White cucumbers

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White cucumbers

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Post: # 43013Unread post AKgardener
Sun Mar 14, 2021 12:42 pm

Has anyone ever grown white wounders or any kind of white cucumbers this will be my first year growing them and so far I have not done well with cucumbers this year I’m doing 3 varieties space master and cross country with white wounders

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Sun Mar 14, 2021 12:56 pm

I had good success with Sweet Success F1 last year, giving it plenty of space and sunlight, so I'm growing it again this year.

I did order White Wonder, will grow one just for fun.
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Post: # 43021Unread post AKgardener
Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:39 pm

Awsome thanks look forward to trying something new also gonna try the golden nugget squash

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Sun Mar 14, 2021 4:17 pm

Here Down Under we have Crystal Apple, Redlands long white and a Russian white giant that will top out at 4lb. All have grown well for me in times past and are readily available. The Russian giant is a storage cucumber and will hold for several months at least.

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Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:04 am

[mention]AKgardener[/mention] , if you want seed of anything that I mentioned above, pm me

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Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:47 pm

AKgardener wrote: Sun Mar 14, 2021 3:39 pm Awsome thanks look forward to trying something new also gonna try the golden nugget squash
Gold Nugget is one of the few winter squash I've been able to grow here in the desert southwest.
That being said, it's a nice squash, habit similar to zucchini, not a huge vine. I really like it.
Good luck, hope it does well for you.
I've heard good things about silver slicer cucumber, but I haven't grown it personally.
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Mon Mar 15, 2021 3:59 pm

Thanks so much just needed something new to try it’s sounds delicious looking forward to starting everything going nuts with the snow still haha

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Post: # 43070Unread post AKgardener
Mon Mar 15, 2021 4:01 pm

[mention]Whwoz[/mention] will do our mail system is so messed up I need to have everything shipped to my daughter my shallot seeds just got lost by ups so who know s when I’ll get em

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Sun Jul 04, 2021 9:51 pm

I have grown White Wonder, Boothby Blonde, and Itachi. I was sadly underwhelmed by all of them, though the latter was certainly the best of the three.

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Mon Jul 05, 2021 6:26 am

I’ve grown Itachi and it did just ok. I have a difficult climate for cukes … once the humidity ticks up they get unhappy.
Really liked the taste and texture of Itachi though.
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Mon Jul 05, 2021 7:43 am

Dragon Egg, I get the seed from Baker Creek - https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetab ... agon-s-egg.

Do you participate in MMMM? I sent a some seeds to Tormato, and assuming that he is able to successfully grow and harvest seeds, there should be some Dragon Egg Cucumber seeds available through the MMMM.

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Mon Jul 05, 2021 1:53 pm

Not that there's now any pressure on me to have seed. ;)

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Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:26 pm

I regularily grow Salt and Pepper, which is a small pickling size cuke, white with tiny black spines. Last year I grew two kinds of longer white cucumbers, I think one was Russian and one maybe Japanese, but I would have to dig in my records to find the names. I liked the taste of all of them, no bitterness in the peel.

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Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:12 pm

It seems like every brown cucumber I tried to grow grew white fruit.
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Post: # 49971Unread post Shule
Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:15 pm

My suggestion for growing cucumbers is to grow them somewhere that isn't the western side of a white house.
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Post: # 50535Unread post GardenGuy00
Thu Jul 15, 2021 2:44 pm

Shule wrote: Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:12 pm It seems like every brown cucumber I tried to grow grew white fruit.
I could be wrong, but if I’m not mistaken don’t most brown varieties start out white and turn brown later?

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Post: # 50543Unread post Shule
Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:53 pm

[mention]GardenGuy00[/mention]
I'd love to know that. Have you grown brown cucumbers that started white? Which ones?
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Fri Jul 30, 2021 9:18 pm

My Dad bought some white pickling cuke starts at a nursery and planted them. While visiting they are now mature and are just excellent. They have small black spines and are simply labelled White cucumbers...they don't say hybrid and have no more specifics as to names.

I love them so much, I want to save seeds. Any hints or guidance? They have very small seeds!

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Fri Jul 30, 2021 11:16 pm

I'm growing Itachi now. I like it.
It's doing better than Green Dragon and about as well as Sultan and a little better than Unagi. Most of my cucumbers are bitter only at the stem end, if they are bitter at all, which they are not if I water them profusely.

Last year I grew a white cucumber plant I got from a neighbor who did not know its name. They were like fat pickling cukes, very prolific and tasty, but stopped producing a month or so earlier than the other 3 varieties I was growing.

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Sat Jul 31, 2021 10:50 am

I'm growing the Silver Slicer this year. So far it has been quite prolific. Very tasty too.

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