Cucumber Maryina Grove: variety description, cultivation and yield with photo

Maryina Grove F1 - wonderful cucumbers in their characteristics, which were bred for growing in open and protected ground. This hybrid is early ripe, but in the greenhouse you can get a crop of such gherkins earlier than in the beds in the garden.

What are parthenocarpic hybrid cucumbers

On packages with vegetable crops (including cucumbers), the inscription "parthenocarpic hybrid" is often found. But not all growers know what this means. Most often it is believed that such plants pollinate themselves, without the participation of insects.Such an opinion is not correct. In such vegetables, fruits are formed without pollination at all.

With self-pollination of plants, the fruits necessarily form seed material. But in the fruits of parthenocarpic hybrid varieties, seeds are not formed.

Such plants are most suitable for growing in greenhouses, because insects usually do not get there.

Summer residents, appreciating the many advantages of such vegetable crops, are happy to grow them in garden beds or in greenhouses. And if the first parthenocarpic varieties were intended for eating fresh ripe fruits, now new hybrids have appeared that are also great for preservation.

The main advantages of parthenocarpic hybrid cucumbers are:

• fruits ripen throughout the season;
• gherkins ripen fast enough;
• weather resistant;
• cucumbers have a pleasant taste, devoid of bitterness;
• high resistance to most diseases, with damage it is easy to cope with the disease;
• no need for pollination;
• ripe cucumbers - the same size and uniform color;
• a range of hybrids suitable for pickling and canning;
• the harvested crop is stored for a long time, without losing its commercial and taste qualities, it tolerates transportation over long distances;
• when overripe, cucumbers do not lose their even green color.

Description and main characteristics of the hybrid Maryina Roshcha

Cucumber Maryina Roshcha is a high-yielding bunch gherkin hybrid that produces only female-type flowers. This variety can be planted on beds in open ground, under film coatings, in glass greenhouses. Greenhouse yields will be much higher than garden beds.

The quantity and quality of the harvested crop is not affected by adverse weather conditions during the season, ripe cucumbers can be harvested almost before the first frost on the soil. Maryina Roscha is a plant with long lashes, the height of which can reach 1.8 - 2.2 m. Side stems grow well in the shoots, the hybrid can continue fruiting at temperatures close to 0. The hybrid requires mandatory tying to the trellis of the main shoot.

Description of the variety will be incomplete without a story about the fruits. Each node can form up to 5 ovaries. At the same time, up to 12 cucumbers can ripen on each bush of Maryina Grove. The fruits are small in size, therefore they are called gherkins, the length of ripe cucumbers is no more than 12 cm, the color is pale emerald, the skin is quite dense, covered with tubercles and white spikes.

Ripe gherkins are suitable for fresh consumption, for conservation. The taste of pickled or pickled cucumbers Maryina Roshcha is no worse than fresh ones.

Characteristics of transportability: the harvested crop can be safely transported over long distances - cucumbers will not lose their excellent presentation and good taste. The keeping quality of the harvested cucumbers is high - the fruits can be stored fresh for up to 2.5 - 3 months under appropriate conditions.

Hybrid Maryina Roscha is highly resistant to the following diseases:

• powdery mildew;
• olive blotch;
• cucumber mosaic.

The following diseases this vegetable crop tolerates quite easily:

• downy mildew;
• all types of root rot.

Pros and cons

In addition to the advantages of parthenocarpic hybrid cucumbers listed above, the specific advantages of Maryina Roshcha should be noted:

• resistance to significant temperature drops;
• a fairly large number of simultaneously ripening cucumbers on shoots;
• possibility of growing in protected ground and on the windowsill, as the variety does not require pollination by bees;
• harvest can be used for s alting and pickling;
• high resistance to most diseases.

There are practically no shortcomings in the hybrid. It should be noted that the lashes of this cucumber culture require a mandatory garter using a trellis method.

Growing Nuances

The hybrid can be planted with seed material directly into the ground or through seedlings. The best type of soil is loam or sandstone, loose and well-permeable to moisture and air. On heavy soils, peat must be applied - in the form of additional fertilizer or as mulching material.

It is better to sow seeds for seedlings in separate peat pots, in which in the future cucumbers will be planted in a permanent place. It is better to buy a nutrient mixture for planting seeds in a specialized store; it should be special for vegetable crops. Seeds should be buried in containers to a depth of 1.5 cm. Before germination, the temperature in the room should be about 24 ° C. After most of the seedlings have sprouted, the temperature should be lowered to 15 - 16 ° C.

In open ground, young plants are planted after the threat of spring cooling has passed. In the greenhouse, planting density of seedlings - up to 3 plants per 1 m2

Reviews of vegetable growers who grow this variety for more than one season are mostly positive. It is especially noted that caring for this hybrid in the beds or in greenhouses is no different from caring for ordinary cucumbers.

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