All about cucumbers Claudia F1, photos and reviews of summer residents

Claudia F1 cucumbers have already become famous among gardeners. It is a reliable, unpretentious variety that bears fruit consistently throughout the season. Zelentsy grows juicy, crispy, sweetish in taste, and retains its taste well during processing. If you look at the photo of the harvest, you can see that the cucumbers are slightly bumpy, everything is like a selection of the same size. A detailed description, as well as reviews about the variety, read on.

What is so special about Claudia?

The main advantage of the variety is its unpretentiousness. Claudia grows well in the open field, it can be planted in the ground with seeds. Only with cultivation in the northern cold regions does the need for a greenhouse arise. Having chosen this variety, you can not worry that the plant will die from diseases, since most of them are immune.

In general, Claudia F1 cucumbers have many advantages:

• give a good harvest - over 10 kg per square meter (in a greenhouse - up to 27 kg);
• the first zelentsy ripen en masse
• cucumber seeds are genetically protected from ascochitis, fusarium, brown spot, gray rot, bacteriosis, cladosporium, anthracnose, sclerotinia;
• fruits have excellent taste without bitterness;
• due to their small size, they are ideal for pickling; they remain crispy and juicy in a jar;
• plants do not require large-scale care measures, they easily sprout with direct sowing;
• suitable for cultivation in the open field and greenhouse (form an ovary without pollination).

Cucumbers ripen in the mid-early period - 47–52 days after germination. Diseases such as powdery mildew, root rot, white and green mosaic, average immunity, with insufficient care, damage is possible.

Details of the variety

Description of Claudia cucumbers will be right to start with a photo:

The cultivar was obtained by crossing selected parental cultivars to improve yield and disease resistance. This is a first generation parthenocarpic hybrid with a bouquet type of ovaries (from 3 or more in one node). Does not require bee pollination. Forms only female flowers on the bush, barren flowers are absent.

Cucumber Claudia agro f1 is intended for cultivation in open ground and greenhouses. Sowing is carried out by seeds, for an early harvest, seedlings are planted. The first shoots appear around the 5th day. The shoots of the plant are climbing, require molding. The foliage is medium, the root system is well developed.

In terms of ripening, Claudia F1 is a mid-early variety. The first crop can be harvested around day 50 after germination. By this time, a significant part of the cucumbers ripens. Fruiting continues until the first frost.

Fruit characteristics:

• size - 10-12 cm in length and 3-4 cm in diameter;
• weight - from 70 to 90 grams;
• appearance - cucumbers of dark green color with lightening in the lower part in the form of short stripes and spots, small tuberous, with soft pubescence;
• the pulp is crispy, without voids and wateriness;
• the taste is sweetish;
• cucumber seeds are small, not suitable for sowing;
• harvest safety - 30 days in the refrigerator.

Open garden and greenhouse cultivation

This variety loves a slightly alkaline or neutral soil of a loose consistency. The soil must be enriched with nutrients, it must be fertilized. It is advisable to start preparing for planting in the fall - to add manure and phosphorus-potassium fertilizers to the soil (5 kg and 27 g per 1 m² respectively), and then dig deep into everything. In the spring, humus or compost (2.5 kg) is added to the soil, and azofosku.

It is not recommended to plant cucumbers for the second year in a row in the same place, this increases the risk of sudden wilting and disease. All pumpkin predecessors have a bad effect on them: squash, watermelons, zucchini, melons. It is better to plant them in the ground where potatoes, tomatoes, cauliflower or white cabbage were previously grown.

Seed planting

Claudia F1 is planted with seeds at the end of May, but not before the temperature reaches from +20 to +25 degrees. At the same time, it should not be colder than +15 degrees at night. Sowing is carried out in several passes with an interval of 2 weeks. First, furrows are made 2 cm deep, watered abundantly with warm water, and then the seeds are scattered every 10-15 cm and sprinkled with soil. The distance between the rows is 50 cm. When the bush reaches 20-25 cm, the cucumbers are thinned out, leaving up to 3-4 units per square meter.

Planting seedlings

For seedlings, cucumber seeds are planted in early May. As a soil, you can use ready-made peat tablets or prepare a soil mixture yourself from 2 parts of humus, 2 parts of peat and 1 part of sawdust. For fertilization, take 1.5 tbsp. spoons of nitrophoska and 2 tbsp. tablespoons of ash, diluted in 10 liters of water. The seeds are deepened into the finished soil by 1.5-2 cm, the containers are covered with foil and transferred to a warm, well-lit place.

With the first shoots, the shelter is removed. Further care for the seedlings of Claudia F1 cucumbers is limited to abundant watering approximately once every 5 days. Disembarkation to a permanent place is carried out in early June, on the 20-30th day, or after the appearance of the 3rd true leaf. The planting scheme is 30-35 cm by 90 cm.

It is very easy to damage the root system of seedlings, so cucumbers are transplanted only with a lump of earth. And in the case of growing in a peat pot, the plant is added dropwise with it without removing it.

How to take care of Claudia F1?

As already mentioned, Claudia cucumbers are an unpretentious variety. It tolerates mild cold well and is immune to most diseases. Therefore, the care is minimal and comes down to timely watering, feeding and the formation of a bush at the beginning of growth.

• Watering is plentiful, carried out from 2 times a week to 2 times a day. They look at the weather and the degree of drying of the earth. Activities are carried out strictly in the early morning or evening, so that the droplets of moisture on the leaves do not evaporate under the scorching sun and do not leave burns.
• Top dressing every 10-15 days, only 4 times per season. In 10 liters of water, dilute a tablespoon of azofoska or 1 tbsp. spoon nitrophoska and 1 liter of manure and water the cucumbers under the bush at the rate of 1.5-2 liters for each plant. Other can be used fertilizer for cucumbers, including foliar.
• Bush formation. In order for cucumbers to actively bear fruit and harvest easily, the shoots of Claudia F1, when reaching 30 cm of growth, need tie to trellises... For good pouring of zelents, side branches pinch after 50 cm, the leading shoot - after 1 m in the open field and 1.20 m in the greenhouse, and second-order shoots - after 15 cm.

In order for the new ovaries to fill well, the ripe fruits must be harvested daily.

What do summer residents say about the variety?

Many people managed to test the cucumbers of Claudia f1 personally. The seeds of the hybrid have been on sale for several years. Here are the reviews about him on the Internet:

Lyudmila, Volgograd:

“I have my own vegetable garden for 13 years, growing vegetables for our big friendly family. I always plant a lot of cucumbers. I take a couple of new varieties and one permanent one - Claudia F1. This is my main source of crops. Cucumbers are always a success, delicious, aromatic. We eat fresh and salted. This variety has never let me down ”.

Irina, Izhevsk:

“Initially, Claudia f1 chose cucumbers as a non-bitter early variety. I took packages of seeds from different manufacturers. Some of them were simply planted in the garden, the rest were grown in a greenhouse. All the cucumbers rose well, but began to bear fruit only by the beginning of July. Maybe it was because the weather was cloudy and cold in June. But then she collected the harvest every day and in large quantities. The taste is really not bitter, sweet, and the peel is also thin.I liked".

Sergey: “I have been planting this variety for many years. Claudia f1 is always a stable harvest of cucumbers. The wife cans them, in winter all the cans fly away at once. Germination also pleases, rarely 1 seed does not hatch ”.

Cucumber Claudia Agro f1 occupies a worthy place in the niche of universal varieties. Large areas can be safely allocated for its cultivation. The slogan on the packaging with seeds "High and friendly harvest" corresponds to the truth, and this is confirmed by numerous reviews. Choosing this variety, you get a cucumber without hassle in a salad, in a jar, and just on the table.