"Chinese snake" (cucumber) - a miracle of selection

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

"Chinese snake" - cucumber, which is very popular with gardeners. Approximately 8 years ago, a new variety of cucumbers appeared on the Russian seed market. Now it is already a whole group called Chinese Serpent Cucumber. Photos of its fruits are surprising in size and shape. This family of cucumbers is distinguished by very long, more than 50 cm, greens. Their fruits are not only long, but also thin, often wriggling and prickly. They really do look like green snakes.

Miracle cucumber - the longest

"Chinese snake" cucumber unpretentious. This variety gives a high yield in any summer. Sometimes, under adverse conditions, some subspecies can be bitter. Perhaps this is the only drawback of the variety. Numerous plants related to "Chinese snakes" have different varietal characteristics, but all differ in very long and thin fruits. Here are the titlesthe most popular varieties of "Chinese snake": "Chinese cold-resistant", "Chinese heat-resistant", "Chinese farm", "Emerald stream", etc.

Cucumber "Chinese snake": reviews of gardeners

According to the reviews of gardeners, it can be judged that they bought the seeds of these cucumbers on the recommendation of friends and out of curiosity. The expectation of something unusual did not deceive them. By planting this variety, everyone received an unusually rich harvest. Garlands of long fruits hung from the trellises. The cucumbers tasted tender, juicy and very tasty. Many gardeners noted the slightly sweet taste of the fruit. The "pickles" were so long that one was enough for a salad or just a snack for the whole family.

Here is such a profitable Chinese snake cucumber. Reviews about his preparations for the future are also positive. Cucumbers turned out to be tasty when lightly s alted pickling and canning. Even in the longest fruits, the testes are practically not developed, so there are no voids inside the body of the cucumber and the seeds are small and tender. This quality is very good for canning. True, due to the fact that the fruits are unusually long, they have to be cut into pieces when s alted.

Variety description

The variety of cucumbers "Chinese snake" appeared in Russia quite recently. Nobody knew about it 10 years ago. Varieties of long cucumbers have always been popular. Domestic long-fruited varieties, even self-pollinated ones, "Zozulya F-1" and "April F-1", are still inferior to the Chinese ones. Why are overseas long-fruited cucumbers so good, their pros and cons.

"Chinese kite" - bee-pollinated cucumber. Therefore, it is better to grow it outdoors, where there is access to insects. Despite this seemingly shortcoming, the yield of the variety is very high. The fact is that he has a pronounced predominantly flowering of the female type. This means that there are very few male flowers (empty flowers), and many female ones with ovaries. Therefore, if you look at the fruit-bearing Chinese Snake cucumber bush, you can see a large number of hanging fruits.

High yield is also due to the fact that the variety belongs to the long-weave varieties. Cucumber liana grows powerful and long (up to 3.5 meters). Along the entire length, ovaries and fruits are formed. The yield per bush can reach 8 kg. Cucumbers do not outgrow, on the bush they always remain green and juicy, with small seeds. But picking a lot of cucumbers is undesirable, they quickly wither during storage and lose their taste.

Cultivation practices

What conditions of agricultural technology does the cucumber "Chinese snake" require? Growing this variety involves trellises. When tying cucumbers to them, greens hang down and grow straight. If the stems are left on the ground, then long fruits will be bent with hooks, and the yield will decrease significantly, and the quality will not be the same.

Because the bushes are powerful, they should not be thickened. You need to plant according to the principle of 50/50 cm. It is not necessary to grow many bushes. It is enough to plant 5 bushes of this variety to fully meet the needs of the family. Therefore, you can buy only 1 pack of seedsthis variety for sowing.

Minus variety

The disadvantage of the variety is the unfriendly germination of seeds. They are hard to peck. When sowing, it is already good if at least 50% has risen. Therefore, many gardeners plant them not with seeds in open ground, but in seedlings. After the seedlings are a month old, they are planted in a permanent place, a garden bed or a greenhouse. But this does not mean that they cannot be sown in the usual way. You can soak and germinate the seeds, and how to peck, plant in open ground. The main thing is that the place where the cucumbers will grow is warm and sunny, without drafts.

This cucumber has a good appetite

"Chinese snake" - cucumber responsive to fertilizing with fertilizers. A very large bush, a powerful root system and abundant fruiting require a constant intake of minerals. Therefore, when planting in the ground, a tablespoon of Azofoska should be added to the hole. Several times during the growing season it is necessary to feed with urea (1 tablespoon per bucket of water). Fertilizer can be replaced with mullein infusion.

Chinese snake cucumber needs abundant watering, because the plant uses nutrients dissolved in water. If dry, then the plant begins to starve. This will reduce the yield and spoil the taste of cucumbers. Bitterness may appear.

Otherwise, caring for Chinese cucumbers is no more difficult than for other domestic varieties. Foreign varieties are resistant to diseases and adverse climatic conditions. Therefore, anyone who has ever tried to plant them will not remain indifferent to them and will grow these cucumbers every season, at least a few bushes per garden.