Cucumber – Gramophone

Intercultural Practices in Cucumber crop

The cucumber plant is a shallow-rooted crop and thus it doesn’t require any deep intercultural operations.
Prune all secondary shoots up to 5 nodes, to improve yield & fruit quality.
Staking of plants is helpful in checking the rotting of fruits.

Cucurbitaceae crops are a subtropical vegetable and require hot and humid climatic conditions for its fast growth and higher yield.
Night and Day temperature of 18-22° C and 30-35° C respectively is optimum for its proper growth and high fruit set.
The seed germination is fast at the temperature range of 25-30° C.
The crop grown at optimum temperature has a higher proportion of female flowers and fruit per plant.

In the initial stage, the field is ploughed 4-5 times to make the land Friable and before the final ploughing, add 10-15 tons of ripe cow dung manure per acre of land.
If the soil is infested with nematodes & white ants or red ants, apply Carbofuran at the rate of 10 kg/acre.
After levelling the field, 60 cm wide channels are made at a distance of 2.0- to 2.5 cm.
The length of the channel depends on the source of irrigation, season, rainfall and slope land.

Treat the seed with Carbendazim 50% WP @ 2.5 gm/kg.
Spray Mancozeb 75% WP @ 400 gm/acre or chlorothalonil 75% WP @ 300 gm/acre at 10 days intervals.

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Different types of symptoms are observed on leaves, petioles, stem, and fruits.
On young fruits, numerous water-soaked depressed oval spots appear, which coalesce covering large areas.
Under humid conditions, pink masses of spores can be seen in the center of these spots.
Pink gummy exudation may also be seen on lesions due to the exudation of spores.
Vines have brownish specks that grow into angular to circular spots.
The girdling of the affected portion leads to blight symptoms.

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During the early stages of the crop, Field should be kept clean by weeding.
First and second weeding should be done 20-25 days and 45-50 days after sowing respectively.
Once the plants cover the field, there is no need to weeding.
The cucumbers grow in mandap or Staking, spray the Paraquat Dichloride 24% SL (gramoxone) or Glyphosate 41%SL @ 1 litre/acre in the middle of the row, because it is a non-selective weedicide, Therefore the hood is necessary, its use for all types of weed in cucumber.

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06/08/2018

Intercultural Practices in Cucumber:-

The cucumber plant is a shallow rooted crop and no deep intercultural operations are required.
Earthing up is essential to cover the roots properly especially in rainy season crop.
Prune all secondary shoots up to 5 nodes, to improve yield & fruit quality.
Staking of plant in rainy season is helpful in checking the rotting of fruits.

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19/03/2018

Spacing of Cucumber:-

Seeds are sown in furrows at a distance of 1.0-1.5 meter between plants.
When cucumber is trained on bower fallow a spacing of 3 *1m.
When seeds are sown at a distance of 0.5cm 75meter with 4-6 seed/hill allow two ph plants/hill to grow in hilly areas.

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17/03/2018

Field preparation of Cucumber

Lands is ploughed 4-5 time to a fine filth and rotten farm yard manure and manure @20-25 tones/ha is incorporated in the soil at the time of final ploughing.
If the soil is infasted with nematods, white ants or red ants apply Carbofuran @25kg/ha.
After leveling the field 60cm wide channels are made at a distance of 2.0- to 2.5 cm.
The length of channel depends on source of irrigation, season, rainfall and slope land.

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