High-yield Cultivation and Processing of Cucumber

In order to improve the planting efficiency of cucumbers and increase the income of farmers, in recent years, we have explored the high-efficiency ways of planting spring cucumbers by adopting white-skinned cucumber varieties and anti-season cultivation and swollen water melon skin processing technologies. Success. The technical points are summarized below. 1 Main Cultivation Techniques 1.1 Variety According to the market demand and the consumer's eating habits, it is better to use short-cylindrical white cucumber varieties for cultivation and pickling. At present, there are a variety of well-cultivated varieties in my county: Nali white cucumber and beautiful white cucumber. The two white-skin cucumber landraces are tender yellowish-white and light-brown, with a short cylindrical shape and a single melon weight of 200-300g. The pickled and processed products are swollen with water, fresh and sweet taste, sweet and brittle, and they have good quality and wide market; and they are precocious. It is more hardy and strong in stress resistance, and it is suitable for local spring early-maturing cultivation. The yield per mu can reach more than 3500kg. 1.2 Seeding period White cucumber is hi and warm, it is not tolerant to low temperature, suitable temperature for growth is 15~32°C, below 10°C will stop growth, even cold injury will occur. Therefore, the early spring cultivation must not only make the morning market strive for high prices, but also consider the impact of low temperature on the growth of white cucumber. In the prevailing climatic conditions of Beibu Gulf in our county, early-maturing white-skinned cucumbers can be planted in advance from early to mid-January. When the temperature is low at the seedling stage, small arches and membranes are used to protect against heat and cold. In early March, It can start harvesting, and it will be supplied in the "Spring" market in March and April after being salted and processed to obtain a higher market price. 1.3 The site preparation of white-skinned cucumbers for site preparation requires loose soil, rich organic matter, smooth ground, convenient irrigation and drainage, and strong water retention and fertility. At the same time, it is required that the former crop be non-melon crops. After plowing and cultivating, the smashed soil blocks are planted from the sorghum plant. The sill width is 1.3m (including the width of the ditch). The basal fertilizer is applied to the ditch in the middle of the sorghum. Each can be applied with 40-50kg of superphosphate. Thallium, fully decomposed organic fertilizer 2000 ~ 2500kg, compound fertilizer 20 ~ 25kg, after the application of soil cover, the surface of the turtle into a slightly turtle shape, and in the surface spraying Green Heng 2 or enemy cough pine disinfection. Basal application should be carried out 5 to 7 days before sowing. 1.4 Seeding can be seeded by live broadcasting. Seeds should be disinfected and soaked before germination. If the soil is sown at the time of sowing, it should be thoroughly soaked in the bottom water and sowed after soaking. Sowing specifications for each row 2 rows, row spacing 70cm, hole spacing 25 ~ 30cm, sowing seeds have germinated white seeds 2 ~ 3 (3 leaves after each hole left a seedling). After the broadcast, a small arch shed is built to cover the plastic film to increase the temperature, heat preservation and moisture retention to facilitate germination and emergence. 1.5 One of the field managements is managed during the period of small arch shelter coverage. To focus on the management of temperature and humidity in the small arch shed, it is necessary to maintain the temperature in the shed above 10°C, preferably 20 to 30°C. Second, fertilizer and water management. Cucumbers require large amounts of fertilizer but have weak root absorption and are sensitive to high concentrations of fertilizers. Therefore, the principles of diligence and thin provision should be mastered when topdressing. Third, cultivating soil and introducing vines. Before plant closure, it is necessary to combine topdressing for timely cultivating, weeding and earthing work. After removing the small arch shed, the plants should be inserted into the "human" frame to introduce the vines and tie the vines when they grow tendrils. Fourth, pest and disease control. Prematurely cultivated white-skin cucumbers are susceptible to diseases and pests such as downy mildew, powdery mildew, aphids, and ticks. Downy mildew may be treated with metalaxyl manganese zinc, frostbite once net or alternating with Dakkonin; powdery mildew may be sprayed with triadimefon and sulphur suspension agents alternately; maggots may be treated with high-efficiency and large-scale fungicide; fleas may be depleted and insects may be used. Or Krypton spray control. Medication should pay attention to the safety interval of harvesting. 2 Swelling and rind-skin pickling processing technology 2.1 Harvesting should be done to harvest tender squash at a timely manner. In general, 7 to 10 days after the opening of the female flower, the white-skinned cucumber of the swelled squash skin is harvested for an appropriate period of time to be harvested in the morning. It's good to close. 2.2 Pickling process one, the process. Select melon → hot melon → dried melon → nail hole → pressed juice → pickled → finished product (out of cylinder). Second, the operating point. Choose a white, tender cucumber without disease, insect injury or mechanical damage. Rinse with clean water and then drain the adhered water. Pour it into a hot water bath at 80°C. Keep the water temperature for 6 to 8 minutes. Heat the melon until it is pinched. Water marks can be removed. Spread out on a clean bamboo mat in the outdoors, and let it dry in the sun for 30 to 40 minutes to make the melon skin crisp and bright. Take a small sheet about 1.5cm thick, and put nails about 5-6cm long into the small sheet at a distance of about 3.3cm from each other in a longitudinal row to form a toothed nail plate with a tooth length of about 3.5-4.5cm. Hold the nail plate and align the hard nail holes around the body. Then it will be stacked into bamboo rafts to increase the stone pressure in addition to the melon juice, after 2 to 3 hours into the large tank, add salt dissolved by 4kg of salt dissolved in 50kg of water, the cylinder surface to increase the pressure of the stone, so that the brine Submerge the melon, and maintain a deep liquid layer of 10 to 15cm. After 18 hours, it can be marinated and made to be eaten or marketed. After the finished cucumber is out of the cylinder, the remaining acid water (guarante juice) can be used for 3 to 4 times as long as it is not deteriorative, but it needs to dissolve 1.7 to 2.5 kg of salt in every 50 kg of acid water that is repeatedly used to increase salinity. , to achieve pickled requirements. Repeated use of acid water can promote the progress of lactic acid fermentation, greatly shortening the time of pickling, general picking can be out of the tank 10 to 12 hours, and can increase the taste of swollen water melon skin, improve quality. Author: Guangxi Hepu County Agricultural Technology Promotion Station