How to prune and cross cucumber?

Cucumber pruning and forking are generally suitable for sunny days. Before pruning, pruning tools need to be disinfected. After disinfection, the stems and vines with only male flowers but no female flowers should be cut off, and the redundant female flowers on the stems and vines should be cut off. In the fruiting period, the poor fruits with insufficient nutrition or poor pollination should be cut off, which is beneficial to the better growth of other fruits.

Cucumber pruning and hybridization methods Cucumber is a very common vegetable crop, belonging to annual climbing vines. During the growing period of cucumber, when it grows to a certain extent, it needs pruning and hybridization to ensure the quantity and quality of fruit in the later stage. Pruning and crossing cucumbers are generally suitable for sunny days and avoided in rainy days, otherwise the wound will be infected.

When the vines of cucumber grow to 20 ~ 30 cm, you need to remember to set up a framework for cucumber with tools such as bamboo poles or wooden sticks to guide the vines of cucumber to grow upwards. It is necessary to observe the stems and vines regularly during the growth of cucumber. If there are only male flowers and no female flowers on the vine, the vine should be bifurcated and the female flowers should grow on the bifurcated vine.

If there are still male flowers growing on the branched stems and vines, they should be cut off to avoid consuming too much cucumber nutrition and affecting the growth of stems, branches, flowers and fruits. If there are too many female flowers on the stems and vines of cucumber, they should also be trimmed properly. Cutting off the redundant female flowers on the stems and vines is beneficial to the growth of fruits.

In the fruiting period of cucumber, we should check the fruit properly and thin it. Due to insufficient nutrition or poor pollination, some fruits can't grow normally, and there will be thin and deformed fruits. When pruning, cut off the bad fruits on the stems and vines. After pruning, nutrition can be preserved, which is beneficial to the growth of fruits.