11 Cool Cucurbits For Florida’s Climate

Posted by Paul Rusnak|October 27, 2014

Deli King

Deli King is a productive pickling cucumber with a strong ability to hold color and quality throughout multiple picks. It produces a high percentage of marketable fruit with strong plants that work in later season plots. The plants carry resistance to WMV and ZYMV. For more information, visit SeedWay.com.

Dominator

Dominator is a dark-green cucumber with exceptional size and shape. It is dependable and widely adapted to all growing areas. Dominator has outstanding quality, consistent production, and high yields. It will dominate the market, because it is that good. For more information, visit Siegers.com.

Goldprize

Goldprize offers attractive fruit that is glossy yellow with a very smooth skin. The uniform shape, improved color, and high-quality fruit combine to deliver a great looking pack. Thanks to excellent disease protection, including intermediate resistance to WMV and ZYMV, Goldprize offers high yield potential for better profitability. For more information, visit CliftonSeed.com.

LAZOR

LAZOR has smooth, firm fruit and a sturdy neck that promotes easy handling. The fruit also has an attractive, glossy appearance. It matures in 45 days. LAZOR has intermediate resistance to zucchini yellow mosaic virus. For more information, visit SeedWay.com.

Mongoose

Mongoose has tremendous quality and uniform size and shape. It is dark green in color, has excellent shipping ability, and high yields. It has a multivirus resistant disease package with strong vines that are healthy and productive when other varieties succumb to virus pressures. Mongoose = Snake Killer. For more information, visit Siegers.com.

Pascola

Pascola combines high yield potential with early harvests. The plant is open, upright, and nearly spineless, assuring improved fruit quality during harvest. Attractive, marketable fruit is uniform, slender, dark green and glossy with a medium-to-long length. A strong disease package positions this variety well for mid-to-late season plantings as cucumber mosaic virus pressure increases. For more information, visit CliftonSeed.com.

Perfect 10

This exclusive new 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 8 ¼ to 8 ½ inches. An impressive disease resistance package tops off the benefits of this exciting new variety. For more information, visit CliftonSeed.com.

Python

Python is a strong choice for early season productivity and quality throughout extended picks. It produces high-quality, dark-green, smooth fruit with the ability to maintain length throughout multiple harvests. It matures in 55 days. For more information, visit SeedWay.com.

Respect

Respect is a medium-dark green zucchini that provides consistent quality and strong yields throughout multiple picks. The fruit has a smooth, refined appearance and its color is well suited to eastern markets. The plant is nearly spineless. Respect carries resistance to PRSV, WMV, ZYMV, and PM. For more information, visit SeedWay.com.

SV4719CS

SV4719CS is an early gynoecious slicer cucumber hybrid that features a vigorous vine and yields quality fruit in about 56 days. Fruits are about 8.25 inches long and hold their uniform, dark-green color well. For more information, visit Seminis-us.com.

Xtreme

This hybrid pickling cucumber has a vigorous plant habit that produces uniform, firm, dark-green fruit, with a small seed cavity. It holds its length in cooler weather. For more information, visit Siegers.com.

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