• Cucumber

  berries. However, like tomatoes and squash, cucumbers are often regarded, prepared and eaten as vegetables. Cucumbers consist of water for more than 90% [...] tendrils. The cucumber plant has large leaves and it produces an elongated, cylindrical fruit that may become as long as 60 cm or 24 inches long and 10 cm or [...] About The cucumber ( Cucumis sativus ) is a popular, extensively cultivated plant that belongs to the gourd family of Cucurbitaceae . The cucumber originates

• Onion

  About The onion ( Allium cepa L.) , also referred to as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable. This particular species is the most extensively [...] the end of its first production season. Onions are popular and therefore cultivated and used for cooking all around the world. Their flesh is pungent when [...] Allium . The onion plant is usually a biennial or perennial plant. When cultivated however, the plant is mostly handled as an annual and harvested at the

• Onion thrips

  General The onion thrips (Thrips tabaci) is distributed throughout the world. It is found outdoors on many plants and particularly damaging on onions, leek, [...] and in greenhouses on cucurbits, tomato, sweet pepper, eggplant, roses, chrysanthemum, gerbera, carnations, bulbs and many others. Life cycle and appearance [...] appearance of Onion thrips Onion thrips (Thrips tabaci) develops in six stages: egg, two larval instars, prepupa, pupa, and finally the adult insect. The

• Gherkin

  The pickled cucumber (usually referred to as ‘pickle’ in the United States and Canada or generically as ‘gherkin’ in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia) [...] Australia) is actually a regular cucumber that is pickled in vinegar, a brine or some other solution. It is then left to ferment for a certain period of [...] of time. Fermentation takes place by putting the cucumbers in an acidic solution or use lacto-fermentation to sour them.

• Swirski-Mite LD

  thrips species and eggs and larvae of whitefly . Crops Do not use in tomato. Mode of action Predatory mites multiply in the sachet and disperse into the [...] mites Dosage The dosage of Swirski-Mite LD depends on climate, crop and pest density and should always be adjusted to the particular situation. Start introduction [...] conditions Amblyseius swirskii is most effective at temperatures between 20 and 32°C (68 and 90°F). It is not effective at temperatures below 18°C/64°F. Amblyseius

• Trial results Onion fly and Fusarium wilt

  Protect your onion crop against soilborne diseases and onion fly Effective results in onion crop with Biological Crop Protection Proven results Before [...] against onion fly (Delia antiqua) in onion Effective control of onion fly Capirel efficacy (% reduction compared to untreated control) against onion fly damage [...] best solutions for a high yielding and healthy crop. Trial results with Trianum against Fusarium oxyporum in onion Trianum provides highly effective control

• Gummy stem blight

  feasible in high-wire crops) Pick and remove dead and diseased leaves Prevent plant diseases by optimizing plant potential and crop resilience. [...] stem blight. Damage symptoms Mycosphaerella cucumis in cucumber causes brown lesions on the foot and higher up on the stem. On the lesions, golden-brown gummy [...] bodies with spores, become visible. On the leaves, round and extending lesions may occur. In cucumber, the most important symptom is internal fruit rot, which

• Cotton aphid

  cotton, citrus, coffee, cocoa, eggplant, cucumber, melon, pepper and many ornamental plants such as chrysanthemum and kalanchoe. The cotton aphid ( Aphis gossypii [...] 50 different viruses, including the cucumber mosaic virus. Nymphs and adults extract nutrients from the plant and disturb the balance of growth hormones [...] making the crop and its fruit sticky. Black fungal moulds ( Cladosporium spp.) grow on this honeydew, contaminating fruit and ornamental crops and rendering

• Two-spotted spider mite

  tomatoes and cucumbers, as little as 30% damage of the leaf surface can lead to loss of the crop. The nymphs and adults also produce webs, and plants can [...] increased transpiration and reduced plant growth. As damage increases, whole leaves turn yellow, and as more cell sap is removed, the leaf, and eventually the whole [...] stages: egg, larva, protonymph, deutonymph, and adult. In the larval and nymphal stages, an active period and a resting period of roughly equal duration

• Western flower thrips

  vegetable and ornamental crops in greenhouses, and on various weeds. It is an especially significant pest in cucumber, sweet pepper, eggplants, and many ornamental [...] prepupa, pupa, and finally the adult insect. The eggs of the western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) are laid in leaves, flower petals and in the soft [...] prepupal and pupal instars can be recognized by their developing wing buds. Compared to the prepupa, the pupa has longer, more developed wing buds and longer