Pulsegleaner
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Neither do mine; remember that was a cuke I bought, not grew (oh and by the way, that was actually one of the smaller cukes in the pile. It was just the gooshiest and hence, the best choice for getting seed.) For all I know they actually fly the things over from Thailand though with veggies, a niche market farm in California or Florida seems more likely (though cukes tend to need a lot of water, and with California in that drought.......)
BTW I am currently eating the abovie cuke, in the form of refrigerator pickles. Not my best batch, couldn't find the coriander (and prefer to use Indian to Morrocan coriander anyway), was out of fresh garlic and I really prefer to use a stronger premium vinegar than what I had around) but perfectly edible (and another step in getting rid of that Dead Sea salt* I bought that proved too salty for seasoning.)
My own cukes are pretty pathetic looking most years. In fact, unless I deliberately select cukes that are very small and stocky fruited I usually cant get much of any crop at all, just a bunch of little curled up nubs with maybe a bulge at one end. Ad that doesn't leave me all that many options. Lemon and Crystal apple are the right dimensions but have a taste to them I find unpleasant (Richmond apple doesn't but doesn't grow as well either) Dragon's egg does pretty well for me.
Three or four years ago I also played around with a pair of rounds from SE Asia Richter's Herbs had in the Seed Zoo (they're both gone now so don't bother looking) but neither worked well. The Seriam Jungle (orange fattish oval) did not make anything more than a sprout. The other one (forgot the name but a big orange sphere about the size of a cantaloupe) which might have actually been a cucamelon (based on seed shape) did manage to make one or two flowers on one vine (which couldn't have been more than a foot long) but no fruit.
Oh that reminds me I did do the look on Monday, but no soap, all of the dosaki's in the store were melons.
Actually if I was a better breeder of cucurbits, I'd love to cross a Richmond Apple with one of the French strains designed for cornichon production (as with baby corn, most cornichons and other gherkins are just regular cukes picked and pickled very very tiny, but again as with baby corn there are a few types designed to produce in a manner more consistent with that niche market i.e. produce very tiny fruit, but a lot of them.) and then select to hopefully find what would be ideal for me, a cuke vine that made masses of tiny bite sized fruit (I sort of imagine the size of a key lime or a ping pong ball). But I am not
* Dead Sea salt sold for eating I'm not dumb enough to try and eat the stuff they sell for bathing.
BTW I am currently eating the abovie cuke, in the form of refrigerator pickles. Not my best batch, couldn't find the coriander (and prefer to use Indian to Morrocan coriander anyway), was out of fresh garlic and I really prefer to use a stronger premium vinegar than what I had around) but perfectly edible (and another step in getting rid of that Dead Sea salt* I bought that proved too salty for seasoning.)
My own cukes are pretty pathetic looking most years. In fact, unless I deliberately select cukes that are very small and stocky fruited I usually cant get much of any crop at all, just a bunch of little curled up nubs with maybe a bulge at one end. Ad that doesn't leave me all that many options. Lemon and Crystal apple are the right dimensions but have a taste to them I find unpleasant (Richmond apple doesn't but doesn't grow as well either) Dragon's egg does pretty well for me.
Three or four years ago I also played around with a pair of rounds from SE Asia Richter's Herbs had in the Seed Zoo (they're both gone now so don't bother looking) but neither worked well. The Seriam Jungle (orange fattish oval) did not make anything more than a sprout. The other one (forgot the name but a big orange sphere about the size of a cantaloupe) which might have actually been a cucamelon (based on seed shape) did manage to make one or two flowers on one vine (which couldn't have been more than a foot long) but no fruit.
Oh that reminds me I did do the look on Monday, but no soap, all of the dosaki's in the store were melons.
Actually if I was a better breeder of cucurbits, I'd love to cross a Richmond Apple with one of the French strains designed for cornichon production (as with baby corn, most cornichons and other gherkins are just regular cukes picked and pickled very very tiny, but again as with baby corn there are a few types designed to produce in a manner more consistent with that niche market i.e. produce very tiny fruit, but a lot of them.) and then select to hopefully find what would be ideal for me, a cuke vine that made masses of tiny bite sized fruit (I sort of imagine the size of a key lime or a ping pong ball). But I am not
* Dead Sea salt sold for eating I'm not dumb enough to try and eat the stuff they sell for bathing.
