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Post by homegrower on Oct 12, 2012 11:55:38 GMT -5
I'm wondering what are some of your favourite highly productive disease resistant cucumbers?
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Post by Drahkk on Oct 12, 2012 14:48:53 GMT -5
I've only grown pickling types, but I went through quite a few before settling on "Homemade Pickles" as my favorite. Productive, disease resistant, open pollinated, good flavor, and relatively few soft white spines that rub off easily.
MB
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Post by steev on Oct 12, 2012 22:44:52 GMT -5
I do best with Asian cukes; they do well and don't go bitter as much.
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Post by ferdzy on Oct 13, 2012 16:17:41 GMT -5
I always like to grow the rare and exotic, so I was a bit bummed when Chicago pickling was by far the toughest cuke in the face of unrelenting hordes of cucumber beetles, squash bugs and their accompanying wilts this summer.
Of the slicers, Yamato Sanjaku did the best, and the best was actually quite good. Kept going and producing decently through most of the summer.
Early Russian pickling, Kaiser Alexander, and Sweeter Yet (a Monstersanto hybrid anyway) all either really struggled or failed completely.
I've grown and really liked Muncher, but we did not plant it this year so it did not undergo the Trial by Insect-fire that the others did.
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Post by homegrower on Oct 13, 2012 16:35:33 GMT -5
I grew some Asian and Muncher cukes but didn't have much success with them.
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Post by littleminnie on Oct 13, 2012 20:11:36 GMT -5
The only cuc I grow is Super Zagross. the only down side is shelf life because of its thin skin.
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Post by homegrower on Oct 18, 2012 13:26:51 GMT -5
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Post by raymondo on Oct 18, 2012 15:39:10 GMT -5
Diva I've tried. A pretty good cuke. It won't be seedless though if grown near cukes that have male flowers and there are bees about.
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James
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Greetings from Utah -- James
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Post by James on Oct 22, 2012 11:21:47 GMT -5
Marketmore 76 has been good for me. It is a straight eight type.
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Post by 12540dumont on Oct 22, 2012 12:00:23 GMT -5
My strategy for cukes has changed.
Here they all get the mold that kills them off. No matter what I plant,
So I grow Cornichon de Bourbonne Homemade Pickles (These 2, I plant once and pickle them).
Then I plant Marketmore 76 (or some variety like this) Poona Keera White Wonder Lemon (the most disease prone)
The day I plant, I start 4 more plants of each from seed. When these get planted I start 4 more.
Cukes all the way to September, but of course the first two plantings have long been pulled.
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Post by raymondo on Oct 22, 2012 15:47:34 GMT -5
I hadn't thought of succession planting of cukes. Good strategy Holly.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 22, 2012 18:24:41 GMT -5
I plant crookneck as staggered plantings... The first is about a month earlier than even a crazy old fool would plant crookneck. The next planting is a couple weeks earlier than recommended: About when a daft coot would plant. If either of these survive they may produce a harvest much earlier than typical with nothing much lost if they freeze.
Then I plant on the normal "safe" planting date, and after the plants have a couple of good true leaves I plant again, and again. I had noticed that crookneck seem to get tired after a while. By planting staggered, I am able to have young vigorous productive plants all season long.
I do the same with green beans and corn.
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Post by steev on Oct 22, 2012 23:28:35 GMT -5
Given that a daft coot has the energy for succession planting, it's a great strategy. I always stagger when I'm planting, and I don't color well inside the lines. either.
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