Peat tablets are usually used for sowing seedlings of tomatoes and peppers. However, with their help, you can quickly and easily grow high-quality seedlings of cucumbers.
Peat tablets contain everything necessary for the development of cucumber seedlings. For planting cucumbers, small peat tablets with a diameter of 3 cm are suitable, given that they will still need to be grown in pots.
Place peat tablets in a tray, fill them with warm water. When swelling, they increase the volume by five or more times. After the peat tablets no longer absorb water, drain the excess from the tray (1).
Peat tablets prepared for sowing cucumbers.
Deepen the holes located at the top of the tablets and put one cucumber seed into them. Cover the wells with peat, slightly stirring the peat tablet with a toothpick or a sharp knife.
Cover the peat tablet tray with a lid or place it in a clean plastic bag. Place the tray with sown cucumber seeds in a warm place with a temperature of +25 Β° C. After 7β10 days, cucumber shoots will appear (2).
Peat tablets with seedlings of cucumbers.
Slightly open the cover and place the tray with young cucumbers in a bright, warm place (3).
In good light, cucumber seedlings develop quite quickly. Feeding in peat tablets is not required, watering – as the upper part dries. When you notice that the tablets are beginning to settle, decreasing in size, pour some water into the bottom of the tray and add it as it is absorbed. Remove excess water from the tray, as excess moisture prevents air from reaching the roots. When the roots of cucumbers begin to grow through the mesh on the tablet, planting cucumber seedlings in pots is required for further development.
For transplanting cucumbers, you can use a special soil mixture or prepare the land for seedlings yourself.
Pour the prepared soil mixture into the pot with a layer of 3β4 cm. Remove the shell (4) from the peat tablet and place the seedling tablet (5) in the center of the pot.
Spread the protruding roots of the cucumber evenly over the surface of the soil mixture and cover with soil (6).
The soil level should be 1-1,5 cm below the edge of the pot. Carefully water the cucumber seedlings, place them in a warm sunny place – preferably on a south or west window sill (7).
Then take care of the seedlings of cucumbers in the same way as with the usual method of sowing.
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