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Pollination of cucumbers in hotbeds. In hotbeds it is necessary to have not less than one family of bees on each 500 hotbed frames. To accustom bees to visiting tsvetkov in hotbeds, to them give the flavoured top dressing and simultaneously raise hotbed frames.

Pollination of cucumbers in film hothouses. In hothouses without soil heating cucumbers blossom in the first of June. During cool time the temperature in a hothouse is close to external, plants are oppressed also nectar do not allocate. Bees, are delivered in film hothouses from an apiary, tsvetkov a cucumber do not visit. An apiary it is better to have near to film hothouses on distance no more than 500 m. of Bees train by means of top dressing by the flavoured syrup. Feeding troughs with a syrup put and on a way to a hothouse.

In some economy have started to cultivate dlinnoplodnye (partenokarpicheskie) cucumbers, tsvetki which pollination do not demand. To leave bees in hothouses with such cucumbers it is impossible, as at cross-pollination fruits turn out the ugly form. Cross-pollination by insects is required only for melkoplodnyh hothouse grades of a cucumber.