If you have a variety of cucumbers growing on the site, which suits you completely, and you want to grow it again, then you just need to collect the seeds from the fruits yourself. Of these, before this year, cucumbers will rise, the plants will be more healthy, and the harvest will be more rich.
How to collect the seeds of cucumbers?
An obligatory condition for harvesting seeds from cucumbers is that the variety should not be hybrid, but natural. How to distinguish hybrids: if the label of F1 or F2 is indicated on the sachet with the seed material, then this variety is hybrid, and such cucumbers will not be suitable for harvesting seeds.
What kind of cucumbers can you collect seeds from? Of those grown from seed of a natural variety. Such cucumbers with each sowing year will only improve and consolidate their positive properties.
How to get cucumber seeds at home?
To get the seed, you need to leave a few cucumbers to the seeds, that is, do not tear them to the point of full maturation. They must turn yellow and become soft. Leave the seed cucumbers at the end of the season.
To collect seeds, you need to select "female" cucumbers - they have a square cross-section. In order not to confuse, mark them with a ribbon and place a plank under them, so that they do not die prematurely. When the cucumber becomes yellow-brown, and the peduncle dries, it's time to collect the seeds.
How to collect seeds of cucumbers at home?
Ripe seed cucumbers cut along the direction along, strictly in half. The seed is suitable only for the front third of the seed material. We clean these seeds in wooden, glass or enameled dishes.
If there was little liquid in the seed chamber, then add a little water to the dishes. Take it to a warm place for 2 days for fermentation. The amniotic membrane must separate from the seeds.
Now you need to wash the seeds in running water, removing the floated as unsuitable, and all the good seeds are spread on cardboard or plywood and dried. If the weather is good, you can dry it outdoors, cleaning it for the night.
But it is not enough to know how to collect the seeds of cucumbers. It is also important to apply them correctly in the sowing season. It is not necessary to sow the harvested material for the next year, the seeds should last for a couple of years. Otherwise, there will be a lot of empty flowers on the plants, and you will not get a crop. The best result will be given seeds for the third year - on the bushes there will be many female flowers giving fruits.