How to collect the seeds of cucumbers?

Cucumber, the birthplace of which is India, in the past served as a decoration of hedges and walls of houses, and today it is grown everywhere. Despite the fact that in specialized stores you can easily purchase seeds of any sort of cucumbers, many prefer to grow them independently , that is, from the seeds that are harvested personally. First, you can be sure that the cucumber will be exactly the sort you planned, and secondly, this method allows you to save.

Seed procurement

No secrets and nuances in how to collect the seeds of cucumbers, no. For the future harvest, you can collect them directly from your garden. Rule one - do not use for harvesting seeds of cucumbers of hybrid varieties. If the vegetables were grown from store seeds, then to check it, alas, is almost impossible. But if the bag was saved, then pay attention to the marking. The presence of the F1 mark indicates that the variety is a hybrid variety. Of the seeds of such vegetables, you can not see the harvest.

So, you need to collect the seeds of cucumbers, how to do it correctly? Firstly, one or several seed cucumbers (you can have different varieties) are grown on the bed. Please note, seed collection can be done only from cucumbers, which have no damage, stains, unevenness, build-up. Choose suitable "candidates" and mark them with a ribbon, and place a board under the bush so that cucumbers do not rot from contact with the ground.

You can tear off the seed cucumber when it has reached biological maturity. To determine this is not difficult: the vegetable becomes yellow-brown, thick-eyed, its pedicle dries up. After that, the cucumber should be divided into two parts, cutting along, and taking the seeds carefully with a teaspoon. Then the planting material is placed in a transparent dish and filled with water. In this case, empty and not the ripened seeds come up. They must be deleted. Drain the water, the seeds of cucumbers must be dried. A well-illuminated window sill is also suitable for this. As a bedding is better to use a towel, because to the paper the seeds can stick. Dry seeds are placed in a cool place in a paper bag or linen pouch.

Important!

In order to get a good harvest of cucumbers, the seeds from the testicle should be properly "sustained". If you land them for the next year, then there will be too much bloom. The best option is to plant seeds after two or three years. Even after eight years, the germination rate will not decrease.