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'Calypso' Cucumber |
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Pickling
Vine
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Hybrid. Pickling. Blocky, slightly tapered, dark green, medium, white-spined fruit with Gynoecious x monoecious cross. Resistant to STM, anthracnose (1 or 2), downy mildew, powdery mildew, scab and cucumber mosaic virus
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50-53
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| Rating Summary |
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Overall: (4.3 Stars)
Taste: (4.0 Stars)
Yield: (4.3 Stars)
Ease/Reliability: (4.0 Stars) |
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Number of Reviews: 3
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 11/27/2013 by
CCEOnondaga
- An experienced gardener
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Onondaga, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| First time growing this and very impressed with the yields and uniformity of the fruit. Our early planting (transplanted in mid-May) succumbed a little sooner than we hoped to disease (maybe due to our heavy spring rains this year?), but the direct seeded planting came through beautifully, continuing to produce despite the cucumber beetle onslaught. |
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Reviewed on 11/11/2013 by
CCE Oneida County
- An intermediate gardener
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Oneida, New York, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Possibly due to weather conditions, this year it was not a uniform shaped cucumber. Skin had scabs on it. Okay for peeling but not for pickling. JD |
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Reviewed on 08/05/2010 by
OhioMG
- An experienced gardener
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Huron, Ohio, United States
Frost Free Season: 143 - 163 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I love this variety. This is the first year I've grown it, and it has proved to be a challenging year with an overabundance of rain early and then a lack of rain for far too long. Calypso has come through. The plants are happily climbing their support and giving us nice, sweet, crunchy cukes. When the lack of rain is severe they can, like most cukes, be a little bitter on the end, but this vanishes with rain or a little extra watering. I will definitely grow this one again. |
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