Need help with cucumber ID please

14 years ago

I did a search on the vegetable forum, but didn't see any threads related to the cucumbers in question, so I thought I would try here, and see if you guys could help me out.

I planted:

National Pickling - grew these last year, knew what they looked like

County Fair - new to me, but they are growing right next to National Pickling, and they look different enough that I could identify them

Dragon's Egg - these were easy, they look just like a large egg

Diva - haven't seen but one or two, but I think I can figure this one out, because they are the only solid green one on that end of the garden

Okay, here is where the confusion comes in

Poona Kheera

Chinese Yellow

I have searched the internet for photos with conflicting results on these two. Here is my pic:

The two on the left started out a pale whitish green to yellow color, than progressed to brown. When I harvested them yellow thinking they were ripe, they were kind of bitter, but now I'm wondering if I'm supposed to wait until they start to turn brown to harvest. The one on the right starts out fairly dark green with stripes, but than turns yellow orange to brown. So which one is which?

This is what I get for growing them so close together!

BTW, the one on the far left is about as long as my forearm!

Bonnie

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greenbean08_gw
14 years ago
Bonnie,
I don't know if this helps any (you may well have found it too) but here's a page about the Poona Kheera.

Beyond that, I can't be of any help. I've never heard of them before!

Here is a link that might be useful: Cornell info
greenbean08_gw
14 years ago
Well, now I see why you're confused. The first pics of the Chinese yellow I found looked like the one on the right but then I kept finding this graphic that calls them the "old cucumber".

Good Luck!!
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digit
14 years ago
Bonnie, I'm growing Poona Kheera for the 1st time this year. It seems like an okay cucumber, nothing remarkably different other than that color. And, the color looks like those 2 on the left in the photo.

I've grown Asian white cukes and have one this year but never a Chinese Yellow.

I think you've got Diva sorted out.

You have the same problem that I have each year. There's always a sticker associated with transplants. However, it is usually a sticker in a 4-pack. And sometimes - a sticker in a flat. I put stickers at the end of rows with sowing but then come back and fill in any gaps, sometimes, with something different.

It all means I've got ID with one plant and between 3 to many with nothing . . . I always think it's going to be easy to know the groupings but I have problems each and every year.

And, heaven help me if the sticker is lost to being stepped on, rototilling, or just the covering by foliage.

Steve