Cucumber "Libelle F1": reviews and features

One of the most popular vegetables, which is so fond of growing domestic gardening, is a cucumber. It has low nutritional value and a small amount of vitamins. However, the high taste of cucumber in combination with a wide range of applications allowed this vegetable to gain a huge popularity.

The reasons for "people's love"

This vegetable garden canned - marinated and salted, it is used in the preparation of salads. Cucumbers have a very positive effect on the human body: they reduce acidity in the gastric juice, promote easy digestibility of food, besides useful for rheumatism, diabetes, kidney and liver diseases. In addition, this vegetable culture is rich in iodine. Besides, it is not difficult to grow it, the main thing is to observe the agrotechnical requirements, and then these green crunchy gifts of nature will be constantly present on the table - both fresh and processed.

Characteristics of varieties and hybrids

There are many varieties of cucumbers. They differ in both the size of the green and its tuberosity. Different varieties have different resistance to diseases, excellent types of flowering and terms of precocity. Varieties also differ in the degree of suitability for processing, yield, length of the whip, and even the coloration of the spike.

In the process of pollination of this vegetable culture, bees are mainly involved. Excellent varieties that are suitable for growing outdoors like Semcross F1, Othello F1, Cranberry F1, Farmer F1, Finger, as well as cucumber Libell F1 are well proven. A self-pollinated subspecies of this vegetable culture is a subclass of parthenocarp. It includes Lapland F1, Pasalimo F1 and Blizzard F1, Snowstorm, as well as the Petersburg Express F1, Crispina F1, Barabulka F1 and even the Boy with the finger F1. Most of them are hybrids, which were derived relatively recently and which can be grown in greenhouses. Nevertheless, the most popular variety for open ground is the cucumber Libello f1.

Description

Culture refers to the category of hybrids of bee-dusted. He has a rather high yield. Fruits have a slightly pronounced ribbed form. The color shades of cucumbers range from medium to rich dark green. At the same time, the taste qualities that characterize this hybrid are quite high, they are not spoiled by bitterness.

Fruits in length with proper cultivation reach fourteen centimeters at a weight of up to one hundred and fifty grams. The main advantage characterized by cucumber Libelle F1, the description of which also proves this plus, is the absence of stains and its increased resistance to powdery mildew. This vegetable is equally tasty in fresh as well as in processed form. In addition, the cucumber Libellé F1, being an early hybrid, is intended for both sowing in open ground and for growing in a film greenhouse.

Fruit

Characteristics of this variety, pollinated by bees, are long weaving and an average degree of ripeness, as well as the stability of fruiting. The fruit, which gives the cucumber Libella F1, looks very similar to the spindle. It contains a minimum number of ribs, and also pleases not only its kind, but also unique taste.

Cucumber Libelle F1, reviews of which testify to the great popularity of this hybrid, begins to bear fruit no earlier than the fiftieth day, counting from the moment of emergence on the ground. The yield of the variety is quite high: it comes to ten kilograms per square meter.

Growing system

Like all other vegetable crops, the cucumber Libellé F1, reviews of the care of which say that he loves light, moisture and warmth, has an underdeveloped root system. But the part that is located above the ground, has a relatively large mass. For good growth and proper development, the plant needs the following temperature regime: for air - 25-27, and for soil - 20-22 degrees.

The emergence of various kinds of diseases begins most often when the lower indicator is kept relatively long. In the case when the weather is not rainy and long enough for an average of 10 degrees of temperature, vegetable culture starts to slow down in development, moreover, in this case there will be a crop that the cucumber will give to Libelle F1. The feedback of those who have been growing this hybrid for a long time already indicate that with high heat, for example, at 35 ° С, fertilization will not occur.

Features of care

This late-ripening variety is characterized by long hair and a female type of flowering. Its greens in the middle zone of our country grow to seventeen centimeters in length and weigh from 70 to 90 grams. To optimize the pollination, as well as to bind fruit to the seeds of this hybrid before sowing, experts recommend mixing and planting material of any pollinating variety at the rate of ten percent of the total mass of the sown volume.

Cucumber Libelle F1, the cultivation of which involves certain agrotechnical knowledge, is very fond of moisture, both in soil and in the air. Its deciduous system is well developed, and therefore the evaporation of water is very intense. The pledge of a high crop, according to experts, is primarily a regular watering, as well as a good warming of the soil.

Characteristics of the soil

Planting a variety of cucumbers Libella F1 needs to land rich in humus, and also having a high degree of fertility. Not the last value for the amount of harvest is the preparation of the soil before sowing, as well as the quality of the seeds. According to breeders, the ideal material for this is planting material that has been stored for three or four years.

High-fertility drained soil with a low nitrogen content, as well as liming of very acid soils - these are the basic requirements that are imposed on the land in which the cucumber Libellé F1 should grow.

Reviews

Many experienced gardeners on their sites have long been planting this particular hybrid. Some of them have chosen this particular variety for the first time, and for decades already they have grown only a cucumber of the Libelle variety . The reason for the popularity is that they can equally well be used for fresh consumption, as well as in salads or preserves. However, judging by the reviews, sometimes the first cucumbers collected from a bush can be bitter, but it happens only in a dry summer, so in this weather, watering should be done regularly and abundantly. In addition, this class is characterized by excessive overgrowth, which is characteristic when the harvest is not going on time.

Many, judging by the reviews, plant the cucumbers in the open ground in the first days of May, and that the seeds are well sprouted or spring frosts could not kill the seedlings, cover the beds with a spandbond, laying this material freely on the ground without straining. Some for the intensity of pollinating grow a sort of cucumber Libelle F1 with "Spring F1".