Description of the best, most productive varieties of cucumbers for polycarbonate greenhouses

Cultivation of cucumbers in greenhouses is common in areas with capricious climatic conditions and short-lived summers. And in areas with favorable climatic conditions, the best varieties of cucumbers for polycarbonate greenhouses allow you to have these vegetables throughout the year. Unlike the mid-late 20th century, on the modern market, cucumber seeds, as well as their hybrids for planting in indoor soils, are presented in a large assortment.

You should take into account the optimal greenhouse varieties of cucumbers for cultivation indoors, know their properties, the procedure for planting, care, feeding and pest control. Before deciding what type of seeds to purchase for sowing in a polycarbonate greenhouse, you need to decide for what purpose you will cultivate them (eat fresh, in salads or canned food).

Features and variety of characteristics of cucumbers

The description of hybrids and varieties of cucumbers is classified according to the following characteristics:

• dislocation of cultivation (seeds for sowing in beds, in greenhouses and combined);
• time of their maturation (early, middle and late period);
• method of pollination (plants that have male and female flowers, are insect-pollinated and form fruits without pollination);
• culinary properties (preservation, in salads, combined);
• methods of agricultural cultivation (varietal and hybrid planting material);
• the presence of different flowers (female, heterogeneous);
• fruit size (pickles, gherkins, size from 8 to 15 cm and more);
• fruit color (white, light green, green, spotted and striped);
• type of fruit peel (weakly tuberculated, smooth, with the presence of pimples and their color - light, dark and brown);
• by the type of plant tops (bush-shaped, short-climbing, medium-climbing and long-climbing);
• fertility (weak, medium and high-yielding varieties).

In addition, plants may have differences in relation to diseases and meteorological background (resistant to diseases, changes in temperature conditions, adapted to cultivation in shaded beds, in areas with minimal precipitation and low temperatures).

Which cucumbers are best to plant in a greenhouse for an early harvest?

The best varieties of early ripening vegetables, with the first fruits obtained after 45 days in a greenhouse, are considered by vegetable growers to be:

1. Aristocrat is a super-universal hybrid that does not require pollination. It is resistant to disease and insensitive to changes in temperature. The fruits are dark green, cylindrical, and have large tubercles. There is no bitter taste.
2. The white delicacy is distinguished by its high yield. It has a long stem and predominantly female flowers. It tolerates moisture deficiency and low temperatures well. It's almost white cucumbers for greenhouses 10-15 cm in size with excellent taste, oblong-cone shape and thin peel. It is famous for its increased resistance to diseases. Can be grown both in greenhouses and open beds.
3. Bettina has an early ripening period. It has a medium stem length. This monoecious plant easily tolerates lack of light. Green fruits 10-12 cm in size with pronounced tubercles are cylindrical in shape, pleasant to the taste, used in canned food, salads and raw.
4. Knopa is a variety that is not susceptible to fungal diseases. It has increased fruiting, is resistant to lack of sunlight and temperature fluctuations. This is a self-pollinating variety of cucumber. The greens are pleasant to the taste, dense, with a pronounced crunch. Reaches 10 cm in length. Used for canning, pickling, pickling and in freshly prepared salads.
5. Forsazh f1 is a gherkin-shaped, non-pollinated hybrid, with a bunch-shaped arrangement of flowers.Adapted to cultivation in regions with limited humidity, it has increased resistance to diseases. Forsazh cucumber is green in color, pleasant in taste and smell, elastic, up to 14 cm in size, for a combined culinary range of uses.

You can also plant cucumber varieties and hybrids popular for greenhouses for early ripening: Delpina, Dynamite cucumber f1, Karaoke, Dragonfly f1, Kibria, Crispina, Paramon f1, Thumb, Beethoven cucumber f1, Masha, Marinda, Perenta f1 and others . These are not high-yielding varieties, but when planted commercially, due to their early ripening, one can hope for significant profits

What varieties of cucumbers are best planted in a greenhouse for medium-ripening harvests?

Mid-season productive varieties of cucumbers for greenhouses, reaching marketability in 45-50 days:

1. Wisconsin is a hybrid type of cucumber with high yield. This is one of the varieties that is immune to disease. The fruits have large pimples, the length of the cucumber is 8-10 cm. One vegetable can reach about 75 g. They have a pleasant taste without bitterness.
2. Fontanelle - medium ripening, excellent for canning, cylinder-shaped fruits measuring 10-12 cm.
3. Raphael is a long-growing hybrid variety that does not require pollination, with increased productivity, and is resistant to root rot. It can be grown in a greenhouse or greenhouse. The fruits are elongated, cylindrical in shape with a smooth skin and have a pleasant taste. The weight of one cucumber is up to 210 g, and its length is up to 22 cm.
4. Sunny - the variety is suitable for canning. It has well-branched tops and medium-length stems. Combined flowers. Zelentsy are very tasty, spotted in color with light green stripes. The fruit has white hairiness.The length of mature cucumbers is about 11 cm, weight up to 140 g.
5. Annushka f1 is a bee-pollinated variety. It takes approximately 45-50 days before the first fruit harvest. According to reviews, the Annushka f1 cucumber has high pickling qualities. From 1 sq. m. you can collect up to 10 kg of fruit. Cucumbers are lumpy with white spines. The plant is quite powerful with a female type of flowering. Requires tying to a trellis.

Also, the advantage of cucumber varieties with an average ripening period is that they have the longest fruiting period.

Types of cucumbers with late ripening

Late-ripening varieties of cucumbers for growing in greenhouses are rarely cultivated. These include:

1. Obsky is a medium-sized plant that does not require pollination. It has female flowers. It easily tolerates temperature fluctuations and has excellent resistance to peronospora. In cooking it is used fresh and for canning. The greens are pleasant to the taste, small in size - 7-10 cm, indistinct silver color in the shape of a cylinder, covered with pimples with dark fibers.
2. Brownie - good for pickling and canning. Immune to various diseases. The fruits are small in size (6-9 cm), cylindrical-oval with light outgrowths. They taste great, no bitter aftertaste.
3. Nezhinsky - this variety dates back to the 18th century, when cucumbers were pickled in barrels and delivered to the court of the kings. Requires pollination by insects. The stems are long. Has good resistance to bacteriosis and olive spot. Greens weighing up to 100 g, up to 12 cm in size. The fruits have pronounced tubercles with dark spines and are distinguished by good culinary qualities and crunch.
4. Phoenix 640 has long stems. Requires pollination by bees.This is a super versatile hybrid variety with predominantly female flowers. It is immune to diseases and elevated temperatures. The fruits are crispy, do not have a bitter taste, weigh 160-190 g, and are about 15 cm in size, covered with large tubercles.
5. Khrust is a hybrid with increased productivity, universal use. He is practically not susceptible to diseases. The fruits weigh up to 80 g and are about 10 cm long, taste good, crispy and without a bitter feeling.

Which cucumbers are the most productive?

Vegetable growers prefer to grow the most productive varieties and hybrids in greenhouses.

Note! The seed market is represented by more productive planting material for indoor soils than its garden varieties.

Today there are the following most optimal varieties with increased fruiting:

1. Summer resident - has an early fruiting period. This hybrid is suitable for planting in disposable greenhouses. The fruits are green, cylindrical. Productivity up to 14 kg per square meter. The weight of a cucumber is about 90 g.
2. The cellar is quite resistant to diseases. Has early fruiting. Requires pollination by insects. The fruits are dark green in color with light stripes, weighing up to 100 g and about 11 cm long. The most productive of the greenhouse varieties. Productivity from one square meter to 15-17 kg;
3. Pinocchio is an early fruiting plant with a consistently high yield. It is immune to short-term drops in temperature. Parthenocarpic hybrid, female type flowers collected in a bouquet. The fruit is without bitterness, cylindrical in shape with large tubercles, deep green in color. From one square meter you can harvest about 13 kg of cucumbers. The size of one is up to 9 cm and weight up to 100 g.

The above varieties of cucumbers for greenhouses, which give good yields, also include: Dvoryansky, Zozulya.

Cucumber varieties that do not require pollination for cultivation in greenhouses

Optimal cucumber varieties for greenhouses that do not require insect pollination or cross-pollination. Such plants have male and female flowers. Very popular among summer residents variety of cucumbers of this type - Claudia. This hybrid has medium ripeness with high yield. He is not susceptible to diseases. The fruits are ellipsoid, covered with light pimples, up to 12 cm in length and weighing about 70 g. From one square meter you can collect up to 15 kg.