Natives of India over 600 years ago, cucumbers are now one of the favorite vegetables in home gardens. Fragrant, crunchy fruits are delicious both fresh and prepared. Their green lashes with bright yellow flowers grow equally well in open and closed beds.

Agronomists are constantly working to create seeds of vegetables with high yields, excellent taste, disease resistant. Recently, breeders of the agrofirm "Partner" have bred a cucumber hybrid Shosha F1. The seeds of this variety appeared on sale in 2016, but many have already fallen in love with this type of cucumber.

Characteristics of cucumber Shosha F1

The Shosha hybrid is early maturing, from the emergence of the first cucumbers to the ripening of the first cucumbers, it should take from 40 to 43 days.

Shosha cucumber

Dark green fruits grow small, 9 - 12 cm, weighing 45 - 80 g. The surface is covered with tubercles with light pubescence.

The Shosha cucumber is parthenocarpic, that is, pollination is not required for the formation of ovaries. All flowers on a plant are female.

Agronomists took care of removing the bitterness from this hybrid, the taste is pleasant sweetish. The skin is thin, the pulp is juicy, tender, elastic. There are a lot of seeds in cucumbers, but they are all without embryos, small, not felt when used. Suitable for pickling and pickling.

Collected greens retain their freshness for at least 1 week if stored in plastic bags or boxes in the refrigerator. The stalks and flowers must be removed. Due to the inability of the seeds to ripen, the fruits do not turn yellow.

Important! You must pick cucumbers in the morning. This will keep them fresh and firm for longer.

Shosha are of the bunch (or bouquet) type. 3-4 ovaries are formed in one node. With sufficient nutrition, beautiful strong greens grow from all the ovaries.

Suitable for greenhouses and open ground. If you take good care of it, they give 18 kg per m2 with a closed method of cultivation, on open beds the yield is smaller - 12 kg per m2.

The plant is resistant to the most common diseases affecting the culture:

  • ordinary cucumber mosaic;
  • powdery mildew;
  • target leaf spot;
  • cucumber vein yellowing virus.

The seeds are packaged in paper bags of 5 pcs.

Note! There is often a query: "Shusha cucumber: variety description". But there are no Shusha cucumbers, the correct name is Shosha.

Agricultural technology of cultivation

Cucumber Shchedryk

No matter how wonderful the characteristics of the variety are, with the wrong care, the result can be upset. So that the efforts are not in vain, and the harvest pleases with quality and quantity, you need to follow simple growing rules.

The agricultural technology of Shosha cucumbers has some peculiarities due to the fact that they belong to parthenocarpic hybrids of the bouquet type:

  • They love warmth and moisture. The optimum air temperature is 27 - 28 degrees, humidity - 70%.
  • In hot weather and with an excess of nitrogen in the soil, the number of ovaries decreases or they are located unevenly (at the bottom of the stem, more than in the middle and upper parts). Potassium fertilizer must be added. Do not overheat the plant, ventilate the greenhouses regularly.
  • The number of ovaries in a node will be greater in good lighting conditions.
  • Pinch the side stems regularly, otherwise the ability to set fruit will weaken.
  • Remove the growth point of the main stem if the greens are not poured.
  • You need to pick cucumbers regularly, every 1-2 days. Then the grown fruits will not interfere with the growth of new ones.

Pinching cucumbers

Landing

Planting cucumbers is done in two ways:

  • seeds;
  • seedlings.

Before sowing, the seeds are soaked in water until they swell.

Note! The length of the sprouts should not exceed 0.5 cm, the longer ones can break when planting, they take root worse.

If you want to get the first greens 2-3 weeks earlier, it makes sense to prepare seedlings. For this, the seeds are sown in small pots. At the age of 25 days, young plants are planted in a greenhouse or greenhouse. By this time, at least 3-4 leaves should appear. In no case should the seedlings be buried, leave the level that was in the pot.

In central Russia, you can plant seeds in open ground when the soil has already warmed up, in late May - early June. In the greenhouse - in mid-May.

Important! Cucumbers need loose, oxygenated soil. Before planting, peat, chopped straw, stale sawdust or compost are introduced into the cucumber bed.

After sowing seeds or planting seedlings, the soil must be shed with a biological product that prevents root rot. For example, Trichodermin or Fitosporin.

It is advisable to mulch the bed with a non-woven material. Humus, compost or grass cuttings are also suitable (it should not touch the stem of the plant so that it does not rot).

There should not be more than 5 plants per m2.

Planting cucumbers with seedlings in the ground

Care

For intensive formation of ovaries, cucumbers need good illumination. To ensure it, perform the following actions:

  • It is recommended to tie cucumber lashes or set a trellis. There will be no need to disturb the plant once again when harvesting by raising the stems.
  • It is imperative to pinch the side shoots along the entire length of the stem. When the plant has reached the height of the greenhouse or trellis, the top is cropped. After all the cucumbers are plucked from the main stem, the newly regrown side shoots are left. Zelentsy will be tied to them.
  • The leaves in the middle and upper parts of the lash need to be thinned out, you can partially tear off the leaf plate.

Additional Information! When the first ovaries appear, the first 4 should be removed for good plant formation and strengthening of the root system. This technique prolongs the harvesting period, the yield increases.

Cucumbers are a moisture-loving plant, so they need regular watering. Watering cucumbers is more correct in the morning with warm water. At the same time, make sure that water does not fall on the leaves of the plant, they turn yellow from this.

Watering seedlings

If the fruit ripens curves, this is the first sign of depletion of the root system. To restore it, you need to loosen the soil around the stem or pierce it with a pitchfork. Then add growth stimulants (for example, Zircon, Previkur).

Top dressing

At the beginning of fruiting, cucumbers are fed every 7-10 days. For this, complex fertilizers are suitable, in which potassium is 2 times more than nitrogen. If there is not enough potassium, the plant begins to "fatten" - large leaves grow, a powerful stem, while the ovaries are almost not formed. You can feed it with slurry, but add potassium fertilizer to it (potassium sulfate, Kalimagnesia), since the ratio of nitrogen and potassium in it is one to one. A bucket of slurry takes 20-25 g of potash fertilizer.

Watering cucumbers with soda for feeding and protecting against diseases

When all the fruits are collected from the central stem, feed the plant with nitrogen fertilizer for a week to nourish it, add strength.

Fruit picking

It is recommended to collect bundle-type hybrids every 1 - 2 days, the grown fruits delay the formation of new ovaries.

Note! The optimal size of zelents is no more than 12 cm.

When picking cucumbers, you should remove the stalk almost completely (you can leave no more than 1 cm), this will protect the stem from damage and rot.

Advantages and disadvantages

Cucumber Pretty

Shosh cucumbers have almost no disadvantages, but there are plenty of advantages:

  • High yield, the plant is strewn with fruits due to the bunch type.
  • Excellent taste, no bitterness, thin skin, delicate flesh.
  • Suitable for salting and pickling.
  • Long fruiting period.
  • They do not require pollination, they give fruits longer than bee-pollinated plants.
  • Resistance to many diseases, there is no need to use pesticides, the cucumbers are environmentally friendly.

Harvesting

The disadvantages include:

  • The inability to get seeds on their own from the fruits, since the seeds do not have embryos.
  • High price of seeds in comparison with other cucumbers.

In the collection of the agro-firm "Partner" there is another wonderful hybrid - the Furor cucumber. It is also parthenocarpic, bouquet type. Shosha is slightly inferior to Furor cucumbers in yield, and its price is slightly higher.

It is worth planting a new Shosha hybrid on your site to taste this sweet crunchy cucumber. With proper agricultural technology, you can harvest a good harvest, enough for summer salads and mouth-watering homemade preparations.