Cucumber emerald flow f1 – consumer reviews, characteristics and properties of the variety

If you have a summer house or a vegetable garden, you can grow delicious vegetables and fruits yourself, which will be much healthier and tastier than in the store.

For a good harvest, you need to choose the right seeds.

For example, the emerald stream F1 cucumber has proven itself well, consumer reviews confirm this. This variety of cucumber can be planted even on the balcony, the main thing is to follow agrotechnical practices.

Content:

• Cucumber emerald stream, plant description
• Rules of care
• How to form a stem
• Diseases and pests
• Productivity, fruit harvesting, storage
• Are they suitable for preservation?
• How to grow emerald stream cucumber on the balcony
• Cucumber emerald stream f1, reviews, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Cucumber emerald stream, plant description

Characteristics and description of the variety:

• The bushes are medium-sized.
• The arrangement of the ovaries is bunch-shaped.
• Medium weave.
• The leaves are large.
• Disease resistant.
• Frost-resistant.

The fruits are long, weighing from 150 to 210 grams. The length of a young cucumber is from 15 to 20 cm, an overripe one is 50 centimeters. Inside the vegetable there is dense, crispy, fleshy pulp. The outer skin is covered with tubercles.

The taste is sweet, even without proper watering there is no bitterness.

One bush bears up to five fruits at once. The variety is early ripening; the first cucumbers can be picked on the fortieth day.

Growing is carried out vertically.

The main feature of the emerald variety is that it does not require pollination by insects. Productivity will increase with decent care.

Rules of care

Here are some basic recommendations:

• During the growing season, fertilizer must be added to the soil. Organic matter, such as rotted manure, is used as fertilizing.
• If there is a lack of moisture in the mail, then in addition to organic matter, you also need to add lime or a solution of potassium permanganate.

Regularly water the greens with warm, settled water in the evening. It is important that water does not get on the foliage, otherwise it will turn yellow.

After watering, it is important to loosen the soil and remove all weeds.

If you follow these simple tips, your yield will increase several times.

How to form a stem

The emerald variety has a small number of side shoots, so it is important to correct stem formation.

When the sixth leaf forms on the bore, you need to cut off all the stepsons and ovaries.

After a while, you need to tear off the stepsons, but leave one ovary every three leaves.

It is equally important that the bush grows vertically; for this, tying is carried out. Ideally, plant cucumbers along the fence. If this is not possible, then it is worth building a trellis from wooden planks or stretching a mesh.

The mesh and trellis are suitable for both greenhouses and open ground.

Diseases and pests

This type of cucumber is disease-resistant, so it is not attacked by pests and does not get sick.

Experienced gardeners carry out preventive manipulations:

• observe the watering regime;
• spray the foliage with a weak solution of iodine and hydrogen peroxide;
• inspect stems and foliage, removing damaged ones;
• vegetables are planted together with calendula and marigolds; these flowers repel pests and insects.

These manipulations strengthen the flower’s immunity and make it stronger.

Productivity, fruit harvesting, storage

The average yield per square meter is 6 kg.

Cucumbers are harvested immediately after they ripen. Fruits that are no more than 30 cm in size are considered crispy and juicy.

This vegetable cannot be preserved for a long time; it quickly deteriorates and becomes soft, and is not suitable for transportation.

After harvesting, you can put the greens in the refrigerator for no more than three days.

Are they suitable for preservation?

Emerald flow F1 can only be consumed fresh. Because of their length, cucumbers are not used for preservation.

If you cut a vegetable, you can pickle it or pickle it, but after that the cucumber loses its juiciness and original taste.

How to grow emerald stream cucumber on the balcony

This variety grows very well on the balcony.

Initially, you need to prepare the seed material. To do this, the seeds are soaked in early April. After a few days, bores will appear, at which time the seeds need to be transplanted into disposable cups.

Planting depth is half a centimeter. After 21 days, the first leaves will hatch; now you can transplant the seedlings to a permanent place.

Let's watch a video on how to grow cucumber seedlings:

It is important to choose the right place for plants.

Cucumbers love warmth, so they should be grown on a windowsill located in the west or south. Avoid drafts.

It is necessary to calculate the space. It is important to leave at least 30 cm for one stem; no more than 5 bushes can be placed on the windowsill.

Flower pots or wooden boxes can be used as containers. Containers must have drainage holes for water.Pebbles or expanded clay are poured onto the bottom, they filter and saturate the root system with oxygen.

Cucumber emerald stream f1, reviews, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Advantages:

• disease resistance;
• excellent taste;
• high yield;
• frost resistance.

Flaws:

• the root system is susceptible to rot;
• short shelf life of fruits.

Reviews about the Emerald Stream cucumbers can be found in different ways, because it’s not in vain that they say: it’s hard to find a friend for the taste and color. Let's take a look at the comments of summer residents who have already managed to get a harvest.

Julia Sinetskaya: I have never had such delicious and fruitful cucumbers, I recommend them to everyone! Suitable for those who like to eat fresh vegetables. The peel is thin, there is no bitterness. I grow cucumbers in a greenhouse, the ovaries form continuously, they bear fruit for a long time, there are no empty flowers. They do not require special care.

Khorba Anatoly: I didn’t really like the Emerald Stream. Long cucumbers are suitable for exotic gardeners. Vegetables are too watery and sweet. If you don’t eat it within 24 hours, they immediately become flabby and soft.

Belenkaya Valeria: I do not agree that this variety is not suitable for canning. Last year the harvest was so large that I decided to roll up small cucumbers. I used the usual recipe for this. As a result, the cucumbers turned out crispy and tasty.

Another review of the cucumber variety Emerald Flow f1 - on video:

So, the Emerald Stream cucumber is an unusual, but very prolific variety.

For those who like to eat fresh salads, this is an ideal option.

This species does not require special agrotechnical skills, so even beginners can plant it.