Chinese Momordik's cucumber. Momordika - Mysterious Foreign

A rare dacket is fond of growing exotic vegetable crops. There is an opinion that with our weather they are not able to give good harvest. But the birthplace of almost all vegetables, which have become already familiar on our beds, are subtropical and tropical countries. Such cultures, for example, include pumpkin, cucumber, tomato and many, many others.

I try to grow annually on my site some vegetable wonding. And this spring, I decided to plant a momordika. From the article you will learn what kind of culture is and how to grow the seedlings of Momordiki.

Meet Momordika (Indian Cucumber)

Indian cucumber or Momordik - annual herbate plant Lian type. It belongs to K. pumpkin family And widespread in Indochier, India, South China, Indonesia, Japan and in the Philippines.

Momordika is a stronger wound plantrequiring a mandatory support. Lena Lian Indian cucumber can reach up to three meters!

Lush greens bright flowers And the original fruits are incredibly beautiful and able to decorate decorative lattices, trellis, arches, pergolas, mesh fences, arbors and wall walls and even garden trees.

Large dense-yellow separation flowers of momordics exuded a gentle jasmine fragrance and attracted to a portion of bees, bumblebees and other pollinators insects. It is especially useful in cloudy and rainy summer.

The rounded-oval fruit as it changes the color from green to bright orange. It is covered with a pupil crust with a bit of bitter taste - no wonder the Indian cucumber is also called bitter pumpkin.

Seeds in Momordika are rather large - their length is 1.1-1.5 centimeters, and the width is 0.8-0.9 centimeters. They are flat, slightly elongated, with uneven roots and tiny tubercles. The fetus length from 15 to 23 centimeters and a diameter of 7-9 centimeters usually contains from 15 to 50 seeds.

Inside the mature fetus is hidden by a juicy airlodic carrot. He is edible and to taste at the same time similar to persimmon, and on pumpkin.

It is believed that when ripening the fruits of Momordiki "Shot" by the seeds - it was even nicknamed for it mad cucumber. However, judging by the reviews on the horticultural forums, not everyone managed to see this unusual phenomenon. In most cases, the fruit is simply bursting at the bottom, exposing burgundy seeds that float in ruby-red jelly. Perhaps this culture is not exactly like the climate of moderate latitudes.

Growing the seedlings of Momordika (Indian Cucumber)

The exceptional thermal liftingness of Momordik dictates the need to prepare seedlings. It is starting to grow in late March - early April, and planted on an open bed in the third decade of May.

The seeds of the Indian cucumber are covered with a dense shell, impring the germination.

When preparing seeds, they first in a solution of mangarteese or microbiological preparations, then treated with solutions of drugs like, zircon or. It makes plants more resistant to stress, which will wait for them after disembarking into open ground.

Instead of soaking for improving the Sushi, the dry seeds are carefully inscribed in several places. At the same time, it is important not to damage their kernels. Seeds that have passed special processing are plasma, and so on - fired in a dry form.

Like any pumpkin plant, Momordik does not like a transplant, so the seeds immediately sow into individual containers of 1-2 pieces. To do this, it is better to use either to make the transshipment of seedlings to spacious pots.

For the cultivation of seedlings of the Indian cucumber, a mixture of garden land, sand and leaf humor (1: 1: 0.5) is well suited.

Seeds put on the edge at a depth of 1 to 1.5 centimeters, watered. After water absorption, the seed is covered with loose soil, slightly seal. Peat pots hide in a polyethylene bag and removed into place with a temperature of at least +20 ... 22 degrees.

Before the appearance of sections, carefully follow the moisture content in the rampage containers and water the soil from the teaspoon every two or three days.

From the moment of the formation of sprouts and before disembarking, the seedlings for permanent place Momordik are grown on a well-lit and warm window sill. During this period, the soil is unacceptable. At the same time, it is useful regularly in the evenings spray seedlings of Indian cucumber with warm water.

Using peat tablets The transshipment is carried out in the phase of two-three real leaves, and when landing in peat pots - When reached the heights of 30-40 centimeters.

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Indian cucumber

In one of the magazines, I read that from India in Soviet Union Ten years ago, seeds were delivered pumpkin plant Lagnamenaria (Gorlyanka), named by Indian cucumber. It differs from the other than those previously known in our country varieties of pumpkin Gorlyanka edible and with a good taste of his giant fruits. The youngest wounds have the taste of our ordinary cucumber, older fruits - up to 50 centimeters long - have the taste of the young: zucchini, and there is no seed specimens of adult fruits: their shell is decorated. At one amateur from Saratov, I wrote down the seeds and since 1979 we grow these plants in myself in the village of Babynino.

I use young indian cucumber laggings as a salad vegetable: fresh, as well as for pickling and salting. Especially love Circles from the young fetus. If they are cut into flour and fry in a frying pan in oil, their taste resembles pancakes. The Indian cucumber attracts attention to an unusually rapid growth of stems, the ability to climb them on the supports to the height of more than five meters, a very pleasant aroma of its large rounded pubescent leaves, an unusual view of white-red flowers, an abundance of huge, elongated fruit shapes. Separate bushes of Indian cucumber give stems of 15 meters long, fruits up to two meters, general weight which can exceed 60 kilograms.

In our area, the Indian cucumber can be sowed directly into the ground, but it does not work out from such plants. Therefore, I sowing seeds at home, and I put a finished seedlings into the soil. In early April, soaking seeds in aqueous solution of microelements (one tablet for 10 liters of water), then I grind the seeds in a wet wad, when they proceed, sazing one in paper cups or boxes filled with good garden soil. I set the cups in the box, watering the soil, the box tightly shelter the film and put in a warm place. When shooting shoots, I remove the film and carry a box to a bright place, and I keep the temperature at 22-25 degrees.

Fig. 1. Indian cucumber. The length of the fetus is more than one meter.

Before disembarking, the seedlings regularly irrigate or spray, and I also give her two liquid feeding. The first is 15 days after the sewers with a solution of a cowber (one part) in water (eight parts). The second feeder is two days before disembarking with a solution of chicken litter (one part) in water (ten parts). To solutions, add ammonia nitrate, sulfur-acid potassium and superphosphate - 15 grams of each. When the danger of frosts, digging deep (40 cm) on the garden, and a wide (30 cm) of the wells, at a distance of 50 cm, in one line. Fill them with a mixture of soil with a humus, which add 100 grams of fertilizer "Garden mix" and two glasses of wood ash. In the hole, I plant one sighter and watering warm water. Then I regularly irrigate the plants or spray, I give them liquid feeding.

For supporting stems scoring along a row of holes wooden rails up to one and a half meters high, and then increase their height to five meters stand old water pipes. Between the supports, I pull the horizontally rows of the wire - every 30 cm. As they grind the stalks to this wire.

Indian cucumber - a single-room plant having flowers for men and female. The first men's flowers appear, but they will soon be afraid of women. These flowers bloom in the evening when our day insects already stop their flights. It is necessary to apply artificial pollination. Sorvav. male flower, I delete the petals from it and put it in a female flower so that pollen delhes on the stitch. After fertilization of the launch of female flowers begin to grow very quickly. For the fruits left for seeds, I use the very first female flowers. It is desirable to pollinate the mixture of pollen of several male flowers. Then the seeds are tied more. Seed fruits keep on the bushes to the first autumn frosts. Then I cut them off and storing in a warm dry place until the ripening.

Overweight fruit revealed in November and choose from them seeds.

Indian cucumber fruits use in salads and for cooking sauces, juices, mashed potatoes, caviar, dietary porridge. They can be frying, stew, stuff, salt, marinate. From the weathered seed fruits make dishes, toys, musical instruments, Sichniki, Bunches, etc.

Now the seeds of the Indian cucumber are now sent by many lovers whose addresses are published in the journal "Prizarda".

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Kira Tsekolova

Indian cucumber is an exotic vegetable, appreciated for therapeutic properties. It is also known as a gorustry, bitter melon, bitter cucumber, Momordik, Crocodile, Indian grenades, etc. The Indian people considers Momordic to the plant of the gods, the Japanese - a plant of long-livers.