Description of the Pogrebok cucumber variety and growing guidelines

Many gardeners are interested in how to grow the Pogrebok f1 cucumber. Fresh cucumbers are a favorite treat for both adults and children. They are a healthy vegetable, containing a large number of beneficial minerals and microelements. But cucumbers should not only be healthy but also delicious. Gardeners and vegetable growers carefully select cucumber varieties for fresh eating, canning, selling, and pickling. A popular hybrid variety is the Pogrebok, created by breeders from two species. The cross has proven successful, as evidenced by the high yield and excellent taste of the Pogrebok variety.

What is a Pogrebok cucumber?

According to reviews from gardeners and consumers, the variety's key features include rapid ripening, excellent yield, low maintenance, excellent flavor, and long-lasting fruiting. Its excellent presentation and biological properties quickly made the hybrid variety popular among consumers and gardeners who grow cucumbers in their own gardens.

Characteristics and description of the Pogrebok cucumber variety:

1. The variety was created by domestic breeders quite recently and was included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements.
2. This hybrid variety is early ripening.
3. Developed by scientists as a vegetable crop for growing in open ground and greenhouses, which protect cucumbers from frost and freezing temperatures.
4. Under favorable conditions, the yield of the hybrid variety varies from 15 to 17 kg per 1 m² plot.
5. The vegetables ripen within 43-48 days from planting. Therefore, gardeners can reap their first cucumber harvest in just 1.5 months.

The hybrid variety is resistant to various diseases that affect vegetable and garden crops. This can be considered one of the most significant achievements of the breeders' work.
It is also worth noting that this variety is suitable for fresh consumption, in salads, for making various preserves, pickles, and canning.

The technical parameters of the hybrid variety include:

1. Indeterminacy.
2. The bushes are called medium-branched.
3. The vines on the bushes have small leaves.
4. The flowering type is mixed. Female flowers predominate and form on the branches. Most female flowers are found on the lateral shoots.

Reviews from gardeners indicate that the Pogrebok variety of cucumbers is resistant to diseases such as:

1. Downy mildew.
2. Cladosporiosis.
3. White rot.
4. Melon aphid.

You can boost plant immunity by properly caring for your plants and following planting guidelines. First, the soil should be cultivated and fertilized with mineral and organic fertilizers before planting, which enhances the flow of beneficial components into the soil and the root system of the plants.

It is not recommended to plant hybrid cucumbers in areas previously occupied by beans and carrots. This can lead to the spread of white rot, a disease that most commonly affects cucumbers. If signs of the disease are found on the plants, remove the affected leaves or stem sections. Then, spray the leaves with a solution containing copper or its derivatives.

Melon aphids can also be controlled by spraying with a solution of regular laundry soap or with preparations such as Fufanon, Biotlin, and their analogues.

How to grow cucumbers?

To get a bountiful harvest of the Pogrebok variety, it's important to follow the proper growing guidelines. These include the following.

It is important to choose the right site, which must meet the following criteria:

• lots of sun,
• moisture,
• lack of wind.

Without these conditions, it's impossible to get a large harvest. The variety is sensitive to hypothermia. Seedlings should be sown in early May and transplanted outdoors in late May. The seedlings are transplanted into soil that has warmed well in the spring sun to 18ºC. If the temperature drops, the seedlings should be covered with plastic wrap.

The bushes are planted on the plot in a checkerboard pattern according to a 40x40 cm pattern.

Cucumbers need to be watered regularly. This should be done early in the morning or in the evening, after the sun has set.

The fruits will form in the presence of a constant temperature of +25… +30ºС.
For normal development and rapid growth, the air temperature should not fall below +14ºС and not rise above +42ºС.