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I planted these back in April and now I have a round cucumbers. I read a little bit about why it turned out round, (2 others didn't make it) Here are pics. What is your best advice for next time?
I cut it open and it tastes pretty good. Why is it yellow looking?
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If I had to guess, I would say that it's an accidental hybrid of a normal cucumber with the Lemon cucumber. It has the some of the yellow color and round shape but the skin texture is more like normal ones.
Thank you everyone! I got these at Ace Hardware. They were 4 packs for $1 (special sale) I did not notice the kind, whether they be lemon cucumbers or regular. This was my very first cucumber tiny crop! I do have some more they are the size of a green pepper and are shaped like a normal cucumber would look.
Does this mean I will get round and long green ones in the mix of growing?
Thank you everyone! I got these at Ace Hardware. They were 4 packs for $1 (special sale) I did not notice the kind, whether they be lemon cucumbers or regular. This was my very first cucumber tiny crop! I do have some more they are the size of a green pepper and are shaped like a normal cucumber would look.
Does this mean I will get round and long green ones in the mix of growing?
Without seeing the seed packets, my guess now is that you bought at least one packet of seed for a green round variety and picked them just past the usual picking stage, as they were beginning to yellow. (It's also remotely possible that the seed company made a mistake.)
If you allow some of the cakes you have to fully mature, save the seeds and plant them next year, yes, you will get a mixture of cucumber shapes/lengths.
That could be fun. Or you might prefer to buy new seed next year, so you will know exactly what you are getting.
I concur that it looks like a cross between a lemon cucumber and something else. Lemon cucumbers are absolutely a favorite of ours and they make the most amazing pickles ever. They're delicious fresh, too, of course.
If I had to guess, I would say that it's an accidental hybrid of a normal cucumber with the Lemon cucumber. It has the some of the yellow color and round shape but the skin texture is more like normal ones.
That sounds good, but I don't know. I had the same thing this year: a few ended up looking like regular but small cukes, the rest are just like that picture. I did make a couple of jars of pickles out of them. It worked pretty well, but not as good as regular pickles that is for sure.
I grew lemon cukes last year. I agree, these could be some that got cross pollinated and seeds may not be true.
I have found, with my limited 2 years of experience of veggie gardening that if you want a particular seed to be true, your best bet is to buy it from a reputable seed seller. I've wasted a lot of time trying to save seed and then growing what I'd hope would be the same fruit as the seed from which it was saved only to be very disappointed. Unless you're only growing 1 variety of cukes, unlike me who is growing 5, I wouldn't save seeds. Doesn't help to save seed when you're growing 40 tomato plants and 32 being different. I saved seed from my fav. tomato last year and it didn't grow true, and I bought 2 plants of the particular variety and neither were what they should have been. Needless to say, I didn't get any Green Zebra tomatoes this year I've learned (I think), and have bought a pack of Green Zebra tomato seeds to grow next year.
BTW, OP, if it's Greenville, SC you wanna live in, I'm lucky enough to say "I do!"
At least you got cukes to eat that you like. This year I found out what a "pickle worm" is, and many of my cukes succumbed to it. I won't even talk about the squash vine borer I had to battle to get squash this year!
I grew lemon cukes last year. I agree, these could be some that got cross pollinated and seeds may not be true.
I have found, with my limited 2 years of experience of veggie gardening that if you want a particular seed to be true, your best bet is to buy it from a reputable seed seller. I've wasted a lot of time trying to save seed and then growing what I'd hope would be the same fruit as the seed from which it was saved only to be very disappointed. Unless you're only growing 1 variety of cukes, unlike me who is growing 5, I wouldn't save seeds. Doesn't help to save seed when you're growing 40 tomato plants and 32 being different. I saved seed from my fav. tomato last year and it didn't grow true, and I bought 2 plants of the particular variety and neither were what they should have been. Needless to say, I didn't get any Green Zebra tomatoes this year I've learned (I think), and have bought a pack of Green Zebra tomato seeds to grow next year.
BTW, OP, if it's Greenville, SC you wanna live in, I'm lucky enough to say "I do!"
At least you got cukes to eat that you like. This year I found out what a "pickle worm" is, and many of my cukes succumbed to it. I won't even talk about the squash vine borer I had to battle to get squash this year!
I do live here in Greenville, SC too! When I joined city-data, I had the WannaliveinGreenville and within 6 months I did! I actually live outside of Greenville...
I just want to say WOW!! I ate half of that cucumber yesterday and the other half today. I absolutely love how fresh it tasted! So much different than the grocery store cucumbers.
Easy to grow! I am all in!
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Needless to say, I didn't get any Green Zebra tomatoes this year
I've learned (I think), and have bought a pack of Green Zebra tomato seeds to grow next year.
