13 Of The Latest Cucumber Varieties
Check out this slideshow for more details on 13 cucumber varieties you need to know about from the nation’s leading seed breeders and distributors.
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Summer Dance
This variety is a high-yielding, vigorous, glossy, deep-green Japanese burpless-type cucumber, suitable for open field. Fruit is about 8 inches long, and 1 inch in diameter, weighing between 3 and 3.5 ounces. It is suitable for sowing April through July, is highly resistant to powdery mildew and downy mildew, and has intermediate resistance to Corynespora blight and target spot. Available from American Takii.
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Perfect 10
This exclusive gynoecious variety has a healthy, vigorous plant with very consistent performance. The attractive dark-green fruit is early (55 to 60 days) and uniform with an average fruit length of 8¼ to 8½ inches. An impressive disease resistance package tops off the benefits of this exciting new variety. Available from Clifton Seed Co.
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Bristol
This early maturing hybrid has intermediate resistance to downy mildew and additional disease resistance compared to SV3462CS and SV4719CS. Bristol has a moderately vigorous plant with overall great fruit quality, shape, and color with a high number of fancy fruit. Available from Seminis, Rispens Seeds, Stokes Seeds, andSeedway
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Deli-King
A consistent and productive pickle, Deli-King yields and maintains high-quality fruit from the first to the last harvest. Fruit is dark green and smooth with resistance to papaya ringspot virus, watermelon mosaic virus, and zucchini yellow mosaic virus. Available from Seedway.
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Diamondback
Productive! Diamondback slicer yields consistent quality, fruit color, and length throughout extended picks. Diamondback cucumber has resistance to target leaf spot, watermelon mosaic virus, and zucchini yellow mosaic virus resistance. Available from Seedway.
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Max Pack
Maximize your yield potential with strong, multi-virus resistant vines. This cucumber variety features an excellent dark color, uniform size, and classy appearance to provide for a very high packout. Available from Siegers Seed Co.
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Diomede
This cucumber has high resistance to scab and gummosis, papaya ringspot virus, powdery mildew, watermelon mosaic virus, zucchini yellow mosaic virus, and intermediate resistance to cucumber mosaic virus, downy mildew, angular leaf spot. Diomede is 8 to 9 inches in length and matures in 52 days. Regions best suited for production include the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and Southeast. This American slicer hybrid for the gynoecious multiple virus resistant cucumber segment. Available from Syngenta.
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GVS 603
GVS 603 is 5.5 to 6.2 inches in length and has resistance to cucumber mosaic virus, powdery mildew, watermelon mosaic virus, zucchini yellow mosaic virus, and papaya ringspot virus. Maturing in 35 days, this cucumber can be produced anywhere in a protected environment: greenhouse, plastic house, or net house. Available from Golden Valley Seed.
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Katrina
Katrina matures in 49 days and has high resistance to scab and intermediate resistance to cucumber mosaic virus, cucumber vein yellowing virus, and powdery mildew. It is heated and unheated greenhouse production in spring and summer and can produce heavy yields of 6-inch beit alpha cucumbers. Available from Johnny’s Selected Seeds.
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Pick a Bushel
Pick a Bushel is 5 to 6 inches long and resistant to cucumber mosaic virus, scab, and mottle mosaic virus. High yields of heat-tolerant pickles mature in 50 days. This Regional All-America Selections 2014 winner is good for northern areas because it is early to set fruit and is a compact bush-type cucumber spreading only about 24 inches. Available from Seeds By Design.
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Slice More
Slice More matures in 62 days and is best suited for U.S. field and indoor production. This slicing cucumber shows excellent yield characteristics in commercial plantings. About 8.5 inches long, it has high resistance to scab and gummosis, and intermediate resistance to cucumber mosaic virus, Anthracnose races 1 and 3, downy mildew, and powdery mildew. Slice More offers a good L/D ratio and dark-green color with straight fruit. Available from Sakata Seed America.
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Mongoose
Mongoose matures in 55 to 60 days and is 8 inches long. This variety has resistance to target leaf spot, scab, Anthracnose race 1, papaya ringspot virus, angular leaf spot, powdery mildew, watermelon mosaic virus, and zucchini yellow mosaic virus. A hybrid slicing cucumber, it is of uniform size and shape, dark-green color, excellent shipping ability, strong vines, and healthy and productive when other varieties succumb to virus pressures. Available from Siegers Seed Co.
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SV3462CS
SV3462CS is 9 inches long and is best suited for production in the Midwest and Northeast. This variety has resistance to Anthracnose, angular leaf spot, downy mildew, powdery mildew, cucumber scab,and zucchini yellows mosaic virus. Maturing in 56 days, it is 9 inches long, grows on a vigorous vine, and fruit hold uniform dark-green color well. Available from Rupp Seeds and Seminis.
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Summer Dance
Perfect 10
Bristol
Deli-King
Diamondback
Max Pack
Diomede
GVS 603
Katrina
Pick a Bushel
Slice More
Mongoose
SV3462CS
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Rosemary Gordon is editor of American Vegetable Grower, a Meister Media Worldwide publication. See all author stories here.