun uses every drop as a lens! And burn all the tender leaves completely! Yeah. That is, after every rain, as soon as rays appear from behind the clouds, all the vegetation turns to ashes. Straight flashes! Well, what about? There are droplets, all kinds of lenses ... No? Doesn't blaze? So why should cucumbers burn out?

And then they urged to sprinkle cucumbers at high air temperature. Where is your logic, gentlemen?

Before a drop becomes a lens, it evaporates. And if it does not evaporate, then the sun is not so baking to burn the surface.

In the sunshine in the heat, the leaves lose turgor and hang limp rags. And if you do not water them, then they will definitely burn. First, moisture evaporates from the leaves, then yellow dots appear. These are the first signs of a lack of fluid in the cells. And then the leaf dries completely. From the fact that he was not helped in the summer heat. So it burned down. He is very thin, besides the moisture from it evaporates very quickly.

Therefore, we boldly water the cucumbers even in the afternoon, as soon as the thermometer shows above + 27 ° C. This will refresh the leaves, increase the humidity around the plants. Daytime watering in the heat will not allow the pollen to become sterile, crumble to the ovaries, and cucumbers will be watered directly through the ripened leaves.

Watering under the root causes disease

Strictly forbidden to water the planting of cucumbers at the root. Allegedly, this causes the appearance of diseases and the stem begins to rot. Punishment is given to pour water only in the aisles and not closer than 20 cm to the growth point. And so from generation to generation. Children learn from their parents. Submissively water the land near the bushes and wait for the harvest. Moreover, they do not spud a bare stalk, but how does it rot?

Eh, have you ever seen the root system of a cucumber? Yes, it does not exceed 15 cm in circumference! And in length even less. Everything that is poured beyond these sizes is in vain. The roots simply will not get the right water. Cucumbers are watered only at the root! Otherwise, he will not get drunk. And nothing will be washed out there. Of course, if you beat from a hose under high pressure, it will sweep all the soil into the trash. But if you carefully water it, then everything will be fine.

At the same time, for the growth of additional roots, to hush up the bushes is simply necessary. If the main root system begins to rot, then the plant will have enough extra stem roots for nutrition. Sometimes this is a real salvation for a diseased plant.

By the way, cucumbers begin to get sick and rot from a cool ambient temperature, and not root watering. Remember the cold August nights - what happens to cucumber lashes?

Water once a day - bullying

Who recommends watering cucumbers two, or even three times a day? Show your landings. Yes, show all your three bushes. This is why you give such “valuable” advice because you have just planted nothing. You would have five or ten beds. We would have looked at your three-time watering. And then after all in the summer there is nothing more to do than to drag water for cucumbers all day long. Or you have unmeasured water. And what about those who grow cucumbers, but are not rich in water?

Water the cucumbers once a day. In the morning or afternoon - it does not matter. The main thing is to wet the ground under the bush to a depth of about 11-13 cm. It no longer makes sense, the roots are no longer. Naturally, on a cloudy or rainy day, watering is not necessary. But at an air temperature above + 31 ° C, you will have to do another watering, approximately in the middle of the day. This will help landings more easily tolerate such heat.

By the way, if the soil under the bush remained moist until the next watering according to the schedule, then you can safely skip it. This means that the plantings have enough fluid and they did not use it all. It is possible that there is a normal amount of water in the air. This also allows you to take a break from daily watering.

Bitter means little watering

There is a misconception that if the cucumbers received not enough moisture, then they will be bitter. And so they just need to be filled with water so that it stands in the beds. This is not true; still, do not grow rice so that the roots in the water float.

Cucumber fruit becomes bitter when during the day the temperature is above + 32 ° C, and at night below + 16 ° C. That is, sudden changes during the day cause plants to experience shock. This is what makes it produce bitter substances. What to do?

The way out of a problem situation is very simple. With strong daytime heat, it is imperative to sprinkle plantings in order to lower the temperature of the air around the plants. And plant them on warm beds so that the roots are not cool at night. Thanks to these procedures, the difference in daily temperatures can be significantly reduced. This will help the cucumbers to live without a strong shock. And that means there will be no bitterness in the fruits.

Watering from above is a must

Who is there against watering cucumbers from above? Directly on the leaves and fruits. What do you have against high humidity? We recall where the cucumbers came from in our beds. From the rainforests. It is very damp, everything flows, drips and pours right on the leaves. And nothing of the cucumber does not rot and does not fall off.

What's the secret? In air temperature. The tropics are humid, stuffy, but not hot. Namely warm. But in the middle lane it is very hot in summer. And the cucumbers need to be moist and warm. Therefore, to bring down the air temperature near plants by watering from above is simply necessary. With proper agricultural technology and good land, diseases will not arise. And if the soil is not treated with antibacterial drugs, then at least pour water, forget it. All the same, the whips will catch some kind of infection.

Drop watering - panacea

Many people install a drip irrigation system on beds with cucumbers. The idea is not bad. Only you need to configure it correctly in order to have the proper effect. For example, one hose is laid on two beds. Without looping. What is it? At the barrel itself, water flows out more strongly, and at the far end of the bed it barely drips. All the pressure, though weak, flows first. As a result, distant landings do not receive their portion of life-giving moisture. What to do?

The solution is very simple. Hoses or pipes must be laid in loops or rings. Where there is an exit, at the same time there must be an entrance. As a result, it turns out that the pressure will press simultaneously from both ends of the hose. Meeting approximately in the middle of the pipe, the rate of water leakage from all holes at the same time will be the same. Accordingly, the entire bed will receive an approximately equal amount of moisture.

And further. Hoses or pipes must be laid so that water flows directly under the root. So, even in the most intense heat, it will reach the plant. And sometimes you look, and a wet spot during drip irrigation is formed next to a bush, 20-25 centimeters. And after all, the owners of this disgrace firmly believe that the roots of the cucumbers are quite capable of covering this tiny distance in order to get drunk. The owners do not understand that for the plant it is tantalum flour. Being close to water and not being able to enjoy it. Water the cucumbers, not the ground next to them.

How to water cucumbers? Get rid of stereotypes and start doing everything right. Then the number of fruits will increase significantly. Or continue the old fashioned way ... to collect a grief crop.

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