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Cucumber Bastion is a parthenocarpic unpretentious to growing conditions, it attracts with precocity and resistance to diseases characteristic of the culture. The taste of culture is traditional, the purpose is universal.
History of variety breeding
Hybrid Bastion is recognized as an interesting novelty in 2015. Cucumber from the series “Author’s varieties and hybrids” from the Agrofirm “Poisk”. This is a group of varieties of various crops – the result of the work of breeders for over 20 years. Vegetable growers adhere to the main direction in the selection of plants – the preservation of traditional high taste qualities, as well as in the work on the cucumber Bastion f1.
Description of the variety of cucumbers Bastion
By sowing parthenocarpic Bastion cucumbers, you can be sure of a good harvest. The variety has a well-developed root system, regardless of the type of soil, spreads widely in search of nutrients and provides them with vigorous lashes. Cucumber Bastion of indeterminate type, requires mandatory formation. After pinching, the declared amount of greens is collected. Cucumber stems are powerful, give medium branching. Foliage is normal. Flowers are female, with an ovary.
Description of fruits
The medium-sized fruits of the cucumber Bastion f1 are pimply, with large and frequent tubercles, randomly located along the protruding strips on a dark green skin. Pimples visually end with spikes characteristic of cucumbers; in this variety they are white. The length of the fruits in technical ripeness is 12-15 cm. The diameter of the fruits is from 3,5 to 4,5 cm. The average weight of the collected cucumbers is from 130 to 160 g.
There are no internal cavities. The pulp of the Bastion variety is elastic, juicy, habitually crispy when eating. Cucumbers retain their natural color, do not turn yellow. The taste is pleasant, the skin and pulp are not bitter. Bastion cucumbers can be harvested in the gherkin phase when they weigh 90-95 g.
Characteristic of the variety
The hybrid Bastion is hardy thanks to powerful roots that adapt well to various types of soil.
Yield and fruiting
The success of the Bastion variety lies in its precocity. Cucumbers are ready for harvest already on the 40-45th day of the development of the bush. If the seeds are planted directly in the ground, wait until it warms up to 15 ° C. In different regions – this is the end of April or May. The Bastion cucumber harvest will ripen in less than 1,5 months after germination, by the end of June or mid-July. In a heated greenhouse, sowing dates are regulated by gardeners.
In the cucumber of the Bastion variety, the ovaries are of a bouquet type, up to 6 fruits are created in the node. From the bush they collect from 5 kg. The yield increases when all the requirements of agricultural technology are met, including the correct formation of the lash, regular watering and top dressing. A larger collection of cucumbers in the greenhouse, since comfortable temperature conditions for the plant are maintained indoors. The ovaries grow if the greens are regularly harvested: gherkins every other day, and larger fruits, for pickling, after 2-3 days. The separation of the fruit stimulates the plant to form new cucumbers. It is always noted that the hybrid bears fruit even in conditions of temperature difference, it tolerates cool weather well.
Application area
Elastic, tasty cucumbers Bastion f1, judging by the reviews, are happy to use for fresh salads. They are salted, marinated, canned. Dense, without voids, slices of cucumbers are cut for quick freezing.
Disease and pest resistance
The Bastion hybrid is higher in yield because it is immune to the common fungal disease cladosporiosis or brown (olive) spot. It is also not affected by the cucumber mosaic virus. Variety Bastion is moderately resistant to powdery mildew pathogens. In greenhouses, with improper care, cucumbers can be invaded by aphids or whiteflies. First try folk remedies or use insecticides.
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
In reviews of Bastion cucumbers, summer residents call the distinctive features of the variety:
- precocity;
- friendly return of the harvest;
- endurance to weather stressful conditions: drought resistance and cold resistance;
- high commercial properties;
- versatility in the cultivation and use of fruits.
The disadvantage of Bastion cucumbers is considered by many to be that the hybrid brings a low yield, less than 10 kg per 1 sq. m.
Rules of landing and care
Unpretentious to weather conditions, the hardy variety Bastion is planted directly in the holes in the garden. If you want to grow an early crop of cucumbers, 2-3 weeks faster, use the seedling method.
Planting seedlings
Cucumber seedlings develop quickly. 3 weeks after germination, the seedlings are already moved to the site. For a garden or film shelter without heating, cucumber seeds are planted in mid-April. Grains are processed and packaged at the enterprises of the originator’s company: gardeners do not carry out pre-sowing preparation for seeds of the Bastion hybrid. Since autumn, they stock up on substrate if they do not acquire ready-made soil for seedlings. They take equal parts of garden soil, humus, add peat and sand so that the substrate is loose. For nutritional value, the soil in the container is shed with the finished preparation for feeding “Universal” or “Kemira”.
Growing seedlings:
- The seeds are deepened by 1,5-2 cm, sprinkled with soil, covered with a film and placed in heat above 23 ° C.
- Shoots appear after 5-6 days.
- For several days, the temperature is reduced to 19 ° C, at night not lower than 16 ° C.
- Strengthened sprouts are provided with a comfortable environment: light and temperature of 23-25 ° C.
- Water every 1-2 days so that the substrate does not dry out.
- After the appearance of the 3rd leaf, Bastion cucumbers are fertilized with nitrophoska: a teaspoon of the product is diluted in a liter of warm water.
- Seedlings are moved to a permanent place at the age of 21-27 days.
Growing cucumbers without seedlings
At an air temperature of 20-21 ° C, the seeds of the parthenocarpic variety of Bastion cucumbers are planted in holes to a depth of 3 cm according to the scheme 90×35 cm. For an optimal harvest, vertical or inclined trellises are erected, sometimes from poles.
Aftercare
Cucumbers are watered daily or every other day, guided by precipitation. It is better to irrigate the area in the evening with a watering can so that warm water moistens the root system, but does not fall on the lower section of the central stem. Leaves are also protected from splashes. In the morning, the earth is loosened, weeds are removed.
At the fruiting stage, the Bastion hybrid is fertilized after 10-12 days, alternating mineral preparations and organics:
- mullein;
- bird droppings;
- herbal infusion.
The Previkur fungicide, which is used to treat seedlings, helps protect cucumbers from diseases.
Shrub formation
Parthenocarpic cucumbers amaze with their yield when properly formed. If you leave all the ovaries and shoots, even the powerful root system of the hybrid is not able to “feed” the plant.
One method suggests:
- From the first 3-4 lower nodes, completely remove the ovaries and rudiments of shoots.
- The fruits are created on the next nodes of the central stem, from which the lateral stepchildren are also removed first.
- After harvesting the fruits from the central stem, the bush is fed.
- Lateral stepchildren grow again and form the second wave of the crop.
Conclusion
Cucumber Bastion will give a good harvest if the plant is given enough attention. Regular watering with warm water, top dressing, lash formation will reward you with tasty and fragrant vegetables.
