PADMINI CUCUMBER
🥒 Padmini Hybrid Cucumber
Padmini is a high-yielding hybrid cucumber with strong plant vigor and early maturity. Its attractive green fruits and smooth skin make it ideal for fresh markets.
🌿 Key Features
- Plant Type: Strong with dense foliage
- Fruit Colour: Green
- Fruit Length: 20 – 22 cm
- Fruit Diameter: 4 – 5 cm
- Average Fruit Weight: 200 – 250 gm
- Fruit Skin: Smooth
- Days to First Picking: 38 – 40 days
🧑🌾 Tips for Growing Cucumber
📌 Soil Requirements
- Suitable for a range of soils from clay to sandy loam
- Ensure well-drained and fertile field conditions
📅 Sowing & Germination
- Sowing Time: As per regional practices
- Optimum Germination Temperature: 25 – 30°C
- Spacing: 180 x 30 cm
- Seed Rate: 300 – 400 gm per acre
🚜 Main Field Preparation
- Deep ploughing and harrowing
- Add 7 – 8 tons of well-decomposed FYM per acre
- Open ridges and furrows at recommended spacing
- Apply basal fertilizers as per recommendation
- Irrigate the field one day before sowing
- Sow 2 seeds per hill and irrigate as needed
🧪 Fertilizer Management
| Stage | N:P:K (kg/acre) |
|---|---|
| Basal (before sowing) | 40:60:60 |
| After 1st picking | 25:00:60 |
| After 3rd picking | 25:00:00 |
✔️ Apply micronutrients as required based on soil health.
🗓️ Sowing Season
Follow the recommended sowing window as per local agricultural practices and climatic conditions.
| Quantity: 1 |
| Unit: Seeds |