To grow a crop of cucumbers on your home window, you need to have a good substrate, a light sill and seeds of self-pollinated hybrid cucumber varieties. And after just 4-6 weeks after sprouting, you will get your first crop.
What cucumbers can be grown on a windowsill?
Just drop the first seeds and get a good result you will not get. The question should be approached with knowledge of the matter. All hybrid varieties of cucumbers are divided into such species as summer-autumn, winter-spring and spring-summer. On how light your sill is, the choice of a group of varieties will depend. Accordingly, the most shade-tolerant varieties of cucumbers for a window sill are winter-spring. These include bee-dusted tuberculate and parthenocarpic.
If you do not want to do pollination of cucumbers, it is better to choose parthenocarpic, that is, self-pollinated varieties of cucumbers for the window sill. It:
- "Khutorok F";
- "Schedrik F1";
- «Crusik F1».
Cucumbers of these varieties have exclusively female flowers that give the ovary without pollination.
In a room you can sow light-loving varieties of cucumbers, if you are ready to provide them with additional illumination. Good results can be achieved with such parthenocarpic hybrid varieties as:
- "Buyan";
- "Emelya";
- "Cheetah";
- "Ant";
- Danila.
If you want larger varieties of cucumbers to grow on the windowsill, choose from the following list:
- "Babylon";
- "Zozulya";
- "Ragtime."
The fruits of these plants grow to 25 cm in length.
Basic rules for sowing cucumbers on a windowsill
Terms for sowing home cucumbers are not limited, if you have additional illumination. As for the soil, cucumbers prefer a loose and fertile substrate. On one bush, you need about 5 liters of land, so that the roots can normally develop and feed the plant.
Seeds must be prepared before sowing, that is, beforehand disinfect and soak in the growth accelerator. For seeding, small cups can be used first. They must be covered with film or glass and put in a warm place. After emergence of shoots, remove the cover and slightly reduce the temperature.