Cucumber crop guide: All there is to know about cucumber crop nutrition & cucumber fertilizer

This thorough crop guide covers all the aspects of cucumber plant nutrition: growth stages, how to grow cucumbers, fertilization recommendation and much more

Haifa's deep understanding in cucumber plant nutrition is fully exploited in this comprehensive crop guide.

Here is a sample of the crop nutrition information you can find in this guide:

• The optimum time to introduce hives into the field is when approximately 25% of the plants are beginning to flower.
• The cucumber grows best under conditions of high temperature, humidity, and light intensity and with an uninterrupted supply of water and nutrients.
• Air temperature is the main environmental component influencing vegetative growth, flower initiation, fruit growth, and fruit quality.
• Close spacing increases yields, provides more uniform maturity and reduces weed problems. It also results in shorter fruit with a lighter color.
• Numerous studies have showed a linear decrease in the yields of cucumbers as the salt concentration of the irrigation water increased.
• Crop yields are highly dependent on N availability to the plant.
• It has been shown clearly the positive effect of potassium fertilization on cucumber yields.
• Potassium has a well-known effect of both enhancing plant resistance to pathogens and of reducing the impact of the infection.

Contents:

1. General information
2. Growing cucumbers
3. Plant nutrients functions
4. Fertilization recommendations
5. Haifa's fertilization recommendations
6. Haifa specialty fertilizers

This guide joins our line of specific crop guides: Pepper, Tomato, Potato, Banana, Citrus, Rice, Olives and Strawberry.

Need more information about growing cucumbers? You can always return to the cucumber fertilizer & cucumber crop guide table of contents  or the cucumber growth stages