How to germinate cucumber seeds

For germination of seeds of cucumbers there are several ways of pre-processing. Properly treated seeds give a more friendly and abundant harvest and make short-term lowering the temperature, which under normal sowing cannot be reached.

Instruction

1. First you need to make selection of seeds to identify full-length, which will give the shoots. They should be dipped in salt solution. Dissolve in 1 liter of water 2 teaspoons of salt without additives. Dip the seeds for 15 minutes. All that popped up - remove remaining rinse under running water.
2. Immediately immerse the seeds in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for disinfection for 15-20 minutes.
3. Rinse after potassium permanganate is not necessary. Place seeds in a damp cloth soaked in mineral fertilizers. For impregnation wipes mix 1 teaspoon of any complete fertilizer in 1 liter of water.
4. A day put the bowl of soaked cucumbers for quenching on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for 12-15 hours.
5. You need to sow immediately after the seeds are slightly ajar, that is hatch. To do this, always turn the cloth and check. If most of the seeds opened, it's time to sow. If this time skip, and they're going to grow, the yield will fall sharply, the shoots will be weak and rare.
6. Should be sown in well-heated soil.
7. You can sowing seedling method. For this is planted to two or three of them in peat pots. After germination one to leave the strongest plant. Can be sown 30-40 days prior to planting under the shelter in the ground. The pots are planted, suglobov plant up to the cotyledons. If the whip starts in pots to grow, and their tie to a thin rod.
8. Until the threat passes the frost, cucumbers should be kept under shelter. Then, remove the film and tie the plant to the trellis.
9. The care is feeding, watering and shaping of lashes.