Expert Advisory Details

Sowing of cucumber in poly house

These instructions are for 1 acre of polyhouse Use 500 kg neem di khal ( best quality with maximum oil content ) Use 200 kg sarso khal Use 2000 kg vermicompost Use 15 bags to 25 bags annapurna ( multiplex ) Use bone meal 200 kg Use fly ash 10 trollies ( resudue from burning of rice husk from sheller ) Use tricoderma 4 kg ( first time ) Use psedo 4 kg ( first time ) Use nematofree + ipl/ saferoot multiplex 4 kg ( first time ) Use waste decomposer mixure at least 2000 litre every 10 days ( Buy at least 20 plastic drums for 1 acre ) After 7 days use half dose of bacterias two times then use half dose ( 2 kg ) bacterias every 10 days Use waste decomposer every 10 days by drip or drenching with big cups on beds Make culture of bacterias in different drum with jaggery and keep for 24 hours While spreading mix all bacterias with waste decomposer and do drenching or by drip Best method is spread bacterias on beds with buckets and cups on each beds with at least 30 litre of mixture on each bed Keep 25 -30 % of vermi / neem khali / sarso khali/ annapuran a to spread at time when plants reach to fruiting stage Use yarra complex at first 50 day after sowing ( 25 kg ) and second time 25 kg after 100 days of sowing . mix yarra complex 25 kg in 200 litre of waste decomposer drum for 48 hours then do drenching on beds Spray 50 % waste decomposer + 50 % water on plants during cool time or evening time on interval of 10 days , uu can mix neem oil but never mix insecticide in it . Do howing or godi of beds every 15 to 20 days depending on green algae formation on your beds . Try to down the wires of cucumber down to 5.5 to 6 ft.it will save labour and save burning of leaves in summers . Always sow cucumber in every season at distance of 50 to 55 cm . and use only 9500 seeds per 1 acre Sow extra seeds in between lines of some beds to fill the gap of missing cucumber plants . as cucumber is best when sowed directly on beds or it goes in shock stage. In between use your fertigation of ferilizers normally NEVER EVER USE CHEMICAL FUNGICIDES OR OTHER CHEMICAL IN YOUR SOIL FOR DRENCHING .JUST USE FUNGICIDES FOR FOLIAR SPRAY . Instructions data written after safe tests on farm for 5 consecutive crops of cucumber by Er. Dilbagh singh sidhu , moga ( persuing Bsc. agriculture )