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'Painted Serpent' Cucumber |
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Pickling
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Pickling. Fruit can grow 3 to 4 feet long, but is best harvested at about 15 inches. Not a true cucumber but a melon.
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65
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Overall: (5.0 Stars)
Taste: (5.0 Stars)
Yield: (4.0 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 10/12/2010 by
Jay Tracy
- A novice gardener
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Pima, Arizona, United States
Frost Free Season: Fewer than 103 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| I prefer this variety over English varieties due to its sweet taste and smooth texture. It is an incredibly good cucumber. Another fun feature is the slight fuzz on the fruit. The only concern with this cultivar is the number of days until the first fruit sets. Fruit set took me around 75-80 days and I would not expect much sooner, so one may want to plant a faster variety to start with and cut back the initial variety when the painted serpent start setting fruit. Once the inital fruit set, following female flowers arrived in waves and fruit set occured quickly-total fruit output will likely be the same as any other variety. As other Armenian varieties, the vine can really take the heat (Tucson, AZ). This tends to be a trap crop for both cabbage loopers and cucumber beetles when compared to other melons, cucumbers, and squash. On the plus side my experience with this variety is that, unlike the light green Armenian variety, this variety is very tolerant of powdery mildew. |
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Reviewed on 01/21/2010 by
nixie
- An experienced gardener
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San Diego, California, United States
Frost Free Season: More than 203 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| a wonderful melon that resembles a cuke. delicious, productive, thin-skinned, and sweet |
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Reviewed on 08/14/2008 by
smurfette0424
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Montgomery, Maryland, United States
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| My 3 plants grew vigorously and set lovely blossoms, but were a bit later to fruit than my other cucumbers. Once they begin to grow fruit, they quickly become huge! We left for vacation with a very skinny (maybe twice the thickness of a pencil) 8" fruit on the vine-- and came back a week later to find it 3 feet long and as thick as a regular cucumber! It is a unique looking plant, with fuzzy, ridged skin. I had to tie the vines to the cage for support, which was a first for me. Although these plants produced a few curly tendrils, they weren't strong enough. I also had some problems with pollination. One of my plants was 20' away from the others, and although it blossomed like crazy, it did not set any fruit. After I manually pollinated it (nothing fancy, just used my fingers), it began to fruit. The other two, which were only a foot apart, set fruit on their own. It's great for a salad, with a pleasant and mild taste. The texture is less crisp than my other cucumber varieties, but perhaps this is because I let these grow so long. |
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