How to germinate cucumber seeds before planting

19.07.2015 Cucumbers

If you understand that purchased cucumbers can be harmful to your health, and you have at least a small piece of dugout - learn how to germinate the seeds of cucumbers before planting, and you will have a wonderful harvest of clean, no pickled, healthy cucumbers. You can safely eat them with the whole family, and close them safely for the winter. Such cucumbers will be a joyful winter cold day, as a healthy and tasty addition to any dish. Therefore - we will find out all the intricacies of germinating cucumbers, so that the harvest is a success, there is something to eat, and to make supplies for the winter. Read more: cucumbers in a polycarbonate greenhouse planting and care.

Pick the seeds

First of all, you need to buy good seeds, many take already prepared, calibrated, and with a special shell of nutrients. Such cucumbers appear better, and all sorts of diseases worry them less. But - they cost a little, but are hunting cheaper for us? Then we stock up on our seeds (by the way, they are much more efficient in planting for the 2-3rd year), or we buy at verified points and prepare according to all the rules. Varieties Cascade are good for planting, Elegant, early Altai varieties received positive reviews, summer residents praise Zozulya and Crystal, they are not bad in planting Nezhensky.

Seed Preparation - Sorting

So, stocked up with seeds, now you need to select high-quality. To do this, soak the seeds in 5% solution of sodium chloride. Bad dummies will pop up right away - to discard them as unnecessary, those that were buried at the bottom are just right for landing. After the procedure, drain the water, dry the seeds by spreading them on a cloth or newspaper.

Warming up

To increase the germination capacity of our already selected seeds, you can warm them up, which will increase productivity. You can do this in different ways - spread it near the battery, warm it in the dryer (up to 60 g. Temperature, do not raise it anymore, a couple of hours is enough). If on the windowsill - 2-3 days, let them warm at the battery. Seeds so warmed earlier will yield fruits, and they will have much less empty flowers than their unprepared brothers.

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Disinfection

This path leads to the protection of seeds from disease, be sure to use it before placing the seeds on soaking or for germination. Make a 1% solution of potassium permanganate, and hold the seeds in it for about 20 minutes, rinse well a couple of times, and you can start other procedures.

Sprouting seeds in a cloth

The following procedure will give earlier germination. Wet a cotton cloth, place in a plate, seeds on it, and cover with a plastic wrap. The temperature should be approximately 22 grams. for good germination. As part of the seeds hatch, they can already be planted. Make grooves on the plot, spill well with warm water, lay out the seeds, cover with a layer of soil about 1-2 cm. We are waiting for seedlings, looking every day to see if sprouts have appeared. When the green little liveies begin to crawl out of the ground, such joy embraces - it worked! Is there anything that can be compared to this - the grown crops are much more pleasant to eat and eat, and rolled up for winter cold, when there is only snow on the site, and you really want vegetables and fruits.

Sprouting in toilet paper

Another interesting way is sprouting in toilet paper. It takes up little space, you can sprout a lot of seeds on one piece of window sill at once.Just cut a polyethylene tape about 5-8 cm high, lay 1-2 layers of toilet paper on it, moisten it with water, spread the seeds. The distance between individuals is 1 cm approximately, from the top edge –– not more than 2–2.2 cm. Then twist all this stuff into a loose roll and just put it in a glass of water. Water should reach the middle of the roll so that the seeds do not appear in the water. On toilet paper, life-giving moisture gets to the seeds itself in the right quantities.

Periodically monitor the water level, if necessary - add. The roll can be carefully unwrapped, and the hatched seeds can be removed for transplanting. This will be better than replanting the appeared green entrances, because cucumbers are so sensitive to a change of scenery. And just with hooked hooks - they are easily ready to change their place of residence.

Catch-up tips

Even before germination, the following procedures can be done that will increase productivity and relieve many diseases:

Soaking in a solution of soda, copper sulfate, boric acid. And if you want without any chemistry - it’s best to process gold, it contains so many useful minerals, they will greatly strengthen the immunity of your seeds. Only, as you understand, the ash should be wood, and not from any indecent garbage.
Saturation with oxygen is a very effective procedure in which the yield is increased. You can soak the seeds and connect the compressor from the aquarium for a day so that it drives oxygen in the water and saturates the seeds.
You can harden the seeds, sending them to the cold, and then into the heat, or vice versa. So the seeds become more resistant to various negative factors in the garden.

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