Straight Cucumbers vs. Curved Cucumbers: Which Is Better? Reasons Cucumbers Grow Crooked and How to Fix It

        In people's daily diet, vegetables have always held a very important place, and no meal is complete without them, because vegetables can supply the various vitamins and nutrients the human body needs. Cucumbers have always been a regular guest at the table. When shopping, if you are choosing cucumbers, what kind of cucumber is good, and what exactly is the difference between straight cucumbers and curved cucumbers? Keep these questions in mind and read on with the editor.

        >> Straight Cucumbers and Curved CucumbersWhich Is Better?

        The effects and actions of cucumber: cooling in nature, sweet in taste, slightly toxic; it enters the lung, stomach and large intestine meridians. It clears heat and promotes diuresis, removes toxins and reduces swelling, and promotes fluid production to quench thirst. It mainly treats conditions such as fever and thirst, sore and swollen throat, wind-heat eye disorders, damp-heat jaundice, and difficult urination. As for whether straight cucumbers or curved cucumbers are better, of course straight ones are better.

        Both straight cucumbers and curved cucumbers can grow and form under natural conditions. Growing conditions determine the ratio of straight to curved cucumbers, and the variety also has an influence.Generally speaking, only straight cucumbers are considered normal.The formation of curved cucumbers is related to unsuitable temperature and moisture, poor pollination and fertilization, the absence of supports and other adverse environmental conditions, and poor management.

        In northern regions, during the 4 months from March to June in solar greenhouses, cucumbers that set fruit normally have a high proportion of straight fruit; but by July and August, under conditions of high temperature, frequent rain and strong light, the growing environment changes, causing the plants to age prematurely, and the probability of curved cucumbers is high.

        When conditions such as temperature, light, water and fertilizer are relatively good and the plants grow vigorously, the proportion of straight cucumbers is higher. If environmental conditions are poor, with low temperature and weak light, high temperature and strong light, water shortage, or insufficient nutrients, causing premature aging or poor growth of the cucumbers, the proportion of curved cucumbers produced by the plants may be higher.

        In the early stage, the plants are not yet vigorous and nutrients are insufficient, so the fruit more often develops abnormally. In the later stage, the plants age and the proportion of curved cucumbers is relatively high. Therefore, scientists have come up with some methods to regulate this and reduce the proportion of curved cucumbers.

        >> What to Do If Cucumbers Grow Crooked?

        1. Tie on a string and weight to straighten them

        Take a small tile, small brick or small stone about 4 cm long and 2 cm wide, and tie it securely with fine hemp rope or fine plastic string. When the cucumber has grown to 10 cm long, if a curved fruit is found, hang the small tile or small brick at the point where the cucumber flower stalk is, so that as the cucumber grows, the small brick can pull the curved cucumber straight.

        2. Remove tendrils and curved cucumbers

        Removing tendrils can prevent the phenomenon of curved cucumbers caused by physical obstacles such as tendrils. Vegetable growers can also, on the premise of not affecting yield and profit, promptly remove curved cucumbers before and after the female flowers fade, which can promote the next batch of cucumbers reaching the market earlier.

        3. Control the yield per plant

        The yield per cucumber plant should not be required to be too high. An excessively high yield per plant will increase the burden on the plant. If too many cucumbers are set in the early stage or cucumbers are not picked in time, the leaves age quickly, and curved cucumbers are easily formed.

        Through the editor's introduction, I believe everyone should understand the difference between straight cucumbers and curved cucumbers. Under the same growing environment, only straight cucumbers are considered normal, while curved cucumbers are generally formed under adverse environmental conditions such as unsuitable temperature and moisture, or the absence of supports. Therefore, when buying cucumbers, try as much as possible to choose straighter cucumbers and do not buy curved cucumbers. Only by selecting healthy ingredients can you eat healthily.