How is Arctic f1 different from other cucumber varieties?

Summer residents dreaming of the perfect variety of cucumbers can be satisfied. The Korean f1 Arctic cucumber appeared on the Internet seed market. Its characteristics satisfy the most daring requirements for culture.

Why is the variety interesting?

Korean scientists have tried their best - early gherkin type cucumbers Arktika f1 (also called Arena F1) are equally suitable for growing in open or protected ground beds throughout Russia, which is rich in climatic surprises.

Description of the variety:

• An early ripening hybrid - the growing season is 32 to 40 days.
• The limiting fruit size is 12 cm with a maximum diameter of 4 cm.
• The stem is powerful, well leafy, with short internodes.
• Leaves and stems are covered with a thin waxy layer that protects plants from cold and pests.
• Fruits are even, cylindrical in shape, the color of the dense skin is light green. The pulp is juicy, tender, without voids, without bitterness, with a pronounced cucumber aroma, which is rarely found in early varieties.

Advantages:

• excellent yields when grown in a greenhouse or open field;
• excellent transportability, keeping quality due to the thick dense skin;
• resistance to prolonged exposure to low temperature, its fluctuations;
• immunity to typical diseases of cucumbers - peronospora, fusarium, tobacco mosaic - and pests (spider mites, melon aphids, whitefly);
• the ability to regenerate, that is, re-fruiting;
• due to the short growing season, cucumbers of this variety can be grown in two turns;
• versatility of application: greens with excellent taste characteristics are consumed fresh, harvested for future use - salted, fermented, pickled both independently and in salad mixtures.

The thick skin, considered to be a disadvantage, provides excellent preservation and transportability of fruits, and serves as reliable protection against pests. Another disadvantage of the hybrid is the inability to collect its own seeds, since parthenocarpics do not set them.

Growing features

The variety requires timely abundant watering, careful adherence to the fertilizing schedule.

• For the first turnover, it is important to provide plants with macro- and microelements in a chelated form, they are supplemented with potassium humate. Top dressing is applied on the sheet, only in the morning.
• The second turn is characterized by a combination of foliar dressings, similar to the first turn, and root dressings - potassium nitrate.

The rest of the requirements of agricultural technology correspond to the traditional ones.

Summer residents who are already growing this variety on their plots leave only rave reviews. The seeds are characterized as high-quality, giving friendly strong shoots (99%).

In Russia, you can buy Arctic f1 cucumber seeds by placing an order on specialized websites of professional seeds, which are not yet available in regular retail.

When choosing a store for purchasing seeds, they pay attention to the proposed packaging: the manufacturer packs them in foil bags with the manufacturer's logo - NongWooBio.

Although the Arctic cucumbers are more capricious than the usual ones, they, like all Korean varieties, fully compensate the owner for the increased attention with an excellent harvest and excellent fruit taste.