Burpless Bush Slicer F1

A consecrated bush plant 20-30 inches tall. Maturity is 53-58 days. Fruit is straight 9-11 inches by 1-2 inches and has a dark green color with white spine. Fruit has a small seed cavity and very smooth skin.

Burpless Garden Sweet

55 days maturity, long cylindrical. 10-12 inch fruit, bitter free, smooth, medium dark green. Great for home gardens. Vigorous fruit.

Carolina

Cucumber Hybrid Carolina with up to 12% pollinator is a hybrid pickling cucumber. Plant has good vigor, medium size vines. The fruit are blocky in shape , medium green in color with white spines and length of 7 cm x 2.5 cm diameter. Maturity approx. 55 days, suitable for hand harvesting. Disease resistant / tolerant to: SCAB, CMV, DM, ANT, PM and ALS.

Little Tyke F1

Fruit has a medium to small cavity. Fruit maturity is 32 – 35 days. Suitable for hot conditions and heavy soil. Express some tolerance to downy and powdery mildew, and has good keeping qualities. this prolific hybrid has been very successful in the baby cucumber market, as well as the pickling market.

Palouse

Cucumber Hybrid Palouse is a gynecious pickling hybrid firm and crunchy flesh. Very uniform in shape and productive. PMR, CMV, PRSV, WMV-2 & ZYMV. 52-54 days   to maturity.

Pioneer

Cucumber Hybrid Pioneer with up to 12% pollinator is a highly productive pickling cucumber with a monoecious pollinator. Fruits are medium green in color with black spines, blocky in shape measuring 7.5 cm in length and 2.5 cm in diameter. Maturity approx. 53 days. Tolerant and resistant to Scab, DM, ANT.

Royal Slice F1

Fruit is medium to light green, 6 1/2 inches to 7 inches long by 1 1/2 inches diameter. Fruit weight aberages 11 – 13 ounces at maturity. Good heat tolerance. Ready for harvest 37 – 40 days from planting. Tolerant to downy and powdery mildew.

Diseases of Cucumbers

PMR- Powdery Mildew Resistance- Erysiphe cichoracearum- white fungus appearing on upper side of leaves as white lesions, leaves curl, turn brown & die.

CMV- Cucumber mosaic virus- Transmitted by aphid- Symptoms become apparent on infected seedlings after 6 weeks when growth is rapid and there are about 6 to 8 leaves. Younger leaves show greenish yellow zones 1-2mm in size which are confined by veins. This is followed by chlorotic mottling of all leaves accompanied by distortion and stunting. Occasionally the yellowing is confined to the leaf tip. There is down bending of the leaf which becomes finely blistered, especially between smaller veins. Growth is stunted, with reductions of internode length, lamina size and petiole length, fewer flowers form and those which do fail to set fruit. Fruits show mottling and greenish yellow discoloration at the stem end which spreads, with the spots being distributed amongst darker green areas the latter are raised in a wart like appearance. As the syndrome becomes more severe the fruits become whitish- green and misshapen.

PRSV- Papaya Ringspot Virus- symptoms mottling of leaves, vein bending, curling of leaves, eventual necrosis.

WMV2- Wild Mosaic Virus- Vector striped cucumber beetle- symptoms transmitted bt       the striped cucumber beetle, particles of this virus are isometric, 30nm in diameter, and it is serologically related to Turnip Yellow Mosaic Virus. Symptoms consist of general mosaic, but the pathogen is unique in causing systemic infection of water melon.

ZYMV- Zucchini Yellows Mosaic Virus- vector beetle- symptoms- mottled leaves, leaf         curl, distortation and stunning of fruit.

SCAB- Cladosporium cucumerinum- fungus symptoms- Foliar lesions which are roughly circular tangular in shape with brownish water soaked appearance.

DM-    Downy Mildew- Warm, humid, tropical regions. Symptoms on upper leaf bright yellow lesions turning necrotic brown from center outward.

ANT-   Anthracnose lagenarium (fungus) symptoms- yellow, brown, black spots on leaves, expanding to cover all of the leaf. Then cankers on petioles and stems. Rotting fruit.

ALS-   Angular leaf spot- symptoms- small angular, water soaked area that turns brown, affected leaf tissue, often dries & drops out leaving holes in the leaves then may turn yellow.

CVYV-Cucumber vein yellowing virus- Vector- White fly- Symptoms- conspicuous vein clearing and chlorosis terminating in general necrosis.

Parthenocarpic- Plant (flowers) do not require pollination to set fruit.

Monoeciuos- plants produce separate male and female flowers on same plant.

Gyneocious- plants produce almost all female flowers on the same plant. Must have pollinator plants (10-15%) interplanted.

Monecious- plants are generally used as pollinators for the predominately gyneocious plants. Usually a blend of between 10-15% to insure good pollen source.