12 Cool Cucumber Varieties

This month’s variety specs feature highlights 12 top-performing cucumber varieties submitted to us from the nation’s leading seed breeders and distributors.

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Highlighted features include impressive disease packages, high yield potential, and excellent fruit quality. Stay tuned for next month when we’ll feature cole crops.

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  • Distributor: Seminis, Stokes Seeds
  • Breeder: Seminis
  • Length: 8.25 inches
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: High resistance: cucumber mosaic virus, zucchini yellow mosaic virus, angular leaf spot, scab, Anthracnose, 1. Intermediate resistance: papaya ringspot virus, downy mildew, powdery mildew caused by Podosphaeria xanthii
  • Days to maturity: 54
  • Yield potential: Good
  • Other attributes: Early maturing, second-generation cucumber hybrid with overall great fruit quality, shape, and color with a high number of fancy fruit

Seminis.com
StokesSeeds.com

 

Centella F1

Harris Seeds Centella

  • Distributor: Harris Seeds
  • Breeder: Harris Moran
  • Length: 8-9 inches
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Resistance: scab, watermelon mosaic virus. Intermediate resistance: powdery mildew, zucchini yellow mosaic virus, papaya ringspot virus, downy mildew
  • Days to maturity: 55 days from seeding
  • Yield potential: Very good
  • Region(s) best suited for production: All areas
  • Other attributes: High-quality fruit, gynoecious, dark-green in color with a fresh-field grown look, straight and cylindrical shape

Harrisseeds.com

 

Corinto

JSS Corinto

  • Distributor: Johnny’s Selected Seeds
  • Breeder: Vitalis Organic Seeds
  • Length: 7-8 inches
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Cucumber mosaic virus, cucumber vein yellowing virus, powdery mildew
  • Days to maturity: 48
  • Yield potential: Very high
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Widely adapted. Suitable for field or greenhouse production.
  • Other attributes: Gynoecious and parthenocarpic. Extremely vigorous plants. Slightly thinner skin improves eating quality but still provides enough protection from handling injury. Available only as organic seed

JohnnysSelectedSeeds.com

 

Diomede

Syngenta_Diomede

  • Breeder: Syngenta
  • Length: 8-9 inches
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: High resistance: scab, papaya ringspot virus, powdery mildew caused by Podosphaeria xanthii, watermelon mosaic virus, zucchini yellow mosaic virus. Intermediate resistance: cucumber yellow mosaic virus, downy mildew, angular leaf spot
  • Days to maturity: 52
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Eastern U.S.

Syngenta-US.com/Seeds/Vegetables

 

GVS 612 F1 Hybrid

Golden Valley seed 612 f1 hybrid

  • Breeder: Golden Valley Seed
  • Length: 5-6 inches
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Zucchini yellow mosaic virus, papaya ringspot virus, watermelon mosaic virus, powdery mildew, cucumber vein yellowing virus, cucumber mosaic virus
  • Days to maturity: 35
  • Yield potential: Very high
  • Region(s) best suited for production: All regions
  • Other attributes: Produces two to three fruits per node. Sweet, crunchy, bitterless, burpless. Best suited for greenhouses, netted houses, plastic tunnels, in spring, summer, and fall

GoldenValleySeed.com

 

Max Pack

Max Pack

  • Breeder: Siegers Seed Co.
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Scab, cucumber mosaic virus, Anthracnose, downy mildew, papaya ringspot virus, angular leaf spot, powdery mildew caused by Podosphaeria xanthii, watermelon mosaic virus, zucchini yellow mosaic virus
  • Days to maturity: 57-59
  • Yield potential: Very high
  • Other attributes: Pickling cucumber with a dark color, uniform size, and a classy appearance

Siegers.com

 

Pick A bushel

Pick A Bushel_Seeds by design

  • Distributor: Seeds By Design
  • Breeder: Seeds By Design and Atlee Burpee Co.
  • Length: 3-6 inches
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Watermelon mosaic virus, cucumber mosaic virus, scab
  • Days to maturity: 50
  • Yield potential: Very high
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Northern areas
  • Other attributes: A compact bush-type cucumber spreading only about 24 inches. It offers a sweeter tasting light-green cucumber with a nice firm texture, perfect for pickling when harvested early

SeedsByDesign.com

 

Python

Seedway Python300

  • Breeder: Seedway
  • Length: 8.5 inches
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Resistance: Scab. Intermediate resistance: Anthracnose, target leaf spot, cucumber mosaic virus, powdery mildew, angular leaf spot
  • Days to maturity: 55
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: South, North, Midwest
  • Other attributes: Consistent performance, strong yields, and high-quality fruit. Fruit maintains dark-green color with less yellow belly

Seedway.com

 

Slice More

Cucumber Slice More_Sakata

  • Breeder: Sakata Seed America
  • Length: 8.5 inches
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: High resistance: scab. Intermediate resistance: cucumber mosaic virus, Anthracnose 1,3, downy mildew, powdery mildew
  • Days to maturity: 62 from direct seed
  • Yield potential: Very good
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Southeast, MidAtlantic, Colorado, Midwest, Northeast
  • Other attributes: Dark-green color, excellent shape

SakataVegetables.com

 

Stonewall

Harris Moran Stonewall

  • Breeder: Harris Moran
  • Length: 8-9 inches
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: High resistance: cucumber mosaic virus, scab and gummosis, angular leaf spot. Intermediate resistance: Anthracnose, downy mildew, powdery mildew
  • Days to maturity: Mid-season
  • Yield potential: Very high
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Southeast
  • Other attributes: Provides top yields, glossy dark-green fruit with attractive shape, many No. 1 fruit per-acre

HarrisMoran.com
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Summer Dance

American takii summer dance

  • Breeder: American Takii
  • Length: 8-8.5 inches
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: High resistance: Powdery mildew, downy mildew. Intermediate resistance: Corynespora blight, target spot
  • Days to maturity: 60 days after transplanting
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: All regions
  • Other attributes: Monoecious flowering habit, vigorous plant. Features uniform fruit that is burpless, with exceptionally crisp flesh suitable for salads and pickling

Takii.com

 

SV3462CS

Rispens SV3462CS

  • Distributor: Rispens Seeds, Rupp Seeds
  • Breeder: Seminis
  • Length: 9 inches
  • Disease resistance/Tolerance: Zucchini yellow mosaic virus, angular leaf spot, powdery mildew, downy mildew, scab, Anthracnose
  • Days to maturity: 56
  • Yield potential: High
  • Region(s) best suited for production: Midwest, Northeast
  • Other attributes: Vigorous vine, uniform, dark-green fruit

RispenSeeds.com
RuppSeeds.com

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